I have been reading that their is going to be a quarantines here due to the Asian citrus psyllids ...may stop plants and stock from moving anywhere for 2 years......I hope that it doesn't affect Jon's Nursery....they are working on putting into effect soon.

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Armando between Fresno and Bakersfield California

Wow , amazing. More quarantine with California. I hope it will not be true.

All those European varieties Jon has in quarantine!

yow! i just looked up those horrid bugs. i'm not sure quareteen is the problem. those bugs and the disease they carry could ruin an awful lot of californians. i just hope they can be controlled before they wreck entire industries.

If California defeats ACP it will be the first place on EARTH to have done so.

In Asia it has reduced production by up to 80% in some areas.

that's awful news. i wish i could do something for cali people.
the first thing that flashed into my mind was of some family that depends on their citrus to pay the mortgage.

FRESNO — California officials have quarantined an area in the state's citrus belt after the discovery of tiny pests capable of killing citrus trees.

The California Department of Food and Agriculture said on Wednesday that 178 square miles in Tulare County have been quarantined following the detection two weeks ago of six Asian citrus psyllids around Porterville.

The quarantine prohibits the movement of nursery stock out of the area and requires citrus fruit to be cleaned of leaves and stems. Farmers must also spray their trees with insecticide.

Agriculture department spokesman Steve Lyle said the psyllids did not carry the deadly bacteria that has decimated Florida's citrus industry.

Similar quarantines are now in place in Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Diego, Imperial, Orange, Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Riverside counties.

Alan, figs actually have been found to host ACP (in Florida, I believe), but not their preferred diet and not carry the HLB disease. Even if growing fig trees were ever included on the quarantine list, dormant trees and scions would probably be excluded.

There are already requirements that citrus nursery stock be grown in screenhouses (think it takes effect in January but most operations are already there. There will surely be a continued supply of disease-free nursery stock.

By the way, quarantines don't usually completely ban movement of stock, it usually needs to meet certain requirements. The pomegranate trees and chestnut trees I've sold are both subject to different quarantine requirements (LBAM and SOD) which I comply with.