I’d initiate a charge back on my credit card…
Where are the thorns, maybe my vision is bad but i still dont see any thorns in the photo… Maybe a pointy bud leaf… Literally earlier today i was weeding blackberries with gloves and still i spent some time pulling out splinters from my hand.
I would say those are thornless in the photo. Or am i seriously confused…
I had the same exact thing happen with TyTy… last year. I ordered some thorny ones that they sell that nobody else sells… and they sent me thornless.
I have no idea of the reasoning behind it…but both times i called them and sent pictures and within a matter of hours i had a tracking number and i had new plants coming my way. No hassle at all… and on their dime.
However… i am fairly convinced that every thorny blackberry that they sell regardless of the name is likely Kiowa… So its a gamble.
Yes i was being a wise guy…that TyTy, Willis and their multitude of spinoffs are the only nurseries in the world that sell thornless thorned blackberries. They did the same thing last year with TyTy to me… i ordered thorny and they sent thornless. From Willis i ordered a west coast trailing blackberry and they sent me an erect one.
I will have no idea if they are true to name until 2024 maybe 2025.
One cane came in with a red necked cane borer bulge… i thought that was nice of them.
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At least you got a blackberry. I still have my free snake plant from when Home Depot sent me a snake plant instead of Greek Oregano. I have just stopped ordering from Home Depot online because their guys can’t send me the correct plants. I will buy from store but not online with Home Depot.
I bought a red passionflower in bloom at my local Lowe’s box store onetime. It was in a pot labeled CLEMATIS, label was not removable- no chance it was switched. A $2 end of year clearance, checker told me it would come back year after year in the garden. hahaha
I was one of those guys loading cars and pushing carts in the lot at Home Depot with my second job. I got trained on garden department because I was supposed to enter garden department but ended up leaving before I got my different job there. You did not have to know a lot. You just had to be able to handle heavy items and deal with being pulled in a bunch of directions at once which was the stressful part. For garden department my training basically was what is the difference of a perennial and annual, read the label, how to lead customer to and sell the entire project and some information on their machine products which I now forget. I don’t feel training is adequate at Home Depot but they realize that with most employees they leave in a few months and you will have nearly 100% turnover with those few who just stay still being there in a year. In other words I don’t feel like they think they have to invest in employees. There is also two types of employees at Home Depot. Those are have figured out how to walk around and do nothing and those who keep on pushing and trying to run all over. Those employees that push themselves and try to run all over get burnt out or hurt themselves. Our greeter when I worked at Home Depot got the job because he hurt himself pushing himself on the job. If I go to the store I can expect the right product but maybe just the wrong cultivar. I just expect self serve with shopping at the stores like Home Depot or Lowes. Online is just horrible though. I can’t think of a time I got a plant from Home Depot online and was satisfied.
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I just got 2 jujube trees (Sugar Cane & So Contorted) from StarkBros today and I got to say I’m impressed. The trees were very nicely packed with good roots for the price & shipping cost. So far, I think I got the best bargain from them out of 6-7 nurseries I’ve purchased from within the last 6 months. The sugar cane jujube were about the same size as the one I got from Womack but about half the cost. It helped that StarkBros has a promo code for free shipping.
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I received 20 trees from Cumberland Valley Nursery and am totally satisfied… spent the whole weekend planting…the weather was perfect.
The prices are excellent, the tree sizes were all 4ft give or take and had healthy roots.
The only oddball things about them is that you have to pay with a check…and they dont really know how to email a tracking number so they call you and tell you when you will get them. Also no website…all catalog order.
I think its THE way to go if you want to plant a big orchard for cheap.
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Googled them out of curiosity and got this catalog from 1928. Is this the same company? If so they’ve been at it awhile!
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I like how the trees I see from Stark Bros online are always these big trees that are bare root but most of these trees are these small whips in a small pot. In fairness Stark Bros does claim they will only be 3 feet max with most of their products. For me to get anything big from them I basically need to order a supreme size from them though. Free shipping does not mean much when your cost of the tree is as much if not more than a tree plus shipping from other nursery. Other than the Stark Bros exclusives I often find a better deal and a better sized tree somewhere else.
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I got something from Stark last Friday about a 50% off sale…but I don’t think I need to order any more stuff. (Besides, 50 off is about the price I can get from most places even if no ‘sale’ is on.)
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They look good for those prices. Somehow lately Jujube trees are so expensive.
Guess I’ll have to run by Tractor supply…some of their stores are opening green houses, too.
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The trees people tend to show look massive for the prices. Whenever I buy from them I seem need to buy their supreme size to get a tree that size which ends up being way more expensive. If you look at most of their products they send them potted and state they will be between 1.5 feet to 3 feet. They come pencil diameter which is not stated. To get around the same caliper as I have gotten from other nursery bare root it takes a year or two to get that big.
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My trees from OGW are even smaller than pencil diameter.
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You get a mixed bag from them…because they re-sell things others produce. I’ve got good stuff at times, but not every time. Overall, I’m not going to knock them.
