Price on tree?

[SodFather]

Got a customer that wants to buy my Japenese Maple thats 10ft. Anybody know what one would go for this size? or about how much?.

Thanks

[bob]

Post your question here, http://www.arboristsite.com/

[thelawnguy]

Cash and carry or are you going to transplant it? Is it from a seedling, or a tissue culture specimen?

[SodFather]

Im gonna Transplant it for him, I have no idea if it was from a seedling or not it was on the property when we moved in.

[paul]

If you ask in the landscape forum you might get an answer.
wholesale 10'Acer Palmatum $240.00

[Skookum]

Around here balled and burlaped for about a 5-6 footer would be about 200 - 300. A ten footer would be at least 500 or more. Here that is.

[SDF250]

around here its about 100 per ft or approx 20 gal 200 30 gal 300. but i cound be so dead wrong

[JimLewis]

It's really what the customer is willing to pay. My next door neighbor has a HUGE Japanese Laceleaf maple (Acer palmatum dissectum 'everred') that would sell for $3000 at a nursery around here. And he wants to get rid of it. But the problem is they aren't selling very often any more. So unless I can find a client who specifically wants this plant, and wants it bad enough to pay big bucks for it, he's gonna sell it to a local nursery for $100. Bummer. But what else can he do? The nursery already has 20 or 30 of them, many of which have sat their for years before they sold.

Do you know the variety? There are a lot of jap. maples. And if you do, give me the diameter of the trunk (in inches) and I can tell you what that tree would go for here.

[paul]

Jim just wondering on that maple, we don't grow a lot of them here but my books tell me they only get 8' tall but 12' wide? We can buy them for $200 (at 6') now I know that a mature one will be very wide but lack of root pruning and shock can cause a lot of damage to them here.

[JimLewis]

I have seen a few bigger than that, but not many. They take decades to ever get that big. It all depends on variety. Within the 'dissectum' viriety (which are the small, lace-leaf jap. maples) there are a good 8 or more sub-species.

6' tall is a damn big jap laceleaf maple. You sure we're talking about the same thing? Because a 6' tall one here would be in the thousands.

Incidentally, all of these kinds of jap maples are propogated and grafted when they are young. You can't grow them from seed and you don't find them in nature. The seeds they produce would create a tall jap. maple.

[jrblawncare]

Jim is right,you need to know the variety...some ex.Acer p."Bloodgood" grows 20 by 20,6-7'wholesales for 78.00...Acer Palmatum grows 20 by 20,5-6'wholesales for 58.00...Acer p."Crimson Queen" or Threadleaf jap maple{I think Jim and Paul are speaking of this one}grows 10 by 15,{that would be a beauty}30-36" wholesales for 108.00.You can find them bigger,but you will pay.Hope this helps,JOHN

[awm]

Un less you are set up for movin that size
tree I believe Id get estimate for a pro
to move it.Then charge him that plus your time
and value of the tree .Hundred bucks unless
its a part of your planned landscaping.
In that case if he got it at least 3- 4 hundred.
Because you may need to replace it.

[paul]

The variety Jim was talking about Acer Palmatum v. Dissectum "Everred" my latest wholesale book (Wilson Nurseries) 6'$ 201.00

Just making sure we are all talking about the same tree:)

The first price I quoted was for a Acer palmatum "Japanese Maple"

[Lanelle]

Because of the individual beauty of Acer palm. dissectum specimens--that is the shape and branching structure, even within the same size category, the price can vary. A tall-grafted, skinny tree will be less $$ than a full-canopied, mid- or low-graft tree. So height is often not the determining factor. Also, some of the individual red varieties have better color-retention than others, making them more sought after, and higher priced. Red Dragon and Inaba Shidare are especially nice.
Is it possible for you to post a picture of the tree in question?

[Edited by Lanelle on 02-17-2001 at 01:21 PM]

[thelawnguy]

"You can't grow them from seed and you don't find them in nature. The seeds they produce would create a tall jap. maple. "

You can grow them from seed, but, like apples, each seed will give you a different characteristic than the parent. You may need to plant 100 seeds to find one tree with the proper characteristics.

Since the plant is apparently several years old the prospective customer must be willing to accept the traits of that particular tree whether it be upright, spreading, green or red leaf etc.

So, armed with what info you have, maybe ask the customer to make an offer, sans labor, and go from there?

[SodFather]

Thanks for all the input everyone!