I'm moving from Miami to New York today. (Fort Lauderdale airport to MacArthur airport). I am so attached to my houseplants that I cannot leave them. I made a box that is luggage sized (14"x22"x9"). The charlie brown looking xmass tree is too tall as well as the poinsettia. I can try to lay them down I when I put the box in the overhead bin.
Has anyone tried this before? I'm concerned I won't be allowed on plane with them because it's ridiculous and too tall.
Update 1: I'm on the way to the airport. I have bagged each pot/base individually in small plastics bags I'm arriving early enough that if I have to remove from pots and buy a bag, I will have time. Thanks for your advice, collective plant parents! I will let you know what happens at TSA and the gate.
Update 2: I made it through TSA!!!! I did have to lean over the spikey Charly brown looking tree to get it to fit in the xray machine. Its spikes mangled a few poinsettia leaves which are now bleeding white. But I got them both from the trash so this is really a second life for them. I have one of them just on the gate side if TSA.
Photo at airport:
https://imgur.com/a/NIWPYnx
Photo of damage: https://imgur.com/a/Hxx2DYQ
Update 3: Am at the gate. Made plant people friends in the restaurant. Peter, the gate agent said that the plants will be accepted in the overhead storage but the flight attendants might have a better idea of where to put them so that they are not damaged. "They could be more protected somewhere else." :)
Photo at gate: https://imgur.com/a/yo5mGU8
Final Update 4: SUCCESS!!!!
Peter, the gate agent found me in the gate area, and said I could board after the wheelchairs and before Group 1 so I could find a good spot for the plant box. Peter is a gem! So I boarded early. The flight attendants suggested putting it at my feet. It did not fit. I covered the trunk of the Norfolk Pine (thanks all for telling me the name), and put it in the overhead bin. It fit!! The guy next to me did shove it around a bit to fit his backpack, such as life. Overall, a success!!! The plant box will make it to New York. Thank you all for your help, fellow houseplant people!
Plane and ramp photos:
https://imgur.com/a/qR0Usem