Jonstn Posted August 5, 2012 Went to Bunnings yesterday to get a friend a cacti as a housewarming gift, it was a mess to say the least, pots there werent draining properly, absolutely full to the brim with water, and then some unrecogniseable mush in the centre of the pots they were calling cacti So I went back today and grabbed a couple lithops and a cheiridopsis peculiaris, they werent ruined yet so I thought I'd snap them up before the idiots kill everything they got. Got them into bigger pots and some dryer soil, top layer of white sand (wanted to use stones but didn't have any available) hope they like their new homes I don't understand Bunnings sometimes, it's pretty simple to not water cacti and succulents, way easier then watering them I thought 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Stillman Posted August 5, 2012 good luck with the lithops. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jox Posted August 5, 2012 Good to see someone cares. I was at Bunnings last week & all there cacti & succulents are fucked (All rotting), It pissed me of so bad I demanded to speak to the garden manager. I asked her if she had looked at the cactus lately which she replied "um no, why". I showed her that more than half of her stock was rotten not rotting & then told her I was here to spend hundreds of dollars on setting up a cactus garden but I guess I'll have to go somewhere else (she didn't look happy). As I was walking out she ask me If I new what was wrong with them, wtf! I told her it was employes that had know idea what there are doing maybe read a book on the plants you are payed to care for! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sallubrious Posted August 5, 2012 Just in the nick of time too I'd say. My local BigW is like that, they dehydrate everything that is in active growth and in need of water and saturate everything else. They recently got several trays of various cactus about 1 - 2 years old from Hamiltons and they have them sitting with saturated newspaper underneath the trays. I mentioned it to the woman that tortures the plants and she assured me that seedlings that young need to stay wet. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sallubrious Posted August 5, 2012 Good to see someone cares. I was at Bunnings last week & all there cacti & succulents are fucked (All rotting), It pissed me of so bad I demanded to speak to the garden manager. I asked her if she had looked at the cactus lately which she replied "um no, why". I showed her that more than half of her stock was rotten not rotting & then told her I was here to spend hundreds of dollars on setting up a cactus garden but I guess I'll have to go somewhere else (she didn't look happy). As I was walking out she ask me If I new what was wrong with them, wtf! I told her it was employes that had know idea what there are doing maybe read a book on the plants you are payed to care for! I've spoken to two nurserymen in the last month and been told the same thing by both of them, Bunnings doesn't give a fuck what happens to the plants, they throw out an enormous load of plants each week and just get more in. The suppliers know how fucking hopeless they are and often supply Bunnings with second rate plants and the good ones go elsewhere. Plants are just a commodity to Bunnings & not seen as living things. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
r2pi Posted August 5, 2012 (edited) As I was walking out she ask me If I new what was wrong with them, wtf! That's it mate - pay peanuts, get monkeys. Want help in another department and you'll be faced with a mission just to find someone to finally tell you they can't help you. Don't blame the people - blame the employer. (Would you read a book to make you better at earning $15/hour?) Blame society for only being interested in cheap mass produced crap, driving specialists out of business. (Mind you, compared to being given the spanish inquisition over some headache tablets at the pharmacy, it's nice to be able to purchase xylene, acetone, isopropanol, methyl ethyl ketone and other useful handyman supplies without the bimbo at checkout even taking a breath from her jibbajab with her workmate about her upcoming deb or some crap.) Edited August 5, 2012 by r2pi 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bread Filter Posted August 5, 2012 Went to Bunnings yesterday to get a friend a cacti as a housewarming gift, it was a mess to say the least, pots there werent draining properly, absolutely full to the brim with water, and then some unrecogniseable mush in the centre of the pots they were calling cacti That sucks. What did they say when you told them about it? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jonstn Posted August 5, 2012 I don't know if it was bad timing or they just have minimal people in the garden bit on weekends but I couldnt see anyone, was so angry went home and ranted to my partner for a good 20 mins about how Bunnings is full of morons. She suggested me taking it up with management but as most of you have said, they don't give a rats ass about the quality it's all about the $$$$ I would still like to say something though, it's a joke how they treat the plants, you take them home and have to watch them constantly because they've been babied so hard that the first sign of proper conditions they just perish either that or their dead before they even leave the shop. Dont know if I'd just be wasting my breath though Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DarkSpark Posted August 6, 2012 i know right, i feel like offering my help on a volunteer basis just for the sake of stopping the mass murders of just about every cacti they get into their store. The worst part is, as you say, that they dont even really notice and are selling rotting/rotten products to customers. Maybe channel 7 should do an expose on the stock quality in bunning. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
