¡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...
