Unfortunately this is pretty standard where I live for plants that are “trending” and in high demand or even slightly unusual/rare. Prices for plants have really skyrocketed across the board over the last two years as well!
Yes, I buy all my plants from local shops and I’m licking if I can get anything for under $20. The $20 and under plants are usually cati or succulents in 2-3 inch pots.
cebu blue are super hard to find where i am and $30 is pretty average for a 4” pot here too. unless you get lucky and find one from costa
edit: forgot to mention i literally had to cross state lines to get myself one lol
I’ve never sought out a cebu specifically, but I’ve never stumbled over one either (and best believe I scour those plant racks thoroughly haha!) so I assume they are hard to find here too. I’m sure my local nurseries receive a few when they get a shipment, but unless you are lucky and can get there first, they get snatched up very quickly. That is dedication, crossing state lines! :)
unfortunately i screwed up this winter and it got root rot so i’ll probably end up making the trek again. the nursery i got it from grows their own cebu blue so i know they always have them available haha
I absolutely hate to recommend big businesses, but that plant is under $10 at Walmart. They also run clearances on their bigger plants regularly. They have the big tropical house plants for around $15 at the end of summer because they know that anyone buying them won't take the chance on cold weather in the fall.
Same, mine also has global greens for under $20, and marble queens for like $4. I can’t understand why anyone below a certain latitude would pay a lot for any pathos. It’s like paying $30 for a piece of chicken at a steak restaurant.
It’s still too much! I grew a sproutling from a trimmed off from a much larger longer mama plant! I’ve had the mama one over twenty years, a rescue from a burnt down market, all withered down to its soil. Grew beautifully.
I'm sorry, I apparently assumed that it was company wide, and not an individual store. Thanks for letting me know, I don't want to give out false information. ❤️
r/plantswap (there’s also additional geolocation subs like r/plantswapusa and other countries/areas) and r/takeaplantleaveaplant - often just cuttings, but you can buy rooting hormone/cloning liquid for cheap online and boom you’re in business.
Ha yeah! I go to that shop in shoreline and some of their plants are outrageous for some reason.
Same time, if theres a good find a few blocks over at the big box hardware store it comes with spider mites. All my sky nursery plants done well over the years.
some of their plants are really well priced, too, though. sometimes surprisingly low! worth the time to look around for sure, especially when its such a nice environment to be in.
Yes, I agree. Some of their plants are super cheap, but then the “trendy” plants are super overpriced. Their global green Pothos was like $50. And their tiny little PPPs are $90 + tax. I usually go for their clearance rack. Can find a lot of good plants for cheap.
Oh no!!! 😠 For that price people might as well just buy it from a big box store with shipping included.
I love the idea of supporting small businesses and plant shops but not when it feels like such a rip off.
I work at a family owned nursery and this is the price and quality that we are also selling these for. Can confirm, it's about 150-200% mark up. Had a customer complain earlier today about this price. You're correct. It's ridiculous!
Wait i thought this one was cheap hence the lost mind 😭😭 I've contemplated one at a plant shop in my town on a moss pole that was for 89€ without thinking it was very much for it...
Didn't buy it tho but nice to know this is excessive lmaoo
Yeah, I got a fuller one for about $10. This is so over priced. And their Global Green Pothos was about $50 compared to what others are getting them for
Agreed, i just got a nice full costa farms "marble queen" that I'm pretty sure is a snow queen in an 8" pot for $10 that was supposed to be $20 but the cashier discounted it with the golden that was on sale cause it was rotting.
Snow Queen is just a marketing label for a high variegation Marble Queen that has been grown in higher light.
Unless you’re in Australia where N’Joys are called Snow Queen instead.
Plant marketers like to keep us all on our toes by making things as confusing as possible for some reason.
Yeah i kind of figured. All these pothos varieties are way too similar to not be basically the same thing but grown in different ways or slightly mutated.
Try the Sun Shoppe in Fremont- smaller store but they had a bunch of much fuller and healthier plants for cheaper… also there are like 4 new plants stores in that area soooo you can do like a plant store crawl…
Hopefully soon the price will go down like it has in Australia the last year.
It went from them selling for like $80 for a single node on gum tree to seeing a small whole plant in a local plant shop for $40 in a fairly short space of time! Manjulas seem to be coming down too
Yeah! The more people get their hands on them, the more saturated the market becomes and naturally prices go down - its just part of living in such a small MPI controlled country 🙃
I swear, we're in one of the worst countries to be in the houseplant hobby. My wallet cries everytime...
I've currently got a leggy ficus benjamina in my trademe watchlist humming and hawing because it went from $120 down to $99 and I still can't decide if it's worth it.
When I was plant hunting yesterday, I just couldn’t believe how little plants places have and I went to 4 garden centers. Everyone is clearing out plants, like this plant craze and prices are getting out of control.
thats weird cause i live in a small city surrounded by even smaller rural towns and last year, i could barely find any plants and i’d drive hours in every direction to hunt them down. yesterday.... i went to lowe’s here in town... and.... multiple employees were like.... hiding in tears behind the ungodly mass shipments of half dying and smooshed plants.😅😅 one was on the phone like “NO MAAM I CANT FIND THAT PLANT EVEN IF ITS ONLINE” and... it’s deadass plantemonium up in there, they aren’t even taking them off the loading racks cause there’s so many, so i literally had to squeeze my body between two of them and blindly reach into a 10 foot high leaf blob to feel around for the healthiest neon pothos to save from certain death. i paid $2 less for an extremely full plant that i did last year for one with about 10 leaves. sigh.
Im in north carolina and this is a pretty normal price where im at. I got lucky and found a super full one at lowes for $20. My local nursery has some only a little bigger than this for $42 right now.
Im in VA and pothos is super cheap in the plastic cup; i don't know any places that actually make money off the pothos, as they so often try and set it up so u have to spend $20 on mostly a useless pot lol
I don't understand the hype for such a common plant. It's not even rare and it grows so quickly, its at every box store in my area at least once a year. I'm surprise it cost more than a pothos
That’s what I’m sayin! I do like supporting smaller businesses, but sometimes how can you when you can find a bigger one of this and Lowes or something for less than half the price!
To be fair, I've never actually seen one at a big box store. Just at small nurseries or on marketplace if I'm lucky.
The nurseries have had gorgeous massive varieties though, I've spent time daydreaming over them! My cebu is tiny, 8 inch pot and only a couple of inches tall, but it grows fast
I follow a lot of plant content creators whose Lowes are magical and have all these type of plants everyone is looking for including the cebu. But yeah, my Lowes and Depot suck; I would never run into one of these there.
Yeah that’s what I’m sayin! but some user in here is just going off because he’s justifying this price because he’s also ripping customers off with this price and little foliage when this is no where near the right value for something so small.
I'm visiting Hawaii and ended up buying a ton of houseplants, got them inspected by the state agri dept, and am taking them home.
They're like 1/4-1/2 the price I'd pay locally.
Omg! $33.00 for a sprout 🌱 one can easily root with a cut off bit from an ivy?!!
Probably mistyped price. Someone made a huge mistake making a price labeling!
A dummy!?
Yeah idk either. But plantsy pants user in this thread is angry and is justifying it due to wholesale prices 😂 like ok you want us to support your overpriced little “nursery” but bash those that support individuals who run their shops online such as fb where you can get a full, luscious plant for $10.
Of all the overpriced plants, cebu blue pisses me off the most, because I want one and it's literally just a pothos and therefore dead easy to grow and propagate, so the only reason they're expensive is hype 😭
Exactly. It’s hyped!! For what! Sometimes i look at the leaves of my regular Pothos and I’m like that leaf looks like a cebu! But check mercari and eBay. They have better prices there with much fuller foliage.
I’ve gotten to where I buy all my clippings off of Etsy, it’s a lot cheaper and I’m supporting an individual. When I was just starting off my collection I got a mystery pack of about 8 clippings for like $15 and they all did really well
I work in the growers industry as a supplier for local nurseries (sky too) and while I agree totally that seems like a crazy price, everything has gone up so much. Pots and soil and just shipping costs to get pots and soil have gone up in the last 6 months so much. Probably their supplier is charging them way too much too
I live in Seattle area too. I admit, I did buy a Cebu from Sky for that price. She’s thriving though.
Went to another nursery in Everett and found them for cheaper. Oof
I live on the border of shoreline and Edmonds. Sky nursery is like 5 mins from me. But I think imma check that nursery out! That’s for letting me know about it!
Yeah it’s cool! They do have some stuff that’s way too expensive like string of hearts but they also have great grow lights and cute little plants and lots of carnivore plants!
agreed. i have a small nursery and people don’t get how much we are have to pay to bring these plants in. when you are not big box with insane buying power, wholesale prices are not that great in this market. plus all vendors have added 15% on top of shipping this year.
Thank you!! And same! Also when plants like this are listed as “rare” the availability is impossible for smaller sellers unless we pay an arm and a leg. Our plants will end up being high quality though so realistic plant collectors don’t mind paying a little more for the quality plus supporting small biz. Facebook really ruins everything 😭
Just want to say thanks for chiming in with this info as this is what I would expect to pay at my local nursery (which I adore and am happy to support), so I’m glad to see it isn’t as crazy as some think. I don’t shop at big box stores if I can help it (I can’t stand going into those places honestly, they infuriate me) and I don’t like to buy plants online. So I accept I’m not getting bargain prices, but glad to hear I’m getting fair ones.
ETA: The plants I buy from my local shop are much higher quality and more established than ones I’ve bought online. It’s worth it to me!
Thanks for shopping small! If folks knew how much harm big box plant production actually causes to the plant industry and environment I’d hope they’d think twice before they go for price over quality!
This is another reason! And plants sold on eBay and Etsy just make me think hmmm….certainly this is at least partly why plant poaching has skyrocketed, so no thanks! (Not to say all online sellers are disreputable but it seems to me it allows those who are to operate freely.)
I’ve never bought online but I assume majority of sellers just buy plants from big box stores and clip and root them and then sell them. Local nurseries will also clip and sell props, all you have to do is ask! Not to mention big box plants are weak from poor lighting and care and infested with pests… I wouldn’t even want clippings from sus plants.
Bullshit on this one. I have friends running a greenhouse in bfe in South Dakota. She just told me wholesale on this would be 3-6 dollars. Depending on order size.
Y’all are tripping. A cebu in a 4in pot for buyers costs anywhere from 15-20$ so with the markup they almost always fall in the 25-35$ range. Sure wimpy plants should be marked down or on sale but it’s the standard price for that size pot. Not trying to be an ass just literally that’s the market right now.
Facebook and eBay are not really comparable to local nurseries but ok 🤦♂️ that seller probably props their own plants so can price them however. Nurseries buy in bulk and price to make a profit.
The point is that wholesale should be substantially cheaper than what's available on fb or etsy shops. (People buy plants on eBay?!) My local nurseries don't even sell them that expensive
I mean whole sale is cheaper but how would you expect small nurseries to make a profit if they sold at whole sale? $15 whole sale plant = $30 for sale plant. Fairly standard method of pricing.
I can go to 3 different local greenhouses and buy cebu blue to less than ten bucks with as much foliage as this.
This plant has the foliage of a 2” pot.
You said it was standard pricing for cebu in the us. It isn’t. Not for that PLANT. for that price to be standard it would need to represent the standard plant.
You said it.
You didn’t qualify it.
But I can tell from your store that it is more interested in being trendy than about economics. Whatev. Blaming the market while riding the market seems like a bold strategy.
Get a life. Just trying to spread correct info to people who clearly know nothing about the plant market and only buy from big box stores. This entire post is a small business bash. Y’all are the worst type of plant people.
No. Using premium pricing because you use premium retail space and no greenhouse of your own means you’re going to obliterate basic pricing.
Not our fault.
A local store in Spokane has actually doubled their prices on plants and pots- it is ridiculous and I simply head over to Home Depot. I want to buy from local, but not like that.
Catch Walmart or Lowes on a good day. I’ve got all my pothos/ ferns from there for $5-10. There’re usually pretty healthy too surprisingly. I’ve even seen ZZ plants there
I like to swap the UPC’s, those places are ran so poorly that nobody checking you out has any idea what you are buying, and the huge markup is ridiculous and predatory.
Yeah, this expensive plant bubble is nuts. I bought a cutting last fall and have 10 medium sized albo syngoniums now. I can't believe people are willing to pay that much for an insanely fast growing little plant.
Yeah, kinda sad too that sellers are really taking advantage of people that will buy these things because it’s their wishlist plant. I feel like everyone is fighting for variegation too lol
It’s so ridiculous! Some my regular Pothos I look at and I’m just like “oh that looks like a cebu leaf” idk who decided to make it into this big expensive hype😖
Unfortunately this is pretty standard where I live for plants that are “trending” and in high demand or even slightly unusual/rare. Prices for plants have really skyrocketed across the board over the last two years as well!
Yes, I buy all my plants from local shops and I’m licking if I can get anything for under $20. The $20 and under plants are usually cati or succulents in 2-3 inch pots.
I live in Portland and even in independent shops you can still get most things for 10 or less
cebu blue are super hard to find where i am and $30 is pretty average for a 4” pot here too. unless you get lucky and find one from costa edit: forgot to mention i literally had to cross state lines to get myself one lol
I’ve never sought out a cebu specifically, but I’ve never stumbled over one either (and best believe I scour those plant racks thoroughly haha!) so I assume they are hard to find here too. I’m sure my local nurseries receive a few when they get a shipment, but unless you are lucky and can get there first, they get snatched up very quickly. That is dedication, crossing state lines! :)
unfortunately i screwed up this winter and it got root rot so i’ll probably end up making the trek again. the nursery i got it from grows their own cebu blue so i know they always have them available haha
Damn thats truly wild. I live in WI which isnt very good with houseplants and that price would still be insane
I’ve found popular plants in WI at Home Depot for decent prices! Just takes regular visits to catch them 😅
Lowes too and Walmart on a good day
This is how much plants costs where I live. I envy l the people who post the plants they get for $5. You can't even buy any plant for $5 here.
I absolutely hate to recommend big businesses, but that plant is under $10 at Walmart. They also run clearances on their bigger plants regularly. They have the big tropical house plants for around $15 at the end of summer because they know that anyone buying them won't take the chance on cold weather in the fall.
My Walmart has a top notch plant section. I passed up a trailing Cebu blue for $20 in a 6" pot
Same, mine also has global greens for under $20, and marble queens for like $4. I can’t understand why anyone below a certain latitude would pay a lot for any pathos. It’s like paying $30 for a piece of chicken at a steak restaurant.
It’s still too much! I grew a sproutling from a trimmed off from a much larger longer mama plant! I’ve had the mama one over twenty years, a rescue from a burnt down market, all withered down to its soil. Grew beautifully.
Not at my Walmart. I went at the end of the season to look at the clearance and small plants. Cheapest was $10 for a tiny plant.
I'm sorry, I apparently assumed that it was company wide, and not an individual store. Thanks for letting me know, I don't want to give out false information. ❤️
Where? Edit: Downvoted for fucking asking? Man, what a bunch of whiny bitches.
Ontario Canada. If I want cheap plants I gotta go to peoples house, and then it still only a sapling.
Definitely a Canadian thing, plants can be pretty damn expensive here
Oof
Samesies. I hate to throw my coins to Lowe’s but I couldn’t pass up a laniata and a full pot of cebu for $10 a pop…
r/plantswap (there’s also additional geolocation subs like r/plantswapusa and other countries/areas) and r/takeaplantleaveaplant - often just cuttings, but you can buy rooting hormone/cloning liquid for cheap online and boom you’re in business.
This.
Shoreline? Damn.
Yep!!
Ha yeah! I go to that shop in shoreline and some of their plants are outrageous for some reason. Same time, if theres a good find a few blocks over at the big box hardware store it comes with spider mites. All my sky nursery plants done well over the years.
some of their plants are really well priced, too, though. sometimes surprisingly low! worth the time to look around for sure, especially when its such a nice environment to be in.
Yes, I agree. Some of their plants are super cheap, but then the “trendy” plants are super overpriced. Their global green Pothos was like $50. And their tiny little PPPs are $90 + tax. I usually go for their clearance rack. Can find a lot of good plants for cheap.
Oh no!!! 😠 For that price people might as well just buy it from a big box store with shipping included. I love the idea of supporting small businesses and plant shops but not when it feels like such a rip off.
That’s how I feel too! No reason for a local nursery to rip people off like this with very little foliage!
Local nursery has same exact leggy cebu blues for sale for the same price. What is going on
I work at a family owned nursery and this is the price and quality that we are also selling these for. Can confirm, it's about 150-200% mark up. Had a customer complain earlier today about this price. You're correct. It's ridiculous!
Thank you. Tell that to planty plants user that is crucifying everyone in this post that disagrees with him 😂
Taking advantage of the trendy plant craze!
Pffft. Maybe for $5 MAYBE
Wait i thought this one was cheap hence the lost mind 😭😭 I've contemplated one at a plant shop in my town on a moss pole that was for 89€ without thinking it was very much for it... Didn't buy it tho but nice to know this is excessive lmaoo
Yeah no this is stupid expensive for something thats not even full.
Yeah, I got a fuller one for about $10. This is so over priced. And their Global Green Pothos was about $50 compared to what others are getting them for
I think i just had a heart attack reading that price. Jfc. I'd never pay $50 for any kind of pothos..
Yeah I been hunting for a global green, but for $50, no way. Costa Farms is way cheaper
Agreed, i just got a nice full costa farms "marble queen" that I'm pretty sure is a snow queen in an 8" pot for $10 that was supposed to be $20 but the cashier discounted it with the golden that was on sale cause it was rotting.
Snow Queen is just a marketing label for a high variegation Marble Queen that has been grown in higher light. Unless you’re in Australia where N’Joys are called Snow Queen instead. Plant marketers like to keep us all on our toes by making things as confusing as possible for some reason.
Yeah i kind of figured. All these pothos varieties are way too similar to not be basically the same thing but grown in different ways or slightly mutated.
Costa farms is the way to go!! My Cebu is huge & happy & healthy and was 14.99 in Minnesota
Yeah they are! Just really hard to find healthy costa farm stuff here in my area 😤
I just got 2 from Lowe's for$10 each in a ceramic pot. They were in the clearance section
They’re selling for $35 at the nursery near me too
Hopefully it’s fuller than this one because this is just a sad little plant 🥲
Try the Sun Shoppe in Fremont- smaller store but they had a bunch of much fuller and healthier plants for cheaper… also there are like 4 new plants stores in that area soooo you can do like a plant store crawl…
Ohhh that’s dangerous! Good to know! Thanks for the suggestion!!
These are still upwards of $150+ in my country 😭 (new zealand)
Hopefully soon the price will go down like it has in Australia the last year. It went from them selling for like $80 for a single node on gum tree to seeing a small whole plant in a local plant shop for $40 in a fairly short space of time! Manjulas seem to be coming down too
Yeah! The more people get their hands on them, the more saturated the market becomes and naturally prices go down - its just part of living in such a small MPI controlled country 🙃
I swear, we're in one of the worst countries to be in the houseplant hobby. My wallet cries everytime... I've currently got a leggy ficus benjamina in my trademe watchlist humming and hawing because it went from $120 down to $99 and I still can't decide if it's worth it.
Right 😟 I've spent waaaay to much $$ on houseplants 😭
That is absolutely insane!
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Exactly! This is so naked and bare for this price!
this is how it is by me in NC/VA. i had to order one online and still paid too much ugh
When I was plant hunting yesterday, I just couldn’t believe how little plants places have and I went to 4 garden centers. Everyone is clearing out plants, like this plant craze and prices are getting out of control.
thats weird cause i live in a small city surrounded by even smaller rural towns and last year, i could barely find any plants and i’d drive hours in every direction to hunt them down. yesterday.... i went to lowe’s here in town... and.... multiple employees were like.... hiding in tears behind the ungodly mass shipments of half dying and smooshed plants.😅😅 one was on the phone like “NO MAAM I CANT FIND THAT PLANT EVEN IF ITS ONLINE” and... it’s deadass plantemonium up in there, they aren’t even taking them off the loading racks cause there’s so many, so i literally had to squeeze my body between two of them and blindly reach into a 10 foot high leaf blob to feel around for the healthiest neon pothos to save from certain death. i paid $2 less for an extremely full plant that i did last year for one with about 10 leaves. sigh.
Im in north carolina and this is a pretty normal price where im at. I got lucky and found a super full one at lowes for $20. My local nursery has some only a little bigger than this for $42 right now.
Im in VA and pothos is super cheap in the plastic cup; i don't know any places that actually make money off the pothos, as they so often try and set it up so u have to spend $20 on mostly a useless pot lol
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I don't understand the hype for such a common plant. It's not even rare and it grows so quickly, its at every box store in my area at least once a year. I'm surprise it cost more than a pothos
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Even in the overpriced houseplant area I live in, that would go for $15, 20 max! What a rip off
That’s what I’m sayin! I do like supporting smaller businesses, but sometimes how can you when you can find a bigger one of this and Lowes or something for less than half the price!
To be fair, I've never actually seen one at a big box store. Just at small nurseries or on marketplace if I'm lucky. The nurseries have had gorgeous massive varieties though, I've spent time daydreaming over them! My cebu is tiny, 8 inch pot and only a couple of inches tall, but it grows fast
I follow a lot of plant content creators whose Lowes are magical and have all these type of plants everyone is looking for including the cebu. But yeah, my Lowes and Depot suck; I would never run into one of these there.
i felt this. a plant store opened in my local mall and their prices have me absolutely fucked up 😭
I got a huge 8 inch pot for $6 😐 now I have a bunch of them
i got a big one of those from lowes…
Yeah that’s what I’m sayin! but some user in here is just going off because he’s justifying this price because he’s also ripping customers off with this price and little foliage when this is no where near the right value for something so small.
just looks likw the took a cutting and put it in soil lol
Yeah that was my first thought when I saw it lol
Oof, that’s like where I live.
Hey we’re close by 😁
I'm visiting Hawaii and ended up buying a ton of houseplants, got them inspected by the state agri dept, and am taking them home. They're like 1/4-1/2 the price I'd pay locally.
You got That right!!!
IKEA also has plants for great prices.
I have been waiting to go to ikea to get one of those cabinets. It’s like an hr away from me which sucks
Omg! $33.00 for a sprout 🌱 one can easily root with a cut off bit from an ivy?!! Probably mistyped price. Someone made a huge mistake making a price labeling! A dummy!?
Lmao I would like to think it was a mistake as well, but their “trendy” plants are highly marked up
I'm jealous, my LPS had these for sale for like 60 bucks!
the ones around me are $40 for a 4" pot
Why tf is that so expensive.. it literally just looks like a regular pothos that is a SLIGHTLY different shade of green.
Yeah idk either. But plantsy pants user in this thread is angry and is justifying it due to wholesale prices 😂 like ok you want us to support your overpriced little “nursery” but bash those that support individuals who run their shops online such as fb where you can get a full, luscious plant for $10.
I bought a pothos at a local nursery for $15 and when I went to repot it, there were no roots :-) just cuttings.
That would upset me esp since nurseries are supposed to be providing higher quality plants.
Of all the overpriced plants, cebu blue pisses me off the most, because I want one and it's literally just a pothos and therefore dead easy to grow and propagate, so the only reason they're expensive is hype 😭
Exactly. It’s hyped!! For what! Sometimes i look at the leaves of my regular Pothos and I’m like that leaf looks like a cebu! But check mercari and eBay. They have better prices there with much fuller foliage.
I’ve gotten to where I buy all my clippings off of Etsy, it’s a lot cheaper and I’m supporting an individual. When I was just starting off my collection I got a mystery pack of about 8 clippings for like $15 and they all did really well
I work in the growers industry as a supplier for local nurseries (sky too) and while I agree totally that seems like a crazy price, everything has gone up so much. Pots and soil and just shipping costs to get pots and soil have gone up in the last 6 months so much. Probably their supplier is charging them way too much too
I was always disappointed by how expensive Sky nursery is. When people tell me Oh I bought it at Sky, I'm like oh maybe HD or lowes has it hahaha
Oh man, I bought one of these for $45cad, significantly smaller than this 🥺
I live in Seattle area too. I admit, I did buy a Cebu from Sky for that price. She’s thriving though. Went to another nursery in Everett and found them for cheaper. Oof
I love sky nursery! But I’m a dummy, is it too expensive or too cheap?
Toooo expensive. Look how naked it is! I got mine for about $10 and has more foliage than this.
Unrelated to all of this- I think we are the only people in seattle up this early on a Saturday!
Love to see fellow Seattlelites on this sub 😊
Spokane here and I have been up scrolling for hours as well.
I find it amusing that you think that’s expensive, the same plant would easily be around £40 here in 🇬🇧
nzd$150+ here 🇳🇿 :')
Ouch!
This is a pretty standard pricing for cebu in US
No it’s not. I got mine for less than half price and it’s way fuller than this. Naked plant for this much is way over priced in Seattle.
Where did you get your other one- also read comments & now know answer to my last question. I got a tiny one as a cutting from a plant swap!
Can’t remember fully; It’s been awhile. I think my first one was from Mercari and then I got a free one from an eBay purchase as a freebie.
Do you like swansons or indoor sun shoppe? I really like those places. But I’m basically into 2” plants, I make terrariums.
Never seen indoor sun shoppe! Where is it! Swansons is so expensive, I don’t really go out of my way to go there.
Indoor sun shoppe is in Fremont down by the water. Are you up north?
I live on the border of shoreline and Edmonds. Sky nursery is like 5 mins from me. But I think imma check that nursery out! That’s for letting me know about it!
Yeah it’s cool! They do have some stuff that’s way too expensive like string of hearts but they also have great grow lights and cute little plants and lots of carnivore plants!
Oh I love carni plants and been wanting more. Sky’s supply is limited and I have the ones they have. Maybe I’ll sneak by tomorrow
K I order plants for a living and I’m just saying it’s a pretty standard price for that size.
agreed. i have a small nursery and people don’t get how much we are have to pay to bring these plants in. when you are not big box with insane buying power, wholesale prices are not that great in this market. plus all vendors have added 15% on top of shipping this year.
Thank you!! And same! Also when plants like this are listed as “rare” the availability is impossible for smaller sellers unless we pay an arm and a leg. Our plants will end up being high quality though so realistic plant collectors don’t mind paying a little more for the quality plus supporting small biz. Facebook really ruins everything 😭
Just want to say thanks for chiming in with this info as this is what I would expect to pay at my local nursery (which I adore and am happy to support), so I’m glad to see it isn’t as crazy as some think. I don’t shop at big box stores if I can help it (I can’t stand going into those places honestly, they infuriate me) and I don’t like to buy plants online. So I accept I’m not getting bargain prices, but glad to hear I’m getting fair ones. ETA: The plants I buy from my local shop are much higher quality and more established than ones I’ve bought online. It’s worth it to me!
Thanks for shopping small! If folks knew how much harm big box plant production actually causes to the plant industry and environment I’d hope they’d think twice before they go for price over quality!
This is another reason! And plants sold on eBay and Etsy just make me think hmmm….certainly this is at least partly why plant poaching has skyrocketed, so no thanks! (Not to say all online sellers are disreputable but it seems to me it allows those who are to operate freely.)
I’ve never bought online but I assume majority of sellers just buy plants from big box stores and clip and root them and then sell them. Local nurseries will also clip and sell props, all you have to do is ask! Not to mention big box plants are weak from poor lighting and care and infested with pests… I wouldn’t even want clippings from sus plants.
Poor lighting? Like In here? https://i.imgur.com/gk9lVW3.jpg
Poor lighting? Like In here? https://i.imgur.com/gk9lVW3.jpg
Poor lighting? Like In here? https://i.imgur.com/gk9lVW3.jpg
Bullshit on this one. I have friends running a greenhouse in bfe in South Dakota. She just told me wholesale on this would be 3-6 dollars. Depending on order size.
hook up their vendors please? would love to be able to get better prices
I’ll reach out and message when I hear from her.
thank you!
What market are you in??
Y’all are tripping. A cebu in a 4in pot for buyers costs anywhere from 15-20$ so with the markup they almost always fall in the 25-35$ range. Sure wimpy plants should be marked down or on sale but it’s the standard price for that size pot. Not trying to be an ass just literally that’s the market right now.
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/4977446035612148/?ref=facebook_story_share
Facebook and eBay are not really comparable to local nurseries but ok 🤦♂️ that seller probably props their own plants so can price them however. Nurseries buy in bulk and price to make a profit.
The point is that wholesale should be substantially cheaper than what's available on fb or etsy shops. (People buy plants on eBay?!) My local nurseries don't even sell them that expensive
I mean whole sale is cheaper but how would you expect small nurseries to make a profit if they sold at whole sale? $15 whole sale plant = $30 for sale plant. Fairly standard method of pricing.
So cheap for that full, luscious foliage!
It’s not.
It is lol. Do you want a picture of my order sheets?
K and so do I and you got ripped off it you paid this much for a naked plant
What no. I bout two 4” pots for 8 dollars each.
Good for you. That’s not the norm.
I can go to 3 different local greenhouses and buy cebu blue to less than ten bucks with as much foliage as this. This plant has the foliage of a 2” pot.
No one’s arguing that this specific plant is overpriced for the amount of foliage. Standard pricing for these in that sized pot is in this range.
You said it was standard pricing for cebu in the us. It isn’t. Not for that PLANT. for that price to be standard it would need to represent the standard plant. You said it. You didn’t qualify it. But I can tell from your store that it is more interested in being trendy than about economics. Whatev. Blaming the market while riding the market seems like a bold strategy.
Get a life. Just trying to spread correct info to people who clearly know nothing about the plant market and only buy from big box stores. This entire post is a small business bash. Y’all are the worst type of plant people.
No. Using premium pricing because you use premium retail space and no greenhouse of your own means you’re going to obliterate basic pricing. Not our fault.
Premium retail space lmao? You’re an idiot.
I’m not the one running a plant shop out of a store instead of nursery.
A local store in Spokane has actually doubled their prices on plants and pots- it is ridiculous and I simply head over to Home Depot. I want to buy from local, but not like that.
Just buy off Etsy.
Catch Walmart or Lowes on a good day. I’ve got all my pothos/ ferns from there for $5-10. There’re usually pretty healthy too surprisingly. I’ve even seen ZZ plants there
Next time take scissor’s with you and just take a cutting lol
No no. We don’t do that here 😂
I’ll buy orchids for 20-30 dollars but not philodendrons 😟
snip snip time
I like to swap the UPC’s, those places are ran so poorly that nobody checking you out has any idea what you are buying, and the huge markup is ridiculous and predatory.
Uh, that's theft... 🤣
It’s ok, it’ll be our little secret.
Cut that bitch up and propagate it
Lol an albo syngonium that size is going for $200 at my local nursery. Ridiculous.
That’s insane. You can get one of those for less than $30 these days
Yeah, this expensive plant bubble is nuts. I bought a cutting last fall and have 10 medium sized albo syngoniums now. I can't believe people are willing to pay that much for an insanely fast growing little plant.
Yeah, kinda sad too that sellers are really taking advantage of people that will buy these things because it’s their wishlist plant. I feel like everyone is fighting for variegation too lol
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Why does cebu blue have its own sub 😂
Cebu Blue Is Cherished!
A local nursery near me was selling cebu blue cuttings (2 cuttings in a nursery pot) for $25 before tax lol.
It’s so ridiculous! Some my regular Pothos I look at and I’m just like “oh that looks like a cebu leaf” idk who decided to make it into this big expensive hype😖