Two and half weeks ago, I called Going Bananas, and requested them to ship the three Veinte Cohols that they were holding for me since September, last year. At the same time, I inquired on the availability of Sweetheart, Niņo, and others. The person I spoke with checked their records and said that, indeed, they are holding three Veinte Cohols for me since September. A couple of days later, I went to my Credit Union and got a cashier's check for an order of 2 Niņos and a Rose from GB, and mailed the check that same day.
Yesterday, I received an email that they'd shipped the 2 Niņos and Rose last Monday, 5/11, and will be shipping the three Veinte Cohols next Monday, 5/18. If they can send the recent order in a few days, I wondered why they couldn't have been all shipped together because I would have thought that VCs could have already been prepared while they're waiting for my check to arrive for the new order. Though after eight months, the VC could have grown so big that they may have needed an EZ-Digger to dig it out.
The Rose (the tallest one, in the middle) and 2 Niņos arrived today and here is how they looked:
This is right out of the box, not sunny, but no rain -
This was taken several hours later, as I had to pick up my grandson from school, then pick up my son and take him to work. By this time it was raining and the temperature must have dropped at least 10°F -
As a gage, I placed the Fiskars trowel behind the Rose to give a size reference. Overall length (bottom of corm to based of uppermost leaf petiole) of the Rose is 11.5", the leafless Niņo is 10.5", and leafed Niņo is 8.5". Distance from the bottom of corm to soil line is about 4.5". I hope that the VCs are bigger than these. After all, they should have grown at least a little bit during the last 8 months.