Beautiful blooms, Jan! I'm so excited that my hoyas are following suite!

Kelly

Kelly, thanks. I am excited for you. Please post pictures when it opens.
Jan

Hey, Jan!
My nummuralioides had one bud open this morning! The flowers are so tiny!
Polyneura is coming right along with more and more peduncles and buds.
The serpen's peduncles are still there, but not seeing much happening so far.
The speckled lacunosa has one peduncle producing buds right now - oddly what I thought was a peduncle doesn't seem to be and one day while looking at it with a magnifying glass I noticed an ACTUAL peduncle a 1/4 way around the pot!
I had thought mini-belle might have a peduncle, but now I'm not so sure.
This is really exciting....my praetorii which I got in November as a 2 or 3 node cutting and which has already put on a new set of leaves, has formed a peduncle!!! At first I thought it was new stem growth, but it kept growing downwards...it just has to be peduncle!

Took some pictures yesterday and will post when I have a little more time!

How are your's doing?

Kelly

Kelly, I am so happy for you.
(This is really exciting....my praetorii which I got in November as a 2 or 3 node cutting and which has already put on a new set of leaves, has formed a peduncle!!!)

Some of mine are growing but some are resting. Not too many are flowering right now. Plaese post pictures of your flowers.

Jan

Here is a photo of Lacunosa varegated.

Beautiful leaves and flowers. Thanks for letting us see.

Jan thanks for posting the pic. I have not see a veregated lacunosa until now.

shanna

This is my Lacunosa starting to bloom. It has over two dz clumps and probally six are opened so far.

Here is a link that might be useful:

Thanks for posting the beautiful pictures...

ks girl, nice healthy looking lacunosa you got there.
shanna & ima digger, thanks for your kind words.
Jan

Lovely pictures, Jan.

TammyPie

My lacunosa is also blooming. It is fixing to go into bloom overdrive!

I have two others that are fixing to bloom for the first time: Pubicalyx that I got from a cutting 3 years ago. It is in very bright light. The older one in less light is not blooming. And I have an Australis-? will bloom soon.

I want to give Denise a report on a couple of plants that she sent me as cuttings: Australis-ssp tenuipes, Australis-ssp Sanea, Rhipsalis eliptica, and Oiantha are looking wonderful! They are very happpy and healthy ...maybe some blooms this year?

Glad to hear they're doing well, Laura. If I remember correctly, I think the box I got from you was the one that the PO so graciously squashed! Only survivor was the compacta cuttings that you had rooted. Oh, well, that's how it goes sometimes!...

Jan, I think your lacunosa is the speckled clone, not variegated. I have no idea if there is a lacunosa that's variegated, but the speckled clone is the one I've been watching for like a hawk. It's a beauty!

My minibelle did bloom...
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Not a great pic... The 2nd peduncle blasted, but it's reforming and will bloom soon. The scent reminded me of lilacs, a favorite from my childhood. Can't wait for the next bloom!

I love this time of year for my Hoyas. All that new growth makes me look forward to spring, especially after such a miserable winter!

Denise in Omaha

Hi Denise,
Your minibelle is beautiful. mine are too small to flower. Any scents? I am glad you corrected speckle lacunosa, I was having a duh moment!!!!
Jan

Hey Jan,

Just so you know, speckled Lacunosa isn't any kind of official name. It's just what I called it when I first saw it last March, to distinguish it from solid green (regular Lacunosa). I think it's such a pretty leaf w/ that speckle on it!

Lost mine quickly last year, got a credit for replacement from HD this Spring, should they get it again. Here's hoping.

I think real name is Hoya lacunosa poonsak but I could be wrong.
Jan

Jan, beautiful blooms, I love the lacunosas, didn't know they came with speckled leaves. I see D. Liddle has Poonsak on his list and it's now on mine :o).

Annette

"Poonsak" - I'l have to remember that! It's on my list, too!

Denise in Omaha

YAY!! My very favorite hoya finally opened its blooms last night! A nice big umbel of DS-70 caramely goodness:)!

I cant get over the smell of them, its so yummy.

Kookie,
Can you post a pic of your bloom and plant? I just purchased H. tsangii and would like to see the size of yours. thanks

shanna

Here's the pix though they arent very good.

OMFG!!! Im glad I took that lil picture when I did because the kitten that im babysitting just decided to make a chew toy out of them.:(

Knocked the whole peduncle off and scratched up all the lowest leaves...

Oh K0okie, I am sorry to hear about the bad kitty doing the damages to your flowers and plants. Hopefully it bounce right back and give you some more flowers.
H. tsangii usually is an easy great bloomer.

Hoya obscura.

Nice Hindu Rope, Jan! Normally I really don't care for them but yours is the first varigated one I've ever seen. Like the pink on the leaves.

Waiting to see one of you folks post a blooming pic of one my favorite hoyas --mindorensis. (been looking for a cutting of that one but no luck it seems... Ah well
:)

K0okie,
Bad kitty, good thing your only sitting and not a permanate situation.

Jan, good pic, pretty bloom, conrats!!. I don't have that one yet.

shanna

Is anyone growing H. lacunosa var. lacunosa? I just noticed the new leaves on the one I got from D.Liddle last year has speckled leaves. This is the one I rooted the wrong end so I took another cutting, stuck the other end of the original in the pot and now it's starting to form a shoot in the middle, the new leaves are speckled. Sooo, I'm wondering if this is the one Jan has. In any case I've ordered Poonsak, can't have too many lacunosas :o).

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Annette

Here are serpens (again!) and bella which just opened today!

hoya flowers are so fantastic, I can't wait until mine bloom, you all are so lucky and thanks for sharing the great pics, this is a get place to visit. thank you all!!!

Kelly, fantastic pictures for the fantastic flowers!!!
Go girl!!! did you use macro?
Annette, your plant looks like mine.
Shanna, H. obscura is an excellent bloomer. It was blooming 3 week old cutting.
Paul, I do love red on the hindu rope and the flowers seem darker than the green rope.
Jan

Thanks, Jan! I'm so excited the pictures turned out well! I turned off the flash, set the macro at the closest level and got within inches. In the past I've tried to use the telephoto with the macro...that hasn't worked well for me....

Every time I see bella flowers I want one. They are so perfect and dainty and cute.

I love seeing cat hair in other peoples pictures, makes me feel better knowing other ppl have crazy camera loving cats too! :)

Kelly - congrats on your blooms and great photo taking skills.

shanna

Hi
Jan I have a hindu rope like yours its over a year old and has not grown any since I got it (its 6 inches long) also I have another rope that has very glossy leaves and it too hasn't grown ( its about 6 inches long) and a flat leaf variegated and its leaves are glossy like the second rope I have..these plants are all over a year old and do not grow. they are planted in good potting soil and a very small pot they sit in a south window I filter the sun in the summer and I do give mircle grow plant food spring to fall..I have a plain hindu rope and its about 4 feet long has not bloomed yet, and a strawberry and cream mixed with a plain green hoya and its about 3 feet and growing very well..have any ideas why the others don't grow???
thank you for any help, I hope I made things clear to understand I have a camera, but my computer doesn't see it, I have to get someone to help figure that all out..
sorry about that...linda

Hi Linda,
Some times they like to just sit, but maybe this spring they'll start growing for you. I have 4-5' green ropes but no flowers, go figure. It sounds like you are doing everything you supposed to do. We just have to sit tight wait until they are good and ready to flower/grow on some of the Hoyas.
In the mean time you can get easy blooming Hoya lacunosa, obscura.
Jan

Linda,
I started obsessing about hoyas between end of july to September (somewhere in there) of last year 2007. But before that, a lady I use to work with (about 2 years ago) gave me a cutting of a hoya and I didn't really know what it was at the time but she gave it to me b/c she knew I loved plants. In the two years I have only had 3 new leaves and have lost one original leaf, so just have patients and I'm sure you hoyas will grow in time.

Incase you haven't read this before, I read on a previous post (here, GW) where someone said if you don't see new growth as far as leaves then the roots are probably hard at work. In my experience, especially when you have plants shipped it takes them sometimes a really long time to get adapted to their new surroundings and start to put on growth. Hope this helps.

I think one reason I have gotten so obsessive about hoyas is, I am an impatient person. As most of us know the majority of hoyas are slow growers so in order to satisfy my impatient personality I just have to buy more hoyas to keep me busy while the others grow. Kinda silly huh?

shanna

Hi, I thought I would also show my first flowers of the year. Australis

My Multiflora has been blooming for around a month now, a fairly common plant but very reliable.
I'm mostly testing my posting skills, I have some other more unusual ones blooming now also.
Hope I can get this to work.
Jo

Cpawl, the photos of your first australis are gorgeous !
I've never seen those flowers with the little pink dash on
the edges - do you know what kind of australis you have ?

Hi, paul I'm not sure which one I have. All most all of my hoyas I got from Bangkok so i have no postive I.D on them.
Thanks Cindy

Here are two of my new babies that came with blooms.
Montana and Thai #3

Wow! Jo, They are beautiful!!!
My Camphorifolia in different stages.

Oh, Jan, they're beautiful! I even just love the leaves on this one!
Kelly

My speckled lacunosa bloomed today!

Congrats Kelly

Scratch and sniff!!! Smell so nice!!!

Hoya carnosa "Krimson Princess"

How beautiful!

I had a Hindu Rope many years ago. I wound up giving it to a relative, who kept it in a garden window for several years. That hoya wouldn't grow to save its soul. Not one leaf. One day last year I saw it in my relative's window, I picked it up, and noticed it was infested with mealy bugs! I picked each one off, and gave it a good watering. Don't know if my relative still has it, I'll have to make it a point to check that garden window.

But, nice flowers you got there, Jan! TammyPie

Hoya compacta.

Tammy, Thanks! above picture is green Hindu rope lighter pink flowers.