Bulk plastic tubes and pots

[Strontium Dawg]

I'm looking to buy bulk qtys of plastic tubes and small pots to deal with the growing army of seedlings I have at the moment. It's just not economical to buy them retail anymore, I just have too many.

Where do you guys source wholesale pots and forestry tubes? I was looking at danbar plastics, they seem to have a good range at OK prices. Any good suppliers you've dealt with before?

And when I say bulk, I'm talking about hundreds not thousands, maybe next year...!

[2XB]

Mate the Danbar forestry tubes are great, and grab the stands...

Also the NSW cactus and succulent society sells some great size square pots, just email and they will quote u postage if u don't go to meets

 

Pix

#1 is some cssnsw pots have little holes so those mineral mixes don't fall out

 

#2 is a Danbar tray

 

#3 & 4is a Danbar tubes, have large holes

Edited August 13, 2016 by doublebenno

[Strontium Dawg]

Thanks bud

[Change]

reduce, reuse, recycle 

 

This is how i do it. Maybe this idea isnt for everyone, but it works for the hardcore iced coffee addict

 

 

 

 

[theuserformallyknownasd00d]

I only use this mob. Don't need a commercial account, awesome prices and about 1/4 the price of danbar who I've also used. Not sure who there supplier is so may not be aust made like GCP or danbar. If it's just tubes you need G I can sort you depending how many you want. I have maybe 100 x 50mm you could have 

 

68mm trays $3.50

 

http://www.australianorchids.com.au/products/2190272

 

68mm pots .16c ea per hundred

 

http://www.australianorchids.com.au/products/copy-of-plastic-pots-80mm-squat-pots-x-101

 

they also have trays for 50mm tubes -$5

 

http://www.australianorchids.com.au/products/2265395

 

 

[theuserformallyknownasd00d]

The pics of DBs no1 are the same pots as the 68mm I posted G, just so you know and can compare 

[Strontium Dawg]

Change that would be great if I drank that stuff...now if I could recycle beer bottles...

[Strontium Dawg]

Thanks d00d, I'll check em out.

[Halcyon Daze]

I recycle milk bottles from work

 You can also get them from cafés, mates etc. I have hundreds of them and I don't even drink milk, not even in my tea.

 

Also, I pack my forestry tubes into broccoli boxes with holes punched in the side of the box rather  than  the bottom. This creates a water reserve about 1cm in depth.  This method allows the tubes to stay moist for at least twice as long, and the broccoli boxes are usually free at the markets. I call it the Halcyon method, you may use it

 

I also get a lot of used potting mix free from work which i mix 50:50 with the mulch  I get free from the dump (after sifting out the coarse bits). That's my organic portion, which I usually mix 50:50 with top-dressing loam which is half sand, half blue metal. It costs $25 per trailer load. I use a cement mixer to mix it all up.

 

In the end I get 2 trailer loads of great multi-purpose  potting mix for only $25 Which has equal parts potting mix,  screened mulch ,  sand ,  and blue metal.

 

Just gotta make the most of whatever you can get your hands on sometimes

Edited August 13, 2016 by Halcyon Daze

[watertrade]

Garden city plastics!

[freakazoid]

Some nurseries let their customers return used pots/tubes for recycling and might give them away to nice people for free... You'd need to sterilize them but bleach is cheap... 

[2XB]

I am just about to order some more supplies and checked out a few links in this thread, I am still going to go through the cssnsw (hamiltons) :-)

FYI- I got a pricelist out of garden city plastics, for eg, they sell 85mmx100mm square pot for 19c each per 1000 where the cssnsw sells the same size @ 25c each, no minimum quantity, not worth buying 1000 to save 6c a unit for my circumstances- garden city plastics do have a huge range though!

They (CSSNSW) also sell those 68mm ones the dood linked to at the orchid shop for a bit cheaper @ 14c each

I'm happy to support the cssnsw and hamiltons for those sized pots and prices :-)

 

I have a queestion..... where do we australians get our large volume square pots from????????? I see these euro collectors with grousse looking square pots, I would love to get my hands on some.. I am making some queries to garden city plastics, but would love to hear of anyone buying these already