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Taking plant on plane

jamesholtjamesholt Posts: 593
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This is a noninvasive plant we have in texas but is hard to find.  I want to take it on the plane from Miami to dallas.  My thoughts are to take the dirt off and put it in a bag in my suitcase? I have already cut the tops off and am going to keep them for cuttings.  The plant is angels trumpet.
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  • jamesholtjamesholt Posts: 593
    Any advice from someone who takes cuttings on plane?
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Have you thought about contacting the airline for advice? I don't see why it wouldn't be allowed within the US. If you are taking the whole plant, I would be inclined to wash off all the dirt and put it in a sealed plastic bag with a label (for the authorities) and then into the suitcase. It should be okay for say up to 6 hours?  If it gets impounded by the authorities then that's tough luck.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Definitely a case for local rules and airlines to answer.

    I've seen Scottish gardeners featured on a programme called Beechgrove advising not importing plants from even as close as England cos of all the pathogens they can carry and, following Brexit, plants and seeds can no longer move between mainland UK and the rest of Europe including Northern Ireland - which is a considerably shorter distance than Miami to Dallas - without a phytosanitary certificate.

    If your main consideration is the weight, then you could very carefully dunk the entire root ball in a large bucket of water so all the soil washes off without damaging the roots then wrap both roots and top carefully in damp paper and a plastic bag for the journey.   Unpack, soak the roots in water for an hour then pot up and keep moist and misted but not drowning till it recovers and start growing again.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    edited February 2021
    I would think the authority that needs to be satisfied is not the airline carrier but the The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. A quick flick through this suggests there are no restrictions on taking Brugmansia into Texas. I would want to do more googling though to be absolutely sure.

    https://nationalplantboard.org/wp-content/uploads/docs/summaries/texas.pdf

    Out of interest, do Americans always use the word ‘dirt’ for what we call ‘soil’? I’m just curious.
    Rutland, England
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    That Texan mayor is a real star!
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • jamesholtjamesholt Posts: 593
    Ben I grew up in west Texas near amarillo it is a very desolate place on this earth.  Where I grew up we didn't have soil we only had dirt.
  • jamesholtjamesholt Posts: 593
    We are having the coldest winter in recorded history in dallas Texas.  Everything in my greenhouse has been frozen solid.  We don't have running water and many people are without power.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    We’ve heard on the news about the unusually grim weather conditions folk in Texas are having to deal with ... I hope things improve for you all very soon. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited February 2021
    Best wishes to your family and community, James. I'm sorry that you had a mayor that thinks that needing water is a result of communism. I'm glad he has quit. He has Trump's caring attitude and skill with punctuation.
  • jamesholtjamesholt Posts: 593
    my cuttings
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