How to Make $500 Dollars an Hour with Trees | Sell Plants for Profit

Exactly what I'm doing! My retirement nursery is growing every year. I have 3000 plants after 3 years. Great video, Mike! 💜

I live next to a Christmas tree farm. I hike through the trees on my daily walk. I was horrified to see the person who leases this land had begun whacking down Doug fir seedlings as if they were weeds. I immediately began digging the seedlings up every evening and planting them on our newly logged property.

If you haven't seen it yet, this is part 2 for this video: https://youtu.be/BbQ7uZ6pIbA And this video goes into more detail on how to sell your plants online locally: https://youtu.be/ZPspOHq51eM

I love how the entire family got involved. Even THE CAT helped out!

I had a neighbor years ago that made a good living growing Japanese maple saplings from seeds in his large back yard. They sold like hotcakes for $25 each as 1 year and $40 at 2 years.

Mike, I love your family-friendly videos. They bring enthusiasm and positivity to a less-settled world. Thank you! I hope your family has a great weekend. ~Margie

Thanks Mike. I will not be critical of all the obstacles but thankful for all the potential. Those who find opportunities will always be successful.

for the first time in many year last year we went out and cut our own Christmas tree .. as the holiday ended I felt so bad to have killed that beautiful tree for only 1 month of enjoyment.. WELL...I found out you can propagate them.. so I took a few good cuttings and planted them in good soil .. and now I have 2 baby Pine (fur) trees.. I will be trying to keep 1 in a pot I can bring in for Christmas every yr till it gets to big .. 🌲🌲🌲🌲

Everybody loves Mike. 😆😁 I love the way he explains things little by little. Big blessing to you and your family.

My wife and I made over 1000 fig cuttings in one half day, 3months later (one half day again)we had to pot 500 little trees at $25 each... $12k, next year I'm using rooting hormone stuff to get the whole 1000 plus we are giving the tree far more food and water for more cuttings.. people kill plants all day long so its a great business.

Daggum!! Great score, Mike. Love your entrepreneurial mindset, brother. Thank you for laying out how simple the process can be. If you’re willing to add 1-2 years to the process, do the same from seed and double those profits! I appreciate how the family is getting more involved in your videos. That aspect adds so much to your channel. As if the knowledge, hope, enthusiasm, and laughs weren’t enough, you went and made it wholesome family entertainment as well.

I had a retail/wholesale nursery for a bit. It's brutally competitive and hard to make a profit. I was selling 1 gal really nice landscape plants for $6. Don't forget the labor of watering and keeping these plants alive in summer. Just too hard to make a profit when you compete with the big guys that have huge lots with lots of low paid laborers.Combine that with most customers buying their plants at big box stores these days. I wish you luck, but it crushed my soul.

MIke! Every time I watch your videos I get the itch to start my own plants! Thanks brother! Just ordered Japanese maples and getting them potted

Thank you, sir. As always, your enthusiasm is appreciated. I would like to add one thing, “for money to be good, the one who possesses it must be righteous.” Let us love our neighbors as we love ourselves and keep our prices honest and generous. There is a nursery in the near by city where the fool charges 150 dollars for little trees that should cost 30-50 bucks. He is depriving the public of the joy that is owning a beautiful tree. I have many of the same kinds of trees sprouting up on my property and I am hoping to sell them for 30 dollars soon in order to bless my neighbors with trees instead of trying to get rich. Seen? Not judging you, Mike, just hope others will be blessed by this saying, that, “when you work for the love of money, the reward is temporary, but when you work for love of society and of God, the reward is eternal.”

Mike you are forgetting one thing. Plants don't pot themselves. A person has to be willing to work to be successful at this. I propagate and donate to a place that is a daycare for the mentally challenged but has a plant nursery for funding. It is a full time job but it makes me feel really good . Good luck with those trees. They look fantastic.

That's a lot of trees! Good job. I hope you sell them and help replenish the earth. There have been a lot of fires everywhere.

Mike, if you want to get $20 a plant, you'll need to trim the little fir trees to one leader, so they'll take on a straight growth habit. But you're right, there is no such thing as something for nothing...laziness brings nothing!

I did this... Bought 12" tall seedlings for 75 cents each, potted them up (3 to a pot) and sold for $15 per pot.

you have so much energy, how have you not been approached for your own network show. you seem like a natural!!

Another awesome video Mike! I'm planning to grow/sell my own Japanese Maples. After watching your videos on growing those red JM it has inspired me to do the same! I have 100+ seeds stratify in the fridge currently and will start growing them this spring! Can't wait!