Re: [aroid-l] shipping corms and cold weather

From: "Michael Marcotrigiano" mmarcotr at email.smith.edu> on 2003.12.09 at 13:39:30(10882) Hi Ken: I never ship in winter. I don't see the point since the 'customer' must wait until dormancy breaks anyway. If you must I have received plants on ebay with 'heatpacks' in them but I can't give you advise on where to buy them. They are either these chemical heat compounds that last a day or two or some other kind of heat retaining materials. I can tell you that a few days at 30F can give you chilling injury in konjac corms if not death. +More _______________________________ Michael Marcotrigiano, Ph.D Director of the Botanic Garden and Professor of Biological Sciences Smith College Lyman Conservatory, 15 College Lane Northampton, MA 01063 email: mmarcotr@smith.edu voice: 413-585-2741; fax: 413-585-2744 www.smith.edu/garden www.science.smith.edu/~mmarcotr ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers and never succeeding." Marc Chagall >>> ken@spatulacity.com 12/08/03 11:08AM >>> For those list members who either ship from a place with cold winters, or if you ship to cold locations, how do you handle shipping Amorphophallus corms in winter? If I need to mail from CT to FL, it may be cold here in CT. And if I mail from CT to Colorado it may be cold on both ends (and who knows what it's like in the middle). All mailing will be by Priority Mail, so time in transit should be no more than two days. Does the mail experience a lot of freezing conditions enroute to its destination? Thanks in advance, Ken Mosher in Connecticut

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