Maybe I ought to take mine out of a hanging basket and put it on a trellis...

Maybe I should move to Florida ;)

Alan

even better!!

Many of them do seem to love the humidity down here!

So beautiful! That makes me want to move to Florida, too!

LOL, y'all are funny. The older I get the more the humidity down here is killing me and I talk about how I'd like to move somewhere with less humidity ... but the plants sure love it!

oh, gorgeous, gorgeous!! that's one that I'd like to try... looks like the blooms are pretty large, too!

You probably know this, but I didn't know it with my first hoya... be sure not to knock off the little stub that forms with the bud/blooms... let the blossoms dry and just drop off... it will bloom again on the exact same little stubby thing. I'm pretty sure I knocked a few off and then wondered why I didn't get more blooms.

I really only have one hoya that blooms well, but it's been putting out another set of blooms every month or two! And my fishtail hoya just bloomed for the 2nd time -- 3 clusters this time, with these nifty deep ruby centers.

Hey there Miss Jill! It's good to see you! How have you been doing ... and how is your beautiful little Joyanna doing? I bet she's growing by leaps and bounds!

Oh my goodness, that bloom is beautiful ... great growing with that particular Hoya! The deep ruby colored centers just make the bloom "pop". I can't seem to keep H. polyneura (Fishtail Hoya) alive for very long. I buy a big healthy, beautiful plant and within weeks it's looking pitiful and dies. Someone told me that's one hoya that prefers cooler temperatures so I figured it didn't like the heat and humidity of Florida but then I read on a thread somewhere that one lady here in Florida has great success with it. After killing five or six of them, I've given up on that particular Hoya!

Hoya australis is one of the easiest I've grown ... I'll gladly send you a cutting or two in the spring if you want to give it a try? Yes ... I learned from someone on DG that the little bloom spurs (peduncles) should not be clipped or pruned because it will re-bloom from them. I've had a few abort naturally for some reason or other but I don't ever prune them.

Such a pretty flower!

I have had a bout of fungus here. The weather got cold and damp and dark and it stayed that way for a few weeks. I don't know if my hoya is going to live through this..

Lacunosa has been great for me in terms of blooming, too - in fact, it's the only one other than the Shooting star hoya that has bloomed at all for me.... neither the hindu rope or the H. kentiana have ever done anything for me.

Sorry about all the common names- I'm too lazy to open my spreadsheet and get the right ones at the moment....

Wow! I would think with all that higher humidity in TN., they would all do better for you Sheryl. What a bummer!! I found Lacunosa on ebay, but it's a bid item, and I don't waste my time on those...it's buy it now or nothing...lol!

Finally cooling down here, rain this weekend, again!

Oh, I picked up my Lacunosa a Lowes, Alan - if you can't find one, I'll send you some. The leaves are small, only as big as your thumbnail.

I bet Baker's has them - they had a lot of neat ones in the room off of the registers.

I've got a H. pubicalyx that for a few years never flowered but grew up an old dead tree. A few of years ago it flowered for the first time at the start of winter but only produced a couple of peduncles of them. Two winters ago it produced a few more. Last winter it flowered right through and coming into the wet season now it's still going, but with most flowers high up in the tree.

A small H. lacunosa cutting I got last year grew fast and soon began flowering. Still small it's constantly producing them. I expect when it grows into a large plant it'll just be covered with them. (One lives in hope )

Ok...I'll check Bakers out

I knew you just needed a good excuse, lol....

Zig, that just sounds wonderful...

A lot of times, you do not even need an excuse for a reason to go to Bakers ;)

Does anyone have any tips for propagating hoya? I wanted to send some to Chef Mike, but I hate to send something that is not going to take, and my hindu rope doesn't seem to take easily.

It's true, Alan - I miss Baker's, for sure!

I put cuttings in a zip-lock bag and just "wash" them with fresh water each day. If you miss a day or two it doesn't seem to matter. Out in good light but not direct sunlight. They soon produce roots along the cuttings. When the roots get reasonably long I put them on a pot of soil (suitable for the particular species) and then cover that with a plastic bag to keep in humidity.

I've done that sucessfully with wild species as well as with cultivated ones.

Wow, Zig - I've never heard of that method of propagation! Thanks, that's great.

So, no problems with fungus or mold? I guess it would wash off?

Sheryl, I've never had a fungus problem. The worst was an old leaf on a H. macgillivrayi yellowed and fell off. I tossed that leaf out and the cutting is now in a pot growing nicely without the plastic bag around it.

If your plants are prone to fungal attack then I'd try washing more frequently. The H. mac (like the others) came from an outdoor plant with plenty of air circulation/wind. It probably had less fungal build up on it from the start. Although, short of laboratory conditions, no place is completely free of fungus spores. The washing probably stops them from getting established until the plant is back in more natural ambient humidity.