Thanks, Lin and Gabi! Boojum to sweeten the pot on that carnosa, I'll throw in a five foot long lacunosa with at least 75-100 blooms, and a 4-5 foot long Hindu Rope that is getting ready to bloom. It kills me to have to get rid of these, but there is no more room at the inn, and these are fairly easy to replace with smaller ones from EA.
Doug
August Flowers
Thanks Christine,
Yes, I don't have the time to try to sell cuttings online, and who would want to pay for these common cuttings. If I can't find homes for them, I'm considering taking cuttings, inserting them directly into their permanent homes in 6-8 inch hanging pots sort of the way that EA does it. That way it won't cost anything to replace them. The mother plants then will have to be tossed, but not before I can take some good pictures.
Doug
Great idea Christine! Donating to a local botanical garden or conservatory would be perfect. I've told my husband numerous times that if anything should happen to me I'd want all of my plants donated to the botanical gardens. He doesn't have the time to take care of them and doesn't know a begonia from fern anyway so the perfect solution is donating them!
The closest place to see anything like that would be in Montreal, and I can only imagine the difficulty in trying to pull that off.
Doug
Do you have a freecycle group in your area? I find that a wonderful way to get rid of things. Granted I live in a huge urban area, but when I advertise on freecycle, whatever I advertise is out of my hands within 24 hours. Plants especially go very quickly. Everyone wants plants when they're free!!
Christine
That is a great idea Christine. We don't have freecycle, but I can put them on Craig's List for Free. Someone will take them.
Doug
Are there any colleges with Botanical Gardens near you?
Check your local public schools also ... some high schools have horticultural programs nowadays and might want them!
How big a pot is that H brevialata growing in Doug?
Dominic,
That pot of H brevialata is in a 6 inch pot. It is an Exotic Angel plant that is almost 3 years old in its originlal soil and container. The plant hangs down about 18 inches. Here is another shot slightly reduced in size.
Doug
Hey Doug,
Is that one that EA sells a bilobata?? It sure does look like mine.
Dee
I have the same EA Hoya brevialata. The first one was indeed labeled bilobata and the second one had no label.
Same here but mine looks a bit more beat up than yours, Doug.
My older, larger plant looks really beat up! I think it gets way too much sun but I'm so limited on shade space under the covered deck area.
Pub. Red Button in bloom.
Doug, great looking plants!!!
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Sunshine ... Love that bloom, it's really gorgeous! I'm still waiting for my RHP and my two noid pubicalyx to bloom.
Another wayettii bloom
Sunshine, nice pub photo; I have Red Buttons, RHP, and Pink Silver, They are two years old, and still no blooms. I can't wait! Lin nice photo of wayettii - what do you use for a camera - your close ups are great. My Hoya brevialata also came labeled as bilobata. This Hoya usually goes way downhill over the winter inside the house and picks up as soon as it goes outside or into the greenhouse in the summer. It is at its peak right now.
Doug
Doug, I use a Canon Powershot A630 but it's pure luck if I get a photo that you can even tell what the subject is, LOL. I can take 30 pictures and have maybe two be halfway decent. I've been thinking of investing in a new camera but it's hard to justify money for a new one when this one isn't very old. My husband has the same exact camera as mine. He uses his with a water proof case for scuba diving. I am just really technically challenged and don't understand all the different settings. I've had this camera for a couple of years and just recently learned about the macro setting for close up shots, but sometimes there's a red "shaky camera" image flashing because my hands are so shaky.
Hoya brevialata bloom:
My two brevialata's
Lin, very, very nice photos. Those brevialata's are loving that Florida sunshine.
Doug
Wow!!! I always thought I didn't much care for h. brevialata, but Doug and Lin yours are both just stunning!!! Is there a scent?
Shelley
Thanks Doug. The largest of my two is pretty ratty looking close up ... I think from to much of the Florida intense sunshine!
Shelley: It's not my favorite hoya for looks but yes, it is very fragrant in the evening. I don't really know how to describe what it smells like, but it is pleasant.
Shelley,
I've heard many people feel that way about h. brevialata, but a well grown one can be pretty spectacular. When it is actively growing and all the foliage is nice and new, even the leaves look nice to my eyes. I do have a candidate for an ugly Hoya however. I hope I don't offend any one but H. fusca is so ugly, it is completely without merit to keep as a houseplant. Has anyone actually ever seen this Hoya in flower? I chop and pull weeds at my house all the time that look great compared to this Hoya. I've had it for three years now, and I don't think that I can bear to look at it any longer. Maybe I'm just not growing it correctly. If anyone has a photo of a nice looking specimen, I would love to see it. Please prove me wrong.
Doug
Doug,
That's a new one to me so I had to go google it. But ... I am confused. There must be one called fusca and one called purpureo fusca?
While googling I found these:
H. fusca:
http://www.apodagis.com/Hoyas/hoya_species/fusca.htm
http://www.growinghoyas.com/big_pictures/w_fusca_iml1526_leaf.htm
and, I don't know which of these blooms (if any) acutally belong to fusca but this is what came up when I googled for photo's of the blooms: http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&source=hp&q=images+of+hoya+fusca+blooms&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=axWYSpvLAcGHtgf_iKDSBA&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1
And, This is what I found for H. purpureo fusca:
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/59295/
http://www.myhoyas.com/cinnamomifolia.htm
Both look like large leaf hoyas and I don't see any ugliness in either of them, LOL.
It is the first plant, and not H. purpureo fusca. So it really does flower! I need to take a photo of mine and post it here. The flower is very pretty. You would have to see my plant to know how ugly this one can be. If I thought it would ever flower like that first photo, I would keep it! The only growth on mine that ever looks good is the new growth. The older leaves all get yellow looking, some drop off, you are left with a lot of ugly stem. It is a shrubby thing, that I can best describe as a kind of box elder looking stump sprout, that no matter how many times you chop it off, it keeps coming back.
Doug
Doug--LOL...I've never seen h. purpureo fusca in real life, just in photos, and then it's such a close up that it's hard to tell what the plant looks like...I'll be interested to see any photos anyone posts...Does anyone else have hoyas they think are ugly? I don't have any I think are actually ugly, but h. crassicaulis strikes me as pretty dull...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...
Shelley
H. purpeo fusca is a nice Hoya that I managed to kill off. H. fusca is a very ugly Hoya, that I have not been able to kill no matter what I have tried. Some time this weekend I will try to take a picture of this scary looking plant. I should also say that it is very susceptible to spider mites, which even makes it (if that is possible) uglier.
Doug
LOL, I had to go look up crassicaulis!
http://www.myhoyas.com/incrassata-min.htm
http://www.rareflora.com/hoyacra.html
Another ... NOT ugly one.
Ugly to me is when they sometimes get yucky looking spots and scars on their leaves, or when the begin to deteriorate because of my lack of proper care, LOL.
Lin, Doug, thanks!
Doug, hard to imagine ugly hoya. The flowers look very pretty, maybe it doesn't like cold Vermont. Send it over here to see if it likes heat any better then cold. LOL
I, too, have fusca- Doug is totally correct! I have the same issues with it, but I love it anyhow! I'm pretty sure it's a cool growing species. It must taste better than the average hoya as well, by the looks of the lower leaves on mine! I think Mark grows this one as well- pretty sure his is pictured somewhere on here!
Kelly
Kelly, I will post a picture of my fusca tonight. I had mine outside all summer not really caring whether it lived or died. It was exposed to plenty of the cool, wet, Vermont summer with many nights going down as low as the upper 40's and no sign of blooming. The picture of its blooms that Lin posted was from a grower in Thailand; I'm wondering if anyone has ever bloomed this thing in a container, and if they have what does it take to do so.
Doug
Hoya fusca in all its glory. It is all wet after a bath of scrubbing bubbles and water rinse. Last year it had spider mites really bad. I sprayed it a couple of times with neem and threw it in a very dark window; it lost most of its leaves but came back. It is a very tough Hoya - just not very pretty.
Doug
Aw, Doug... maybe if you gave it some sun it would bloom....you have the cool temps, so some sun wouldn't hurt!! Ted Green bloomed his by growing it in the sun...and you think YOUR plant is ugly?????
Hoya lacunosa "Ruby Sue"
Smells divine and blooms like crazy...a winner for EA
This time around...I notice a bit more purple on the flowers.
Hoya pachyclada
Smells sweet and quite the show stopper...a perfectly round 'bloom ball'
Both of them just lovely blossoms.
I agree, great ones! Love the purple tinge on the lacunosa. I'll hafta look on mine. Doug, I think your fusca has definite personality!!