The dark pink is sooo beautiful!! I love the fact that you can get different colors on the "same" type of plant, it makes it interesting to have more than just one...I have three of the solid green carnosa, all three with different colors, my favorite being my oldest and first hoya, whose flowers are a lavender color. I have 3 of the variegated - not KQ, the other one - and on two the color is pale pink, the third has not bloomed yet but I think it will be a much darker pink according to the person who sent me the cutting. I have heard it depends on the plant's environment, but when all mine are grown under the same exact conditions, they still have the different colors.

Thanks for the advice guys. I decided to just wait and see, but now the leaf is looking worse. D: It's almost yellow, while the other is quite a vibrant green, although the contrast isn't as clear in the photo as IRL. It's probably just sucking energy at this point. Can I just snip it off with scissors? I don't want to exert any force on the other leaf. PS Thanks for the tip Mike but this one isn't a cutting, it's a rooted plant. PSS I won them in a drawing, I don't think the "dealer" sells her plants, but I'll tell her about the tsangii/DS-70 thing.

> the original has a couple of these bare vines right now! It's in an optimal decoration location, hanging over a bannister. Too bad it's not sunny enough there... Suggest to your mom to point a light toward the plant, to try to get it to bloom. It's difficult to light these huge plants properly though, just because they are so big. Maybe a T5 bulb of appropriate length, suspended vertically - because that is a way to light up the most of the leaves. It's an absolutely gorgeous specimen plant, by the way! > The fertilizer I used said it was okay to use a stronger dose, bi-weekly. Though the more I think about it, consistency might be better. Use 1/2 or even 1/4 the label dose though. They want to sell you lots of fertilizer, so they generally mention the highest dose the plant can take, which is not optimal - especially if your cultural conditions (light, water, temps etc.) are not absolutely perfect, which indoors they generally aren't. > I've been considering repotting it, actually. It is common advice to create a well draining potting medium. Well, you gotta be careful with conventional wisdom. If conventional wisdom says one thing, but my eyes tell me another, I am going to be open-minded and attentive to what others are doing, but at the end of the day, I am probably going to trust my eyes and my experience, and what the plant is telling me. Your plant is growing - which is my answer to any sort of criticism of your setup (including the criticisms I came up with myself, as you noticed!) So, I would probably consider not repotting now - not if it continues to look happy and grow as it does now. > I will remove [the incandescent lamp] from the mix. Yeah, or replace it with fluorescent if it seems like there's not enough light. > I've created a box to cover my plants at night. This might be overkill, but I think it might be a good idea. Yeah, I think it's an overkill. A few other house plants (not hoyas) absolutely require a (totally) dark uninterrupted period of a minimal number of hours for blooming, but I do not think I've ever read any requirement like that for hoyas. Not for H. carnosa anyway. > I've decided that when summer rolls around, I will place my carnosa outside. Yes, a good idea. I do not have outside space, but people say it's a whole different ball game - their plants go on all sorts of amazing growth spurts, mostly unimaginable to indoor-only growers.

Hoya australis ssp. tenuipes 'Lisa' is a completely different plant from Hoya tricolor (which carries the proper names of either Hoya carnosa 'Krimson Queen' or Hoya carnosa tricolor). Hoya australis 'Lisa' has completely different flowers and leaves from the carnosas. Your's is actually neither. Hoya carnosa Krimson Queen is an albomarginated plant (meaning the leaf edges are white, and the center of the leaves are green). Yours is a variegated plant (leaf edges are green and center of leaf is white), which means you have Hoya carnosa Krimson Princess a.k.a Hoya carnosa 'Rubra' or Hoya carnosa variegated. An easy way to remember whether or not you have Krimson Queen or Krimson Princess: The Queen wears her white like a crown (the leaf edges are white, like a silver crown) The Princess wears her white like a gown (the white is in the middle of the leaf; leaf edges/margins are green). For a comparison, here is my australis 'Lisa': And my Hoya carnosa 'Krimson Queen':