Re: echinacea

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It would be tremendously expensive for a grower to put a 2-3 year old gallon pot on the market. 
Assuming first-year disbudding really is the ticket to longevity in the garden, the grower would have to do that to the potted plants, too. 
Potted plants are much more susceptible to winter kill than plants in the ground, so they'd have to be overwintered in heated greenhouses.
Sometime in year 2, they'd be rootbound in a gallon and would have to be shifted up into a larger pot. More square footage, more handling, more maintenance, still no return.
By year 3, no consumer would pay what the grower would have to charge. It would have to be priced like a shrub.

Subject: Re: [GWL] echinacea
Why would we ask consumers to do that? Awfully process oriented. Would the 
advice be the same if the plant was a two or three year old specimen in a 
gallon pot?
jems

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I don't find the new tissue-cultured echinacea in anything bigger than a 
6-inch pot in my area.  Don't think growers and garden centers are much into 
putting the extra years into creating larger plants.  Just my opinion.
Doreen Howard 
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