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My understanding is that they only would sell to growers, I joined under Jennifers reign and she did not ask for my nursery license number or Tax ID. Heather has never questioned it but I have had my nursery License for a couple of years now, and have had a business license for over five years.

I have been interested in the Tissue culture myself and the way I understand that is you can do it one of two ways: either exclusively which you retain the rights to the plants, but you must purchase 1080 plants per month and there is a service fee if you have inactive months where they are not producing plants for you. There is a 12-18 mo start up period, so this isn't a quick up and running process. Then you can have Agri-Starts clone the plants and make them available and you collect a royalty on each sale. You really need to plan this out and do some market research before you would jump into this. There is no reason to spend money to reproduce "common" plants which are readily available by this means unless you have something unique.

I am still wanting to attend one of Carols classes if she has enough interested people. I was looking at the class in Charleston and there was one in D.C. The weather here for the next two weeks looks really good, so I should be able to start getting the Brugs and bananas that are roosting in the grow room outside and use to the outside environment. Once I can get some space inside cleared out I am going to start the remodeling of the grow room to inculde a TC Lab in the back corner. I am still planning on doing my own TC and I want to start hybridizing my Plumeria and Brugs. There is a guy in Louisville that does hybrid work on roids, this also interests me. I have spoke to him a couple of times on the phone and plan on visiting in the next few weeks (Louisville is about 80 Miles to the south on I-71). He has some palm trees that I plan on purchasing that have survived temps between 5 and -4 for the last eight years. So if anyone is trying to get a TC group together for the class please include me and maybe we can get this done. Travel isn't a problems for me, I fly on my benefits. My only sticking point is the class must be on a Friday or Saturday, I have obligations on Sundays and work at the airport Mon-Thurs.

Michael

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Ueberwinden

Guess I won't go to the Washington D.C. class it was April 4th

Michael

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Kylie2x

Hey Michael!!!
Sounds like you are going to be busy.. Very COOL!!!
Let me know when you are going to work with your Brugs.. I have a lot of Pollen in the freezer.. Maybe something you can use??? You know you are welcome to it!! and I have gotten a lot in the ground so I will be collecting Pollen all yr...


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harveyc

Somehow I missed this post until now. I see my 4 Raja Puri are to be shipped on 5/11 according to the 4/16 version of the shipping list at http://www.plantsthatproduce.com/Agr...2009_COSTS.pdf. I didn't pay for a third shipment and don't think Richard should absorb the shipping cost but also don't know that I want these 4 plants that badly. Did anyone else with Raja Puri on their order list indicate to Richard how they wanted their shipment handled? Maybe I can just donate them to Richard or give them to Scot since he is picking up his plants in person.

Harvey

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Kylie2x

Hey Harvey!!!
If no one wants them ....
I will take them and the cost that goes with them..LMK!!!
Kylie


I received mine today and they look GREAT!!!!! Richard you did an AWESOME Job of packing them!!! Thank You Again for taking this on!!!!
WOOHOO!!!!
Kylie

Ueberwinden

Richard,

I received box 2 of 2 today, I guess box one will make it tomorrow. Please give your wife my compliments on the packing job, I am impressed. Very nice packing, I might even borrow some things from your method. Thank you for a very nice job, you have been very professional. I will be seeing you about some fruit trees real soon.

Michael

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harveyc

Hold on their Kylie, I'm still thinking about it! LOL I should ask Richard if he's got something else he can sell me that I might want to throw in that box to make it more worthwhile.

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Kylie2x

Ya know what I don't think he does.. BUT I got ya covered Dude!!!! SWEAR!!!!

Kylie

enigma99a

For me, if I have to pay a couple extra bucks for shipping that's fine. Raja Puris do very well in California thanks to their cold hardiness at marginal temperatures. Plus they look great for landscaping and taste great. Woohoo!

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harveyc

You can't ship a Priority Mail package for a couple of bucks. But it looks like from SD to here is only $5.75 for a non-flat rate box if it doesn't weigh more than 2 pounds. It could be $10.35 for a regular flat rate box and that's why I wasn't sure if I would want them for 4 TC plants.

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Well, yeah that's what I meant. 5.75 is a couple bucks or if it's a flat rate, that's fine too

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saltydad

I received my plants today! A wonderful packing and shipping job done by Richard et al, and a huge thank you again to Richard. The plants look great; now I need to start repotting so they'll be big enough to put outside soon.

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Patty in Wisc

A lot of times you're better off NOT doing flat rate. The last 3-4 times I shipped, it cost around $4.00 to just over $5.00. That just went up last month.
I got my plants too...pretty fast! Only 1 1/2 days!
Except 4 of 6 fell out of pots but I found them mixed w/ the peat & shredding & potted them. I think they'll be OK. Thanks Richard.

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Taylor

Mine too, 6 out of 10. My Colocasia 'Elena' is broken in 2 spots and will probably not make it.

Thanks, Richard.

enigma99a

So hard to pack it when they throw packages around

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Patty in Wisc

Box was fine, the plants fell out when turned upside down. I always tape a piece of paper over soil & around stem to keep soil in.

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harveyc

Mine arrived in good shape. The first time there were some with damage (even though box was in good shape) but Richard made a refund for those plants even though I told him not to. This time tape was placed to hold soil into pots and sticks taped to pots to hold them from moving around so much. I sent an e-mail to Richard to let him know it arrived okay.

I'm happy the weather has cooled down as I'm placing these in my greenhouse and earlier in the week we got to 94F or so and my greenhouse got hot (something wrong with the transformer for my misting system, I think).

Cheers,

Harvey

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Bob

MAN!!!!! You know I'm going to be waiting by the mailbox today!!!!!!

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hatfam

ME too

Kylie2x

Richard or someone else...
Does Agristarts send these plants out in the little pots????

Kylie