Don't you know someone who lives close to the border? then that person can get the plant in the mail and you can drive down to pick it up.
As much as I respect the rules, but the idea and the purpose behind the agricultural rules are to stop the spread of pests and diseases.
But think about how much of crops and plants are being brought in and out of countries and yet there is no way to stop the distribution of bugs and diseases.
It's just impossible.
so I'm thinking as long as you are dealing with something healthy, then a bit of bending here and there does not hurt anyone and anything at all.
These rules mainly hurts small scale hobbyists like us the most I think. lol
I'm afraid that wouldn't work but thanks for the suggestion. It has become a very expensive trip for us to get off the island, let alone travel.
I agree with you that crops are going over the border all of the time and it's unlikely that an orchid would be a problem. There is the same problem with birds. I can't take one over the border but they fly back and forth all the time.
I'll just have to get one shipped to me in the spring from a Canadian grower, if I can find room to put it. Our grower here on the island doesn't have much in the way of vandaceous orchids.
I am so in awe of your gorgeous vandas. May I ask what do you feed them??
Thank you,
Karen
Karen, these were grown to massive size by another grower who soaked their roots in fertilizer water every day. She also used kelp.
I'm not so diligent about fertilizer, I use a 30-10-10 orchid food once a week. But I make up for the fertilizer with the sun--they get lightly filtered sunshine all day in the summer and direct sun from a southern window in the winter.
Here's a video of these Vandas growing outside, just made last week:
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