Your first bulk clone order is a different animal from picking up a few cuts for a tent in the garage. The plant count goes up, the dollar amount goes up, and the number of ways it can go sideways goes up with it. Getting burned usually looks like one of four things: a box of wilted cuttings that never root, plants that turn out to be something other than the strain on the label, a pest problem that came in with the order, or a supplier who stops answering once the money has cleared.
I owned a licensed dispensary in Los Angeles for almost 20 years, and I have watched growers learn each of those lessons the expensive way. This is what I would tell a friend before they buy cannabis clones in bulk anywhere, including from us: the two formats we sell as bulk and wholesale clones, what each really costs at 20, 40 and 100 plants, how to get your space ready, and what to ask any supplier before you pay.
Whether you call them bulk or wholesale cannabis clones, every large order comes down to one trade: money against labor and rooting risk. We ship both formats to all 50 states, and neither one is the right answer for everyone.
An unrooted cutting is a fresh branch taken from a mother plant, cut to order and shipped to you before it has grown roots. Ours are $12.50 each, or $10 each at 100 or more. You supply the rooting environment, the medium, the labor and the patience. In return, bulk clone cuttings give you the lowest cost per plant of any format we offer.
The catch is that rooting is on you. A cutting that never roots is money gone, and a batch that roots unevenly leaves you with plants at different stages. If you have already rooted your own cuts successfully and have a propagation setup that works, cuttings are usually the smart buy. If you have never rooted a cutting in your life, a 100 plant order is not the place to learn.
A rooted peat pellet is a cutting that has already been rooted for you in a compressed peat plug, so it arrives ready to go into its next container or bed. Ours are $25 each, or $20 each at 100 or more. Because each order is rooted to order rather than pulled from a shelf, allow roughly three weeks from the day you order to the day it ships.
You pay double per plant, and the wait is longer. What you buy with that money is a skipped step: no dome, no daily misting, no waiting to find out which cuts made it. For a grower whose bottleneck is time or propagation space rather than cash, that is often the better deal even though the invoice is bigger.
Pick cuttings if you have a proven rooting setup, room to run it, and a schedule that lets you tend cuttings daily for the first couple of weeks. Pick rooted pellets if you want plants that can go straight into veg, if propagation space is tight, or if a failed rooting run would set your whole cycle back. When in doubt, split the difference: order one strain as pellets and one as cuttings, and see which fits your operation.
Both bulk formats carry a 20 plant minimum per strain, and orders go up in increments of 20. That means the entry price is $250 for unrooted cuttings or $500 for rooted pellets, and every strain you add is another block of 20. Order 100 or more and the per plant price drops to $10 for cuttings and $20 for pellets.
Shipping is free on every bulk clone order. The only extra is the $10 adult signature fee that comes with every clone shipment.
Here is the math at the three order sizes people ask about most:
| Plants | Unrooted cuttings | Rooted peat pellets | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | $250 ($12.50 each) | $500 ($25 each) | $250 |
| 40 | $500 ($12.50 each) | $1,000 ($25 each) | $500 |
| 100 | $1,000 ($10 each) | $2,000 ($20 each) | $1,000 |
The difference column is the real price of outsourcing the rooting step, and it scales with the order. At 20 plants, $250 buys a lot of convenience. At 100 plants, $1,000 is enough to justify building out a proper propagation area if you plan to reorder.
One more piece of honest math: the cutting price only stays at $10 per plant on a 100 count order if every cutting roots. If your setup roots eight out of ten, you end up with 80 plants and your real cost per rooted plant is $12.50, which means a 20 percent loss ate the entire volume discount. Use your own rooting numbers, not a best case, when you compare the two columns.
Since the minimum is per strain, a mixed order of five strains means 100 plants minimum. If you want variety at a smaller scale, run fewer strains in bulk and fill the gaps with individual clones from our regular menu.
The most common way a good order goes bad has nothing to do with the supplier. The box arrives, and there is nowhere for the plants to go.
Unrooted cuttings need to go into their rooting medium the day they arrive. Have everything staged before delivery day:
Count your dome space in plants, not trays. Forty cuttings under a dome built for twenty is a slow motion failure.
Pellets are easier, but they still want their next container waiting. Use the roughly three week lead time to line up pots or beds, media, lighting and nutrients sized for the full plant count. Set aside a quarantine spot away from anything else you are growing so new arrivals can be inspected for a few days before they join the main room. A hundred plants take up real space at every stage, so map the first four weeks before the order, not after.
Ask these questions of anyone you are considering, and expect straight answers. If you are asking us, we would rather you ask before ordering than after.
Ask how the supplier knows the plant labeled Skywalker OG is actually Skywalker OG. You want to hear about named cuts, maintained mother stock and consistent naming from one order to the next. Be careful with menus that seem to offer every strain ever named; a real clone menu rotates with what the mothers can support. Ours carries roughly 30 strains at a time, rotating as cuts come and go, with names like Skywalker OG, GMO Cookies, Cap Junky and White Truffle. The bulk selection mirrors our clones page, so what you see there is what is available in bulk.
Ask what the supplier screens for, how often, and what happens when they find something. Then do your own screening on arrival: inspect stems and the undersides of leaves, quarantine new plants, and do not skip this step because the box looked clean. No supplier’s process replaces your own inspection.
Cuttings have no roots to draw water with, so packaging and transit time matter more than almost anything else. Ask how plants are kept hydrated in the box and how long the trip takes. Ours ship UPS Next Day Air early in the week so plants are not sitting in a truck over a weekend, and an adult 21 or older must sign at delivery. Make sure someone will be there. A box waiting on a porch in July is not a supplier problem you can fix after the fact.
Ask before you order what happens if a box arrives late, damaged or in poor condition, and what the supplier needs from you to look at it. In practice that means photographing the shipment the moment you open it, while the packaging is still in front of you. Whatever the policy is, get it in writing and know it before the plants are in transit.
Bulk is not the right starting point for everyone. If you want to try a strain before committing to 20 of it, or your grow simply does not need that many plants, our regular clones page sells rooted 3.5 inch potted clones individually. They ship already rooted in soil, so they take the least transplant shock of any format we offer.
Price breaks start at two. One clone is $100, and the per plant price steps down as the count goes up, reaching $50 each at ten or more. Worth knowing before you choose, because the ladder keeps going: at twenty plants a rooted peat pellet is $25 and an unrooted cutting is $12.50, and at a hundred they drop to $20 and $10. What you are really paying for, at every step, is how much of the work is already done for you. Test a cut in your own room first, then scale up once you know it fits.
Both formats, every strain on the current clone menu, shipped to all 50 states: browse our bulk and wholesale clones and pick the format that fits your setup. If you are not sure which one that is, reach out before you order. We would rather help you get it right the first time.
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