Wow, they're really huge! They must have enjoyed living with you!

Thanks for posting, Jan.

Xuan

My gosh! Jan
I was thinking when all of my cuttings will be big like that,
I will not have enough place for them. I need to trade my orchid before winter come!!.
I love those big leaves too!
Thanks Jan
sue

Xuan, yes they are happy living with me. lol
Sue, your orchids are beautiful!!! Maybe we'll trade again after the Ike is gone. Orchids I got from you are doing great so far.

Jan

Goodness Gracious!!!!!!!!
Jan, those are some awesome leaves. I'll have to go measure some of mine, but I don't think they will come close to yours. I think your micro-climate is better on the west coast of Florida, than the East coast here.
Or are you feeding them 'growth hormones' LOL

Jan those are some monster Hoyas! I really like the Hoya kenejiana and Hoya meliflua, it must be meliflua ssp. fraterna if the leaves are that large. Do you grow your plants in bright light or are they more shaded to favor the growth of larger leaves?

Mike

Ima, no growth hormones but I give combination of beer formula, super thrive, elenor's so I don't know which one is responsible. lol
Mike, yes I forgot to put fraterna, it is meliflua fraterna. My plants are getting few hours of Western light in screened area. Kenejiana have 1 set of huge leaves, the rest have to catch up 1 day???
Jan

Wow!! Those are some really HUGE leaves, especially for Hoyas...Xuan's right they must really like the care that your are giving them...Great pics!

Jan, sent you an email, but wasn't sure if I sent it to the right addy...thanks

Jan, your hands must be TINY...LOL...I am so jealous, I love the large leaf species. I would never have to water those "big boys" because I would be drooling on them all the time! Nice fingernails by the way :)

pug, I got your email.
hanna, thanks for your compliment on my nails. Thats really funny about drooling. hehe

Hi,
I was changing the soil and the pot of this unknown hoya and it also has very large leaves.I gave it a new trellis too.I feed my hoyas beer in the winter months which is when this hoya grew these huge leaves.
This is the smallest on plant.

Is that callistophylla?

Gabi

Hi, Gabi
Maybe but not sure. I guess i will have to wait until I get some flowers.
Just to be clear in the second picture in the top right you can see another leaf. That is another hoya which I also do not know the name.

Jan your plant looks quite similar to my Hoya clemensiorum (syn. phyllura)cutting that just arrived yesterday. The leaves on my cutting are fairly thin with raised veins, the occasional silver fleck, purple leaf margins and the midrib is purple on the underside of the leaf. My cutting arrived with two large leaves about 7.5" long by 3.5" across. I will try to put some photos up soon in Shanna's post about favorite new cuttings so you can make a comparison. I hope my plant makes leaves that huge, your plant is gorgeous.

Mike

Mike

Mike
I too at first thought Cindy's hoya was Hoya clemensiorum. Not positive though.

shanna

Thanks Shanna and mike, I will look up that hoya.
Mike I will be waiting for your pictures.

Cindy

Cindy here is a photo of my Hoya clemensiorum leaf.

Here's my clemensiorum.

shanna

Cindy I wonder if your plant might be Hoya finlaysonii. Now that Shanna and I have put our Hoya clemensiorum leafs up for comparison their raised veining seems much more pronounced that your plants. The flowers on these species are also very similar but hopefully they will help with an ID.

Mike

Thanks Mike and Shanna for your help. I will have to Waite until she blooms.

Cindy

Cindy,

Just to come back to this, I was just thinking that sp. Nong Nooch might be another possible ID (for either the main one you wanted to ID or the leaf in the second pic on the top right that you needed an ID for...both can possibly be sp. Nong Nooch). I believe it's in the finlaysonii family, and the edges are somewhat serrated..but not all leaves on a plant have serrated edges (from the ones I've seen).

Anyway, just keep that in mind for when it blooms.

Gabi

Gabi, Thank you for the suggestions. It really dose help to have a name to look up.
This is what happens when I bring home plants from Thailand. They never come with a name and then I'm not able to trade/sell with out a name.
My husband has started to hint that I need to start making some money from this addiction.I say of course hubby just to keep him happy. lol

Cindy

OK - I know these posts are 11 years old. A lot has transpired in 11 years and for all I know, the original posters may have been devoured by the hoyas they are featuring! Those vines have to be as strong as a boa constrictor!

One of the posts mentions feeding hoyas beer - what? Anyone heard this before? I would think it would be detrimental to the plant, probably have them up singing all night long!

Anyone have any information on this type of regime? I'd like to grow some large leaved hoyas, and if it's a viable method I'd be interested in hearing more specifics.

Thoughts? Comments?

Thank you Hilary. I was just curious is all. I also grow some tillandsias, and have been using the same fertilizer on my hoyas as I use on my tillies. Epiphyte's delight is the name of the fertilizer. I make a very weak concentration and use it once a month during the growing season. It seems to work, I guess. It hasn't harmed anything so I guess it's OK to continue to use.

Thanks for the reply. All the best to you. Stay safe and stay well....