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RE: [nafex] marketer's mirage
Working one year in the landscaping business, I've
learned about how to properly pack the plants on our trucks before traveling to
the site to work. I see these tall trees that these stores sell and I can
imagine people loading these tall trees into their vans, pickups, etc, and go
whipping down the highway at sixty miles an hours, wind-burning the heck
out them. No wonder the plants don't survive! I think it's up
to the nursery people that sell and bring the plants to the Home Depots, the
Lowes, etc.. to teach/instruct these places about informing the consumer about
properly placing a cover over the plants before they take off for home.
The people that work at the do-all, sell-all places are temps that don't know
the first things about plants.
Brian
Sheridan, IN
There's the beauty of it (from the
seller's viewpoint) - most people who buy
such monsters blame themselves
when the trees fail, so the store never has
to cough up for selling
something ridiculous like that. They'd be better
off, and only a
couple of years slower, to plant from seed and give the
seedling GOOD
care.
-Lon Rombough
Grapes, writing, consulting, more, plus word on my
grape book at
http://www.hevanet.com/lonrom
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>From: Ginda Fisher
<ginda@concentric.net>
>To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
>Subject:
Re: [nafex] marketer's mirage
>Date: Wed, May 9, 2001, 5:57
PM
>
>Marketing woes are hardly limited to fruit trees.
I was at the Home
>Despot the other day. Their nursery building
was full of giant trees.
>I mean, trees 20 feet tall and more.
Not a lot of branches (tied up, so
>maybe more than I could see) and
even less root. They had burlaped root
>balls maybe two feet
across.
>
>I find it hard to believe these things are going to
prosper, especially
>if purchased by homeowners who probably won't think
the water them every
>day for two years.
>
>If they had
labels, I couldn't find them. (I did see price tags.
>$150-$200.) Honey locusts, a few types of maple, birch.
All fully
>leafed out.
>
>Ginda
>
>Thomas Olenio
wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Speaking of a
"marketer's mirage", 90% of the apple trees at one local
>> nursery
are "collection" trees. They each carry 4 grafts of various
>>
apple varieties.
>>
>> It is funny... When I talk to
the nurseryman they tell me there is less
>> and less interest in
fruit.
>>
>> With selections like a "collection" apple,
which is bound to produce an
>> unusual, unbalanced tree, which will
most likely dissapoint the grower, it
>> is no wonder there is less
interest in fruit.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
Tom
>>
>> --
>> Thomas Olenio
>> Ontario,
Hardiness Zone 6a
>>
>> On Wed, 9 May 2001, dwalsh/wchase
wrote:
>>
>> > Joe,
>> >
>> > I
agree that the columnar apple trees are a marketer's mirage. The
>ones I've seen
>> > definitely grow branches and these
must be cut off early and the person
>who buys
>> > this
does not know it ... result is a dwarf semi-branched apple tree
with
>> > bland-tasting fruit.
>> >
>> >
Also, they are marketed as stand-alone apple trees, but they are not
>self-fertile.
>> >
>> > Derry
>>
>
>> > Derry Walsh & Bill Chase
email:wchase@interchange.ubc.ca
>> > Aldergrove, B.
C., Canada
>> > phone/fax (604) 856-9316
>> > ~
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> :
>> > : My two cents is that the columnar form stinks for
raising quality
>> > : fruit. One vertical with
>>
> : many 6" side branches and fruit on side branches. Roger's kept
pushing
>> > : vigorous side branches at 30 degrees from vertical
which then competed
>> > : with the central leader. Stark's
response was that the grower had to
>> > : prune them to make them
look like the picture in the catalog. Roger was
>> > :
put-out because he could prune *any* tree to look like the
picture.
>> > :
>> > Columnar apples are
an
>> > : bad idea that was some Madison Avenue types used as a
gimmick to foist
>> > : trees onto the naive public.
>>
>
>> > :
>> >
:
-Joe Hecksel
>> >
:
Eaton Rapids, Michigan
>> >
>> >
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