Yes I am a nut case!! and I once again spaced out and did something really silly....I ordered leaves and and got them in the mail yesterday, brought them straight home and opened them up and ........booo-hooo (insert lots of crying here) they are in really, really bad shape. The varigation on the varigated ones are brownish and most all of the leaves are limp.There seems to be water in the baggies. Maybe from the heat?? Anyhoo, I got them planted up right away and watered in and in isolation with a dome for humidity. Is there anyting else I can do besides send myself to the corner?
Help!! A.V. Pros!!,
Morning Lauri,
Pray hon.....sounds like they may be a hopeless case...if there is any green at all, there is hope. Some of our pros will guide you.
I know exactly what you are going through. Had a lady on ebay send me leaves twice and they were lost each time. She was kind enough to give me my money back though.
Joanne
Thanks Joanne, I have cussed and prayed and there is some green but they are sooo limp...:-( Keeping things crossed............Lauri
Lauri
Don't know who you bought them from but I bought leaves from a lady in Cal- not an ebay seller- and they arrived in wonderful shape- she's on the sticky. I highly recommend her.
April, I went thru the sticky and ordered these from a vendor there. Could you d-mail me the one you bought from?? LOL I am afraid to go to E-Bay I may never return...Thanks Lauri
Lauri, I received some leaves and plantlets that were completely limp when they arrived... I think they must have spent a day in the hottest corner of the shipping warehouse! But I planted them in one of those salad containers I use (with a vented lid for humidity), and every one of them lived!! So, you did exactly the right thing to try to revive them, and I hope you'll be successful! The variegated leaves are a little trickier than others to start anyway, I think, so don't blame yourself if they (or any of them) don't make it.
I hope you contacted the seller and that they will be reasonable about refund or replacement.
My fingers are crossed!
Laurie if they are just limp you can put their stems in water even a few days .
Mush no green might be a lost cause. Not good to wrap bottoms in the heat.
I've been shipping leaves and plants left and right no problem. I shipped Joanne a large box of maybe 60 plus leaves to Canada no problem.
I don't have a lot of leaves left as I am getting rid of all my plants can't take care of them. And already sold 75 percent.
But will be happy to send you leaves for shipping !
Allison, When I got my frist shipment from you the leaves were in perfect shape just like you had just cut them from mama and handed them to me, but these are wet in the baggies....that has me confused. You have d-mail.:-))..Lauri
Lauri PS ask seller for refund complete
O.k. will do. Thanks.... Lauri
Guess she is an ebay seller, but I don't recall seeing her on Ebay. Anyway I bought directly from her and the leaves were wonderful and she provides great customer service-
http://www.thevelvetleaf.com/index.htm
Is that Lynn April ?
I've order leaves from lots of people in the past. My first large order of about 100 leaves was from
Bloomlovers and got an order from the end of May always great !
The heat has been really horrific in some areas recently, so if there was a little too much moisture in the bags, they would have stewed, umm steamed... good luck, keep fingers crossed :-)
yup Ketring is soo correct. And don't wrap the bottoms of the leaves with wet tissue.
April, now you've done it... I clicked on that link....
Does anybody have 'Happy Cricket' (love that name!) or 'Rose Splash' (Pittman) started?
:-)
I agree about no wet wrapping around the base of the leaves... But I think that a twist of dry paper towel or some dry sphagnum moss around the leaves might help protect them in the plastic bag in case any condensation forms. ??
I fount if people put a dry paper towel even around the dirt of a travling plant under the foliage,( you know they do it to keep dirt in) the stems foliage making them mush. Same with leaves. The moss maybe never tried that.
It has been over 100 here and the baggies had water in them when the leaves arrived here they were shipped 7/12 and got here 7/15 so I guess I have stewed, simmered and steamed leaves.
I got an e-mail back from them and he said it was probably because of temps being over 90 and to try the soak in water to revive the semi green ones and then to wait till it cools down and let them know of any survivors and they will replace or refund. I even got a Snow Wasp as a prize...:-(...Well live, learn and order more..
Thanks for the site Jill I went in and oops came back out and will wait till it cools down....then look out...Lauri
Lauri was the box taken right in not left outside or in mailbox ?
It was delivered to my cluster boxes on the corner and I drove right down and picked it up. If the boxes are small and they fit in the box container he has to leave them there but if too big he will door step deliver.
Well when I send leaves out I put them in big box so they must be carried to the door !
Goody!!! Then they will be alive and not cooked or was that steamed?? LOL ...Lauri
Sorry forgot to follow up here. Yes that's Lynn. She was really great when I ordered from her and her leaves arrived nice and crip. That was earlier in the year when it wasn't so hot; however, the leaves Allison just sent to me were really crisp. I kid you not, when I cut one of the petioles at an angle, I got squirted! Don't know how you do it Allison, but you certainly have the magic touch!
You know if a mail person puts a box or envelpoe of leaves/plants into the oven hot mailbox even one minute is going to cook them. Try jumping in there for a minute lol
Just like being locked in the sun in your car for one minute and the heat goes up so fast a dog, child , or person can not live like this either.
I shipped plants and leaves all last summer and years before. As long as the box is not left out in the heat even shade is hot now and box taken in ASP when it gets there they will be fine !
Unfortunately, you can't control what happens to the box along the way, and sometimes plants get left out on a hot loading dock or boxes end up in a hot corner of the warehouse or the delivery truck. I had a box of meds arrive once with a temperature inside the box of 107 degrees, and it sat on my doorstep for about 5 seconds, since I picked it up as the UPS truck drove off.
Our "temp route" mail carriers will cram all boxes into the mailbox if remotely possible... I actually had to get one box out with pliers! Large boxes are reliably put on my shaded porch, but if anyone sends me a little box when it's hot, I'll ask that it be marked to hold at the post office for pickup.
Oh absolutely. The box that I got from Bluebird, sent the right way, packaged well and I actually met the mailman at the door so it didn't sit outside at all. The truck he drove up in was not airconditioned and the outside of the box was very hot! If I'd been later on his route perhaps my purchases would have been less fresh!
I have to say when I ordered three plants two in 4 inch pots one 16 x 16 in 6 inch pot from BromelaidWorld.Com
I placed my order next day they came fed-ex perfect their truck is air condtion
My plants from SelectGardner Optimars come Fed-Ex too.
But hubby rubs across the street when Post Office opens from Work, and boxes, tape and tags are free.
The other methods are not clost to our home and we don't have the means, health or money to do it other methods so I have to keep praying they make it Priority Mail, The past few years I have shipped year round all over the World and I must say 99 percent of the time all were fine.
Allison packs so well that even when Priority Mail takes longer to arrive here, her plants are in perfect shape! Having a package get left out on the hot loading dock or stomped by elephants is just a roll of the dice sort of thing.