A5 plant care tracker inserts for watering, feeding and propagation

This A5 plant care tracker is a collection of 20 undated insert pages that fit A5 and Half Letter ring binders as well as discbound planners. Use it to give every houseplant a profile, plan your watering rounds and record feeding, repotting and propagation. You receive an A5 PDF and a Half Letter PDF, along with print-and-cut versions that place two pages on each A4 or US Letter sheet. It downloads instantly and nothing is shipped.

Happy plants, a calmer plant parent, and a pretty record of every new leaf.

How the A5 plant care tracker helps your plants thrive

Begin with a page on light and a page on watering signs, so you can spot the difference between a thirsty plant and a drowning one before the watering can comes out. List as many as 17 plants in your collection, give each a profile page with boxes for light, water, humidity and pet safety, then plan a week of watering for 16 plants.

The monthly tracker stretches 31 days over two facing pages, and a single letter per day records whether each plant was watered, fed, misted or turned. Nothing is dated, so print a fresh tracker every month and add a new profile whenever another plant joins the family.

Who this houseplant journal is for

• Plant parents with a growing indoor jungle who lose track of which plant was watered when
• New plant owners learning to read light, water and the early signs of trouble
• Collectors who propagate, trade cuttings and like a record of every plant
• Owners of an A5 6-ring binder, a Half Letter binder or a junior discbound planner who would love a calm section just for plants

Design and printing details

• Elegant and minimal: white pages with soft blush pink details that go easy on ink
• Roomy margins, so nothing is trimmed by a home printer
• Two portrait page sizes, A5 at 148 by 210 mm and Half Letter at 5.5 by 8.5 inches, plus print-and-cut sheets for A4 and US Letter
• No dates, so start in any month and print the care tracker as often as you like
• Margins that alternate: the wider 14 mm binding edge sits on the left of odd pages and the right of even ones, with 8 mm at the outside
• Rows and writing lines spaced 6.5 mm or more and text no smaller than 8.5 pt, so a small page stays easy to use
• A dashed line down the middle and small cut ticks on the print-and-cut sheets, so a single cut gives you two pages
• Keep it in a binder or on a clipboard, or have a print shop spiral bind it

Inside the A5 plant care tracker: 20 pages

1. 1Cover listing what is on every spread, with lines for your name and the start date
2. 2Light guide: the shadow test, four levels of light (bright direct, bright indirect, medium, low) and plants that suit each, a 6 row table for your own windows, and signs of too little or too much light with what helps
3. 3Water signs: six clues of overwatering and six of underwatering, golden rules for watering, three levels of thirst, lessons your plants have taught you and a note about pet safety
4. 4My plant collection: a 17 row table for the plant, its spot, its light and how often to water, plus a count of plants, the newest and the oldest
5. 5Plant wish list: 11 rows for the plant, why you love it, where to find it and a got it box, plus picks that suit your light, pet-safe choices and cuttings friends have promised you
6. 6 and 7Plant profile, two matching pages with the plant, its botanical name, when and where you got it, its spot at home and pot size, boxes for light and humidity, boxes for water and pet safety, watering and feeding frequency, soil mix, repotting date and care notes
7. 8Watering schedule for one week: 16 plant rows with a circle for each day from Monday to Sunday to fill in after watering
8. 9Watering log: 18 rows for the date, the plant, the soil before watering (dry, half dry or moist), how much you gave and notes, plus the plants that dry out quickest
9. 10Monthly care tracker, left side: rows for 16 plants across the first 16 days of the month, using a simple letter key where W means watered, F fed, M misted and R rotated
10. 11Monthly care tracker, right side: days 17 to 31 on numbered rows that match the left page, plus new leaves and flowers and what you noticed this month
11. 12Fertilizing log: 13 rows for date, plant, fertilizer, strength and notes, plus your feeding rhythm through spring, summer, fall and winter
12. 13Repotting log: a checklist of 4 signs a plant has outgrown its pot, 9 rows recording the date, the plant, the pot it left, the pot it moved into and the soil you used, and notes on how each one adjusted
13. 14Propagation log: 13 rows for plant, method, start date, roots and potted, plus cuttings to give away and swaps and gifts
14. 15Propagation methods: five ways to grow new plants (water, soil, leaf, division, offsets), an 8 row table for checking on cuttings and what worked best for you
15. 16Pests and problems: the usual suspects to check for (aphids, thrips, scale, mealybugs, spider mites and fungus gnats), gentle steps to try first and a list of plants you are watching closely
16. 17Problem log: 13 rows for date, plant, what you spotted and what you tried, plus a 5 row did it help table
17. 18Plant journal: three dated entries for new leaves, first flowers and rescues, plus a proud plant parent moment
18. 19Seasonal care checklists: five tasks for each of the four seasons plus a blank line, and a row of jobs for every week
19. 20Lined notes with a line for the date

Files in your download

• A5 Houseplant Care Tracker in A5 (148 x 210 mm), a 20 page PDF
• A5 Houseplant Care Tracker in Half Letter (5.5 x 8.5 in), a 20 page PDF
• Print-and-cut A4 PDF with two A5 pages on each landscape A4 sheet, 10 sheets
• Print-and-cut US Letter PDF with two Half Letter pages on each landscape Letter sheet, 10 sheets
• Read Me First, a guide to printing, cutting and hole punching with a page finder (PDF)

How to download and print

• Check out with PayPal, a debit or credit card, Apple Pay or Google Pay. Your download page opens as soon as the payment goes through.
• We email the same private download links to you, so you can download your files again later.
• Open the PDF in a free reader such as Adobe Acrobat Reader and print at 100% or Actual size.
• Print only the pages you need, as often as you like, for your own personal use.

Good to know

• These PDFs are made to be printed. They are not a hyperlinked digital planner, though most note taking apps will let you import the file and write on it.
• This is a digital product, so nothing physical is shipped.
• Printed colors can look a little different from your screen.
• For use in your own home only. Please keep the files to yourself and do not resell them.
• Digital files cannot be returned. If something will not open or print properly, email us and we will help right away.
• Ring spacing varies from brand to brand, so the pages carry no punch marks. Punch the wide inner margin with your own A5 6-hole, junior or disc punch.
• The tips on light, watering and propagation are general advice for common houseplants. Each plant and each home is a bit different, so look up the needs of your own plants.
• Nothing here is veterinary advice. If you share your home with cats or dogs, check whether each plant is safe for them and call your vet if one gets chewed. Follow the label on any fertilizer or pest treatment.

How this was made

Designed and written by PetiteDiary. AI tools helped draft parts of the text, and some background scenes in the preview images were created with AI. Every page was designed, reviewed and checked before release.

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