More California BS regulations.

01/28/2025 | Me

[Kevin in California]

So I moved from the liberal infested bay area California 4 months ago and out into a semi rural (Trump country) area of California. I bought a big home with 1.5 acres. I need some fruit and shade trees so I went to website that sells fast growing trees and when I tried adding cherry trees, peach trees, and apricot trees to my shopping cart, a message pops up saying they're unable to ship to California due to agricultural restrictions. This is such BS.

[Zathras]

I ran into similar problems living in CA.
Good luck with your new place!

[cgbg]

When I lived in Newport Beach back in the day I rented a house that had an apricot tree.

The apricots tasted like candy—incredible.

Do what you need to do—but get some!

[Valpal1]

It’s because they don’t want to aciddent import various blights and diseases that could wipe out the local orchards.

TBH, you should get trees from a local nursery. They may cost more but they’ll be better adapted to the local weather/climate and have a better survival rate.

[Dr. Sivana]

My wife wants a quince tree. The local nurseries here in Arizona get them from Florida!

[Valpal1]

The American Chestnut forest was destroyed by a blight that was imported on Japanese chestnuts.

They are desperately trying to hybridize or GMO a resistant American Chestnut.

www.tacf.org

[Valpal1]

Does Arizona have a million dollar Quince orcharding industry?

Didn’t think so. That’s why they don’t care.

[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

Drive into Nevada and buy the trees rent a U-Haul truck to bring them home!! I work at Home Depot part time landscapers are driving into Arizona to buy gas powered landscaping tools because they can not get them on line delivered to Ca. California has become a complete disaster!! I moved from the coast to Palm Desert it was like moving to a different state SANITY!! Newscum is worried about crap like this instead of his whole state burning to the ground!! Landscapers trying to work ALL DAY with battery operated tools is INSANE!! These battery operated tools are damned expensive and the run time is not enough to finish ONE DAMN HOUSE!!! Go get your trees AND you will feel great giving Newscum the middle finger by doing it!!

[ansel12]

The same reason they have fruit and vegetable check points entering California, it is a huge agricultural state and they don’t like the risk.

[Bullish]

Are you sure it’s not a pest control issue with the fruit trees? It’s serious, that’s why there’s checkpoints out in the desert on the way into California too. Bad stuff coming in on fruit can kill lots of our trees here, so...

[kiryandil]

I did Nazi this coming from Governor Mousselini and his Fascist minions...

[Bullish]

I see you beat me to it by 3 min... Cool

[SPDSHDW]

Can’t have ag when you starve the farms and orchards of water

[Robert DeLong]

So, you thought that the liberal stranglehold wouldn't exist in some areas of California? 😁😎

Note to Kevin in California:

They own you, no matter where you go if it is controlled by the Blue Genies who are meanies to all. But at least you may not be in a 15 minute city, for now at any rate. 🤣

If you had moved to Louisiana you could have had a bigger house on 15 acres, while saving 50% of your, and you could have planted all of those trees you wanted also. 🤣

[AZJeep]

All the implements are OK, but importing plants, fruits and livestock to CA has been regulated since ever (and make some sense). So I will not try that! You may get into aa lot of troubles.

I still remember, when I got almost strip searched on the CA/AZ border by these agricultural cops (around 1980).
I had nothing, but there was no traffic at that moment; they were bored, I guess, so I got the most thorough inspection in my life! Everything!

[sasquatch]

A neighbor in Siskiyou Co. planted about 15 acres of chestnuts. Not sure of the variety. I do know that he doesn’t bother to pick up the size nuts that I saw a while back for $10/# at a grocery store in the SF Bay area.
A car with CA plates is usually waved through ag checkpoints in a lane signed ‘local returns’. At times, there is no one there at all. Medford is popular for Northern CA. shopping. No sales tax. Alcohol free gas is for sale (lasts a long time) as is over the counter products for team of Mr. Wesson and Ms. Smith. Sames true in NV. near Truckee. Cabelas built a huge store in Boomtown.

[No name given]

And all to appease pagans.

[ifinnegan]

“ Drive into Nevada and buy the trees”

He can buy them locally.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

ValPal wrote "It’s because they don’t want to accidentally import various blights and diseases that could wipe out the local orchards."

ValPal --> it's far bigger threat than wiping out just local orchards. Bad pests can wipe out the entire STATE's agricultural industry.

Also, it's not just blights and plant diseases. Lots of trees have insect eggs on the leaves and they could lead to an explosion of hugely damaging insects. I remember having the helicopters fly over my Palo Alto home in 1981 spraying the entire town with malathion over many nights (weeks?)

In that year, the insect more commonly known as the “medfly” nearly crippled California’s agricultural industry, wrecked Jerry Brown’s Senate chances and led to a media frenzy that convinced many in Palo Alto that their homes would soon be sprayed from above with toxic DDT.

California’s medfly morass began on June 5th, 1980 when two medflies were found in a trap in San Jose. Medflies (not native to the U.S.) are among the peskiest of all Earth’s bugs. By laying their eggs under the skin of a wide variety of popular fruits, medfly larvae are born inside the fruit, become maggots and destroy it. Agriculturalists were quick to point out that a medfly outbreak was capable of completely ravaging the state’s 14 billion dollar agricultural industry and the California economy as a whole. As the medfly began to be found in increasingly wide circles, California decided to wage war on the intruding insect.

...the rest of the country began to see there was something amiss in the Golden State. Florida, Texas, Georgia and even Japan imposed quarantines on California crops, not wishing to acquire their own medfly populations.

So, before the industry could be severely damaged by the pest, the customer base evaporated.

Buying your fruit trees at a reputable local nursery is a small thing to do to keep fruit, nut and ag healthy in California.

MedFly below...

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Good luck getting the trees past the agricultural inspection stations on the way into CA!