Lots and Pricing

What a lot is

A lot is a group of identical plants: one variety, one pot size, one price. “14 rosemary in 4-inch pots at $6” is one lot. Six more rosemary still rooting in cell packs is a second lot.

Every lot keeps an append-only Stock history (“Potted up”, “Sold”, “Reserved”, “Released”, “Picked up”, “Lost”, “Adjusted”, “Returned”). The counts on the lot are always the sum of that history, so they can’t drift and can never go negative.

Add a lot by hand

Press + New lot (or Add a lot on an empty dashboard). The “New lot” form has:

Name, for example “Rosemary ‘Arp’”.
Plant (optional — adds care info to your storefront): search “your plants and the catalog”. Linking a catalog plant adds sun, water and zone notes to your public listing.
Category (optional — groups it on your storefront): pick one, or choose New category…. See categories.
Container: Plug, Cell pack, 4″ pot, Quart, 1 gal, 2 gal, 3 gal, 5 gal+, Bare root, Unrooted cutting, Division, or Other… with your own Container name.
How many? (1–10,000) and Price each (like 6 or 6.50).
Readiness: Ready now or Still growing. Growing lots get a Ready around date and show “Ready ~Oct 18” on your storefront.
Bench location (optional), such as “Shade house, row 2”.
List on my storefront: “Shows this lot on your public availability page (Harvest).”
Notes (private).

Press Create lot. Bloom allows 25 active lots; archived lots don’t count. Harvest is unlimited.

Pot up from a propagation batch

If you track cuttings in propagation (see how to track plant cuttings), open a batch that is rooted, hardening or transplanted and press List for sale. The dialog (“Pot them up into a nursery lot. Losses from this batch are priced in automatically.”) asks:

How many? (up to the batch’s surviving count)
Price each, Container, category, Listing name
Pot & soil cost and Labor min / plant
List on my storefront

Press Create lot. The batch page confirms with “Listed 9 as 4″ pot · $6.00”. The new lot links back with “View source propagation batch →”, and the batch’s success rate is carried into the lot’s cost. garden.gg also nudges you when a batch roots: “9 rosemary rooted — list them for sale?”

Cost per plant and the suggested price

Open Costs (for the suggested price) on the lot form:

Pot, soil & label per plant
Plant material (whole lot): “Leave at 0 for your own propagation.” Use it for bought-in plugs or stock plants.
Labor minutes per plant: multiplied by your Labor rate / hour from Settings.
Markup: blank uses your Default markup (2× unless you change it).

garden.gg works out:

Per-plant input = pot, soil & label + labor minutes ÷ 60 × labor rate.
Total = per-plant input × plants started, adjusted for propagation losses, + plant material.
Cost per plant = total ÷ plants that survived (started minus “Lost”).
Suggested = cost per plant × markup.

When a lot came from a batch, the batch’s losses are included. The lot’s Pricing card says “Includes propagation losses (1.33× cuttings per sellable plant).” Recording a loss on the lot raises the cost of the plants that are left.

Worked example: 12 cuttings, 9 rooted, 85¢ of pot and soil each, 6 minutes each at $15/hour. Per-plant input is $0.85 + $1.50 = $2.35. Twelve cuttings cost $28.20, spread over 9 survivors: $3.13 per plant, suggested $6.27 at 2×. Try your own numbers in the cost-per-plant calculator.

The suggested price is only a hint. On the form it reads “Suggested $6.27 from your costs ($3.13 per plant).” Right after you create a lot, a banner compares it with your asking price. Your price is never changed for you.

Lot detail

Open a lot from Lots to see:

Stock: Available, On hand, Reserved, Sold, Lost, Started with, plus “Expected ready” for growing lots.
Pricing: Price, Cost per plant, Suggested.
Actions: Quick sale, Record loss, Adjust count, Edit, Archive.

Record loss asks How many?, Why? (Died, Pest / disease, Culled, Unsold / composted, Other), Date and an optional note. Adjust count is for recounts: use a negative number to remove plants and a positive one to add them.

Archive asks “Archive this lot?”: “It leaves your storefront and active counts. Its sales history stays in your reports.”

The Lots list

The Lots tab has Search lots…, a status filter (Active, Ready, Growing, Archived), a listing filter (Listed or not, Listed, Private) and a category filter. Each row shows its availability badge, “on hand” and “held” counts, and a Public switch.

To change many lots at once, press Select lots, tick them (or Select all), then Make public, Make private or Set category…. The All lots ▾ menu does the same for every active lot: Make all public, Make all private, Set category for all…. Lots that can’t be changed are listed with a reason (“needs patent license”, “archived”).

Plant patent guardrail

Some cultivars are patented (tags reading “PPAF” or “Propagation Prohibited”). If a lot is linked to a cultivar flagged as patented, garden.gg shows:

This plant may be patented. This cultivar is flagged as patented (or patent pending). Under the U.S. Plant Patent Act, asexually propagating a patented plant and selling, swapping or gifting it is infringement for 20 years from the patent filing — unless you hold a propagation license. You can keep tracking this lot privately; listing it publicly needs your attestation.

To list it, tick I hold a license to propagate this cultivar. Without it, the lot stays private and the Public switch shows “Confirm your propagation license to list…”. The lot detail shows a “Patent flagged” badge. This is a warning, not legal advice. Read more in is it legal to sell cuttings of patented plants?