Awesome new additions, you had a good week ! Congrats : )

marco

I lost my old lacunosa over the winter and am hoping to find one at the box stores to replace it. So far, I've found none... It used to be you saw them every time at the box stores. Dang... I'm sure one will turn up one of these days!

Denise in Omaha

I had one over the winter aswell and lost it. I was so happy to see one at walmart. I dont have high hopes for it thought. They seem picky!

Walmart did have another one if you are interested.....

Which Walmart and where? I too have been looking at the box stores along with other stores

Walmart in Jacksonville, AR

Our Wal-Mart has had Royal Flush or Ruby Sue ( I forget which ), but not for a long, long time. I did get a plant when they did have them. I seem to fail with lacunosas for some reason, but I do love their fragrance. Congrats on your new plants!

Brad AKA Moonwolf

I got ruby sue from walmart late last year on clearance and it rotted. Hope i dont have the same fate with this royal flush!

You seem to fail with them?

i wish I hadn't have read that lol.

I think a lot of people fail with them. If this one goes down the drain i will not try again.

Sorry, I should have been more clear, I was referring to Brad!

hes going to have my "Sno caps" soon.

does Denise need some cuttings too?

Lol I think it was because they like more humidity than the other Hoyas I grow and over the winter, they just got ill. My very first lacunosa kept yellowing and was under attack from the mealybugs. Thank goodness they weren't a problem for me this year.

Brad AKA Moonwolf

And yes, laticuda is sending me her lacunosa "Sno Caps" and I'll be passing some along to my good friend Michael, along with some other house plant cuttings.

Brad AKA Moonwolf

God willing, Brother! I didn't make it to the post today!

That's okay! I anxiously await them once they are mailed :).

I think we're all getting bit by the Hoya/house plant bug as the colder months loom over us.

Brad AKA Moonwolf

We have to hurry before its too cold!

There will be a trading blackout soon.

we're all just getting ready for that. Back when my dad was growing up , they collected flour from town and canned everything else they grew to last them through the blizzzard season.

Those parts don't get much snow nowadays, it's much more like Maine's non-winter weather now....really wet.

Oh yes, most definitely have to trade before it gets too cold. Some of my first carnosa cuttings came on a snowy day in October. They were just fine :).

Brad AKA Moonwolf

I've got the 'Sno Caps' that's wavering for me. I put it in the GH and it seems happier for the moment. I'm actually looking for the original one that EA used to sell that looks like this...

Denise in Omaha

I think the problem is they aren't properly rooted when they ship them out.

Once my polyneura rooted all the way, it didnt require watering nearly as often.

I used a Forsythe pot method of rooting lacunosa cuttings before and it worked :).

Denise, GG sent me Dischidia cuttings last year and they didn't root for me :(. What happened to your original lacunosa is what exactly happened to mine (the very first lacunosa I ever had-and boy to I miss it).

Brad AKA Moonwolf

Denise, what do you mean by "the original one EA used to sell"?

How many locunosa's do they sell?

Tlbean,

There's the lacunosa species and then there are the varieties of that species,a also called a cultivar?

Brad and Denise,

PATSP says that hoyas are often victim to SHDS (sudden Hoya death syndrome) and he has no idea what causes it.

I found that tossing the lacunosa cuttings into a gallon bag with moist substrate will root them really well. Keep them out of the substrate, don't try to bury the stems. They root in the humid air of the bag. That's the only way I could get them to root. Doing it in a pot did not work at all.

It would probably be better if I kept the lacunosa in the bathroom where it's humid, north facing window but it should be fine due to the very dark foliage, right?

I have one in there that I started as cuttings and it's much more forgiving than the one I keep in my bedroom. I can let the one in the bathroom dry in its clay pot but the big plant in my bedroom will start yellowing leaves and throwing them at me.

Sadly, I dont think my Obo is gonna make it. :(

Any advice?

It looks pretty dry. When was the last time you watered it? How long have you had it?

I got it in the mail about a week ago. I watered it in when i potted it up. the soil is almost dry now but it is a succulent like hoya.

I have one.

you should not water them as soon as you pot them up. You said it yourself: they are succulents.

you need to check the roots and if they are not salvagable, cut off all rot and try to reroot the cutting. Even if a leaf fell off, if the stem is good, keep it. It'll grow more stuff off it. The more nodes you can salvage, the better chances of survival.

I recommend making cuttings NOW if the roots/stem are gone.

and let them dry for a couple days first.

The roots got hot in the mail so i needed to water it.

When I get plants having drought stress, I give then a bath and then let then let them thoroughly dry before potting up and still waiting a day or two before watering.

Oh, no... I was worried that if it sat in the sun, it would stress it. I sure wish the P.O. wouldn't leave boxes sitting out in the sun. I used to have a mailman that knew I got a lot of plants in the mail and he was always careful to put my packages in the shade, but now we're on a training route and I can't count on the new carriers to put them in the shade. Now I'm careful to not order unless it's plenty cool (or my husband or I will be home...) Well, let me know if you lose it and I can send you another for just the postage...

Denise in Omaha

I'm always hone and the mailman just leaves the package. Aren't they supposed to ring the doorbell to alert you that there is a package outside?

Maybe if mailmen did that there would be fewer stolen packages every year. It gets especially bad around the winter solstice holiday celebration. Who are we kidding here, we all know he wasn't born in December!

I am not at home when the mail is delivered. What causes the spots on the leaves? A lot of the leaves still look ok. Im going to try and root the leaf that fell off.

Looks like either something was spilled on them, something was spilled on them and then they were burnt by light, or

root rot causing the plant to cannibalize older leaf stock.

The roots were in good shape. Because it was growing in a clay pot, I removed it from the pot and wrapped the rootball. But if a plant sits in a closed box in full sun, it's like leaving your kid in a car on a hot day. Maybe someone here can answer a question. I'm always tempted to write "live plants" on the outside of the box. But I worry that there are states that might have laws about plants coming in. Does anyone have any insight about this? I'm thinking maybe a carrier might not be so inclined to leave it in the sun if it was marked.

Denise in Omaha

I think "perishable" would be a more appropriate terminology to use. What do you think?

I get shipments that say "live plant" all the time.

It is ussually a green sticker. But the postal service does not set them out of the sun because of the label. They are always sitting on my front steps.

That's a good idea denise!

I can never get a hold of my post office.

Here is a sticker that was on a package that i received today.

I wonder if there's any problem with the "live plants" label in California? I moved to CA back in the early 80's and took a car full of plants with me - we had two cars, towing one behind the other. The back car was full of plants and it was summer, so I put aluminum foil on the windows to reflect the sun, hoping to keep it cooler in the car. When we crossed the border, it was about 2 a.m. and there was a stop to check for fruit. I thought that was weird, and we gave them a couple oranges we had in the car. Well, later on, someone told me that if they had known the car was full of plants, they would have confiscated them as well. So I guess I've always wondered if there was some California law (and perhaps in other states) that prohibits plants from coming in...

Denise in Omaha

I didn't think that it was that way back in the 80's! Wow. Maybe back then it was just fruit and not other plants??