Saturday, September 9, 2017
Clove seeds available
I currently have clove seeds. I have a few listed as private listings on Etsy for people who contacted me on Etsy, sent an Ebay message to somebody who contacted me on Ebay (but haven't heard back) and listings for 10 seeds on Zibbet - 10 clove tree seeds - I hope the link works. I can do a few orders of 50 or 100, but those take some time to prepare and I prefer to send those out early in the week. I do not ship to places that require phytosanitary certificates other than to Puerto Rico (sending my prayers and best wishes for and to all of you there at this time), so please don't ask. Apologies to my waiting list, I hope you find this, I haven't had time to deal with finding all the email addresses, and I can't keep 10 seed and 20 seed orders apart at Ag inspection, so I won't list them at the same time. You may not realize this, but I have to take ever seed order out of its package to be inspected, and I hate getting contents mixed up.
Friday, January 15, 2016
Google, do you really have to make my life this complicated?
I can't be logged into my personal account and my work account at the same time and access my blog??!!
Or, let me rephrase that: I can't be logged into my work account and access my personal blog?
At least not from the same browser? At least it doesn't appear that I have to log out of my work account on all my devices ... (that would imply: including my computer at work).
The procedure is:
if you want to access your personal blog and have a gmail interface at work:
close your work email tab in your browser
edit your blog
reopen your work email tab (from the history works in Firefox)
If you leave your blogspot tab open you can still access it after reopening your work email tab but you won't get the initial access to your personal blog if you have your work email tab open
I'm pretty sure the same isn't true for Google Drive/Sheets as I do access this from my personal account all the time while having a work email tab open - so, please Google, fix this for blogger - I do want access to both of my email accounts at the same time.
Friday, June 5, 2015
What needs to be inspected by the Hawaii or US Departments of Agriculture and what doesn't - and shipping delays
I posted some of this on Facebook (it's public, you don't have to be on Facebook to read it), but I thought I might make it available to a wider audience.
I'll be trying this being away thing again next week, so if you're ordering anything that needs to go through ag inspection after today/yesterday early morning it will be delayed until next week Friday or possibly the Monday after. I can get orders out that don't need to be inspected through Sunday morning (going out Monday) and may be able to throughout (and I'll try to delete this part after I get back as well as that part of the title).
I'll be trying this being away thing again next week, so if you're ordering anything that needs to go through ag inspection after today/yesterday early morning it will be delayed until next week Friday or possibly the Monday after. I can get orders out that don't need to be inspected through Sunday morning (going out Monday) and may be able to throughout (and I'll try to delete this part after I get back as well as that part of the title).
What needs to be inspected and what doesn't:
I just realized that it may not be clear what needs to be inspected and what doesn't. Obviously plant seeds need to be inspected, including Job's Tears and mgambo seeds, even if they're drilled - when going to most places, see below. I have been meaning to call the USDA whether mgambo seeds still need to be inspected if they are temporarily strung but haven't gotten around to that yet, the Hawaii Department of Agriculture guys told me that I'd have to ask the USDA - because: jewelry made with any of these seeds doesn't have to be inspected (neither does jewelry made with Job's Tears but I won't string those in the amounts that I sell by just to get around ag inspection, so please don't ask). Some seeds cannot be shipped to some states (e.g. citrus seeds cannot be shipped to Florida, though Florida is generally pretty open in what can be sent there). Orders to Puerto Rico require a phyto. This phyto is issued by the Hawaii Department of Agriculture and is free but requires extra paperwork (and an extra day in most cases).
Non-propagative seeds (e.g. drilled mgambo seeds or Job's Tears) don't have to be inspected if they are staying within Hawaii. Coffee seeds cannot be shipped to destinations in Hawaii.
Orders going to Canada also don't have to be inspected here - but Canadian customs/inspection will make sure that you're not getting anything that may become invasive in Canada. As that's rather unlikely for tropical plants those seeds usually go through (I have never experienced a problem there - other than that clove seeds got frozen and didn't survive.).
Orders going to the mainland have to be inspected by the Hawaii Department of Agriculture and we have an inspection place in Hilo. They are open on weekdays only, and they are closed on State Holidays.
Orders going abroad (other than to Canada) have to be inspected by the US Department of Agriculture. Their inspection place relocated not too long ago and is much easier to get to (and the new facilities are much nicer), but they are also only open on weekdays, and they are closed on Federal Holidays. Small orders going to the EU don't require phytos and I usually don't have large orders. I don't ship to countries that require phytos for any seeds or inspection by entities approved by their government (e.g. Belize or Nigeria).
Not being a certified nursery (you won't believe the paperwork required for that) I cannot ship plants out of State, but I can ship within Hawaii, or could the last time I asked. Plants still have to be inspected (think little fire ants and the like. We do have them here, and you seriously don't want them), and as they're usually bulky the postage is going to be quite a bit.
Having written this, I know it contradicts the signs you see at the post offices. What they are saying is that you can't just put it in the mail, you have to comply with the inspection regulations before you do so.
State Agriculture inspection (for domestic orders) will be closed on Thursday, June 11, 2015 for Kamehameha Day.
Thursday, February 26, 2015
Just another update
This update has been sitting in the drafts for a year. Most of the things in the included treasury are probably in the sold or expired forever in the meantime (but I do have both unsorted and mixed Job's Tears available - white and brown will take a while longer).
Publishing, just to get it out of my drafts folder.
'Subtle Tones' by gregorgrace
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A day of use-it-or-lose-it leave
Please keep in mind that in reality I wrote this in October :)
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I have a job. It really is a bit more than full time job (overtime exempt, so I'm not getting paid extra in case people think that). Each year towards the end of the year comes the time to count one's left over vacation hours because we can only carry over 80 hours into the next year. Some time in September I counted up the hours and realized that I have to take a minimum of 9 days off because by the end of the year I will have accumulated 19 days left over in total. I could take all 19 days but I very much doubt there will be time for that. - I wrote this in October, and believe it or not, I didn't officially lose any vacation time, but I did work during some of it LOL
Made in Hawaii
Whether grown , designed or crafted by hand, these featured items are made right here in the great state of Hawaii
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 $5.00 |  $9.00 |
 $10.00 |  $50.00 |
 $300.00 |  $39.95 |
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Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Tiare seeds!
There are some tiare seeds in my Zibbet and Etsy shops. I don't know of any other pods in the process of ripening at the moment, so for the foreseeable future the seeds from that pod may very well be it, sorry.
I wrote this post in late December and thought I had published it but just found that I hadn't. Apologies for that. There are some tiare seeds left (but no large orders this time, sorry).
After not having been in many Etsy treasuries for a while, here's one:
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Friday, December 20, 2013
Update on clove seeds and on tiare seeds
There was a small pod of tiare seeds of which I managed to get most before bird and other critters did. Unfortunately for whoever else is interested on of my long time repeat customers emailed me just that day, could she have 40, and then I looked at my rather short but quite deep waiting list, the first person, another long time repeat customer, wanted 200, counted what I had left and had 185, she got those. That was in mid November.
In the meantime I got one more pod. I'm still processing it but for the time being it's the last one I expect. While I do love my repeat wholesale customers I am going to give my online retail customers a chance this time. I know a lot of you are repeat customers too.
As clove seeds go, I still have some listed in my Artfire, Etsy and Zibbet shops and I just listed a package of 10 on Ebay as well. As the only other seller on Ebay is asking for $23 including shipping for 6 I didn't see going with the previous price for mine either - but it still is much lower. I do not know how many clove seeds I am going to have this time as it appears that our bees died. I am going to raise my wholesale and retail prices but I'm not going to where that other Ebay seller is.
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