I only repot if they stop growing or refuse to flower. Small Hoyas do, of course, need to be moved up as they grow, but I still wait until they are relatively root-bound. If I repot, I always move up at least one pot size. If you don't over-disturb the rootball, it's no big deal at all to repot them. Just give them a little time to adjust to their new home and they'll take off with new growth in no time at all!

Denise in Omaha

Well, I'm not a great believer in this don't disturb their roots business myself. Like Denise, if they're not thriving, I often turn 'em out for a look.

Most of my older ones haven't bloomed, yet my newer ones & cuttings from friends have, which I don't quite understand.

This question got me curious abt an old Carnosa hybrid a friend gave me a few yrs. ago. I've been taking cuttings & putting them back in the pot. They look fine, but I see no new growth anywhere. Sure enough, I turned it out & the roots were fine, but were compacting in the soil, so that the new cuttings had nice new roots, but the original root ball was too tightly clumped up in the mix. I separate the whole thing, fluffed out the roots, gave it all new mix & returned it back to the same pot. I'll give it some Superthrive tomorrow & will expect to see new growth in 2 wks or so.

I too don't usually pot them up bigger more than a size at a time.

I usually repot when I literally see the roots coming out of the drainage holes:) Spring is the only time I repot. Then I move it up a pot size. This treatment goes with all of my plants, so far they seem to like it. My hoya carnosa is growing a whole lot. No flowers but she is growing:)

My compacta has been in the same pot for years (had its first flowers this year) and will probably stay there for some time to come. Most people would have considered it overpotted when I put it in its current pot, but once it adjusted it grew pretty quickly (for a compacta), and the big pot saved me having to pot up again. It's in an 8" hanging pot now, and it sticks out ~6" on each side of the pot. I'm not sure I'd want it to get a lot larger. My main concern is how I'd transplant it without a lot of breakage. If I find myself an assistant, I think it could be done, but I'm not going to attempt it before it's really needed.
I tend to re-pot my others sooner, as their leaf shapes don't make them as apt to tangle and break. However, only a few of my Hoyas are old plants; most of them I've gotten in the last three years. (It's you ladies' influence, you know ;)

Wow, lots of feedback on this one. I was kinda wondering if any of you had your hoyas in the same pots for multiple (5 plus) years, and if you ever planned on re-potting if there were no visible signs of distress? I wouldn't want to tackle even my relatively small (5 ft.) by myself.

Dear Ooojen,

Compacta flowers? Congrats to you!!! Got pix for us? Am green w/ envy!

Hi Natrld,

5 ft. Hoya is small? Yikes, mine are quite small (tho' a few are a ft. around). Wow, I'd have to get a bigger apmt for a 5 ftr!

oh, I guess I've seen some of y'alls plants which are growing outside or in greenhouses and think mine is small compared to them. And the gal I got this one from had hers growing thru the ceiling beams of her log home and I would say it was 15 to 20 ft in spots. And blooming?!! oh my, this was in July and I bet it had 20 blooms on it, I was quite impressed, and told her if she ever had the opportunity I would take a cutting. Mine will also go into the logwork in my home (when it gets done) It currently has 3 peduncles started on it, crossing our fingers. It bloomed 2 years ago and nothing since, I believe this is a common carnosa, from what I recall of the first bloom. I've just started researching these plants, so will be examining the blooms VERY closely when they open.

Wow, first time to this hoya forum for me!! Didn't even realize it had it's own site.Learn something new everyday.

I have a hoya,havn't a clue what species as it was given to me a few years ago.It bloomed very well last year,and i think somewhere around here i have pictures of it.Just can't remember if they're in an album or on this computor.Will have to look later.

Several years ago i had a very large one hanging on my front porch,til some A*****E decided it should be theirs.Hope it didn't bloom any more for them!!

Anyway,now that i've found you will check back often.

Guess i should introduce myself::My name is Kathi,and i live in S.Calif,and i love to garden as does my dh.We have very many plants and flowers,and have hardly ever met one we didn't like.LOL We're both retired and enjoying every minute of it.
Kathi

Hope that you are enjoying your retirement, Kathi and the fact that you have flowering hoyas is great.

I want to comment on the msg from Natrld.(sorry, I do not know your name)- you asked if anyone had older plants in pots which had not been repotted or wording to that effect; I have two Hoya Carnosas (variety unknown) which have been in the same pots about 10 years. I should take cuttings from one of them but they presently have peduncles and am awaiting (crossing my fingers) BLOOMS. Capitals-- because I want to be positive that, in fact, they will bloom hehe!

The other plant does not have long vines and is slower in new growth and have both come originally from the same plant. Go figure. I don't know whether I should repot. If I can figure out how to show pics online, will let you be the judge of that. That's all for now.

Vicki