Thanks 1violetheart and skbeal.

I am going to prune my jasmines this week or next week.  As maryland is little colder than my place, as you said the cuttings may get frozen in the cold weather during shippment.  So I am planning to root the cuttings and mail them in fall or take them with me when I visit her.  That way she can have a live plant instead of frozen cuttings.

But I like the methods you both have suggested for shipping the cuttings.  I will save this procedure for my future reference. 

Thanks again for your help.

You could also put it in a 16 or 20 oz soda or water bottle and leave the top off of it. To do that, you'd have to cut the bottle in half. Then after putting the plant in the bottom half, you'd put the top back on and tape it so that it stays together securely. You'd want to wrap the cut part in moist paper towels and the wrap that part in plastic to keep it moist....securing the plastic so that it doesn't open......You can use a baggie and tape around the opening of the baggie to ensure that it's well sealed. Depending on where you're sending it, I would wait...If you're sending it to anything other than maybe zone 9 or higher, chances are that it would be left in the post office or a vehicle over night in temperatures that might be less than ideal for tropical stuff. (Tender tropicals don't like low temperatures below about 60.) If you use the disposable glad or Ziploc containers, you'd definitely need to poke air holes in it. Depending on how much you are sending to them, it might be in your best interest to ship by FedEx or DHL. Unless the Post Office could guarantee arrival in 2-3 days, with something tropical, you'd really be chancing it. If you are sending it to zone 1-6, if I were you, I'd probably wait to send it until around Memorial Day. Only then can those zones be sure that any danger of a hard freeze or even a frost has past.

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Well, I would wrap the ends that have been cut with moistioned newspaper or paper towels and put the ends in a plastic baggy with a few holes for ventilation and rubberband it in place. Put it in a small sized box or maybe a small to med sized Glad tupperware that has been wrapped with a brown paper bag and stuff lots  of dry newspaper or pine straw around it to keep it warm and safe from being jarred around too much. Mark the box as fragile and send it with confirmation receipt (65 cents more to ship). I'm sure priority shipping (2-5 shipping days) would be just fine. No need to overnight it or anything. I would not send clippings in bubble envelopes or regular envelopes. 

 

Char

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