Webkat5....Thanks so much for taking the time to post the pic. That is definitely the plant I got. I went to Exotic Angel's web site to see if I could figure out what kind I bought that didn't have a name tag. I took pics of it as well as the others that I just bought but can't find any instructions on how to post pics on this web site. Just out of curiosity...have you been collecting hoyas long? Sahara...Finally got your e-mail today! Must have been attached to a slow moving "snail mail"! I cannot tell you the huge difference in my plants by putting a bowl of steaming hot water in my GH for humidity. I left the plants in there all nite. Isn't it a little risky to do this on a daily basis to hoyas? My zebra plant now looks like something out of a magazine! I'm trying my alocasia polly tonite to see if the humidity will help that! Did you get the e-mail I sent you? Linda

I see a lot of KP, KQ, DS-70, and Lacunosa (Speckled and Royal Flush). Also, there is often Kentiana, Curtisii, Compacta, Brevialata/Incurvula, and Polyneura but not recently. I haven't seen the Nummeroides or Australis at all. I'm lucky, I have 6 Lowe's and Home Depots within about a 20 minute drive and each seems to have certain plants (ie. one Lowe's always has like 3 or 4 Royal Flush but I haven't seen them at the others...). Many folks have mentioned that they find EA at Walmart but not the ones here in Philadelphia. I usually pop in to a big box store, look around and walk out. Now that I hear there are Nummeroides and Australis I'm going to be busy looking and then rearranging. I know we talked in the late summer/fall about the new black EA pots, I have only one; stores here are still getting the reddish orange. Anyone seeing mostly black???

Carnosas are pretty tough, but some of those Exotic Angel plants go into shock or do not survive a repotting. I have never had to repot a carnosa from that grower, but I am not sure if the ones I bought were soaked like most of the EA plants are. It should be ok. I just took a carnosa that was over 15 years old out of a pot where it had been growing all this time with a pubicalyx. I separated the two different plants, it was almost impossible to be gentle about it, chopped the root balls down with a knife and repotted each into their own separate new pots....and both are already putting out new growth, it has only been a few weeks. So, my point is, they are really tough! Chances are the root ball of your plant is still soaked, but you want those roots to reach out into the new soil. Give it a day or two and then maybe water lightly around the perimeter where the new soil is. Chances are the leaves won't get droopy, what happens is that the older leaves are more likely to feel softer when the plant needs water, they lose that crisp, stiff feel. It takes a while though for carnosa to start showing the effects of being too dry. They can go a while without water, it isn't necessarily good for the roots if too much time goes by, but a few days will do no harm. By the way, you don't have to use cactus soil for these plants. I don't think it could hurt, but over time I have found that hoyas love a loose chunky soil mix of perlite, orchid bark, and regular potting soil, equal amounts of each. Again, the hardier varieties like carnosa probably won't care what they are growing in! The only thing that would concern me would be the nutrients in cactus soil, I don't think they are the same as other types so you may want to fertilize occasionally once the plant gets settled in its new pot and starts growing for you. Maybe someone else will know more about cactus soil.

Don, I find many of the 'scented' ones listed here have no fragrance to me. (But growing up in a house of smokers, I have a "stunted" sense of smell!) I would recommend H. austrailus ssp. tenuipes. I recently did a huge hack job, pulling it out of my tree (I also grow 98% of my hoyas out of doors year round) because the pot hanger broke. I did a real 'hack job' on it, and threw the bits in a tin wash tub... only to have it root quickly and rampantly. I took bits and stuck them in the ground around my property, and they've put on new leaves; deep burgandy with a lime green dot at the tip. The leaves are aging now so the burgandy color is fading to the usual lime green. (SueTran this goes for you too!) I'd be happy to provide you both some cuttings from the mother plant as I am thinking about moving the 18 inch pot in to work and I can almost guarentee some damage from that transport! For the neglectful type (as I am, also) I usually pot my hoyas up in self-water pots. Mostly hanging pots, but I've branched out in many directions. I can't recommend H. bella for S-W pots because it has seasonal fluctuational needs for water and S-W tend to kill them in fall! I've hade austrailus, kerrii, pubicalyx RHP, multiflora, obovata, fungii and carnosa in S-W pots for nearly four years now, and they really do aid in the 'neglect' arena! Good luck, I've been branching out recently and this Neglect Post reminds me I need to go water my newly arrived plants! Good Luck, Don! Don and SueTran, leave a note here, I will contact you. GW ate my DropMeALine ability! Tough having been here since '97, lots of changes!!! (Sue, you can reach out and contact me!)