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It is very important that you ready all
the following information below before you place your tobacco
plant order. |
The Pre-Ordering process.
Reserving your tobacco plants by pre-ordering is a pretty
straight forward process. By pre-ordering your tobacco plants months or many
months in advance of the actual planting/shipping date you are
insuring the tobacco plants and the number of plants you desire
are being reserved just for you. The only practical way we can
offer tobacco plants to our customers is for our customers to
pre-order in advance thus reserving the plants they desire. This allows us to know in advance the
number of plants needed of the varieties being offered and helps
us plan accordingly.
How it works.
It starts with you choosing the varieties and number of plants
you desire and placing your order. We will notify you by email
within a few days that your order has been received and booked
accordingly.
You will be charged
at the time you order is booked to reserve your tobacco plants but
your tobacco plants will not be shipped until they are ready
(grown). Plants are not ready and do not begin shipping until
May.
Plants are offered in multiples of 3, 6
and 12 for
each variety listed. You will have the opportunity to change the
quantity of items in your shopping cart if you desire more than 1
order of a variety.
The Plants
Our tobacco plants are float bed grown
although we do grow backup plants in regular plant trays in case
we experience a plant failure with the float grown plants.
Growing plants on float beds is a process were
by plants are grown in trays that float on water. This process
promotes better root systems by forcing the roots to grow in a
downward direction helping to get the plants off to a fast start. From our experience tobacco transplants
grown using the float system take off and grow better and faster
than by using bare root plants, which was the traditional method
in the past. To learn more on "The Float System for
Tobacco" you can read the a PDF file from the University of
Tennessee by
clicking here.
Plants will be removed from their trays the day they are to be
shipped to you and will not be in a plastic container cell like a tomato or pepper plant you buy from the local
garden center comes in. The roots of the plants will be inserted
into a small plastic sleeve or wrapped in wetted paper or both to
insure they don't dry out during shipping. They should be
planted as soon as possible, you may hold them for several days
by keeping the root ball moist and the plants in an upright
position to keep them from crooking. If your weather is unsuitable
for planting for a long period or it is still a little to early for you to plant
when they arrive, you can simply pot them into a container of
potting mix and let them continue to grow until your conditions
are favorable for planting.
Shipping
Tobacco plants are shipped by USPS Priority mail which
normally takes 2-4 days to arrive depending on your location. We
will notify you by email the day your plants are shipped so please
make sure the email address you supply us is valid and one that
you check regularly. Also please be sure that someone will be
there to accept plants at the address you have given us with your
order.
Tobacco Plants carry a different and separate
shipping rate than other items. Our shopping cart is not smart
enough to calculate the different shipping rate for tobacco plants. So
please disregard the incorrect shipping estimate that it calculates as we will
need to manually adjust the shipping according to the
shipping chart listed below. We will email you with the your
adjusted total after the correct shipping has been added.
PLEASE order tobacco plants separate from all other seed
and plant
items.
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Priority Shipping Rates For Plants |
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3 Plants |
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6-9 Plants |
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12-15 Plants |
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18-21 Plants |
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24-27 plants |
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30
plants and up |
Calculated at
time of ordering. |
Sorry, we cannot ship plants to California,
Hawaii,
Alaska or Internationally. We strive to begin shipping tobacco plants by early May
and continue through early June or until all orders have
been filled. We are unable to give an exact date in advance for when tobacco
plants will be ready for shipment because there are just too many variables
that can affect the readiness of the plants such as weather, plant growth stages etc. When plants are ready to be shipped
we will update the
Tobacco Plant Update Page
and we will email you the day we ship your plants to let
you know they are on the way to you.
We have created a special page to help keep our customers up to
date on the progress of the plants and informed of any delays we
may be experiencing etc.
Tobacco Plant Update Page
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Sorry, we can not ship to California,
Alaska or Hawaii. No
International Sales on plants, only to U.S. locations with the
exception of the above listed states. |
Shipping
Damage Claims
We do our best at using
appropriate packing materials and cannot accept responsibility for
damage caused by the carrier. All claims for damage must be reported to
the carrier immediately and filed with the carrier by the customer.
Delays in Delivery
The New Hope Seed Company shall not be responsible for loss or
damage caused by delays in delivery from strikes, acts of war,
fire, casualty, inability to obtain materials or other causes
beyond our control.
Order Cancellation/Refund Policy
We understand that circumstances can change unexpectedly;
cancellations will be acknowledged and accepted gracefully.
However, with the time, work and preparation involved we require
that any cancellation of tobacco plant orders must be placed
within 10 business days or less of the date they are ordered in
order to receive a refund. There will be a 20% cancellation fee
charged to cover our bank fees we incurred with regard to
processing your order.
Please allow 2 weeks for your refund check to arrive or your
credit card to be credited.
If for any reason, we experience a crop failure and cannot ship
your plants we will issue a full refund. |
