On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 19:00:15 -0400, "Ray"
wrote:

I won't claim to know the limit, but in my old international business travel
days, I often shipped plants back to myself. 10 to 14 days in transit did
little to weaken them, although the phals did get a little flaccid.

When we moved from Chicago to Colorado - we wrapped each pot like
yesterday's garbage. It took a couple of days. Then the moving
people came that is another day. We left the next 2 days travel
and the movers came the third day. What with having to build a
table for them and string lights from the ceiling studs in the
basement.. It was probably another 2-3 days before some of those
plants got unpacked. So just to move we probably had things in
boxes from 8-10 days. As Ray says some are a little dry when
they get unpacked. But these plants in the 'discovery days' used
to be on ship for months with improper care - not to mention what
they were subject to in England when they did arrive.

The flowers are easily damaged by wind, dry, wet, - you name it.
The plants themselves are very sturdy.
SuE
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