Preferred way to receive cuttings?

[F. Bennett]

The Ebay post had me wondering what the consensus is on how you like to receive cuttings. To be a better seller, one must appeal to the buyer!
Let's assume the cuttings were taken immediately before shipping.

[zone5figger]

Double-bagged, cuttings packaged 'dry', with lightly damp newspaper in the outer plastic bag.

[AscPete]

IMO, dormant cuttings should never be shipped with added moisture, its an invitation for mold and rot.
For shipping cuttings...individual cling wrap then plastic bags.

[Harborseal]

Hand delivered with pizza & chocolate. Minimal moisture is better than being soaking wet. In the summer wet cuttings often are moldy before they get here. All the leaf stem nubs should be off because that's what molds first. Definitely at least 1 air tight layer of plastic.

[ako1974]

Agreed - if I'm sitting up here in all the snow, the very least any warm weather sellers can do is send a fruit basket or something.

[WillsC]

If the cuttings are going for a long trip or will be wrapped for weeks each cutting wrapped individually but if they are just going across the country 3 cuttings wrapped together is perfect and less annoying. Individual wrapped cuttings are just a pain to get out.

[Hershell]

I agree with you on that.

[F. Bennett]

Good to hear. I was simply wrapping mine with cling wrap individually without moisture. They were so fresh they leaked sap while I was packing them up.

[eboone]

I think dry cuttings are best in my 2 yr experience. The idea Jesse suggested above with a moist paper towel around the sealed cutting bag was used by one person sending me cuttings this year, and I think that is a great idea in temps near or just below freezing. The ones I received were in my mailbox at about 27-28 degrees for 4 hrs before I got home. There were some ice crystals in the wet paper towel wrap but the cuttings were fine.

[Rui]

I send cuttings out individually marked, cut ends waxed, wrapped in Press-n-Seal, no added moisture.

I want to RECEIVE my cuttings in one-gallon pots, with roots sticking out of the drain holes, and a couple of figs that are juuuust about ready to pick.
Is that too much to ask for?

[sppsp]

As long as they come, I am happy.

[andreas-patras]

I send cuttings out individually marked, cut ends waxed, wrapped in strech wrap and bundle them all together and re strechwrap.

[F. Bennett]

That looks very nice, Andreas.

[andreas-patras]

thank you Frank

[Hershell]

Labeling has been a problem in the past. I like each bag clearly marked. I have had to go back and figure out who I had bought them from to determine the variety. My memory is dreadful at times.

[smatthew]

Here's a suggestion - if you're going to write the variety name on the cutting - write it at the top end of the cutting. It seems every cutting i received had been labeled - on the end that goes under the soil.....