Some pics of the hoyas growing like crazy...

I took a couple pics of the hoyas today even though it was quite cloudy but we still didn't get much rain.  My dog Ruby decided to be in one of the pics posing with the plants.  I have some other plants mixed in here but they are mostly hoyas.  These are not all the hoyas I have.  There are some more hoyas on the other side of the deck and I have a few on the front porch.  I am not looking forward to dragging them all back inside for the winter.  A lot of them have gotten much larger so it is going to be hard finding places for all of them but I do not want to get rid of any of them.

Sorry I haven't been posting...

I have not been posting this summer even though most of the hoyas have been growing like mad with the hot weather we had.  I just recently got a hoya imperialis "alba" from Joni.  I haven't been able to buy many hoyas this summer due to lack of money so I have been watching them grow.  I had to restart my sigillatis so it is now living as two plants in the rooting aquarium.  The moss that was growing on the dirt it was in got to be too much and I think it was starting to rot.  The imperialis rauchii is growing like mad, I don't know what I am going to do with it for the winter because it is huge.  The polystachia had to be replanted into a new pot because it got so big.  I will try to post some new pics this weekend since I now have realize that people are actually coming to this blog.  :)

Hoya Imperialis

This is my Hoya Imperialis. It did not quit growing during the winter. I kept it watered and never let it dry out. I had to add a larger trellis for it to grow on.




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Hoya minibelle and lost hoyas...

No matter how much I neglect hoya minibelle, she always blooms for me.  Her blooms smell nice especially at night.  I am currently working on getting my hoyas back outside.  I lost a few over the winter, including hoya buoti, hoya retusa, and hoya rotundiflora.  I may get another rotundiflora but the other two I am just going to go with that I can't keep them watered in the winter enough until I have a greenhouse.  I have lost two hoya buoti so I have given up on that plant for good.

Window treatments, hoya serpens, and cold weather...

I have had to bring in most of the hoyas except a couple so they are filling my house and windows.  Who really needs window treatments when you have hoyas?  I have left hoya serpens and hoya carnosa variegated outside and they love it, especially serpens.  Hoya serpens has grown so many little leaves since it cooled down.  When I first received it, some of the vines died back and the peduncle fell off but you can't tell now.

Hoya Linearis

I love this plant.  It is so beautiful the way it hangs down.  It reminds me of the Spanish moss that grows in the south.  I love the way it feels with its fuzzy, thin leaves.  I actually have 2 of these plants so if one would die then I would still have the other one.  I ordered them from Exotic Angel a couple of years ago and they got bumped around quite a bit on their journey here.  Most of the dirt was out of the pot.  I looked for them around here at Lowes and Meijers but they don't seem to have any of the more unusual Hoyas.  I did not replant them, I just left them in the exotic angel soil and they grow like crazy.  I leave them inside all year round and let them dry out and then water/fertilize them in the bathtub.  They haven't bloomed for me yet, instead they are on a mission to grow all the way to the floor.  On the one plant, I lost the bottom saucer and some of the plant is growing through the holes in the bottom.  I highly recommend this plant.  When you get it, just hang it in front of a bright window and ignore it until the pot seems light and then water it thoroughly in the bathtub.  Don't let it get too dry because sometimes the stems tend to dry out if you leave it to dry too long.  If you want to take cuttings, just get an old pop bottle and poke holes about an inch from the bottom.  Fill the pot up with Hydroton and then pop the cuttings in between them.  I water my cuttings with a drop of superthrive added.  I don't put the linearis cuttings in the cuttings aquarium because it roots fine without it.  You can just sit it on a shelf and add water when it needs it, you can mist them if you want.

Hoya Paulshirleyi/Hoya sp. GPS 8845

It is always refreshing when you root a plant really fast in hydroton and it spits out a beautiful and nice smelling bloom.  I took a plastic pop bottle and poked holes about an inch from the bottom and filled it with hydroton.  This plant was very easy to root.  I did stick it in my rooting aquarium with heat on the bottom and a florescent hood on top.  I also tried to root a Hoya Mitrata at the same time but was horribly unsuccessful.  If anyone wants to sell me one, please notify me, I will pay for it.  I am seriously thinking about ordering one from Greenthumb3000 in Thailand but it is so expensive to buy his plants and I am always worried that US customs will confiscate it.  I ordered a Sigillatis from him and it is growing like a weed because it actually
 got past US customs.  So back to the Hoya Paulshirleyi, it looks like he is growing a new leaf also.  I am very surprised this plant is not more common since it is so easy to start and it blooms so easily.  I wish all hoyas were like this.  I ordered this cutting from Ted Green along with the Hoya Mitrata cutting.  I don't know if I will attempt to root Mitrata again.  I don't like spending $20 on a cutting and it does nothing for me.  I guess I won't attempt Hoya Praetori anytime soon since it is $50 a cutting.  I tried to win a Hoya Praetori a week back from the Hoyan and lost it due to some rich guy bidding it up to $88.  I wish I had unlimited funds to spend on hoyas like he has.  I looked at the past auctions and he has spent some money on hoyas.  I hope he goes away so I can win a few before the ebay plant season is over.  :(