Yehoshua Berger is the owner of EsrogShopper.com. He’s based in Lakewood, New Jersey
Day job I work in health care, and I do this on the side — I take off the two weeks the season requires.
A diamond-dealer level magnifying loupe and a good razor blade. I just have to be careful not to take the loupe to the cardboard boxes and the blade to the esrogim in those wee hours of the night!
I don’t have anything more to offer than the basics: Don’t store them high up, where it can get hot, and refrigerate the haddassim and aravos in the plastic they come with. I take the whole “koisherkle” — the haddassim and aravos holder — off the lulav and put it into the plastic and refrigerate. There’s no need to wrap or water it.
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