9GreenBox - Confederate Jasmine - 6 Pack

Update 5-5-23: All plants from both orders are thriving and blooming. The first order of plants now have 12” of new growth and several full size new leaves. They will need to be potted up to gallon pots soon. The second order of plants is growing strongly as well.I stand by my earlier comments, but the plants are doing so well that I’m updating my review to 5 stars (previously 4 stars).Original Review: The plants I received were rooted cuttings as promised. I’ve ordered this product twice, and all 24 plants arrived alive, and all had roots. Since it’s springtime, all had new growth, too.The first dozen plants I’ve had for about two weeks now, and they are growing strongly - they are already much bigger than when I got them.Packaging was very good. In both orders the plants arrived with the soil still in place and moist. There was very minor breakage of limb tips on a couple of the plants, but nothing serious.There are two reasons whyI did not give five stars.First was variations in size - most were the promised size but a couple of the plants in the second order were only 2” tall. However they did have roots and have new growth, so I think they’ll be okay.Second, the older leaves on all plants in both orders have some white mildew. The new growth is clean, though. I’m guessing the mildew happened because the cuttings had to be kept in a humid environment in the shade for a few months while waiting for roots to form. I think once I get them acclimated to full sun they’ll be fine.Which reminds me: anyone buying rooted cuttings needs to understand that they will need babying for several weeks before they are big enough and strong enough to be planted in the ground. GRADUALLY acclimate them to outdoors conditions! If you rush the process you’ll probably lose most or all of your plants.I wouldn’t plant them in the ground until they grow into sturdy plants whose roots fill at least a 4” pot. Your patience and care will be rewarded with a high survival rate.If you’re willing to wait, this is a great way to get a lot of Star Jasmine plants at low cost. That makes it affordable to do larger projects, like the living wall I’m planning to create with these babies.

I didn't take a picture of the ones I bought three years ago, because I planted them in the wrong place and am in the process of hacking them down. They grew up a trellis and rampantly over the roof.My first photo is of one of the little plants I got last year and planted on a cattle panel arbor. It was the same size when I received it as the largest of the new ones I received this year, and I've moved it once since I got it. You see how it's doing.The second and third photos are of three of the six that I received this year. The smallest one is on the right in the second photo. They are healthy and have new green leaves on them. In the six-pack, each individual pot has two well-rooted cuttings in it. You could tease them apart, but I didn't. I expect my arbor will be covered with evergreen confederate jasmine in a few years.This is a great deal for such nice plants. Don't let their small size when you first get them fool you. You will soon be having to hack them back.

It’s been over a year and they haven’t grown at all.

Bought these plants. They arrived timely but all 6 plants have few leaves on each plant(3-4 leaves per plant). All the plants are really small. I have big doubt they will survive. I have potted them but I am not sure if they will be surviving or soon die as they are really small.Edit 04/25: This is the first time I am putting an edit / update on my comment (I rarely give review comments): All my six plants survived. Since its spring so all are having new growth. I have high hope that they will be growing big. Yeah the size of the plants still vary from each other which I do understand that they may be cutting from different plants or branch. I am happy I got these plants and happy as long as they are healthy and growing fast. I have planted them in pot as I am in US hot zone and in summers I can protect them from strong sun and heat.Four starts because they are still not big but they are healthy.

This is my second order of 18confederate Jasmine starts. I ordered 18 back in March or April of this year. I actually ordered an extra set of six (I thought I only needed 12 total ) because I didn’t anticipate them all surviving the trip. To my surprise, they all showed up happy and healthy. I was thrilled with that order, they were all between 1 and 6 inches tall. I ordered another set that arrived today, and oh my God, they’re all foot tall!! I think my first order was just really early in the season, so they were a bit younger. No complaints on that though, that’s just timing. The new set is all so happy and healthy, and again, beautifully packed. One improvement from the first to the second order was that each pot was snipped from the pack (I assume to choose the healthiest to send) and this made it substantially easier to plant them. The first set came as the connected six pack starter pots. The more recent set was also packaged a little more hardy. The plants took 11 days to arrive after it was marked shipped. For these delicate starter plants to survive 11 days through USPS and each one show up so nice, was very impressive.

I received my six live star jasmine several days after they were shipped, but every one of them is alive and healthy. They were shipped in a 2"x6"x12" box, lying on their sides with one three-pack atop the other and a piece of crumpled paper on top of that. It was a tight fit for them, but they were none the worse for the packing or the shipping.I took pictures and downloaded them to my phone, but for some reason they don't want to upload to this review. If I get that worked out, I'll add the pics.So far, I'm very satisfied with the plants I received and see no reason why they won't survive transplanting. I'll definitely buy plants this way again.