Hi Nan, I've had both the white and pink flowering Lepismium. I lost mine recently. I love the fuzzy areoles most, the flowers are just the icing. You should have seen the Rhip. micrantha plants he had, they were georgeous! Mine pales in comparison, but it's suffering from winter lows at the time. I would have got one, but I could get one of those anytime, from my cactus guy. The hoya was ID'd as acuta by someone who tends to go by David Liddle and verticillata by the Hoyan, both names seem to be acceptable and interchaingable by some, and not by others. I'll wait until blooms for an ID. I already have the plant, but got another because I couldn't pass up those amazing vines. The Sans, if you can imagine, are in 12 inch pots so they are not young but at least 5-7 years old.

Hey, sorry to bring up this dinosaur thread, but I was toodling around looking up H. pauciflora and found this. I got a few cuttings of this a couple of years ago, and it is my second best grower. No die back or leaf loss. I kept lopping the long vines in two and popping them back in the pot with a smidge of rooting hormone, and now have a full little 4 inch pot that will likely need a 6 inch this year. I have to celebrate my successes with hoyas, as I have a boatload of failures (serpens, curtisii to name a few). Here's what I provide, and it seems to really like it. I grow mine cool and bright. House gets down to 15 or 16 at night (winter temps). It seems to tolerate drying out well, and grows in spurts during the summer and fall. No growth in winter, while my others hoyas give the odd bit of growth. I'm hoping for some flowers and googled what they look like. How lovely!

For anyone who wishes to order hoyas from Thailand or any other foreign country for that matter,make sure that you can get a phyto certificate to accommodate your shipment before you pay for it. Customs has been getting their panties in a twist lately and destroying any shipments that are not accompanied by proper documentation. I had a rather large order of rare hoyas coming from Thailand that were shipped on 8/11. The box finally showed up at my house on 8/26. EMPTY!!!! All that was in it was a piece of paper from customs stating that the cuttings had in fact been inspected,were found to be insect and disease free but due to no phyto ( my fault) with the shipment ,my hoyas were destroyed. Bad part about it was that instead of the idiot inspector destroying the box as well, I mean hey if you trash the plants,trash the box too,they found it amusing to go ahead and send me the empty box. A letter would have been fine, my name and address were right on the box!!! The Thai vendor who is someone that i've dealt with for several years now was gracious enough to replace the shipment for me,with a phyto this time. That box was mailed last Monday 9/14,it arrived in N.Y. Saturday 9/19 and it was at my house yesterday 9/21,sent EMS. It took exactly 1 week from the day of shipment for me to receive the order and everything was in excellent condition. david

Hi, I have cuttings of Epiphyllum oxypetalum(white), would like to have Piper nigrum in trade. Let me know. Thanks Sushmita