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Posted by chicksusa (My Page) on Fri, Aug 21, 09 at 23:29
| I want to start growing perennials from bare roots. Then sell them in the spring and fall at a greenhouse that I work from. Is there a really good way to start perennials besides propagating? Does anyone know of a really good wholesale bare root supplier for perennials? |
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RE: How do you start a perennials business
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| There's lots of places you can waste your money on for bare root plants. Throw them into the compost after all the work. No one's buying. |
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| So you would be selling the finished plants, not the bare roots themselves? If so, I'd agree that bare roots are not the best way to start - depending on supplier, you will get very mixed results with a high percentage of failures. It is just difficult to maintain bare root perennial stock in a viable state long term. You'd probably fair much better buying in plugs and those are available from countless suppliers both in this country and abroad. A good many will be patented plants so be prepared to pay premium prices for those. Is there a really good way to start perennials besides propagating? I'm not sure I understand your question. Propagation is the process of starting of new plants, period. You can accomplish it by various means - seeds, division, cuttings, layering, tissue culture, etc. - but to get more plants, you gotta propagate by some method :-)
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RE: How do you start a perennials business
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| Maybe she means obtaining the initial stock she wishes to sell at a retail size? I used to work for a relatively large growing concern, and we started very few of own by any means. We purchased in material from businesses who specialise in doing nothing but providing growers starts for their stock. It's going to depend on what you are growing, and how long you want to mess with it to get it a market size from whom you get it, how advanced it is and how it was propagated. You do know that you'll probably have to have an overwintering structure, irrigation, yadayada to do it in any sort of professionally finished manner and have some control over it. If you are already working at a greenhouse, you should have an inkling where the sources are and with whom they broker. |
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| I have a small dayliliy nursery. I buy daylilies bare root, grow them and then sell the plants. Is that what you are thinking of? |
RE: How do you start a perennials business
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| Pamghatten, that is correct. I want to mainly grow all the different tall phlox. Do you know of any resourses for plugs, or bare root. AND which one would be better? |
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