Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Mid-March Madness or Miscellaneous March Hoya Photos, 1 by Hoya_24

Hoya_24 wrote:
Gabi, Thanks very much for those nice comments; I do work very hard at this Hoya hobby, and it is nice when people take notice. I do think I have too many plants, and I can't really believe that I have ordered more cuttings from David Liddle and the Co-op. In the fall, I'm going to make some hard decisions about which plants I will keep, and which ones will go. I am going to base my decisions on leaf style, and ease of keeping in general house plant conditions. Also, some of my plants have gotten so large that they are starting to become unmanageable. My compacta and lacunosa are approaching four feet long, and I am afraid that the pots will give out under the weight. Any way those decisions are a few months away, and for now I'm enjoying them.

Susan, I would love it if you used that photo as a background on your computer. If you shoot me a dmail with your email address, I will attach a higher resolution photo. I've tried to use these photos posted on DG as a background before with no luck. The only thing I can figure out is that DG's software automatically reduces the photo size when you post the picture. I don't think my Big Mac is going to flower for me this year. I attached a photo of it blooming from a year ago.

H. magillirayii has been a really weird plant for me. I have tried to grow this plant from a cutting at least three different time with no real luck. This plant that you see in the bathroom photo was bought as a mature plant, for $50, from an Oklahoma woman who sold this plant on ebay - best $50 I ever spent. It was tightly wrapped around a heart-shaped trellis that I had to cut into pieces with bolt cutters to transplant the plant. It put on tons of new growth in my greenhouse this past summer, but when I brought it back inside in the fall, much of the new growth died back from the shock I guess. It just recently started growing again, throwing out a five foot stem with three new leaves and two peduncles in about six weeks. I don't think it will flower though; this past summer I had probably 10 new peduncles, and they all died away so they don't necessarily mean anything. I don't really know what makes this plant tick, but it is a great one to keep if you can get some size on it.

Doug