Hello, Imontestella! Yes, I knew this was an old thread. I brought it back! lol It is an EA plant and i have not changed the soil. I purchased it back in August i believe. I think i last watered about a month ago. I will probably water it this weekend. I know that the 8 inch pots of EA hoyas (lacunosa, polyneura, and nummulariores) can got 5-6 weeks without watering in the winter time from my own experience. I had brought 2 DS-70's in 6 inch pots and one has lost all but one vine. The other one is doing great. I just dont want to water it too soon and have it sit there rotting. The pot is getting pretty light.

I have pictures of Makaha Sunn in my little battery camera, Richard has seen them. I will bring my camera to our meeting so you can see them. It is really hot colors, kinda like Gold Coast Cotton Candy, but more orange. It just had buds when I went down week before last. I took pictures, but it doesn't do her justice, they are so tiny. I did not take pictures last weekend, I was too upset, and wanted to get home. Emerson sent me a picture of Broomstick, and the colors are alot like Glady's O'Neal, but it has hugh open blooms. I am not partial to yellows, but it sure did look pretty. He said he will promote it next year. I felt I better get it now, its going to be impossible to get next year. Barbra

Here's what I did: I always have extra tomato plants even after I give them away to friends and relatives. I used to just drop them off at the local community garden with a sign FREE PLANTS. A few years ago, I started labeling all my plants with plant info, my hobby farmÂs name and email address on each plant. Two years ago, I took all my spare plants to the local community garden and posted a sign FREE on them. The difference is this time I stayed with the plants for a few hours and handed the plants out along with information. Most of what I raise are heirlooms so many of the community gardeners were unfamiliar with them. I received several emails over the course of that season from those gardeners, many were thank you and some were with questions. I saved every one of those email addresses. Then 15th of March of last year, I sent out emails to all those gardeners, plus my entire address book offering tomato plants for sale in time for spring planting which around here is Memorial Day plus or minus a week. I told folks what I was raising and that I would be selling them this year. I gave folks the option of reserving plants or taking their luck first come, first serve on the 2 sale days I would be having at my house. I got a few checks and a lot of emails. Then as the "Sale Days" approached, I posted the dates on Craigs List. I potted all the plants up to 4" pots about 2-3 weeks before the sale, hardened them off and charged $4 each for them, 4 for $15, 7 for $25. The pots were beautiful 4" pots I got 10 for $1 from Christmas Tree Shops. I sold every plant and added to my database with new email addresses from the Guest Book I had out at the sale.

Nancy, here are some photos of my tress I took today. Heres my Meyer, it's pretty sparse from overwintering but it's covered in small pink buds. It has a spreading habit more so than a vertical one. I only plan on letting it keep maybe 2 lemons again this year in hope it can put more energy into filling out. It's my first citrus tree that kicked off the current obsession. It was a birthday present last May from my grandmother. I don't really like Meyer lemons but it's sentimental so I will try my darndest to get it to grow. This is my bearss lime, it did great overwinter and only lost a few leaves. It still has a few pale leaves from when I bought it last year. It was neglected in a dark section of the garden center at Home Depot. I've fed it some and it certainly putting on more color and starting some new growth. Here is my little Washington navel cutting I got from HD a few weeks ago. It's been covered in the best smelling blooms. You can see how it's trying to set a million little oranges but I'll be plucking them all off until this tree is much larger. Pardon the puppy toy, she loves to leave them everywhere. This is my new calamondin from FW, I already love this tree, it came with a few small fruits and they tasted awesome. It's pushing tons of new growth and blooming on half of the tree right now, which is weird but many of my trees seem to do that. I'll be letting it keep most if not all of its fruit. This is my new Australian Finger Lime that I got with the calamondin and NZL. It's a very thorny plant and it has 2 small pink buds just starting. I don't think I'll get any fruit off of it this season but I can always hope. I waited almost a year to find one this size in stock. This is my sad sad little New Zealand Lemonade tree, I didnt immediately repot it when it arrived and it's small growers pot dried out within two days, so I repotted it in 5-1-1 and it's just now showing signs of being alive after dropping all of its exsisting leaves and buds. See all that new growth along the stems? I am so happy I didn't kill it since it's a hard tree to come by. I waited almost a year for it to be back in stock at FW along with the AFL. I am much more careful about checking the smaller pots for dryness now. It's my only tree in a true 5-1-1 and it certainly does dry out much faster than the others. I soaked the repti-bark for an hour before planting but next time I will do overnight to make sure it's fully hydrated. I am planning on a mass repot into 5-1-1 for all the others (and new arrivals) in June. Hopefully they will be strong enough to hold onto most of their leaves.