THE VERY REAL DANGER OF ORDERING SEEDS FROM WISH OR EBAY! PLEASE WATCH!!! | Gardening in Canada 🇨🇦
THE VERY REAL DANGER OF ORDERING SEEDS FROM WISH OR EBAY! PLEASE WATCH!!! | Gardening in Canada 🇨🇦
Ordering seeds online from retailers such as wish and eBay is a very popular past time for a lot of people. But did you know there are some VERY real risks associated with online ordering or seeds and plants. Where you may think it’s an innocent fun idea to fuel your plant passion it is actually incredibly dangerous.
Whether you like it or not you may very well be pulling your country, neighbours or even continent at risk. In this video we dish the dirt on exactly what responsibility you’re taking on the moment you order seeds or plants from another country. If you chosen to purchase seed from China or ever a neighbouring country I will explain exactly what you need to do to ensure you will not harm the environment.
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Just tried microwaving spinach seeds for 5 minutes…. that won’t work at all. I expected popcorn 🙁
Ashley, I just posted messages in the comment sections of other gardeners’ YT channels that I watch, referencing your video to try to help get the word out. The combined subscriber base of these changes is 2.3 million people. I know that on average only 10-15% of subscribers watch the videos of the channels they’re subscribed to, but that’s still 345,000 people. The dumbest things go viral; maybe this, which is something real and intelligent and truly helpful, will go viral.
I ordered bonsai seeds off WISH, they sent me the exact same seeds that fall from the tree in my garden.grrr
Some people have reported receiving seed packages via Amazon originating in China; the package lists the contents as ear studs.
I bought some seeds from Israel off of Etsy. They haven’t grown anything so thanks for the info to burn them.
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Do Not order seeds from ebay and amazon, they are shit, dont waste your time and money, the sellers are shit and ebay is worse, people need to be warned, copy and paste this comment, Ebay is run by assholes
Hadn’t thought of the ramifications of invasives etc that we get as indoor plants. What about indoor plants from local nurseries? I haven’t asked or researched where they source the seeds from. I would like to assume a reputable nursery would do their due diligence but I doubt that considering the number of invasives sold in nurseries. For my part I will stop trying to sprout strawberries and pineapples if they are from the US. Never ordered seeds from Amazon or Wish and wont be doing that. This is a good topic. Thx
Wow. Definitely accidentally guilty of this. I bought my first tomato & cucumber seeds for my balcony garden off Amazon. The package came, and it was in Cyrillic. I thought it was really interesting and cool…until a couple years later when the whole mystery seeds shipped from China thing was happening, and Amazon announced it was going to ban international seed shipping into the U.S. on its site. That’s when I found out my cool Cyrillic seed packets probably hadn’t been inspected like they were supposed to be, and that you generally cannot import international seeds into the U.S. To be fair, I had every reason to believe the seeds would be shipped domestically (they only took a couple weeks to arrive from a seller within the U.S.), and the same variety is available from domestic seed companies. It wasn’t until Amazon’s seed scandal I realized those seeds probably hadn’t made it through customs.
Wow – I would have never known. Very interesting.
I ordered Hoya kerrii seeds from Wish and now am super regretful about this >.<! Kinda hoping my country’s agronomy finds them and burns them now. I really want hoya kerrii, but here in Chile they are almost impossible to find 🙁
I am going to order my seeds from ilgm from now on, thanks.👍
Darn here I was hoping to somehow get some muscadine seeds from the Southern US to plant here because I miss muscadines soooo much. Thanks for the info!
Love your bird
In Croatia there is Japanese knotweed that is so hard to eradicate and it grows like crazy. There is also Ambrosia (from Nothern America) and in Adriatic sea is stuborn Caulerpa (from tropical seas) that is pure evil.
also from ordering items from Aliexpress in China
Very interesting video for sure. Love the fun fact. You’re a plant world treasure. Any beginner soil science books you can recommend?
Had no idea, it’s not my forte but makes sense.
Serce, also some terrible vine, that will tear a house down!
This reminds me of crossing the US/CANADA border. We crossed going into Saskatchewan from North Dakota. At customs their was a huge dumpster on Canadian side with huge letters. POTATOES. Obviously the US has brought in potato disease, and Canada isn’t tolerating
This.
Ive traded seeds with the us long ago
But i respect them so nothing spreads…wild dagga even the seeds dont germinate after our cold winters so i collect the seed pods to plant next year
They were from the us but originally an African plant
Sunopener is in a pot from mexico
Thank you for this video and more about the seed thing! Its very important to stay safe at this moment and not to risk it. My mother just ordered seeds from wish and I did tell her to not plant or use them! Thank you!
Ella is so cute! Totally like her 😍
The eradication must not work well. I started an avocado tree from the seed of an avocado I ate. Now it may not have eventually had fruit on it. I eventually killed it as I kept forgetting to water it. It did grow to about 4 feet tall though.
Great video. I’d like to hear more about diseases in produce and altering foreign produce to make it safe for travel.
I bought banana tree seeds on wish and it planted one and it’s in a pot and it’s not a banana tree. It looks like a tall grass like plant. I have other seeds from wish. I will burn them. Thanks. ✌ and growers 💘
Invasives…. Orange Hawkweed, oh my god. Central BC is at war with Orange Hawkweed.
They don’t sell. It no more on wish. Only EBay
Always scared to order online from unknown sources…
Thumbs up for the bird
Fire ants are not native to Texas but you would think so.
this video got 100x better when I realized you had a co-anchor (I do too)
Cudzu in the south almost impossible to kill and or control
The current pandemic speaks volumes to your point of “one person, one plant… to annihilate the environment”.
I ordered Echeveria Black Prince Variegated Seeds here in the Phillipines which was from the Phillipines and It germinated after 5 or maybe 6 days the leaves was variegated.
I’ve ordered tons of great vedgy and native flower seeds from wish and such. I dont order invasive species! This actually upset me! I have beautiful papers! Coffee plants and so on! And I have a awesome garden… if your buying seeds, you shouldn’t by invasive species… im going threw hell killing a coulp of invasive species from next door . But a good gardening person buys stuff that isn’t invasive. I’ve got lily’s, all types of flowers, citrus trees, Coffee, and so much more! But only the stuff that the U.S has.. I got Olive seeds! The U.S.A charges a arm and a leg for olive trees! And fig! USA has these plants!
I planted seeds from a grocery store lemon and they have taken off ! Does this mean I won’t get fruit ? Or the fruit could have radiation ?
I just love Ella. I love animals. It shows that you love her, and she loves you. She looks happy, healthy, and very well cared for and about. 🦜❤️👍
I ordered in WISH, now afraid I’m may get weed seeds? Wish me luck
I’m a bit ashamed to admit I’ve bought seeds a couple of times from wish and the like – but thanks to your video I won’t do it again. And thinking about it now (which is better late than never I guess) it’s potentially an even bigger disaster here in a australia.
Bought some black diamond watermelon seeds off ebay.
They never germinated after two weeks.
I was disappointed.
recently I read in a plant wiki, can’t remember which one, that in the 1800’s a type of seed of a chinese plant were used as packing peanuts in crates shipped from china, and that the boxes had holes in them, so the seeds spilled out all along all the railroad lines. Oh, strawberry varieties grown in china are either recent american or japanese cultivars.