Tropica Plants

[nry]

As I said, the mark-up on some varieties of plants may be higher than you think - the £2.50 plants were still being sold with a likely high percentage 'profit' though obviously take into account storage of plants needs a bit more than a store shelf!

 

[efish]

they couldnt be tropica potted plants at £2.50 unless the LFS are very generous.

i think the cheapest i could sell would be bundles at £2.50, pots from £3.40,

 

[Underwurlde]

Personally, I would not want my plants in pots or that bloody wool stuff:

a.) it takes ages to remove the plants from the pots / wool stuff.
b.) the weight of the (unwanted) pots when sent through the post would be more expensive and the weight of them would increase the chance of damaging the plantlets.

Just my 2p's worth.

Andy

 

[nry]

they couldnt be tropica potted plants at £2.50 unless the LFS are very generous.

i think the cheapest i could sell would be bundles at £2.50, pots from £3.40,

They could be depending on species, I won't mention mark-up figures here, but given the price of some of the common Tropica plants that could still represent a reasonable gross profit.

My LFS sells Tropica plants but they are in poor condition, they are stored in a poorly lit tank and all look like they've been there far too long. They sell them much cheaper than any online stores I've used, but the online stores I've used send me plants which are 99% of the time in superb condition. I'm happy to pay more if the quality of the plant is high.

 

[lisa_perry75]

The species are normally java fern and the windelov variety, there was a type of polysperma some lileopsis (sp) type one. I'm not saying its good in a pot, but thats what they sell. They should be tropica as they have tropica plant info labels on them. The plant tanks have no lights on them I don't think. They used to have metal halides on them I think. I was just curious why those were rubbish quality and cheap and AE are much more expensive yet much better quality.

 

[Themuleous]

I think starting at £3.40 for pots seems about right. That would put them within the price range of most people, but still allow a bit for profit. The gold fish bowl in Oxford used to do tropica plants buy they started at 7 or 8quid, aint no way Im paying that! I dont care who grew them!

Personally for things like HC and more specialist plants I'd be happy to pay 4 to 4.50 per pot, mostly as I knew they were tropica and therefore the quality would be excellent. Greenline do HC pots for £3.75 and the quality was good (although just short of tropica but still good) but the pot size was much smaller, say around a half to three quarters of the tropica pots.

Sam