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Plant Care Guide


Propagating Platycerium from Pups: A Collector's 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
Aug 33 min read
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