My Essential Plant Supplies

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Potting Supplies

• Clear plastic nursery pots

  • These are 4”, I highly recommend any size of clear plastic pot from Karen

• Net pots

• A bag of hand-mixed aroid substrate and the ingredients I use to make it:

• Azomite rock dust

• Perlite

• Coco coir chips

• Orchid bark

• Miracle Gro dirt (just a little!)

• Sphagnum moss

• Tree fern fiber (great for anthurium seedlings!)

Ikea Greenhouse Supplies & Accessories

• Wire grids

• Wire shelving

• Magnetic shelves

• Disc magnets and magnetic hooks

• USB fan

• Hygrometer

• Barrina T5 Grow lights

• Zip ties

• Foam insulation tape

• Cable management box

Plant Maintenance & Misc

• Plastic plant tags

• weather-proof Sharpies

• Seedling cells and propagation tray

• Milk crates for storage & plant transportation

• Microfiber gloves for leaf dusting

• Fertilizers:

• Rousseau Plant Care Aroid Food, Foliar Feed & Healthy Root

• Neptune fish emulsion (I swear by it but no longer use, as it’s too smelly for indoor plants)

• Shade cloth

Moss Pole Supplies

• Dried bamboo stakes

• Hardware mesh

• Jute twine and Velcro plant tape

• Sphagnum moss (Better-Gro)

Gardening Tools

• Cotton/leather gardening gloves

• Watering can

• Spray bottles (for foliar feeding, to wet moss poles, etc)

• 1 gallon sprayer & hose

• A few pairs of scissors of differing lengths/sizes

• a pair of shears

• a pair of loppers

• a hand rake

• a rubber mallet

• Garden trowel, one with a serrated edge

• stainless steel chopstick

Pest Control Products

At this time, I don’t recommend ANY commercial pesticides, even if they claim to be “organic.” No pesticide is safe for indoor use.

What I DO recommend are beneficial insects! Read all about them here. While diatomaceous earth can be used in this system, it will also harm your beneficial insects, so please exercise caution if you go this route.