Saw these a few days ago if anyone is interested, there were a couple of varieties each of peaches, apples and one plum. They were listed for $18 each. The caliper on some of the apple trees were nice size 1/2-3/4". I thought the trees were good deal compare to some of the shipment I got online for almost double the price with barely any fine root.
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My local TS is selling plants that don’t belong growing in my area.
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Went in TS a week ago and pickings were slim. Though they had some new for here types.
I keep waiting for the new Rural King to receive there plant shipment. They have a very lame selection of seeds and flowers at the moment.
Rural King has made a bit of money on us from chicks though. Keep going back in looking for at least 4 more Bantam Rhode Islad Reds. I love those far more then their standard size relatives. They pick on each other too much.
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Mine has gooseberries and nanking cherries. I’m trying to hold out for early May after no one has bought them and get them for half price
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Yeah have to be careful with big box stores. Local Home Depot just sells stuff like honeycrisp and gala because that’s what people know. My first 2 apple tree were from them as they were on clearance. 2 years after planting the first fruit from my “honeycrisp” was a sour green apple variety. Now I’m trying to learn to graft so I can get something useful out of it
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My local TSC has a little bit of everything right now, with pricing that seems all over the place. The pecan trees were bargains, some of the fruit trees seemed reasonable, but the figs and most other trees seemed overpriced.
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My local stores have inventory available every year around February 1st like clockwork. The inventory of specific varieties offered is not consistent among all of my local stores this year for whatever reason.
Ours only sells Brown Turkey or Celeste. Every blue moon you might fall upon a Black fig of some type. Same in the other box joints.
Tractor supply great in some ways and terrible in others. You can grab trees for great deals especially late in the season - this past fall I bought a large Methley plum about 5’ tall for $17 - however, they mislabel trees like crazy. I bought what I thought was a Floridaking yellow clingstone peach. Got some fruit last year and it was white and freestone - I think a Belle of Georgia. And a few years ago I purposely bought a Belle of Georgia - today I realized it’s a nectarine. So if you don’t care that much about varieties then it’s a great place to get big trees for cheap. But if you care to definitely grow what you think you’re buying, steer clear.
I’m always looking at wilco for the discount bare root trees. I can do $20 for a maybe.
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It’s not just them. I bought a ton of trees from Lowes years back because they were cheap and good size. Not one of them were what the tag said.
Now I buy those cheap Lowes trees to basically have a 7 foot rootstock to graft to with my winter trades. It’s cheaper than buying on-line and much bigger.
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There’s obviously little QA/QC in the plant and tree world. I’d assume all the outlets rely on their suppliers in what they deliver. Those suppliers are likely middlemen from nurseries across the country.
I feel most comfortable buying from west coast nurseries directly. At least they are located where the vast majority of fruit trees are grown commercially. Of course you have to pay to ship them.
It just sucks it may take 4-5 years to find what you thought you were growing is something else…assuming it ever fruits.