The Best Substrate for Your Anthurium: Tested and Approved Recipe

Are you looking for which substrate to use for your Anthurium? Stay here, I present to you the best recipe I have tested so far.

I've been looking for months for a perfect substrate recipe for my Anthurium to slowly get away from using sphagnum moss. After several tests and a few failures, I think I have arrived at something really good.

This recipe consists of just four essential ingredients:

• Tree fern fibers
• Coconut husks
• Pumice
• Perlite or charcoal

THE Substrate recipe:

• 2 parts tree fern (tree fern fibers)
• 2 parts coconut peel
• 1 part pumice
• 1 part perlite or one part vegetable charcoal

You can find these ingredients in different stores. Personally, I take the tree fern from Plantscraper (benefit from -10% on the entire site with the affiliate code YOUNGBOTANIST), the coconut husks and the pumice from Sybotanica (also -10% on the entire site with the same affiliate code) , and finally, I buy perlite in the grow shop near me.

Currently, I use this mix on good-sized Anthuriums or directly to germinate seeds. However, I have not yet had any feedback on transferring young seedlings directly into this substrate.

Cultivation Conditions:

I grow my Anthurium in a humid environment, in a greenhouse with an average humidity above 90%. I water on average twice a week. Depending on your growing conditions, this recipe may need adjustments.

I hope this recipe works as well for you as it does for me! Please let me know your results or tag me on Instagram.

Margaux