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While on my buying trip to Southern Cal., I came across House of Bonsai. This is a growing ground operation that has thousands of trees in the ground. They also import from China, Taiwan, Japan and Korea. The stock that they are selling now, has sat at a USDA detention center for two years. During this time they take care of the plants, water them fert. them etc. They also bare root them on occasion to look for bugs. With this new rule, the trees on landing will be subject to 10% of the import having their trunk split from apex to root base. If they find one bug they check more. During the two year detention more trees will be ruined to trunk splitting.

What this does is make it so un-economical to import trees that no one will do it. I feel thats what they are trying to do anyways. If you own an imported tree, count your blessings, it just went up in value immeasurably.

10-Feb-2002	#4
bonsaial1 Bonsai Doer Join Date: Aug-2001 Location: Fresno, CA Country: USA USDA Zone: 9 AHS Heat Zone: 13SH Posts: 5,468	Re: USDA to Strictly Enforce Plant Import requirem While on my buying trip to Southern Cal., I came across House of Bonsai. This is a growing ground operation that has thousands of trees in the ground. They also import from China, Taiwan, Japan and Korea. The stock that they are selling now, has sat at a USDA detention center for two years. During this time they take care of the plants, water them fert. them etc. They also bare root them on occasion to look for bugs. With this new rule, the trees on landing will be subject to 10% of the import having their trunk split from apex to root base. If they find one bug they check more. During the two year detention more trees will be ruined to trunk splitting. What this does is make it so un-economical to import trees that no one will do it. I feel thats what they are trying to do anyways. If you own an imported tree, count your blessings, it just went up in value immeasurably. __________________ I been kidding the last seven years. no.... really!