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Post by Moonlight on Apr 3, 2013 15:50:52 GMT
Having just received another box with tubers packed inside a brown paper bag, I wondered if this was the new standard in the UK because the USA tubers were so much better protected?
How do you expect tubers to be safely packed?
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Post by sweetpea on Apr 3, 2013 19:15:31 GMT
Usually any that I receive are well packed in a cardboard box and the excess space filled with polystyrene chips.
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Post by Moonlight on Apr 3, 2013 21:17:45 GMT
So not like this then?
I am not going to say which company but I just want to know whether or not I am being unreasonable in saying that dahlia tubers need to packed carefully.
When my Dad and Mum used to pack up dahlias they used to use 100s of the polystyrene yellow S shapes and some like 2 tubes squished together to make a squashed 8 shape. V.exciting when you are a child. (Up there with the fun of bubble wrap. Love that to.)
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Post by scrumpy on Apr 3, 2013 21:37:40 GMT
As long as the tubers are firm and not damaged I wouldn't mind them arriving like that.
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Post by Tel on Apr 4, 2013 6:55:45 GMT
I have not sent any dahlia tubers, but if I send any cuttings I use shredded letters, documents for packaging in the box.
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Post by Lou78W on Apr 4, 2013 7:02:19 GMT
I expect the companies pack them by the cheapest means possible, they are all cost conscious these days and with postal charges going up.....As they are pretty much dormant when they are sent out, they don't really come to any harm. The tubers sold in garden centres are just lying in a small polybag, with a cardboard label.....
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Post by Moonlight on Apr 4, 2013 9:01:04 GMT
   What do you think? Would you be happy to receive tubers like this? |
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Post by Moonlight on Apr 4, 2013 9:05:23 GMT
I have not sent any dahlia tubers, but if I send any cuttings I use shredded letters, documents for packaging in the box. |
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Post by Moonlight on Apr 4, 2013 9:23:29 GMT
These are the broken bits that had ever broken off when I opened the package or literally just hanging by the fibres.
These are the broken parts of 6 tubers. The majority of which were of one variety. These are the replacement tubers for the damaged ones before. Last time the worst were the other variety.
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Post by Tel on Apr 4, 2013 9:39:19 GMT
I have not sent any dahlia tubers, but if I send any cuttings I use shredded letters, documents for packaging in the box. I cut down small freezer bags for them. I can get 4 rooted cuttings in them. I do not seal them, it is just to stop the rootball drying out in transit, I try too keep the leaves outside the bag so they do not sweat and damp off. |
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Post by Moonlight on Apr 4, 2013 10:10:10 GMT
Tel, how do you wrap around the cuttings themselves? Do you use just the shredded material? I don't remember how my Dad used to protect the leaves themselves. I'll have to ask him that. I cut down small freezer bags for them. I can get 4 rooted cuttings in them. I do not seal them, it is just to stop the rootball drying out in transit, I try too keep the leaves outside the bag so they do not sweat and damp off.
Also would you ever send them 2nd class post?
I'm just interested, I'm trying to match my memories as a child with how things are done today. Like I said I can't remember how they used to pack the cuttings and things move on. If that makes sense. |
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Post by marynz on Apr 8, 2013 4:20:58 GMT
I have received a mixture. Nobody would use polystyrene here any more around plants, because gardeners tend to be somewhat green philosophically, and polystyrene is not a green product at all. Shredded paper or wood shavings inside a paper bag are normal. If the tuber clump has some whole tubers, it is acceptable, as the crown will grow. If all the tubers on a clump have broken necks, it is not acceptable. The crown might still grow but its chances are much poorer.
We do have a "top" supplier who sends them in plastic, and they tend to rot in transit.
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