Covid Crazy, Hoya edition...
I seem to have gone on a Hoya cutting craze this year. Some I traded for, some via Ebay, a few were from my own plants.
Top shelf: imbricata, retusa, heuschkeliana variegata, and carnosa Krimson Princess
Bottom shelf: couple of linearis, pusilla, Mathilde, Rebecca, macrophylla albomarginata, and a couple of ilagiorum.
These are all rooted now, except for the imbricata.
Here are some that are rooting in expanded shale. Some have rooted and some I'm not sure of (can't see any roots yet).
Top shelf: Wilbur Graves, erythrina Bajo, and pubicalyx Philippine Black
Bottome shelf: a couple of pots of kentiana variegata, numularioides, and Hindu Rope
Anyone else going Hoya crazy this year?
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sunfleurpower
3 years agoI'm really sad that I longer have a yard now... I didn't know what to do with all that east and west lawn space and the perception that I had a brown thumb a few years ago. Now that I have a north facing balcony and have found the joy of plants...sigh. Hindsight is 20/20. I'll live vicariously through your photos, I'm excited to see what's growing for you all this spring and summer!
I have a few orchids, but don't find the foliage as enchanting as hoyas when they're not in bloom. Right now, there's only one no-ID, terminal spiked phalaenopsis from the grocery that's refusing to quit budding and start keiki-ing. There's no detectable scent to my nose.
I really enjoy the scent of oncidiums, but their blooms don't seem to last nearly as long as phals and they can turn into big, sprawling bundles of leaves and pseudobulbs that don't rebloom from old growths. Recently started eyeballing the minis, but gotta save room for hoyas :-)stupidlazydog CT zone 5b/6a thanked sunfleurpower
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3 years agoMeyermike- if you ever cut back that variegated CC again and have extra cuttings you'd be willing to share, I'd be interested. I could also offer a Hoya cutting in exchange, depending on what's nice and big at the time.
I won't share all the Hoyas I bought during COVID (that would mean I have to acknowledge how I went overboard this last year), but I did get a couple of fun ones recently from a local plant shop and a local hobbyist/seller:
These are supposed to be H. sp Kalimantan and H. hellwigiana, though the second has smaller leaves than normal so they sold it to me at a discount.
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3 years agolast modified: 3 years agoThanks. I am trying not to buy anymore but looking at these wonderful Hoyas it is very tempting. I have a couple only. One is the very standard H. carnosa and another I grew from cutting last year and have no idea what it is. Any idea what it is and whether it is hoya at all?
Here it is when started the cutting last summer. It is a bit bigger now.
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3 years agoMay I share my crazy H. davidcummingi, sld? Six peduncles, two of them new!
I'm still stalking H. mindorensis on eBay but the auctions keep ending whilst I am asleep. Sigh.
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