Lin...a clone is not a cross between two species or two hoyas... not in the definition, at least. OK...lets say that two purebred labradors breed. They are two different clones of the same species, right? The litter of puppies would be 'seedlings' but they would also be clones (if collected in the wild) of the same species. If the lab and a golden retriever breed, the puppies would be cultivars, not clones...
September flowers
Here is H. heuschkeliana pink form. I have been trying for a long time to take a decent picture of it. This is about as good as my miserable camera will take.
Doug
Here is the yellow form.
I have them both potted in the same pot. I didn't use to have much luck with H. heuschkeliana, but it now loves the warmth and humidity of my plant room, and makes the entire room smell of butterscotch.
Doug
Here is H. anulata don't know which version. The flower is nothing to write home about, but the smell is. It is unlike anything I have smelled before, but it comes closest to black liquorice or anise, at least to my nose.
Doug
The entire plant, which can get some really funky looking leaves, at times, both in color and shape.
Doug
Doug, that is gorgeous pot of pink and yellow heuschkeliana together! I have the pink one and it's blooming right now too but I've been fighting aphids on a couple of carnosa's and found aphids on this one yesterday too. Time for BATS.
I can't remember for sure but I think anulata is a cutting I got in a DL order this summer. I will have to go outside and look at the label, I know it begins with an "A", LOL. Hope it is that one because I love the fragrance of Anise. I don't like the taste of black licorice but love the smell!
Lin,
Nice looking pot of heuschkeliana. I'm just like you I love the smell of black licorice, but not the taste. I think it is one of those old time candies, that kids from yester year mostly all loved, but most people today don't care much for it.
Doug
Doug, your heuscheliana pictures are awesome! I can rarely get a good close up of my yellow ones even with the macro settings.
Lin yours is growing really nicely. I took too many cuttings of my yellow one last year and it didn't start growing again, or bloom again this year until early Sepetmber.
I also have a pink version that I got last fall thats finally starting to take off growing, and also a red version that I got from Paul Shirley. It actually bloomed as a cutting and the flowers are indeed very red. That one has just started growing slowly so I doubt I'll see flowers again until next spring.
Doug, your anulata is very pretty. I lost that one recently - I think - that is I think it's anulata. The leaves were far smaller, always round and flat, and the cutting came with the name "pseudo litorlalis aka anulata". It never flowered for me so I don't have the flowers to help me to compare. Is that just a different clone of anulata, do you know? I'm getting another cutting of it next weekend, and will keep it in semi-hydro this time with less light.
Christine
Christine,
I'm glad that you liked my heuscheliana pictures; they took an embarassingly long time to take (I was inspired by Lin who had posted a nice bloom picture a few weeks back). The blooms are just so darned tiny, but compared to the blooms on Dischida pebble beach, they are huge. I picked up an EA basket over the summer of my first ever Dischidia and it is covered with the cutest little flowers, but they are so tiny, I won't even attempt to take pictures; it would be pointless - nice plant however. Some day I would love to get my hands on the red heuscheliana, and then I could have a tri-colored bloom heuscheliana basket!
I just found out what My anulata is: It is H. Aff. Anulata IML 1120 bought from Carol in May of 2007. This has been a strange plant for me. I had to start it over last fall, because I rotted the roots off the original plant. It did really well for me over the summer and rewarded me with a bloom.
Doug
Not a Hoya but related. Dischidia ruscifolia full of teeny blooms.
Nice ruscifolia Lin. What medium do you grow yours in? Mines in my standard Hoya mix and is very slow. Im wondering if it might need more watering
Dominic
Dominic: I use the same growing medium for just about every single plant I own, which is a combination of potting soil, perlite and orchid bark mix. It's a light, very fast draining potting medium but it works for me. I use the garden hose out on the deck for watering and I water every day during the hot summer, unless we are having a lot of rain. I've seen a lot of growth on my plant this summer and I used the beer formula fertilizer a few times, but don't know if that had anything to do with it or if the plant just likes the heat and humidity.
well, I tell you now Lin, my one certainly dont look like that.!!...I might start to water mine a little more.,,,,,:))
Because of the mix I use, my plants dry out very quickly. We've been having an extremely hot summer with temp's still hovering in the low 90ºF range and an hour after I water, the mix is dry.
I have taken to maintaining a couple size pots with mix in them and I water them like the plants. I check them to see if the material is dry to water again. Makes me feel more confident...
That is such a simple idea but good!!!! Carol!!! I think I'll try it too!!! I also took your advise and bought some of the MSU fertilizer for well water. Everything grew so much this summer with only a little Miracle Grow fertilizer occasionally I can't wait to see how this does!!!!
MSU fertilizer for well water? my ears pricked up on that one.....Carol??
Dominick it is fertilizer made at Michigan State University for orchids but works very well for hoyas.
Well, September is almost over ... can you believe tomorrow is Oct. 1st? It seems like this year has flown.
I have two last day of September blooms to share. These two plants seem to bloom non stop all spring, summer and fall. I thought I uploaded them both around 7:00 p.m. but they must have gone out into cyber space or something because I don't see them ... hope I didn't post them to the wrong forum, but I've gone back through different threads/forums and can't find them anywhere. So, I'm trying again.
This is brevialata
and good ole' DS-70
See y'all in October! ^_^
Wow! Lyn, that ds-70 id loaded.
Sunshinesw: Yes, both the brevialata and DS-70 always seem to be full of blooms like that. My other Hoya's only seem to get maybe one bloom, or if I'm lucky two at a time!
Lin