Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Hoya gift: H. praetoria, 0 by gothqueen

gothqueen wrote:
Joni,
glad to know someone else has one from the same source. We will have to compare notes. You guys scared me with your "keep it warm" so I brought the lasiantha and the praetoria in from the greenhouse and put them in my sunroom. Its been really mild out at night for a while, our low was 63 last night, but a cold front is moving in tomorrow and we have a few nights of about 40-45 on tap, so I will be turning the heater on to keep the GH at 55 at night. But I figured 72 in the house was even better, LOL.

Mr. Green sent no instructions with mine. Possibly because they were a gift, bought by someone else. I'm glad I have rooted lots of hoyas before, otherwise I might have been in the dark completely. But they were labeled, which is good!

I have never grown anything in semi-hyrdo, Carol. I wouldn't even know how to begin. I know its big for orchids nowadays, but I have always just mounted everything. I laughed when I read what you said about growing the H. imbricata on a slab of treefern or cork...mine was climbing a small treefern totem. The darn pesky squirrel pulled the whole thing out of the pot and just threw it down, in the bushes between a dwarf tree fern and my Jade Vine where I didn;t immediately see that it was gone. I only discovered it some time later when I was going around fertilizing plants and the tag was in an empty pot. I found it then but it was a goner.

Here is a photo of my cuttings. The lasiantha is the larger one.