Carolyn: Congrats on the blooms on your H. curtisii ... it's lovely! That is one Hoya I never could keep alive; are the blooms fragrant?

Lovely blooms Carolyn!

My Hoya carnosa KQ and Hoya pubicalyx are still outdoors right now..it is surviving the cold...but we have a hard freeze forecast by Wed I will try to untangle it and bring it indoors.

Lin -

Unfortunately this hoya doesn't have any scent. I had thought that as the plant matured the blooms would become more full and ball like, like the other hoyas, but this has not happened. I am seeing more blooms than I saw last year though.

Tarev - we are way ahead of you on the hard freeze - the cold weather came very early for us. We have been getting January weather - I am hoping that we go back to our normal temps for this time of year.

I stand corrected on the scent of this hoya - this morning there was quite an aroma around this hoya. Perhaps it is because the smell reminds me very much of lemon pledge.

Nice one, Carolyn! Scent is good, Lemon Pledge .... well, *I* like it, don't know if anyone else does, lol...

Okay, Ms. Aloha Carol - I got my first bags of the clay marbles. Here goes the grand experiment of switching some of my plants over to them. Wonder if I should do this new little lacunosa I have...

I stand corrected on the scent of this hoya - this morning there was quite an aroma around this hoya. Perhaps it is because the smell reminds me very much of lemon pledge.

Sheryl...the first ones I would try are those you tend to get root rot with....the leaves with the patterns in them like callistophylla tend to like the moisture but they need air around their footsies....

Huh .... I guess the closest I have to anything with patterned leaves is the H. cinnamofolia I just got. And the only root rot I have had was with my H. wayetii, but I think that was an over watering from me, as opposed to the plant being prone.

Maybe I need some more hoya!

¡Ay, caramba!
I had no idea there were so many fantastic hoyas! I love 'em!
Or, well, as least I have loved my one and all of yours in these pages.
It was my first plant--grandmother broke a piece off hers (massive thing growing in her fireplace) for me about 40yrs ago and said 'put this in some dirt when you get home'. I lived about 500mi away and put it in some dirt, eventually. It must be some kind of generic carnosa with silver spotted leaves. Who knows? light pinkish blooms w/ red center, nice fragrance, heavy flush around the spring equinox then a few more later.

Anyway-- it's been one tough plant for me--moved about a gazzilion times since then too. But it was getting more and more complicated every time because I kept rooting the runners in another pot so I literally had one single plant in several hanging pots all tangled up with each other--really cool in a sunroom jungle, but really hard to keep moving that way, especially without 10 people. Plus, and, the thing had rooted itself in my fishtank as well. So with the last move, I hacked it all up, gave many away, and have started over, with a few more manageable individuals. Interestingly, the fishtank rooted runners, that I threw in a pot together, have been the best bloomers since the whole haircut-massacre-moving-across-the-country-again debacle. The original plant --the stick from grandma--currently has about a 12ft wingspan across my living room and is settling in again.

I tried another one once, briefly, cute little variegated thing received as a gift. It seemed to languish, then I discovered the mealybugs, and promptly but gently relocated it into the nearest snowbank out the window.

Not like I need another houseplant or anything, but seeing all you folks' fine hoyas has me wondering where I could put another one...

LOL - welcome to my addiction!

sheryl said:LOL - welcome to my addiction!

I am with Sheryl!

Years ago I fell in love with Rope Hoya. I had to have it even though I'd killed every houseplant I ever tried to grow with the exception of spider plants. I had a beautiful specimen. I called it the tortellini plant . Sure enough I killed it too.

Awww...

I really love the shooting stars!

Hoya curitsii is putting on a show for me right now. I swear she thrives on neglect!

Mmm - nice one, Carolyn. Love the markings on the leaves, as well as the blooms!

Okay, I need some help here. You might have seen my comments on this one before....

I have a H. kerri albo-variegatai. I got it almost two years ago, as a single leaf, rooted in a tiny pot. I up-potted it (perhaps my first mistake?) into a 4" pot. I had it in a room that got fairly bright light, nothing glaring, for sure, and watered it when it got dry, a little weak fertilization.

So, two years later - I have one leaf. It might have gotten bigger, but nothing else. Not another leaf or stem - flat nuthin'. So I increased the light it is getting, I've been watching the dryness and watering the second it is dry. The roots have spread pretty well (only known by sticking my fingers in the soil). Still nothing.

Any hints on how to get this plant going? I had the same problem with the Hindu rope (started thinking it was plastic at one point) but when I increased the water and light, it responded well (until an attack of the mealies and was disposed of, *sigh*).

Any advice is most welcome!!!

Sheryl =

I have a H. Kerri that I received in a trade. It was nicely rooted. The first year I had it, it did nothing. The second year I had H. Kerri it did put out a few new leaves. I think it is a slow grower. I didn't do very well with the Hindu rope. I was thinking of trying that one again.

Thanks, Carolyn - hopefully, SOMETHING will happen, soon! It sure is a pretty leaf, tho!

My only advice on the Hindu rope is make sure you get it from a really good place. I got mine from Lowes, and I guess it's not uncommon to get stuff from them with mealy bugs. They are almost impossible to get rid of in these plants because of all the crevices that they can hide in. But yeah, lovely plants! I think it was Plantladylin who first posted a picture of one in bloom - I couldn't believe it, lol!

I have seen Hindu Rope in bloom - they have such gorgeous flowers.

I hear you on the hoyas from Lowes having mealies. I had that problem with one of the hoyas I bought from them a couple of years ago. What has really helped me with the mealies is the Azamax, which I read about on the other site from Gene (gasrocks). He was so right about the Azamax. I need to send him a note and thank him. I now swear by the Azamax.

Sheryl: Have you un-potted your Sweetheart Hoya (Hoya kerrii 'Variegata') to check for roots? I'm not real sure, but I think it may take a long while for a single leaf to begin to produce a vine and a 4" pot for a single leaf may be way too large. I think @alohahoya is traveling right now but she is really knowledgeable when it comes to Hoyas so hopefully she will pop in with some advice when she returns home.

Re: Hindu Rope Hoya (Hoya carnosa 'Compacta') I found this one to be a mealy magnet too and one of my plants was quite large so it was a pain to sit with Q-tips and isopropyl alcohol to eradicate all the nooks and crannies! I lost both of mine to a winter freeze a few years ago and I haven't missed this particular hoya one bit.

You know, Lin - that makes a lot of sense ... I never thought of it that way. You're right - Carol is kind of my go-to person for hoya, but I feel guilty about abusing her so much sometimes - not that she's ever expressed any exasperation with my millions of questions. At least, not that I noticed!

I even tried submerging my Hindu Rope in bowl full of water and alcohol - that's when I found a bunch of mealies that looked liked they were massing on the underside of pot lip - I decided at that point that it just wasn't going to work.

Azamax? Okay, am off to Google that one, have never seen it. Thanks, Carolyn!

Post Google - and organic? Hooray!