I have been thinking about this. For seed swaps, I process my seeds ahead of time, always worried something will come up in my life to prevent me from packaging them up to mail. This will be different. Cuttings will need to be made right before mailing. so I am thinking about making a list of what I could do, but wait to do it until time to mail.
As they are bigger and will quickly fill up a small USPS mailer box, I think we should limit our group size (hardly anyone has signed up so this may not be a problem). Also, for seed swaps, at the end I have so many tickets I click on things I am not really planning to use (confession) but might eventually want, or to give away. As the cuttings will need to be dealt with as soon as we get them maybe we need some kind of agreement to only click on those we really want?
I think I might dip the tough ones in some rooting hormone before sending, I usually dip mine right away. What do you think? Oh that reminds me I should go buy some new powder.
I have houseplants and of course garden plants. April/May we can do some softwood and some hardwood cuttings here in Seattle (spring is here now), and houseplants. I would guess most of you are still in the hardwood phase, which should mail better.
