My biggest Baby Monster..This one smell the house up every night with the sweetest fragrance...It's been flowering for 4 months now and has 24 flower heads and many more pendicules about to open, if that is what you call them) It reside permanently in my plant room under a skylight and is being washed off today...It was only the size of about 1 foot long 3 years back and why brother gave it too me when it was half dead..He said he got it from Florida.

Funny thing is that I never feed it and it's in a very cramped small pot...Should I repot it or leave it as is????

Beautiful plants!!!! I see australis (first 5 pictures), obovata (round leaves), pubicalyxes (the one with the dark new leaves looks to be either Red Buttons or Royal Hawaiian Purple), diptera or vanuatuensis (yellow flowers that hang down), and the pink fuzzy flowers look like they might be cv. "Rebecca" or "Sunrise". Others will chime in, I'm sure.

Leave that carnosa (last one) in it's pot! Hoyas like cramped quarters unless they're showing distress or really need repotting (roots coming out of the bottom of the pot). Still waiting on my Nikki (what I call my carnosa-she's my most sentimental plant of all), to produce flowers. I've had her for 6-7 years now.

Brad AKA Moonwolf

Brad, Thank you!! I am in love with them and that is just half of what I got. I got enabled here.lol

Thanks ti everyone for helping me now that I have internet access...Thanks for all your comments too)

You're welcome! I got enabled here when I first joined lol. It's a trait all of us gardeners have ;).

Brad AKA Moonwolf

Oh I am glad you posted pictures of the these. You have some beautiful plants!!! I have the first plant also. H. australis "Lisa". And I've been wondering how others grow this ( like trellis, hanging, etc). Mine has suddenly grown along vine ndi wasn't use to growing it this way. It started out short,compact until this long vine shot out! It turns out 2 peduncles are on this vine!!! I'll posthen it blooms!

Teisa, that is exactly what happened to mine..It was short and compact for almost a year and then whalla, grew these very lone vines with red and pink like leaves to start. This one is so colorful other than fragrant..I love this one. In fact, I might cut that one now that it is mature enough and make another plant. A very warm friend gave me this one.

Brad, where are all the regulars here? Ever since a few people started asking for cuttings, my favorite people dissapperaed....I am hoping no none got scared off..
It's good to see you though..You sure are arounded when needed..I miss many others though too.

Not sure where all the others have been. Denise, Mike, and GG are around, still. I miss talking to Patrick and dmichael (David), too. It's nice to see a familiar face, too :).

Brad AKA Moonwolf

I've noticed since it changed from GW, people started posting less.

So to Op (I'm not sure your name) did your Austrilis bloom? I'm hoping mine make it to bloom, I'm crossing my fingers!

Mikerno, your Hoyas look nice! But you need to get them ID'd and tagged in a way you can keep track of what they are if you intend to trade. A lot of people start out like you are, no knowing or not really caring about the names. And that's ok, but at some point, you may want to do some trading to get some more exotic species, and having the names becomes important at that point. I keep track with labels, but labels can get lost, so I snap a photo, and keep a (several, actually, because I have so many) file of Hoya photos. I just "rename" the photo so it's easy for me to go back and find the photo, and there's the name. Making some educated guesses...

#1 & 3 could be H. australis 'Lisa' I suppose, but the vines look kind of stiff like obovata. Are the flowers pure white with a splash of deep red in the center, or are they more carnosa-like (pinkish)?

#2, 4, 5 are H. australis ssp. tenuipes

#6, 7, 8 are probably vanuetuensis

#9, 11, 12 all look like pubicalyx cultivars... #11 looks like 'Pink Silver', the other two it's hard to say

#13 obovata

#14 one of the obscuras

#15 meliflua maybe

#18 & 19 possibly another obscura or cv. 'Sunrise' which is a cross of obscura & lacunosa

Last 3, carnosa

If you know where you got them, I would send photos to those folks and see if you can confirm IDs so you have them for future reference. Trust me, you'll be glad you do it when you end up with 150 species! LOL!

Denise in Omaha

P.S. I'd trade something for a piece of that first one if it is indeed 'Lisa' - I'm not sure why I have never acquired that one. But I do already grow the variegated obovata. Please describe the vines...

Gee Denise, thanks a million... You are something else..How in the world did you get to know these plants so well? How long have you been growing Hoya? I have yet to see your collection and it must be beautiful.
I hear you on the labeling thing..When I first got them I did label them because I am pretty much organized in sone ways, but between the wind, cat and fading away of the marker, I lost interest in renaming them until recently..I have a renewed enthusiam for them and hear what you are saying..
I recently got an e-mail from a wonderful friend here that sent me quite a few, amd she named them again and you were pretty much on target. Wow. You know your plants.

That is a true Lisa, with new leaves opening up with pink and red hues..They are so pretty when doing so. I remember the flowers have a splash of deep red and it smelled lovely..

Where in the world do you fit 150 species? How do you keep up? Do you ever worry about pests? Do you treat them to avoid getting them? With what?
I have been debating if I should do a mass treatment even though I see no bugs before they come in for the winter. One was prone to mites but I rid those.

This picture taking and name filing thing is something I have never thought of or ever think I could do. I am a bit dumb in doing anything with pic other than just taking them. I Do have a cannon camera and a Photo-bucket account.

Denise, thanks again for your support and kindness. It's people like you that help me to be successful)

Mike, I'm always impressed by that jungle-like yard of yours! And so many species represented...whether Hoya, Orchid, Citrus, Hosta, Maple, Conifer, et cetera!

I've moved all of my Hoyas outdoors. Three of them are situated high up between a couple of my Redwood trees, and one of them is in the shade out front. I took a picture of H. vanuatuensis this morning.

Josh

Hey Josh, sorry I have not been here lately!! That is one amazing plant!! I just love this one. Thank you for your kind words as always buddy...By the way, I am beginning to think that mine is almost as big as yours now..Yikes!

First one and #3 looks like Hoya obovata var. Second and #4 looks like Hoya australis tenupe, 5,6,7 Hoya diptera, the others I agree with Denise. Beautiful plants by the way.

Hey, Mike, no worries! I've been really busy, as well.
Yours is getting big....but remember, mine is in a 14-inch wide hanging pot!

Here are my other Hoyas, summering amongst the redwood trees.

Josh

All I can think about right now is ticks.

Why is that?

Coniferous forests always make me think of ticks. Hiding.

Lurking.

Just waiting to give you some disease. See guys, I'm not friendly to ALL arachnids; that's gotta be something, right?

Don't worry, it's only three redwoods planted in a group....

Josh

I don't think ticks can count but I was mistaken for calling it a forest. How many trees does it take to make a forest anyway?

Well, here's a general guideline...

"0.01-1.0 hectares for minimum area, 2-5 meters for minimum tree height, and 10-30 per cent for minimum crown cover."

So....how much is .01 hectare? Would that make this a forest?

Hectare has no space/time reference for me.

A hectare is about 2.5 acres.

I'd argue that a forest would need to be larger than that, though. A .01 hectare forest is what I would call a 'grove' or a 'stand.'

Josh

Josh, nice pics!! I love how you hand that Hoya...Man, I wish I had a tree like that to do so..Those are beauties pal...

Thanks, Mike! I love trees :-D

Josh