Tropicals & Tender Perennials: September flowers, 1 by Hoya_24

Hoya_24 wrote:
Christine,

H. leuchorda gets the same treatment as most of my plants, grow lights in the winter, and then the greenhouse for 12-14 weeks in the summer. I would think that yours should form peduncles very soon with all that wonderful sunlight you have to offer from your large windows. I would trade all of my grow lights in a second for a couple of those windows.

I really, really hated to cut off those peduncles from multiflora, and I confess I did the same thing with cummingiana before bringing them back into the house. There was so much nectar dripping that I couldn't wash it off fast enough and sooty mold was beginning to form on the walls of my greenhouse and on the plant itself. I scrubbed everything up and gritted my teeth and did the deed. Here is a picture of the entire plant. Last fall it got really sad looking, the leaves kept yellowing and falling off. I pulled it out of the container and the roots were badly rotted. I cut all the stems off and rerooted it. It came through the ordeal pretty well.

Doug