Our grow room

This page is the whole argument.

Anyone can list a rare plant. Almost nobody can show you where it grew. This is our setup — the same one every plant on this site came out of.

Black Spider Farmer grow tent, zipped closed, standing in the grow room — The tent

A 4×4 grow tent under full-spectrum LED, with inline ventilation and controlled humidity. Aroids get the stable, moving, humid air they'd have in the understory.

The sterile bench

A still-air workstation for tissue culture. It's how we'll make rare species affordable without importing wild-collected plants.

The mother plants

Every cutting we sell comes off a plant we've kept for at least a year. They aren't for sale — they're the source.

Inside the grow tent: reflective mylar walls, wire shelving racks, circulation fan and controller, still empty of plants — Inside, honestly: racks, airflow, light — and mostly empty shelves. That's the point. Everything that fills them will have been rooted here.

Why it matters

Imported plants hide their damage for about three weeks.

A plant that has crossed a border arrives root-washed, dehydrated and running on stored energy. It looks fine on the shelf and starts failing after the seller's return window closes. A plant that was propagated where it's sold has no such debt — what you see is its actual condition.

What we won't do

Sell wild-collected plants.
Sell mystery boxes or unrooted cuttings dressed up as plants.
List a plant we've had for less than a month.
Photograph a plant in light that flatters variegation it doesn't have.