Moving hoyas whie they are flowering.
triffidmoss
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One foto with 6 hoya flowers
Comments (11)Very nice photo arrangement! Jan, I have several Hoya obovata. They do great as housplants. I used to leave mine in the house all winter and move it onto a covered porch in spring, where it would bloom all summer! This year I left them in the Greenhouse all winter and have two covered in blooms! One has been on the porch since early spring and has been blooming nonstop! We have simular weather conditions, I'm sure this one will thrive for you especially if you have a spot to hang it outside! I have several Hoyas that start budding indoors for me, but I normally hang them outside to decorate my porch. I do have H. pubicalyx 'Red Buttons' ready to bloom in my dining room and am not touching it.... this is the first bloom on it! I think the key to getting blooms indoors is temperature related. If you keep the AC on 68o and have a cold house I'd say your chances are slimmer than if you keep the temps in the mid 70's....See MoreHoya flowers 6/17/10
Comments (36)Pug this particular one is not 8 yet!!! I've only had it for maybe 4 years if that. My hoya ciliata is 8 years old though and is finally producing it's first set of buds!!! These eriostemmas are so fussy about being moved or tampered with. Each time I got a new one i'd find a spot that I planned to leave it in as I know they don't like to be moved around. I had thought at one time about just getting rid of all the eriostemmas in my collection,they must of known something was up and decided to bloom!!! These flowers are rather large and quite hard to the touch,almost feels like plastic. I haven't smelled them yet to see if there's a fragrance or not....See MoreLarge flowered hoyas
Comments (12)I would define large flowered hoyas like Hoya lauterbachii, gigas, imperialis. These species really requires good light and heat. I know the Swedish Hoya Society can make many "difficult" species grow and flwoer with what seems with ease. I believe it is because they are blessed with high light intensities during the winter (or summer) months with the extended daylengths and foot candles. Medium would be most of the eriostemmas, the mac-arch group, etc. This group of plants really needs to be broken down into their subgenus groups and recognized as such. This would make sense in crossing species to like species for successful pollination....See MoreHoya Cumingiana flowering for first time.
Comments (6)Sometimes I've had plants that only bloomed once during their first blooming year, but then the following year they bloomed throughout their season. I think it's premature to jump to the conclusion that you are failing to reproduce the right conditions. It might just be that the plant is mature enough to start, but not mature enough to go full throttle. It can be a bit patchy in the beginning. I would just keep things as they are for a bit. Then, if next year you don't get flowers, move it to higher light. Fertilizer is important, but compared to sunlight it is a much weaker variable. Especially as regards cumingiana, which grows so etiolated in weak light. Not all Hoyas show their preference for VERY strong light as dramatically as this species! I used to keep mine in my harsh western balcony doors, a spot most of my Hoyas reject, and it was so-o-o-o happy!! Blashernaezii too! I should move them back. Haha - 3-4 weeks DOES seem long when you first start getting Hoya buds. I remember having this feeling, too. Now I guess I have adjusted because they are always opening before I expect them to....See Moretriffidmoss
6 years agoChristian Sin
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