Plant Care Guide

Anyone who's grown staghorns long enough knows the moment... you're checking on your mount and there it is, a small green nub pushing out from the base of the shield fronds. A pup. The plant's way of telling you it's thriving. Pups are the easiest and most reliable way to propagate Platycerium. Unlike spore propagation, which can take months (sometimes years) to produce a plantlet you'd trust on a mount, pup division gives you a genetic clone of the parent plant, ready to gro

If you've been in the collector life for more than five minutes, you know the moment. You're looking at your Monstera, maybe a healthy deliciosa, maybe a variegated one you paid way too much for and regret nothing, and you think: I could make more of this. Good news. You can. Monstera is one of the most forgiving plants to propagate, which is exactly why it's the gateway plant for so many of us. Here's how we do it. Why Propagate in the First Place Beyond the obvious (free pl