Gabe15

The best thing you can do is to do as varig8 suggests, and follow all of the regulations and make sure you have your import permits and everything set to go. Normally, for disease, it is the importing location whose rules you need to follow.

However, my same thoughts still apply, and that although you can still follow all of the rules, it is still risky when transporting suckers. This is why all of the international transfers are normally done with verified clean, tissue cultured plants. Virus testing and tissue culture are not easy or cheap, especially for just a few plants.

And also because the person who would be sending them to you does not sound like they know exactly what they are doing, that can also be a source of a lot of potential disease problems.

Doing, the paring and hot water treatment can help with some things, but still other such as bacterial diseases would persist in the plant, so again, it is always risky unless you know for sure, which can be difficult and expensive to do.

Assuming you can get them to Greece legally, and you acquire them, when you get them, cut off all remaining roots to the corm, wash all soil off the corm, cut the pseudostem to below any petioles, remove the outer 2-3 sheaths, rinse in a 5% bleach solution for about 30min, let them dry out completely, and when you grow them, keep them away from your other plants, and don't use any tools with your other plants that you use with your new plants without sterilizing them (in case of bacterial diseases). If everything looks good after about 6 months, you should be in the clear, but still take note of them as BBTV can sometimes have very long latency periods (up to 2 years for some varieties in some conditions).

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