That statement was in reference with people who grow plants for re-sale and not for hobby gardeners.
Let's say you get a contract for 1,000 plants from a major nursery grower who sub-contracts with smaller growers for small runs of semi-rare plants. And the going rate is around $15.00 per plant accepted at the end of the season. So basically you're looking at a gross return of $15,000.00 with them providing you with rooted clones and set at 4" in height.
The standard are the typical lipped nursery stock containers, the #1 which sell for about $.35 each in lots of 1,000 or more. Bigger breaks for 5,000 lots. But if you want to use some really fancy, schmancy growing pot - that's not their concern. You could have pots weaved out of hand-beaten hemp threads by young virgin Turkish saute chefs if you want. That's not their concern. They're going to run your plants that they receive from you through a machine that grabs the plant by the trunk and removes it from the growing put and places it into a new pot, with the nursery's name and label for that specific plant and the pots you brought are collected by 3rd parties and taken to be processed into new nursery stock pots for next year.
You think that anyone is going to spend $8.00 per plant for a container that 'might' be better than other self-pruning pot of which there are at least 10 products at last count? Seriously?
They're a nice little product for what it is - a product in search of filling a need. Perhaps with the grow store industry they'll find a reason to continue. Not much use in the real world however. Their lack of distributors is proof positive of that.
2 weeks to get your order? That's not how things work in this industry. With these growers, 2 days is usually a stretch because you have to cut hay when the sun shines as the expression goes.
Let's say you get a contract for 1,000 plants from a major nursery grower who sub-contracts with smaller growers for small runs of semi-rare plants. And the going rate is around $15.00 per plant accepted at the end of the season. So basically you're looking at a gross return of $15,000.00 with them providing you with rooted clones and set at 4" in height.
The standard are the typical lipped nursery stock containers, the #1 which sell for about $.35 each in lots of 1,000 or more. Bigger breaks for 5,000 lots. But if you want to use some really fancy, schmancy growing pot - that's not their concern. You could have pots weaved out of hand-beaten hemp threads by young virgin Turkish saute chefs if you want. That's not their concern. They're going to run your plants that they receive from you through a machine that grabs the plant by the trunk and removes it from the growing put and places it into a new pot, with the nursery's name and label for that specific plant and the pots you brought are collected by 3rd parties and taken to be processed into new nursery stock pots for next year.
You think that anyone is going to spend $8.00 per plant for a container that 'might' be better than other self-pruning pot of which there are at least 10 products at last count? Seriously?
They're a nice little product for what it is - a product in search of filling a need. Perhaps with the grow store industry they'll find a reason to continue. Not much use in the real world however. Their lack of distributors is proof positive of that.
2 weeks to get your order? That's not how things work in this industry. With these growers, 2 days is usually a stretch because you have to cut hay when the sun shines as the expression goes.
