Hi okie_deb, How about H. serpens? It wouldn't be a really big cutting as it has not really started to trail much let. There may be the possibility of more than one cutting or maybe even a rooted piece, I'd have to check. It's getting a little chilly up here in WI so we would have to do it quick if you are interested. I think it's still okay though. LMK, thanks, Catrina

> I am definitely going to try your potting mix. It sounds great. Some or even all ingredients are hard to find though - very hard in some areas of the country. Some other quick and easy mix options are: * Any "cactus and succulent" mix, possibly amended by perlite, coarse perlite if you can. * Fine orchid mix. Majority or orchids and hoyas grow on trees rather than in the ground, so many growing principles including the mix parameters are going to be somewhat similar. * some Fafard mixes are good, I heard. Not very cheap though. There are many other good options of course, essentially unlimited. Unamended MG soil is basically a death sentence, especially if it's "Moisture Control" MG soil. Total "peat pudding", with no chance for air to get to the roots. The claims sound great on the bag (I remember thinking, "This is a no-brainer, I am definitely getting this!") - except everything had to be emergency repotted soon after. > I am heading out of town for a long weekend It may be too late for this trip, but for the future, and for other people's benefit - my advice is to experiment with such things in advance. Water and do whatever you think in the first approximation needs to be done before leaving, then leave everything alone and OBSERVE without touching for the same duration as the trip. For cuttings enclosed in plastic, lack of air circulation is gonna be a bigger concern than the mix drying out (it's not going to dry out if you water thoroughly before leaving and cover). For better air circulation, you may want to leave bigger vents. I bet lower humidity will do less harm, if any at all, compared to risk of rot because of no air circulation. If you experiment in advance, you can have an idea how long you can safely leave for. The answer may be different in summer vs. winter, by the way. I grow under lights, and I've seen advice to turn off the lights completely a couple days before leaving for longer than just a few days. Plants will slow down their growth, but that also means they do not need as much water, and so the mix will not dry out as fast. Plants will quickly pick up where they left after you come back and return them to their regular lighting schedule. Flowering plants generally suck in moisture like there's no tomorrow. One of my hoyas just finished flowering on one peduncle, second wave of buds is growing on it and on another peduncle, and there's a third small peduncle growing (and maybe more, but that is all I see for now) - and the thing just cannot get enough water. I even started leaving a low level of water in the saucer underneath (normally a bad idea), and the thing just sucks it all up in like a day. A cyclamen in bloom for months now is doing a very similar thing - only its leaves also droop if it's thirsty, which happens at a two day cycle basically. It's fun observing all these things... But anyway, this is definitely a tangent... Have a good trip!

Xuan, I live in Canada. Be for our family trip to Thailand and Malaysia I got a permit to bring back orchids and hoya's pluse a few other plants but i could not find the other items so it was just orchids and hoya plants. I did have to take all the dirt off the roots so customs could check the roots when I got back in Canada. I also had to get permits to take them out of Thailand. Every one was very helpfully and I found the whole thing easy.I would do it again if given the chance except this time I would just cut the roots off and just root them when I got home because I spent over an hour on each plant cleaning the roots.I did have few plants that I could not save when I got home.Have a nice day and why not take swing by the market I know that could not resit. Cindy

well most of the hoyas i've gotten in the mail are in there pots, i have a krimson queen that came as bare root. i've had it for several months and it looks good one week, and poor the next (back and forth, back and forth)lol. so i found one at lowes that was on a hoop. i took it off the hoop and made cuttings since my husband will not let me take a big plant like that to alaska, hope it roots up in a month and a half (please, please, please lol) but the only hoya that is still doing really good that was mailed in a pot is my p. pink silver. but i found a couple other nice hoyas i wouldn't mind and there is another snow cap up for action so we'll see how high up that goes. is there a trick to keeping hoyas that have been mailed from getting too stressed and dying? i know that the bare root option isn't a good one. my rope died and it was a bare root. thanks for clearing up the confusion on the "snow caps" labeling. now if they would just get one in at a store near hear that i would have better luck with!