have you seen the plant catalog prices ????

[ronbre]

OMG I'm sure glad that I bought my plants (fruit and nut trees, shrubs and vines) already..after seeing some of the prices on plants and seeds this year in the new catalogs.

One grapevine I saw was $97..for ONE grapevine..

One that I bought several years ago is 5 times what I paid for it..

I saw corn packets at $8.99 and $5.99 for a packet..

Trees at outrageous prices..

I'll admit I only have a handful of catalogs but all of them so far have much increased prices..

I understand we had severe droughts in the plant/seed growing areas ..which could account for the increases...but with some of them 10 times higher than just last year..me thinks it isn't just the drought

[thesedays]

Are they rare or heirloom varieties, and how big are the $8.99 packets? It might be for, say, a pound of seed, and the $97 grapevine might be fully grown.

[where I want to]

I've seen the same thing. New varieties are out if sight but even old one are 20 to 30 per cent higher. I was looking at a new improved peach but came to a halt at the $96 price. Just a normal second year graft.

[homstdr74]

I posted this in another thread, but if you want reasonable prices on good seeds, check out the Morgan County Seed Store:

https://www.morgancountyseeds.com/store/

I have ordered from them a few times, but prefer to go there when I'm in that area. Their shipping and handling is fairly priced, and I don't know of any other company that sells some of their seed packets of common seeds for a dollar.

[Mike in Ohio]

I'm taken aback by some of the prices as well. I'm planning on buying some fruit trees using the buy $$ get $$ free offers - basically 50% off.

I'm also going to take advantage of offers from the local SWCDs.

Mike

[Mike in wny]

i get my trees from shlabachs in western ny it's run by the amish and have had good luck with them and the prices are reasonable

[where I want to]

I just realized that some of the catalogs have 25 or 50 per cent off coupns on the covers. That makes the prices a lot more in line with last year's but what a pain in the derrière as the prices vary along with the number of plants and the the reduction for whole total.

[K.B.]

which catalogue/company has increased their price so much?

My two "go to" places below don't seem to have increased the prices much, if at all:

http://www.raintreenursery.com/home.php

https://www.rollingrivernursery.com/index.php

I don't plan on ordering from the nursery this year again, though... I will swap material from the plants I already have for the ones I am interested in through the North American Scion Exchange:

http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/scionexchange/info

[anniew]

Try Fedco seeds for decent prices and good seed.

[MoTightwad]

Watch those buy one get one offers, especially from Starks. Our of the whole bunch we ordered only 2 apple trees survived and even that took 7 years to produce an apple. Not worth the costs.

[FarmChix]

Originally Posted by Mike in Ohio

I'm taken aback by some of the prices as well. I'm planning on buying some fruit trees using the buy $$ get $$ free offers - basically 50% off.

I'm also going to take advantage of offers from the local SWCDs.

Mike

And now I am regretting not optimizing those deals from Henry Fields. Of course, they have now expired. Ugh!

[ronbre]

it was a rooted cutting for $97 ..it was a new variety and in a deep root pot..but still only a rooted cutting. I bought a similar vine from them a few years ago with the same deep root pot and it was in the $20 range..and it still hasn't born fruit yet..

I'm not impressed..I have so far purused about 6 new catalogs and every one of them so far had outrageous prices..

the one with the really high grapevine was Henry fields I think..I think it was on the front of the new catalog..was I believe called Razzmatazz and was supposed to be everbearing..but still $97 for a rooted cutting..comeon ..

I'll just root my own cuttings from all of my prunings from my other grapevines..no thank you for the $97 one..I can find a better use for $97

[Paquebot]

Originally Posted by ronbre

it was a rooted cutting for $97 ..it was a new variety and in a deep root pot..but still only a rooted cutting. I bought a similar vine from them a few years ago with the same deep root pot and it was in the $20 range..and it still hasn't born fruit yet..

I'm not impressed..I have so far purused about 6 new catalogs and every one of them so far had outrageous prices..

the one with the really high grapevine was Henry fields I think..I think it was on the front of the new catalog..was I believe called Razzmatazz and was supposed to be everbearing..but still $97 for a rooted cutting..comeon ..

I'll just root my own cuttings from all of my prunings from my other grapevines..no thank you for the $97 one..I can find a better use for $97

You don't want that one, anyway. It's a hybrid muscadine and only for zones 7-9.

Martin

[Shygal]

Its not a rooted cutting, its a ready to fruit vine. But I still wouldnt pay that much for it

[ronbre]

I understand that paq..but was still shocked at the price...and shy..I've bought those before and they really are just rooted cuttings..with deeper roots..they still generally take 3 years or more to fruit..no matter what the hype in the ads say

[Shygal]

then they should be gotten for false advertising! 97 dollars for a grape vine is ridiculous even if it did fruit this year

[Paquebot]

Buy it for $97. It will arrive dormant. Make 9 cuttings and root them. You'd then have 10 plants @ $9.70, a real bargain. Use 25% off coupon and get it for $72.75. Brings the 9 cuttings down to $7.28 each, an even better bargain.

Martin

[SilverVista]

I agree, nothing roots easier than grapes. Don't make "9 cuttings" unless there is at least one live bud on each cutting. And don't tell anyone, because an RC selling for $97, regardless of pot size, is a dead giveaway that it's a patented variety, and all propagative rights belong to the patent-holder. Stupidest thing in the world, if you ask me, this patenting of living things, some of which may be the result of painstaking research and cross-breeding, but most of which are random lucky finds.

[ChristieAcres]

More reason to grow Heirloom and harvest your own seeds & propagate your own perennials vines, etc... I can imagine paying the prices now being charged, yikes!

[K.B.]

$9.70 is still pricey for an unrooted cutting. great selection of different varieties here for a ~$2 each with shipping:
http://www.bunchgrapes.com/grape_varieties.html

patented varieties are a quarter extra due to the royalty costs...