4 ms·
> Or why don't we ship the whole plant? :) Ship the whole plant...and then send it back to grow more tomatoes? I'm not sure about production-scale tomato farmi
by khedoros 10y ago
> Or why don't we ship the whole plant? :)
Ship the whole plant...and then send it back to grow more tomatoes? I'm not sure about production-scale tomato farming, but in my garden, the same tomato plant will continue to grow fruit, and you don't want to uproot it just for the fruit currently on it.
- amelius 10y agoOkay I didn't know that. But surely, there will be some customers willing to pay for ripe "Italian" tomatoes, I suppose (?)
- khedoros 10y agoI suppose so. The next question is economics: Are there enough customers that a company could import the plants and be able to offer them for a price the customers want to pay and that gives them enough profit to make it worthwhile? If no one's doing that and there's a sufficient market, that sounds like a good new business to look into.