Yangmei Help

[druss]

Hi everyone,
                      I have watched the previous yangmei orders with interest and been impressed by their success. I'm in Australia, and have looked into bringing them in here. It appears doable, although with a holding period for the plants. I'm keen to try and arrange something similar, but cannot find any info on the nursery willing to ship out of china. I've messaged a couple of people to no avail. So I'm putting it out there, if anyone could point me in the direction of the supplier so I could contact them and see if its a real possibility I'd be really grateful.

[K-Rimes]

I'd think you could find Chinese imported fruit during the season and could plant out seeds? I tried a few times with the Chinese imported trees with not much to show for it now. I think the best thing to use them as is just scion material, and those would go great on homegrown seedlings.

[druss]

I can get seeds from within Oz, but I'd like named varieties, even scion material needs source trees, that I need to know a nursery of to import.

[spaugh]

If you get root stocks growing I will send scion material. 

[druss]

That would be awesome, however without getting into the paperwork side, the process is harder for that. Over here any plants or scions of yangmei imported have a 3 month holding and inspection period. For plants, they get inspected, treated potted up by dpi and evaluated for 3 months then released. For scion material, it gets inspected, treated, then I have to supply them rootstock that they also inspect,  then they graft on a no liability basis then they have to wait until the graft takes and shoots then monitor for 3 months. They charge for each step in the process. My plan was to bring in a few of each type for myself and others, then over time people could graft some up on seedlings and share them.