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title: "plant purchasing advice needed! specifically, i am looking for a…"
description: "plant purchasing advice needed! specifically, i am looking for a smaller staghorn fern - upcoming bday present for myself lol. i've only found one shop near me…"
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author: "exholy"
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# plant purchasing advice needed! specifically, i am looking for a…

_Posted by exholy on 2023-08-18_

plant purchasing advice needed!

specifically, i am looking for a smaller staghorn fern - upcoming bday present for myself lol. i've only found one shop near me selling them at all but they're already pretty big and pre-mounted, and to be honest, not the healthiest looking. i prefer growing my own up from baby size, and for this i want to do a custom mounting situation.

has anyone had luck purchasing a staghorn in a smaller size online? vendors you can vouch for?

or if you just have any advice for purchasing plants when you can't check them out in person i'm all ears!

## 3 comments

### MamaJuju commented on 2023-08-18

Go to Etsy . com and look up store TheGreenEscape, they have two varieties of staghorn fern (silver and regular) in plantlet size. I have personally shopped from them and things have arrived well.

#### exholy replied on 2023-08-18

thank you so much for this info!

### Lizzy commented on 2023-08-18

I saw a few just at my local plant shop they had some nice ones full grown and babies but on checked on Esty and they had few also it u want u could always get seeds and plant them lol  
Hope that helps😅

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