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Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Do Hoyas Really Prefer Being Root-Bound?, 1 by podster

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podster wrote:
I'm embarassed to admit, I am not overly consistent about fertilizing.

One summer, I'll have to look at the date in my journal but both of these plants went crazy with blooms.
There were so many, I could not count them all.

They were badly rootbound and unwieldly to move. As a result, I lost them both to a freeze as I just tried to cover them.

I find I have better 'bloom' luck when I use small pots and let the Hoyas become rootbound. My assessment is yes, they bloom better.