Put me down for bio pots. I have my own decorative pots that I put the plants in and the plastic ones pile up in my garage until I finally send them with the garbage guys, which annoys me because of the waste and the plastic in the landfills.
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Larry Gude
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Yawp. We figure to offer some sort of decorative or plain clay for that very purpose but, it seems like any kind of flower person at all, would have a shed full of stuff and not really be interested in more.
Mig's comment really caught my attention because I assumed EVERYONE would say "USA" and "BIO" and therefore almost didn't ask.
Shows to go y'ah.
Larry Gude
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That is actually one of the options on the table though it isn't a poo pot. It's actually made of rice hulls and go right in the ground.
However, we're think for most people, (think metro DC townhouse/lotta money/little time/no land) you get done with you basil/sage what have you, you'll feel guilt free tossing the whole mess and ordering fresh.
Leave it to you off the grid/have a generator and grow our own everything types to not only want bio BUT that it is a fuel as well.
Leave it to you off the grid/have a generator and grow our own everything types to not only want bio BUT that it is a fuel as well.
As someone taught me, it's less stressful for the plant to not repot it so I don't whenever possible.
Yawp. We figure to offer some sort of decorative or plain clay for that very purpose but, it seems like any kind of flower person at all, would have a shed full of stuff and not really be interested in more.
Mig's comment really caught my attention because I assumed EVERYONE would say "USA" and "BIO" and therefore almost didn't ask.
Shows to go y'ah.
You've already abandoned the recycling approach? I thought that was a good sales angle. Even having a deposit on the pots would probably fly.
Larry Gude
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Not at all. I thought, and still think, it's a key. The ones we're gonna use are not ugly, in my view and, as Varial mentioned, folks can put them into some decorative or not. Or we will partner with someone who offers them as an option.
The Terra Shell (at bottom of page) is leading contender at the moment.
Summit Plastic Company
migtig
aka Mrs. Giant
Okay so I must have misunderstood the premise.
You are going to bring in and out fresh herbs and such for people to use in their homes right? Such as "Italian Variety" or "French Devine".
So that means the plants are in someone's home on their kitchen window sill or something.
And you think in that case it's important it's a plantable pot.
I could be off base here, but I think a plantable pot is great if I'm buying herbs to plant in my garden. However, in that case I'll just get them from the Amish up the road.
But if I am buying something special - like a delivery service with pretty cooking herb arrangements to put in my home, it had better be in a pretty cheerful pot. That delivery service company should not be expecting me to 1) replant it myself and 2) save their recycle pot for when they come to pick up and exchange.
I'm saying this as a person who actually is a shopper like this. I am the type of consumer a speciality service like this would be looking for.
You are going to bring in and out fresh herbs and such for people to use in their homes right? Such as "Italian Variety" or "French Devine".
So that means the plants are in someone's home on their kitchen window sill or something.
And you think in that case it's important it's a plantable pot.
I could be off base here, but I think a plantable pot is great if I'm buying herbs to plant in my garden. However, in that case I'll just get them from the Amish up the road.
But if I am buying something special - like a delivery service with pretty cooking herb arrangements to put in my home, it had better be in a pretty cheerful pot. That delivery service company should not be expecting me to 1) replant it myself and 2) save their recycle pot for when they come to pick up and exchange.
I'm saying this as a person who actually is a shopper like this. I am the type of consumer a speciality service like this would be looking for.
Larry Gude
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What I want to do is get a pot of basil in a bio pot and just plop the whole thing into my handpainted clay pot (of which I have dozens in every size imaginable), no transplanting. Like Larry said, you don't want to be paying for a new designer pot with every order.
itsbob
I bowl overhand
Offer both..
Grow everything in a bio pot, and have on hand decorative pots.
If someone orders a pot throw bio and all in the decorative pot and send it.. just upcharge like 5x the cost for the deco pot.
WIN WIN!!
Helps if I read your reply eh??
The problem with that is not everyone has the same definition of "pretty" and before you know it you're in the retail pot business. Then they'll want to bitch about price: "Hmpf, I could get that cheaper at Ollie's." And while I would reply, "Then go to freaking Ollie's, dumbass
" Larry probably won't do that.If it were me, I'd grow them in bio pots and promote it as "green", perhaps receiving a grant from the UN or something for doing your part to help combat global warming and make the world a better place to live. The ad campaign can show babies choking to death on plastic pot bits and being dismembered by the ozone layer, then the next screen shows happy little multi-colored children holding hands and singing the praises of Gude Brothers, the company that cares about them and isn't trying to kill them.
Kumbaya.
Larry Gude
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itsbob
I bowl overhand
Hmm...that's good. That's really good.
And I HOPE you've been communcating with industry so they can buy carbon credits, and Co2 credits from you..
If they have to pay for every gram of CO2 they add to the environment it only makes sense that you get paid for every gram your plants remove.
Hmm...that's good. That's really good.
You might get a media discount since it's a PSA. Or maybe get the Ad Council on board and they can make one of those hysteria commercials they do with some ominous sounding lady telling listeners that 6 out of 8 children will die this year from plastic pot attacks. "PROTECT your children, our most valuable resource, by using biodegradable pots for your plants."
Promote the fact that in the event of SHTF, you can eat the pots.
...assuming you are the type of person that would order home delivery dairy stuff, would you also order flowering baskets and flowering potted plants like, say, oh, I dunno, gerber daisies? Poinsettias?
Further, what about herbs and spices, basil, thyme, oregano, etc? Would you order, say, a six pack you set in your kitchen, potted, and you pick it fresh, it lasts maybe a week or two, however fast you use it up, and then you order more? The delivery guy taking away the old pots to be re used. You pick and choose.
What about, say, in the off season, a 6-8" pot of spinach or other greens? You just pick off what you want, it lasts however long it lasts and then you order fresh.
Would you trust a home delivery person to have access to your house or garage so stuff doesn't freeze in bad weather?
I like the idea of the herbal delivery.
The lack of any or all of these would not be a deal breaker for meHow important to you is it that the container your herbs would come in is made in America?
How important is it to you that the container is biodegradable?
Would you take a bio pot made in some far away land over a plastic US made pot?
Or, would you choose American made plastic over foreign bio?
Again, this is for you to put in your kitchen and pinch off what you want when you want.
Larry Gude
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So, I can get you bio pots but not bio/recyclable bags to ship the pots in!
Seems the technology is there and the bags, if I order 20,000 pounds of bags at a time
jameo but not the standards and practices. At least not for retail level. Plus, they have to be recycled specifically, not with regular home recycle stuff.
I guess Mother Earth is gonna just have to suffer the bags. Trying to find paper bags that have solid bottoms. Trying to get the mess potential as low as possible.
:shrug:
Seems the technology is there and the bags, if I order 20,000 pounds of bags at a time
jameo but not the standards and practices. At least not for retail level. Plus, they have to be recycled specifically, not with regular home recycle stuff. I guess Mother Earth is gonna just have to suffer the bags. Trying to find paper bags that have solid bottoms. Trying to get the mess potential as low as possible.
:shrug:
Larry Gude
Strung Out
OK,
If we assume there will be 100 orders placed for herbs, choosing from rosemary (4 different ones), basil (3 choices) thyme (3 choices) parsley, chives, oregano (3) and a host of odd balls from stevia to pachouli to lavender to sage, what would it look like????
75% will order rosemary? (we will have 4 to choose from)
100% basil? (3 choices)
33% cilantro?
15% chives?
15% parsley?
15% oregano? (3)
15% thyme? (3)
Sound roughly right? way off here or there?
You are production manager and need to make a good guess as to what you need to be producing. Actually, I am but, I need your help, foodies!
If we assume there will be 100 orders placed for herbs, choosing from rosemary (4 different ones), basil (3 choices) thyme (3 choices) parsley, chives, oregano (3) and a host of odd balls from stevia to pachouli to lavender to sage, what would it look like????
75% will order rosemary? (we will have 4 to choose from)
100% basil? (3 choices)
33% cilantro?
15% chives?
15% parsley?
15% oregano? (3)
15% thyme? (3)
Sound roughly right? way off here or there?
You are production manager and need to make a good guess as to what you need to be producing. Actually, I am but, I need your help, foodies!
OK,
If we assume there will be 100 orders placed for herbs, choosing from rosemary (4 different ones), basil (3 choices) thyme (3 choices) parsley, chives, oregano (3) and a host of odd balls from stevia to pachouli to lavender to sage, what would it look like????
75% will order rosemary? (we will have 4 to choose from)
100% basil? (3 choices)
33% cilantro?
15% chives?
15% parsley?
15% oregano? (3)
15% thyme? (3)
Sound roughly right? way off here or there?
You are production manager and need to make a good guess as to what you need to be producing. Actually, I am but, I need your help, foodies!
From what I've read on this forum, close. For my personal uses, closer still. However, maybe the largest market you're not looking at......
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