Hello! This is my first post here as I just found that this community exists. I am getting through a lot of my repotting right now. I have one plant that I purchased already in pon (Philo snowdrift) and the maintenance has been so much easier. I’m already familiar with the general process since there are so many posts on this sub already :)

(Sourcing options) obviously Lechuza is $$$ and another big deterrent for me is shipping cost. I have heard of people making their own? What are your experiences?

(Propagate Experiments) I would like to harvest some pups, corms, and hoya cuttings to propagate directly into pon to practice, worth doing?

(Plants I want to transition…if relevant)

Alocasia Frydek

Ethiopian Banana/False Banana (musa acuminata)

Ludochilus ‘Sea Turtle’ (jewel orchid) ^ already has water roots bc it will rot in every other medium I have tried, currently just lives in…water, I clean the roots every so often and check for mold

Ludisia Discolor (jewel orchid)

Also! I live in a basement so all of my plants are either in natural light/part shade or Barrina grow lights. Air can get very still and dry when the windows are shut. I’m a pro at spider mite managing though. One advantage is we have a ton of house spiders that I think minimize a lot of the pests :)