SMALLER POINSETTIA INVENTORY FOR 2006
A smaller inventory of poinsettias are available for the upcoming 2006 holiday season according to USDA, NASS, Hawaii Field Office. Based on the October 2006 poinsettia grower survey taken earlier in the month, inventory is pegged at 342,000 pots, down 22 percent from the 2005 total.
Historically, October pot inventory represents 95-98 percent of total pots set and does not take into account culling for disease and quality, combining smaller pots into hanging baskets, and other factors that may affect the actual amount reaching markets during the peak holiday season.
