hiyas nanw my question for you is what would you like for the hoya cutting? to be honest im not picky if its rooted or not, i just figured it would be easier to grow if it was already started lol. please email me back with information. thanks alot whisst

Hi Karyn, I'm curious if by C. linearis you mean what's aka C. woodii. I did a search for it & images were very mixed w/ that of C. woodii. If it's NOT C. woodii, I'd be interested, I can swap you the C. woodii variant w/ arrow shaped leaves (instead of heart shaped); I've posted pix of the different shaped leaves either at C&S, Houseplants or Hoya Forum, I forget which. Also have cuttings of C. sandersonii to swap (which hasn't ever bloomed for me, but could & is a cool looking bloom). (PG) Karen

Sorry, I forgot to answer your question. I tend to root all of my cuttings in aquariums. Denise has a great guide, which I am linking you to below, if you haven't seen it. Now, Denise will tell you that you don't need such a setup this time of year, which is true. And I have heard that in super warm humid places, like Florida, it ends up being too much of a good thing. If you live somewhere warm and humid, you can just stick them in a pot, outside in the shade. I haven't tried this, but I hear it's what all the cool kids are doing. I always use rooting hormone, but I doubt it's neccessary. It's usually best for both you and the Hoya to just stick the cutting in the pot you plan on grow it in. Avoid overpotting - a cutting really doesn't need that big of a pot. If the cutting is delicate, try to expose more than one node to the soil. You can do this by lying it flat or looping it around the circumference of the pot. That is what kellyknits had done in this picture and you can see that new growth has come up from multiple nodes: When you do this it's okay if bits of the vine are below the surface, but you want to keep sections of it aboveground too, so weighing it down with stones or using bobby pins helps. I've also rooted cuttings in sphagnum baggies and this works really well. You just wrap the end of the stem in damp sphagnum, wrap a bag around it, and secure it and then pot up the plant when you can see roots through the plastic. You can see that I have cuttings both in pots and baggies in the photo below. You don't need as much sphagnum as I'm using there, actually, and you don't want to pot them up with too much sphagnum still around their roots, either. That's the weakness of this method, although the cuttings definitely like it. When I have a cutting I'm a bit more worried about, I usually root it in hydroton and then pot it up in its final pot after it has rooted. I let it keep the hydroton balls its roots cling to. People are divided about whether growing in hydro is good or not, but rooting in hydro is pretty darn fool-proof. You can use semi-hydro principles to root in perlite, too, if you don't have hydroton on hand. Just put the pot of perlite in a saucer of water. I find that they like it if you let the saucer run dry a couple of days before refilling it, but when I use hydroton I just always keep the reservoir full. A lot of people report better success when they root Hoyas (and other plants) in groups, for example, you can fill a covered flat with perlite, and stick a bunch of cuttings in there with some bottom heat and they love it. Or you can stick a bunch of cuttings in the same pot to root, and put a bag over it. Remember when you're using the bag method to keep them out of direct sunlight or they will roast and then rot and it will be very sad. This happened to me the first time I used the method where you put the whole pot in a bag, blow in it, and seal it up. I never used that method again, although I'm sure it's sound. But I do love using clear plastic tupperware bins. My final remarks are that people have varying opinions on whether you should chop up your cutting or not. Some people say you should keep the cutting whole and get as many nodes on the surface as possible. Other people say you should root Hoyas with big thin leaves in cuttings with only 1-2 nodes and other Hoyas perform best in sections of 2-3 nodes. I have done it both ways and I think there's no hard and fast rule b/c Hoyas vary a lot and cuttings vary a lot and you have to use your gut instincts on whether to chop or not. The only reliable thing is that the top of a cutting will frequently lose its leaves (assuming it was the end of a vine), so if you divide your cutting and one half is the top, with some fairly new growth, that cutting will probably turn into a stick. (Might root anyway) On the other hand, it seems like when I leave cuttings really long, I always lose the top node or two. I think the new roots just can't support a vine past a certain size, so if you get a super generous cutting, do cut it up. That's my two... ten ... one-hundred and nineteen cents. Here is a link that might be useful: Denise's Aquarium Guide

Hi nova12, Well I did the same thing about 2 months ago and I was worried too but once the roots got going it only took about 2-3 weeks and it started to grow leaves the right way up and now after 3 months it is a very beautiful Hoya and the leaves are now growing the right way up.So don't worry too much as your not the only one to make this mistake lol..Hope your Hoya grows as well as mine did..Karen...