I ordered 2 plum trees that were supposed to ship March 30th, but havent received any correspondence by email or anything yet to show theyve actually shipped. When I try to go on their website, it says I have Forbidden Access when I click on any of the Menu hyperlinks to try to log in or try to go to anything on the website. I just want to check here and make sure its a reliable nursery and Im not going to end up screwed 
Theyre reliable. Ive heard theyre running behind because we had a few march snowstorms
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Awesome! This is good to know. Thank you so much! I hadnāt ordered from them before so I was a tad apprehensive
I received my order March 26, but it was just rootstocks.
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Iāve been posting about this in another thread. Iām nearly 3 weeks past my ship date without plants and they havenāt responded to emails for about a month. I even tried calling. But I got a āyour order is being processedā email so, maybe something is happening.
Oh no! I emailed today, so Ill let you know if I hear back. Hopefully it is just a delay from the bad weather. The website not working other than the home page is concerning
My trees just shipped or at least a shipping label was just created. Relieved.
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Awesome! Glad to hear that. Thanks for the update!
They were 2+ weeks late with my order. My rootstocks were all of great quality and packaged good in wet sawdust. From what i understand they arent that old of a businessā¦ they have good quality products at a cheap rate. Someone in another thread said they are probably swamped with orders this season and they dont have many staff.
I called and he told me they fell behind because the weather in NY was cold, but my products would ship tomorrow, it was another week until they shipped. i wasnt pushy, just making sure i hadnt been forgotten. Regardless, i got what i paid for, it was delayed but it was a good price and good quality. Ill probably only ever order rootstocks from them though. Ill stick with cummins nursery for trees and scionwood, costs a little more but their customer service is great and Dr. Cummins and his people are awesome. The man is 101 and still kicking a**, what a legend. Lol ill shut up now. Youll get your trees and theyāll grow great.
Best of luck!
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I used mehrabyan and so did a friend and both our shipments were a week late, which is honestly still perfectly fine. Highly recommend them.
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I received my root stocks today. I belive the trees will come tomorrow. I got 2 shipping notifications.
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Finally got my trees and rootstocks today. Everything is healthy, except not dormant. Big root poking out of the bag dried out.The rootstocks and Asian pear are dormant. The two cherries are super awake. The ebony pearl is massive 1ā diameterā¦I didnāt realize it was so vigorous! Horrible looking branch angles/whatever you call at the bunching of the tissue/bark. Looks like there was a perfectly placed third branch with a half inch diameter that they had to cut off or to get this flat in the box which is a bummer. The one time I received a tree this large it really failed to grow and I pulled it. They also seem to graft rather high. May regrets in this box. Wishing I had gotten the Asian pear from ACN a month ago. The Asian pear here has 3-4 tiny roots for about 5ā above the main roots. I canāt plant it at the main roots because thatās 16ā to the graftā¦Mixed bag here. I wonāt be ordering again.
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Mine came today too! Got an Oullins gage and Empress plum. My roots were also popped out of the plastic. It thankfully didnt get delayed in transit because they may not have made it very many more days before drying up the roots. Im hoping our trees do well 
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I ordered some betulifolia pear rootstocks from Willamette on 2026/03/30. They were shipped on April 1st but still have not arrived. This is not a Willamette issue. UPS has had them for a full week and they wonāt arrive until either tomorrow or most likely Thursday.
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Oh gosh, hopefully they are packaged well enough to still have moist roots. I hope they arrive today
My stock arrived on time and is dormant. The root stock was more dormant than the ones I got from 39th Parallel 2 weeks ago which had started to leaf.
Only issue I had was the top was broken in a Black Oxford Apple but itās a non issue for the price.
Will look at the roots soon as Iāll start grafting soon.
Sounds like itās getting held up by UPS and was on their dock in the heat somewhere. It should be alright. Once in the hands of the shipping company you add a lot of variables. Iām closer than you so less issues.
ACN has nice big boxes so they donāt cut the tops as much to make them fit.
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Interested in why this is a problem and how high is too high?
I was putting my grafts pretty low then I read a bunch of things that suggested I should be doing them at least 8ā high (especially for dwarfing rootstocks). But whatās too high and why?
Again, Iām curious - what is bad about planting them with the little roots buried and the āmain rootsā deeper?
Or does having a graft 16ā off the ground cause a problem?
Itās for an espalier tree with the first level stating at 18ā. I think I headed it at 19ā and thereās maybe just barely 9ā of actual tree I wanted. So a super high graft sucks. I burried the 4 microscopic hair roots. The main roots are something like 6ā down from soil level. Itās all bizarre because they must have had it burried deep for those microscopic roots to be there. I guess they were trying to make up for the fact that they grafted it insanely high. Unfortunately thatās the tree I got for this project. Itās in the ground and Iām divorced from it. If it struggles through the year, Iāll pull it and replace next spring.
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