What are Tube Stock plants ?

Say Hello To Our Tubestock Plants!

 

At Dinkie Plants we grow and sell what are known in the trade as tubestock plants.

These are small plants with healthy root systems ready for planting out.You can see one here in the photo. This is Ligustrum rotundifolium.

They are the plant size used by professional landscapers, horticulturalists and revegetation gardeners.

The tubestock plants we sell are grown from a cutting, or occasionally seed, with a healthy strong root system.

Tubestock plants are not seedlings - they are much larger and far more mature than a seedling. 

What will my tubestock plants look like?

Tubestock plants are young plants, usually between 5cm and 15cm tall, depending on the type of plant - creeping groundcovers may obviously be smaller than this in height; fast-growing trees can often be taller.
You can see image examples of each tubestock in the image gallery on every product page. These are typical plants chosen at random, in photos taken recently on our own nursery.

Tubestock plants usually come in a square pot which measures 55mm each side at the top, and 100mm high.
Sometimes the pots are slightly larger - 75mm x 100mm - for plants which have longer faster-growing roots.

How big will my tubestock plants grow? How fast will they grow?

Tubestock plants are fantastic value plants, low cost to buy, and fast growing – so they catch up quickly to more expensive potted plants.

Tubestock plant roots are young and fresh, so they do not suffer from being ‘pot bound’ as larger potted plants can do.
Please note: plants are living things, variable in nature. We give mature height and width sizes on the website as a guide. Much like people, they grow and develop at different rates.
If you have rich fertile soil, regular irrigation, and a warm sheltered garden location with good light and a mild climate year-round, your plants will grow faster and may get larger than the mature size given.
If you have poor soil, do not irrigate or feed regularly, have cold winters, or your garden is on a windy or exposed site, your plants may grow smaller, or take longer to reach mature size.

So the growth rates all depend on your unique growing conditions.