Almost 100 young plant producers of varying sizes participated in Greenhouse Grower’s 2015 Young Plant Grower Survey. Conducted this past summer, the survey asked growers questions addressing how many plants they will have available to sell this year, how the plants will be sold, which crop categories are growing and fading and more.
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What percentage of all items ordered go unfulfilled or are substituted with another product?
There was just a slight increase in 2015 in the number of unfulfilled orders.
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Do you grow prefinished or finished crops, in addition to young plants?
Several young plant growers are also growing finished crops, including poinsettias and some retail mail order pots.
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How do you sell and use your young plants (plugs and liners)?
Fewer growers seem to be selling through brokers this year than in 2014, when the above figure was 63%.
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How much of the below crops do you produce?
Seed annuals remain the largest crop produced, but the gap is closing with other crops.
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What percentage of the young plants (plugs and liners) you produce are from seeds, from cuttings, etc.?
Young plants produced from cuttings increased from 86% in 2014 to 94% in 2015.
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What percentage of all seeds your operation sows successfully germinate?
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What percentage of your young plant orders reach the customer by the time they’ve asked for them?
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In which crop categories are you seeing the most gains?
Perennials and annuals appear to be growing at an even faster rate than 2014, when veggies and herbs had the highest growth rates.
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In which crop categories are you seeing the most declines?
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What percentage of all items ordered go unfulfilled or are substituted with another product?
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Do you grow prefinished or finished crops, in addition to young plants?
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How do you sell and use your young plants (plugs and liners)?
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How much of the below crops do you produce?
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What percentage of the young plants (plugs and liners) you produce are from seeds, from cuttings, etc.?
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What percentage of all seeds your operation sows successfully germinate?
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What percentage of your young plant orders reach the customer by the time they’ve asked for them?
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In which crop categories are you seeing the most gains?
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In which crop categories are you seeing the most declines?
This year’s survey analysis includes a ranking of the nation’s 20 largest young plant growers and the most important issues they are dealing with, including labor (link to Laura editorial here). For more facts and figures from the survey, check out the slideshow.
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015Young Plant Growers Weigh In On Crop Gains, Sales Trends And More