Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Oversized Hoya planter, 1 by tropicbreeze

tropicbreeze wrote:
Carol, you know how it is when the rains start, you can get days on end with heavy rain. Then the sun comes out and you get days on end with 'heavy steam'. Dry season there's no rain but humidity is high at night, lower during the day (more so for rupicola).

Rupicola grows on cliffs, cracks in rocks, rock ledges but never at ground level. I've seen it growing over rocky faces where wet season water seeps enough to get algal and moss growth. But there are always some breaks in the wet season, and dry season these places completely dry out.

This is my 'hoya-ry' this morning. Direct sun from about 09:00 AM to about mid afternoon when trees to the west provide filtered sun then complete shade. There's probably 20% or so air space in those rocks which are piled up about a metre high. The midday temp was 33C and RH 64%.