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Melinda Rombouts figured if she could successfully ship young pot plants to the Yukon in the dead of winter, getting them to Canada’s east coast alive would be easy.

Drawing on her background cultivating flowers, the founder of London-area licensed marijuana producer Eve & Co., has now made her company Canada’s first to begin supplying the grow-your-own cannabis market.

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It was no easy feat.

Kelsey Jobson, who at the Strathroy-based company deals with provincial pot rules, handled the test shipping runs, using not cannabis plants but citronella.

Those plants, familiar to home gardeners and selected for their similarity to pot plants in structure and hardiness, were sent to garden centres across the country last winter.

Each plant was packaged in an individual shipping container insulated with bubble wrap and equipped with an LED light to keep the plant in a vegetative state.

“In the dead of winter, we sent them to the Yukon to try to put them through the longest transit time . . . just to test the packaging,” said Jobson.