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April 24, 2011 | #1 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Indianapolis
Posts: 25
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Price for seedlings?
Wondering what others charge for tomato seedlings?
Mine are Organic, Heirlooms in 4 inch pots and I've charged $2 each the last several years. After a trip to the big box hardware store today I'm thinking that's too cheap! Their conventional hybrid tomatoes were in 5 inch pots but about the same size as mine and were over $3.50 each. Thanks! |
April 24, 2011 | #2 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Alabama
Posts: 2,250
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The general standard I see is that a good seedling should be about $3.
There are several businesses on the internet that want significantly more. DarJones |
April 24, 2011 | #3 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Tulsa, OK
Posts: 630
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Yeah, I sold mine for $3. The 4-packs I think I sold for $6, which is way too cheap.
But yeah, I'd say $3.50 is fair. I actually paid that for a couple plants I bought from a reputable source the other day. I'd like to sell them for more like $2.50 and I really would if I could grow enough to make a bit of change. Plus if you just go up $0.50 folks aren't likely to throw a fit if they're your regulars from previous years. |
April 26, 2011 | #4 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Arizona
Posts: 41
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I price my seedlings anywhere from 2.50 - 4.00. They seem to do well and I haven't had any complaints. I base my prices on seed availabilty, the harder for me to find the seed the higher the price.
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April 26, 2011 | #5 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Western WI
Posts: 359
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$3 each or 10/$25
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May 1, 2011 | #6 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Mounds, Oklahoma
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I have been selling for $2.50 per plant, but this year my sales have went to the Basement. I don't know if the heirloom trend is waning or there is just too much competition. I reduced them to $2.00 and staring Saturday I will be selling them For $1.00 at the Farmer's Market. I hate to throuw them away.
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June 2, 2011 | #7 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2011
Location: NH, zone 4/3
Posts: 28
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I'm selling them for $3 in 4" and 5" pots this year. Given how inflation is running rampant, due to the billions and billions of funny money that the Federal Reserve is printing, you've got to raise prices significantly each year just to be able to buy the same amount of "stuff" yourself from the proceeds.
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June 2, 2011 | #8 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Stryker, Ohio
Posts: 995
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Around here I am use to getting them(when I do buy them) for 1.99 per six pack.1 gal pot $5 to $5.99.
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June 4, 2011 | #9 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: MO
Posts: 153
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We get $3.50/plant in 4" pots.
If you have left over plants at the end of the season we have found a lot of places that would like them for food pantry kitchen gardens, low income community gardens, etc - and most places give you retail value as a tax deduction. It seems like the catholic charites are really involved in getting people growing for the hungry. |
June 8, 2011 | #10 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Indianapolis
Posts: 25
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Thanks for all the good info on prices!
I ended up selling mine for $3 at a local Health food store and $2 at the local farmer's market. After seeing other's selling their hybrids for $1.50 I got scared. Next year maybe I'll do $2.50. It so much easier not to deal with coins though. LOL |
June 8, 2011 | #11 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: PA
Posts: 100
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I tried $3/plant, but sales were much better with a 4/$10 offer as well. Most folks went for the 4/10 deal, which moved more plants, and I didn't need to carry quarters around.
My plants are in either 3.5" square pots or plastic drinking cups. This year I got a bunch of pressed 4 cup carriers like you get at fast food joints, and they hold the cups & pots securely for the trip to their new home. Worked out great, and customers were happy to be able to easily carry their plants. |
June 8, 2011 | #12 | |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Bordentown NJ
Posts: 32
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I had to resort to putting the plants in plastic shopping bags (repurposed from our supermarket purchases). Customers asked for the (1020?) watering trays the plants were sitting in but I explained that the trays cost me 90 cents each. (One customer actually paid me the 90 cents.) |
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December 9, 2011 | #13 | |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa - GrowZone 9
Posts: 595
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4/U$12 Regarding eddicayshun(!): All of my plants have a decent sized, full colour pic of the tomato when ripe, as well as a little info about origin, size, etc, but it's the pic that slows them down then my interaction that closes the deal... I find that are not overly keen to read, but want to be convinced verbally, so if you know a little (and I only know a little) you are in like the proverbial Flynn... |
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December 9, 2011 | #14 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Alpine, Calif. in winter. Sandpoint Lake, Ont. Canada summers
Posts: 850
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huntsman....one does not have to know an awful lot about heirlooms in order
to know more than 95% of your customers. The customer loves the feeling of having gained knowledge besides nice seedlings. Also, I try to keep the customer engaged in conversation until the next car pulls over. One customer seems to be a magnet for others. When I was in the pizza business, on slow week nights, I would ask a couple employees to park out front so we looked somewhat busy. It had a similar and good psychological effect. Of course, if you still don't feel confident, you could ask Carolyn Male to come down there and work your booth with you!! LOL |
June 8, 2011 | #15 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Kansas CIty
Posts: 560
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I sold them for $2 each, 3 for $5, 7 for $10 and cheaper with higher quantities. I'd say I averaged about $1.50 each because I usually throw in extra plants with each order.
I had SEVERAL customers tell me my plants were way too cheap. I'm thinking of going up to $2.50 - $3.00 each or 5 for $10 next year. I'm also at the point with my customer base where I don't think I'm going to take on many new customers except for referrals from existing customers.
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