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Originally Posted by Tytaylor77
I have always wanted to go also! I have heard first hand how amazing the sale is. Go if you can!!
That’s sad about the mites!
We are in such an amazing area to grow! South FL better than me! People buying and importing from tropical parts of the world is putting our “no disease advantage” at risk!
Don’t ship from outside the cont. US! Keep our sub-tropics clean! It’s our only advantage! We have winter! We need our advantage! Even if winter kills the plant! The disease stays! Even buying in the 48 states, make sure to inspect the corm and leaves upon arrival!
Even if being offered FREE plants!!
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BBTV scares me - I believe we have the vector here in Florida. Do you know if agristarts tests material for viruses before tissue culturing bananas?
The state wasn’t aware of everyone who had purchased lychees from the wholesale nursery who had the mite on their plants. We inspected ourselves and put our own stopsale on our trees, bought back lychees we had sold, and burned them. My guess is there are many trees still around. We were told the mite came from a grower who imported material illegally from Asia (not from the wholesale nursery).
Here is the alert if anyone in FL wants to check their trees. We haven’t seen any evidence of the mites on our mature trees. There will be inspectors at the sale checking all plants vendors bring for pests/disease of concern.