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Originally Posted by Basjoofriend
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There is no online shop. David is very difficult to contact, he replied once and told me to wait until summer but nothing yet and I mailed him twice again
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Originally Posted by Basjoofriend
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I bought most of my plants from Achim, good plants, fast shipping, but he does not have fhia-01 & fhia-03, also his English are elementary and I don't speak German so I did not figured out if he is going to have them in the future.
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Originally Posted by Basjoofriend
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More expensive, site is only in German, I tried to make an order by e-mail but I never got a reply.. He may also not speak English.
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Originally Posted by Basjoofriend
To order plants from the EU members is cheaper than from the U.S. (shipment charges and phytosanitary charges!!!).
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Correct, that's why I try first to get them from EU, and leave the rare ones for USA sources.
The things got more complex: plants now need 3 inspections with a time distance of 3 weeks between them (=9 weeks total), in order to get the phyto..
This is a new policy since last April as i found out with the hard way: I made an order that costed me $450 (incl shipping + phyto), I sent the money and the agri department said that from now on the new inspection procedure must be followed. Now I am waiting to decide what I'm going to do: to get my money back or pay some more and get the plants.
I don't have any complaint from the Banana vendor, they are ready to do whatever I decide - and they did not know the procedure change because some months ago they had sent plants to Greece again without problems.
Thanks
Nikos