Thank you Jane, This is what I was looking for...I have been the Farm Manager at a tropical plant nursery and well as my own nursery for the last 5 years so I am up to date on the AG requirements for inspections and permitting. My own nursery is certified for export. Fred, yes in Hawaii -----Original Message----- From: pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Jane McGary Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 2:45 PM To: Pacific Bulb Society Subject: Re: [pbs] Advice on moving a bulb collection Fred wrote, >I am about to move from one U.S. state to another with a very large bulb and >plant collection. Can I draw on someone's experience of doing this same >feat? I might add that the bulbs will be in storage for 4 to 6 weeks during >the move. Depending on what kinds of bulbs these are, it is important to pack them so that they don't become too dry or, conversely, stay so moist that they mold and rot. Clean them carefully before packing them and consider dusting with sulfur or some other product. They should probably be kept in the dark, either in opaque bags or within cardboard boxes. If you have some that are in root growth, you can put them in plastic bags with a little BARELY moist vermiculite, and I would leave the top of the bag open a little. If you're shipping them in cardboard boxes, cushion the bottom of the box with crumpled newspaper or something similar so the bulbs on the bottom don't get smashed. When I moved a year and a half ago, I unpotted more than 1500 containers of bulbs and put each kind in a brown paper bag (you can buy small bags of this kind at Costco for very little) with its labels. I had them stored in a basement in summer for about six weeks, where the air was rather dry and temperature moderate. It was a tremendous job getting them all into the raised beds in the new bulb house, but very few of them showed any damage. I did lose some colchicums dug from the garden during an unusually wet summer, though -- they molded in storage even though I had dried them in flats for a week or so.. Good luck! Jane McGary