How to Order
Wholesale pricing, a six-plant minimum per variety, and payment upfront. That is the whole model.
Why our plants are cheaper than a garden centre
A retail garden centre buys plants wholesale, pots them on, waters and heats them for a season, pays staff to look after them, and marks them up three to five times before you see a price tag. That markup is what pays for the shop.
We are not a shop. You order six of a variety, we pull them and pack them, and they go straight to you — so you pay something much closer to what the trade pays. The trade-off is honest: our plants are younger and smaller than a finished retail specimen, and you have to take six. If you want one large plant today, a garden centre is genuinely the better choice. If you want a lot of plants cheaply, buy from us.
Who we sell to
Anyone. Retail nurseries, landscapers, garden centres, and home growers who want more than one plant. You do not need a resale certificate or a wholesale account — our pricing is the same for everybody, and it is built around volume rather than membership.
Minimum order
Six plants per variety, in multiples of six. So 6, 12, 18, 24 and so on. There is no minimum order value, no minimum number of varieties, and no small-order surcharge.
Mix and match as much as you like — six of one banana and twelve of a dragon fruit is a perfectly good order. We sell in sixes because we buy in trays and pack in sixes; part-sixes just create awkward remainders.
How we fill your order
Orders take 2–4 days to process before they ship, then two to four days in transit. Some varieties are already potted on our bench; others we buy in by the tray as they sell. Either way the clock you see on the product page is the one we work to.
Buying in trays as they sell, rather than heating a greenhouse full of plants nobody has asked for, is a large part of why the prices are what they are — that saving goes to you instead.
Now and then a variety is one neither we nor our grower has on hand. Those are marked pre-order with the expected wait shown on the product page, and ordering one holds your place in the queue for the next crop.
If anything is going to take materially longer than that, we contact you before we take the order any further.
How to place an order
- Order online. Add what you want to the cart and check out. Fastest route, available around the clock.
- Email us at russ@tropiplants.com with what you are after and we will put it together.
- Call (727) 254-9153 for availability, larger quantities, or anything you cannot find on the site.
Payment
Payment is due upfront on every order. We do not offer credit, terms, net-30, or financing of any kind, and we do not accept checks. Your plants are reserved as soon as you order and released once payment clears.
| Method | How it works |
|---|---|
| Card +3% fee |
Secure checkout through Stripe. Paid immediately, no back and forth, and card details never touch our servers. Carries a 3% processing fee — that is what the card networks charge us, passed through at cost rather than baked into everyone's prices. |
| Venmo | Place the order, then send payment to @Russell-Loomis-4. Put your order number in the note. |
| Zelle | Place the order, then send payment to (727) 254-9153. Put your order number in the memo. |
| Cash | Local pickup only. Bring the exact total when you collect. |
Venmo and Zelle orders are held for 5 days. If we have not heard from you by then, the plants go back into the pool.
Sales tax
We do not charge sales tax. Florida exempts seedlings, cuttings, and plants grown to produce food for human consumption — which is everything in our catalog. The price you see is the price you pay, plus shipping and the card fee if you use one.
Shipping or pickup
Shipping
We ship to the lower 48 states and the U.S. Virgin Islands at $1.00 per plant, with a $6.00 minimum. So the smallest possible order — six plants — ships for $6.00, and every plant after that adds $1.00. No surprises, no dimensional-weight games. We pack Monday through Wednesday only so no box sits in an unheated depot over a weekend. Full detail on the shipping page, including the states that bar particular plants.
Local pickup
Free, in Pinellas Park, FL, and by appointment only. Call (727) 254-9153 to check availability and book a time. We give you the exact address once your appointment is confirmed — please do not just turn up, there is not always someone here and we would rather not waste your drive.
Collecting in person also means no transit stress on the plants at all, which for anything cold-sensitive in winter is genuinely the better option if you are within range.
Availability
Stock counts on the site are kept current, but plants are a living inventory and things move. For large quantities, or to check something before you commit, call or email — we will tell you straight what we can actually supply and when.
Substitutions
We will never substitute one variety for another without asking you first. If something sells out between your order and our packing bench, we contact you and either swap it for something you choose or refund that line.
Before you order
Worth two minutes: our terms cover claims and the true-to-name guarantee, and the growing guide covers what to do in the first fortnight after your box lands.