Thanks to an AV Angel on this site who prefers to remain anonomous I am now the proud mama of many many baby av's.They are getting bigger and more beautiful every day.I just LOVE them all!! Thank You AV Angel !! :))

Hi and welcome! Gorgeous hoya you got there. It's called H. carnosa 'Krimson Princess'. Ok, let me try and answer the questions you had... "When should I repot it?" - You really don't need to repot it unless it's COMPLETELY rootbound (no soil left). Exotic Angel (the company where your hoya came from) uses a very peaty mix, so just make sure you let it dry out completely before watering. When I buy EA plants, the first thing I do is take the bottom saucer off...and I leave it off. This will allow it to dry out faster and allow more air to the roots. If you notice roots sticking out after removing the saucer, you'll need to repot. But in order to get blooms, you'll want to keep the hoya rootbound, so keep the pot as small as possible. "Should I put this outside or inside next to a window?" - If I lived in Florida I'd definitely keep it outside. Hoyas can happily live in temperatures much lower than 70 (depending on the hoya of course...and this is one that will do fine in that weather). You will have more chance of blooms if you keep it outside. But if you decide to keep it outside, just know that the sun may bleach out the leaves a little. "It says high light, morning direct sun should be okay?" - Yes, that should be fine. If you notice signs of sunburn just move it to a more shady spot. In the summer, I put a bunch of my hoyas, including the one you have, in direct morning sun...they do great. "Does it look like this plant is big/old enough to maybe flower this spring?" - That's not an easy prediction to make! Yes, it looks big enough to bloom, but it also depends on what conditions you have it in and on how stubborn it is! One thing you'll learn with hoyas is patience...getting blooms can take quite some time, so just enjoy the foliage until then. You'll know when it's close to blooming when you see a peduncle (the small stems that grow from the main stem...that's where the flowers will come from - and never cut those off, as it will continue to put out flowers from the same peduncles over and over again). "Is there something I need to do to keep this from staying variegated?" - This happens with mine as well, and I just leave it be. I guess if you don't want the all green coloring to take over (which is a possibility, although your's looks like most of the leaves are variegated), then cut off the green leaves. Good luck with your new hoya. And be forewarned that they are VERY addicting!! Gabi

We did not have electricity for a day, so I was not able to come back and answer a little more in depth. So now I will try, and if I miss something, please ask again :) Like I said, this is my very first such project. One day I was waiting in the car while my DH was running some quick errand. My eye caught a lovely lantern in near by house and I had time to observe how it was put together. To my delight, it was not that complicating looking at all, once you started to look for details. As we had planned to learn welding anyway, and my DH was going to start because he needed to fix our custom built BBQ/Smoker, it seem like a good time for my little project as well. I started hunting for scroll and could not find any that would work with the design I had in mind. Then my DH suggested I make my own scrolls, after quick google search, it seem like something I could at least attempt, and rest is history... Now a little more of the actual work - I do have electric saw for cutting metal, huge time saver: I used two different sizes of pipes to make my scrolls, by just bending the 1/2" metal bar. No hammering or heating it up was needed. Last picture shows my design I drew out in scale, so I can measure how long I needed to cut the metal to get the size of scrolls I needed and some of the scrolls done. This whole project took me less than a week, working on and off between other things. I would say probably 2 �3 solid days. Like I said, I made unnecessary steps, needed to redo some of my welding, some things, I think in different order would be much simpler to do. At the same time, the finished piece could be little more polished, if I would have had the patience, which I did not have this time, because I wanted to see so bad how it is coming out LOL Colorcrazy, you gave me an idea, instead of just bed and breakfast, that we have been toying with an idea of having here, I could offer classes as something else to do, besides nature, potential cooking and wine making classes. So maybe we will do the B&B after all :) Amy, I never new of the store. Can you tell me more, so next time I am in Sarasota, I can look it up. I always love more inspiration. Nicole, you are very lucky to get free scarp. That allows so much more crazy ideas to be tried out, if you do not have to worry about cost of the materials. I do not use oxy acetlyne, I do the stick welding kind. I hope by now I have answered some of oceanna�s questions. If I missed something or it was not detailed enough, please ask again. I do not think it is hard, in fact much easier than I thought. I do have protective clothing, leather cloves and mask when I weld, but that part does not really take that long, once you get the hang of it. I did use the glass exactly for the reason oceanna mentioned. I love how light bounces off colored glass. The only thing easily available in my price range were the marbles. Eventually I hope to be able to meld my own glass, so I can make custom colors and shapes for my future projects. Sorry for the novel LOL

Glad to hear you got the one you wanted. Did you get it from someone in here?? Well I THINK I have the 'Hawaiian Purple', it's growth and blooms look like those top pics. BUT its NEW growth is VERY dark, including the stems. And has no twisting,or that rosey blush on it. The leaves are very thick and have the silver splashes on it, no thinness to it and it doesn't twist either. That name 'Philipine Black' is a name I have heard of. I either had it, or got it with my Hawaiian, and it didn't live. I dont have a tag on my 'Hawaiian Purple'. It never bloomed till this past winter, finally, after 5-7 years of waiting, so it got lost over time. Now it has like 10 spurs, and 8 are putting out new buds now.know now. It is SO big, lots of long vines, I guess it is happy now, thus the spurs, finally! The bloom pic. at the top IS what I have. I can take pictures of the blooms when they open in 2 weeks or so. That 'Super Splash' one is amazing! Your own cross??? Do you have a lot it...for trade or sale?? Or is it just that 1 vine? It ever bloom? Has that 'Philipine Black' you have bloomed for you yet? This is a picture of a cutting I got on here like 3 yrs ago, the tag on it faded fast in the sun. so no name. I posted these pics. on here, but no one knows the name of it. This top pic. is one of my oldest hoyas a 'Macgillvrayii' that I adore. As you see, the leaves are a plain light green. nothing special, but this is its first bloom ever. And it has the regular 'Pubicalyx fragrance to it. So,it is un-named. I grow several of the 'Macs' and several colors of the 'Archboldandias', the BIG bloomers. I am still waiting for blooms to happen on most. This is the one that blooms for me all year. Almost non stop.