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                                  Commercial Strawberry Plug Production                          

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A quickly growing aspect of our business is the commercial production of strawberry plugs.  If you are a commercial grower looking for someone to produce your plugs, please consider us.  We currently grow Chandler, Camarosa, and a few other varieties.  Our strawberry tips originate from Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia in Canada, so you can be assured of clean growing stock.  We take every precaution to produce high quality and disease free plants.

 All of our plugs are stuck, rooted, and finished outdoors.  Our system allows us to control the mist and watering cycles very accurately and provides us the opportunity to produce what we think is the best quality plugs that you will find.  Our goal is to provide the farmers who trust us with their upcoming season the best possible plug at the best possible cost.  We want the farmers who choose us to come back every year for their plugs and plants.

We grow over a half-million plugs every fall and have produced plants for growers all over the eastern United States from Georgia and the Carolinas all the way up to Delaware. We grow for many different farmers including the founder of the Chic Fil A restaurant chain, Truett Cathy.  He has a ranch in central Georgia that specializes in "agritainment" called "The Rock Ranch".  We have also grown the plugs used in research plots at Virginia State University as well as the gardens at Warren Wilson College in NC. 

All of our plugs are custom grown to order and we produce very few plugs on speculation.  We urge you to place your order as early as possible.  Most orders are received in June and July, and we typically begin sticking the tips by mid-August. 

Delivery is available for a reasonable freight/delivery fee, or you can pick up your order at our farm.

Prices for 2015 are expected to be as follows:
1-999:                            $48/Flat of 50, Minimum Order
1000-9,999:                   $275/1000
10,000-
49,999:              $260/1000
50,000+:                        $250/1000
These prices are for Chandler and Camarosa plugs only.  For other varieties and prices, please contact us.
  
For more information on our plugs and for current pricing, please contact us.

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                                                   Unrooted Strawberry Tip

Picture of an unrooted strawberry "tip". This is what it looks like when it arrives to us from Canada. The bottom stem is stuck into the media shown and placed under mist to root out.
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                                        Strawberry Tip...to strawberry plug!

This is that same "tip" 3 weeks later. It is now a "plug" and almost ready for transplanting to the field. Total time for the tip to become a plug is generally 30-35 days.