Tropicals & Tender Perennials: OT: David Liddle Order On The Way, 1 by epiaddict

epiaddict wrote:
Good Morning! As Ann refered to in her last post, I was given a 'stick' from a local garden center earlier this summer. It was about 18" long, light brown and yellow and very shriveled and leather like. I cut the hoya cutting into 3 pieces and did what one of our Swedish contributors recomended. I used a long container with a lid, put water and Elenors and some Dyna Gro into it and set it at an angle so ALL the stems, incuding all the nodes, were in the water. I closed the lid and set it on a table outside in the shade. (Our summer was quite warm so I will put the new ones in the house.) Every few days I check the cuttings and changed the water only when it started to look cloudy. In 2 weeks there were lots of roots starting and the leaves were turning light green! I recently planted them and they are doing great! I now believe it may be a H. pubicalyx due to the shape and spotting on the leaves. I won't kow until it blooms. I have no idea if this will work for less hardy hoyas but I am going to try. I also used it with H. macgillvrayi and so far so good. If you would have asked me if I thought that first cutting was viable I would have bet my favorite hoya that it was NOT! Boy am I glad I didin't bet! I had pictures but seem to have lost MONTHS worth of photos somewhere in computerville. I will add a photo of the planted cutttings just for fun. Have a great day and God bless. -joanne

I 'm not kidding when I said these were so shriveled and yellow I would would bet my favorite hoya (if I could pick a fave :~) that they wouldn't survive.