Perhaps Cummins has a vested interest in selling more high priced trees
therefore discourage people from something that causes them to lose a sale?
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a customer said to me that he could tell 'I wanted (success) from the trees I sold him. he said using the pot upside down w/ (2) landscape staples for holes drilled at a strong point under the container’s lip will keep a tree there until it’s established. I responded, ‘I knew that eventually the root vigor would push the tree above deer browse since I grafted them low for the reason that a day “will arrive” when the cultivar or both cultivar and rootstock will be up in the sky.’
then, I include this:
Your New Tree.txt (2.8 KB)
this
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The preorders for Zaiger trees are up at a lot of places…as are the prices by ~50%. Probably not going to see if one of the later Apriums works here this year.
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I am about to check out my perchase on Raintree website… The price for 4 trees and one ornamental was already upsetting me… That’s before I saw a shipping rate… Should I be considerate “crazy” if I go through with this purchase?
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You’re not crazy. But have you looked at other vendors? Also are you set on having dwarf and semi-dwarf trees?
Grandpa’s orchard has Reliance on Lovell for $40 a tree. They also carry plums and other fruit trees. You might be able to lower your costs if you’re flexible on the rootstock and/or cultivars. Having said this there is nothing wrong with placing the order if you can afford it and you want those particular trees.
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Yes, I saw the GrandPa. Actually I almost hit Order there… But then realized that the location i selected for the peach and apricot is for dwarf or semi-dwarf. Standard will shade other things. And despite my land is 3+acre, the sunny part of it much smaller and logistics are not easy… And also with spraying, protecting, harvesting I use to have dwarf to semi-dwarf in my old place and don’t think I can handle a full size tree…
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3 years ago it barely half those numbers…
you need those plants really bad?
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Peach and apricot, yes. We use to have both and it will be sad not to have them at new house where we finally have some space. Plums - I never was able to get any reasonable crop from European plums, so want to try Japanese , nice to have… Quince is not that expensive and I want it so my other quince produce some fruit, so far I got 3 fruit from it from the full bloom each year…I already ordered it with my DH moral support… Now I am praying my sour cherries and root stocks for apples and persimmon survive the winter as well as scions and future grafts take. Buying also apples and cherries would be too much…
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The price of everything is too expensive and in my opinion they will never go back down. If a company can get 4 dollars for a can of soup now do you think they will ever go back to 2 dollars.
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Raintree was always expensive. They are the first to open doors though and they have many product exclusive to them. The multi grafted mirabelle plum is only through them and the 4 in 1 pluots are only through them and Bay Laurel. I also think the same situation is with the weeping Santa Rosa plum with the pluots. Raintree’s shipping and cost is a definite downside is my experience though. It starts out at 20 something and goes up about another 20 per 50 dollars spent which makes it go up quickly. I got quite a few trees from Raintree in the summer and was surprised at how expensive the shipping was too. One Green World offered me around 20 dollars shipping for 8-10 trees and I was charged over 100 for the same amount of trees. That being said the plant costs are catching up to Raintree elsewhere surprisingly. I was browsing One Green World yesterday and the honeybabe peach and nectazee nectarine now costs around 40 something or 50 something for the trees. That was something I liked about One Green World last year with how affordable they were. Bay Laurel was selling the 4 in 1 pluot for 65 starting of the season but I bought mine for around 60 at the start of the season from Raintree. That being said Raintree will likely always be the more expensive option. But also like I said Raintree can charge that amount because they have exclusive trees and exclusive rootstocks many do not have or one or two other online nurseries has.
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I was rather happily surprised to see that Stark Bros had started retailing fruit trees in Canada recently. That is until I saw their limited inventory and outrageous prices. Most fruit trees on their website were $95 & $115 for your run of the mill fruit trees. These trees were nothing special like multi graft trees or espalier and they want $115 dollars for many of their fruit trees now. 
This is getting beyond silly in Canada with the prices this year.
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Have you called Vances? You might have to order 4x as many trees to get enough for their wholesale but it would probably cost less than the order you shared and you could give away or sell the rest…
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Maybe you could talk with @39thparallel or similar nursery https://39thparallel.com/ to see if they sell things you like. My guess is you will pay half price for the same amount of trees. As an example i have reliance peach here that are as common as anything i paid around $20 each for from henry fields and gurneys several years ago. The price of trees is expensive just like everything else now it started two years ago in 2020. Gasoline is way up, shipping is way up. All products are way up. Consider gasoline was under $2 in 2020 went to over $5 a gallon. We were lucky in Kansas poor California paid over $7 a gallon at one point. Higher prices and skyrocketing inflation seems to be the new normal. Lets hope it stops rising eventually or if the pace keeps up it will cost $700 in 2 years for a few fruit trees. Literally that is the pace of inflation so far. Hopefully it gets better for you and everyone else and not worse. This topic says it much better than me https://growingfruit.org/t/inflation-ouch/43531/808j
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I bought a new truck…
Lets see… that was Sept 1994… ordered a new 1995 Chevy Silverado ext cab 4wd Truck… Red/silver trim.
17,500.00… paid it off in 1999.
That was my last vehicle payment.
I still have it, still runs great, does all I need it too… have kept the maint up on it and it still serves us well.
Paid cash for several vehicles for my wife over the years. She has a 2018 Toyota camry now… nice little car… gets good gas mileage… we do most of our traveling in it.
Doubt seriously I will ever buy another new truck… prices are outrageous now days.
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Schlabachs call 866 600 5203 leave address for catalog.
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Stark Bros had multi grafted fruit trees at one point. I had a 5 in 1 multi grafted apple on order last year. They cancelled on me and gave me store credit despite it not being my issue. Stark Bros is expensive vs what you get in general. All my trees from them even the more expensive sizes from them have been small. Some things are exclusive from them so I have bought from them for that reason but there are often substitutes for their exclusive items. Many new gardeners recommend Star Bros for their 1 year warranty but in my experience they are reluctant to give it and it takes 1-2 years for them to catch up to a tree sold by other retailers like Raintree, One Green World etc.
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I was looking at a vacation to Maui 2 months ago. In the spring time it would have been 5k or 6k two months ago. I had to wait to schedule in the summer. Now it seems to be 8k to travel there. Either summer must be peak season for Hawaii or inflation has literally increased thousands for a vacation in 2 or 3 months. In fairness I am trying to stay another 3-4 days but dang.
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Still selling my fig trees locally for $10. I guess I should up my prices 
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Have friends who live in Hawaii last time i priced a round trip flight and hotel it was $1800 in 2020.
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I think the reason it is so expensive with what I am looking at is because I am looking at the package deals for 2 people and it all adds up and people were not traveling via flights then so flights were dirt cheap. In 2020 I got a flight to Arizona for 2 people and it was 80 dollars each per ticket (after fees it was 300 something for 2 people), the car was 800 dollars being surprisingly more than the flight at the time and the hotel was a luxury suit hotel so it cost around 1600 for like 3 days but was amazing. It was likely around 3k all together for 3 or 4 days to Arizona back in 2020. In 2018 we went to Dominican Republic for 4k all together. The reason I think it costs so much for me looking at a trip to Hawaii is the same deal where it is the car, flight for 2 and the hotel. I was just surprised at the 2-3k price jump in a few months.
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