Tropicals & Tender Perennials: New Hoya Growth!!, 0 by plantladylin

plantladylin wrote:
Oh yeah ... I forgot about the growing it on the dry side and in a shadier location. My plant for awhile was hanging out by the pool but even with the screen filtering the sunlight, it was still too much sun and the plant got sunburned. It now stays in a shadier location under the covered deck and does much better. Mine blooms off and on during spring and summer. Since Alison is in Miami, her plant will probably bloom off and on all year as well.

Hoya compacta can be a magnet for mealy bugs, all those nooks and crannies give them a lot of hiding places too! I used to sit with q-tip and rubbing alcohol in hand, trying to get to get all those little buggers! A month or so ago I filled a spray bottle with isopropyl alcohol and labeled it and it stays out on the deck in a basket of tools and whenever I notice mealies I spray the plant with the alcohol ... so far, so good!