Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Hoya ID possible?, 1 by RainGazer

RainGazer wrote:
So that one is upside down...Ok, I'll work on getting it turned the right way.

I guess you'd say I received them that way. When I bought them, they were in about a 14" plastic drain saucer all curled around together like a wreath with pretty much the entire vines in the water. There were probably 3 or 4 cuttings that were about 2 or 3 feet long each and they were tangled together, both vines and roots, so that you could pick the whole mass up at any one point with two fingers and it would hang in the air all curled together. I wish I had taken a picture of it like that as it's hard to explain. It was just a wad of vines and roots, that's the best way I know to describe it. They had leaves coming from the nodes for several inches, then several inches of no leaves, then more leaves, etc, with roots coming out of basically all of the nodes. I hope that makes sense.

Anyway, when I potted them up, I had to untangle the whole mess. I didn't think to curl them around in the pot, laying on top of the soil. I buried the ends that had roots and cut the vines into sections, and buried another end with roots, and so on, because I was afraid they would die from not having enough roots in the one place on the end to support the entire vine if I left them whole. I guess I never should have cut them.

Here are some pictures. See how there are (were) roots all over the place? Some of the vines are drying up and dying at the ends. I guess I should cut those off. I sure hope I haven't done something that will kill these. :o(