Cinta said:
Thank you. I have searched and found it at a few places but more than I want to pay for a what I know will be a small 3" pot. I will not give anybody $25 or $30 for a plug size pot. Shipping is so high by the time you are done you end up paying 50 bucks for a little thing. Nope I won't do it.
I am not surprised at the price. I have tried over the years I have had it to propagate it and I was unable to do so, that is one reason I ask what Logee had to suggest to start a cutting. Anyhow, Logee had it in 2.5 inch pots (a bit larger than plug size) $12.95 and 4.0" pot $24.95..that is about the going rate for that plant I feel sure.
That is the problem with propagating plants and trying to sell them. I know from experience that I can not sell my jasmine in a 3" pot.for more than $10.95...and I do not consider that a plug size....plug to me is 1 1/2 or 2 inches. By the time they get to the 3" pot, they are six months to a year old and the grower has all that time feeding, watering and the expense of the greenhouse under his belt, then if you ask more than $10....they say it is too much money. That is one reason I began selling cuttings....that way I do not have all the expenses I mentioned above and I am still making people happy and moving my plants. Gives me more time and more room in the greenhouse for things I want to play around with. Fragrant house plants are a luxury to me and I have very few of them anymore. I just can not afford them...that is why I only grow the two jasmine (Maid of Orleans and Star) to sell anymore, I feel unless you have customers in the city who are used to paying high prices, you will sit on your plants for years. I have three Maid of Orleans that are now 2 years old, left from one year when I refused to sell them less than $12.00 for a 3" pot. I will use them as stock plants when they get old enough. Many of my customers are city dwellers and that is good.
The other week I put a classified ad up on ATP when I was trying to make room in the greenhouse. I put up some beautiful year old, still in a 3" pot Chlorophytum comosum 'Vitittum' ....these are ready to go into 6 inch pots. I ask $4.99 and offered if they buy one, they get one FREE. NOT ONE PERSON WAS INTERESTED. I was amazed....that was a good deal for plants that age. You just never know what people are going to buy and when but I am not in this to make money, this is a hobby gone MAD....too many plants love to grow for me...anyhow, I end up giving more away some months than I sell. Just wanted to give you an idea what it is like on the "other" side....hope no one was offended. I did not mean the information to be hurtful in any way.
