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This is a runt sale....this is a runt sale....
These tubers may be TINY, SHRIVELED, WRINKLED, UGLY, CONJOINED, MULTIPLES, STRINGY, TREATED WITH PRUNING SEALANTS, MOTHERS OR SIMPLY PERFECTLY NORMAL LOOKING!
However, they will have at least ONE visible eye/sprout (with multiple packs, we only guarantee one eye/sprout).
We do NOT believe BACK IN STOCK NOTIFICATIONS works under RUNT category as a different item reflecting the RUNT SALE PRICE of $5 is duplicated. Example: You signed up for Back In Stock Notification for J234 under our Dahlia Varieties or Spring Yet tab, when J234 becomes available in the RUNT SALE tab, you will NOT receive a notification as the item is being duplicated as a new item. We have limited RUNT SALES tubers, your best bet is perhaps to check often.
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LIMIT ONE CULTIVAR PER Household
per growing season per category
Example: your purchased J234 during our FALl/spring sales and cultivar is now available as a runt, you may purchase j234 again once under
RUNT SALES.
LIMIT EIGHT (8) TUBERS PER ORDER.
CANNot be COmBINeD WITH OUR REGULAR PRICED TUBERS
ENTIRE Combined orders
will be cancelled and
15% cancellation fee applies
If you wish to add additional tubers,
please place another order.
We are non-believers of "must haves" cultivar;
We believe in "there is always a next season;
We do not partake in "opening/re-opening day" sales;
We do not have a "release time";
There is no need to set your alarm for our sales,
we staggered inventory as we examined the tubers.
Much like a brick & mortar store, you so happened to be at the store
and the cultivar is available.
Come practice Dahlia Zen with us.
Choose Human.Kind #GrowingKindness
Namaste
Life is precious and flowers are just window dressings - Mr. jess
History
Runt Sales first started in our 2021 growing season.
Our only sales platform then was Etsy, we had a fruitful year, grew too much, and ran out of bandwidth to un-saran-wrap each individual tuber (yes, we wrap each tuber individually), and as our own tuber orders (Hey, fellow member of Dahlia Anonymous here :) ) from vendors start getting delivered, we panicked! Hence the birth of $5 Runt Sale.
We are a micro family farm with a focus in variety and our tuber qualities are limited. We keep track of our inventory on a spreadsheet labelling the estimated number of “full size”, meh, ugly and tiny. We only list the “full size” tubers for sale, the “meh”, the “ugly” and “the tiny” are inventoried as our own mother stock. We then subtract our mother stock from next growing season and that’s how we came up with available RUNT SALE varieties. So, yes, when the site is created, we REALLY have the much sought-after varieties, but it could be as little as a quantity of ONE (1).
The Runt Sale page is currently being updated SLOWLY with cultivar we expect to be available for the 2025 growing season.
Gift Certificate Redemption: Enter Gift Certificate Number in Coupon field at checkout to redeem.
We do not substitute variety. In the event of "OUT OF STOCK" or the unfortunate "CROP FAILURE", REFUND will be automatically issued.
We want to send tubers we are proud of and would plant in our own garden rather than just "check off the order" and as some tubers do not over-winter well, if, when processing orders for shipping, the tuber(s) do not meet our standard of quality, a refund will be issued.
All images are captured from our own blooms and descriptions are, to the best of our ability, based on our dahlia field crops.
Environmental factors such as light, temperature, water, humidity, soil and nutrition
will prevent proper plant growth if in incorrect proportions.
Images (usually the first bloom of the variety, which often times are not the best) are taken in house with Foldio Light Box against a black backdrop. We do not use color adjustments, enhancements.