Anyone else having their mulberry leaves vanish in Auspost?

[KeenShrimp]

I bought Mullberry leaves off Gumtree and the parcel never arrived ( tracking indicated it was delivered), I ordered more through EBay from a different seller, and the leaves also did not arrive. Has this happened to anyone else? I am beginning to think that they might be confiscating leaves for disease risk in ACT or something....I cannot grow it here, it gets ruined by waves of plagues here? 

[neo-2FX]

@KeenShrimp Have you ever received anything similar successfully? Might be worth trying express post. I'll have to double check my tree but if I can get some together I could send you some to try ?

[KeenShrimp]

Thank you @neo-2FX, pm sent?

[NoGi]

Wouldn't you get a letter if they confiscated them though?

[KeenShrimp]

Hi @NoGi, no clue- Auspost couldn't help me...maybe someone thought it was tobacco or a bag of weed?

[Mitch91]

I could send you a bag n see what happens that is if the tree still has leaves (damn winter lol) 

[Mitch91]

This afternoon I thought I might stock up on the leaves went to the tree and seen mulberries starting to pop up lots actually and many new leaves :) picked a small amount that I am now going to boil for 5 minutes and then sort and freeze until needed 

[jayc]

@Mitch91,

if you are going to freeze, don't bother boiling it.

Freezing it without boiling will retain more nutrients.

A frozen mulberry leaf (or any other leaf) will breakdown like one that is boiled when you thaw and feed later.

 

I only boil / blanch if I'm going to feed fresh leaves.

Everything else get's frozen fresh.

 

<edit> - if you want to know why ... freezing breaks down the cell walls like boiling will. So the leaf is easier for the shrimps to eat. Freeze-thaw cycles work by formation of ice crystals and cell expansion upon thawing, ultimately leading to rupture of the cell walls. So no use doing both.

Edited July 10, 2016 by jayc

[Mitch91]

4 hours ago, jayc said:

@Mitch91,

if you are going to freeze, don't bother boiling it.

Freezing it without boiling will retain more nutrients.

A frozen mulberry leaf (or any other leaf) will breakdown like one that is boiled when you thaw and feed later.

 

I only boil / blanch if I'm going to feed fresh leaves.

Everything else get's frozen fresh.

 

<edit> - if you want to know why ... freezing breaks down the cell walls like boiling will. So the leaf is easier for the shrimps to eat. Freeze-thaw cycles work by formation of ice crystals and cell expansion upon thawing, ultimately leading to rupture of the cell walls. So no use doing both.

Hey thanks jayc I never knew that but it does make sense now, so if I freeze them without boiling I don't have to boil them once unfrozen ?