h. Fungii
my hoya's
NOID
Carnosa - three different stages
h. Wayettii and 3 seed pods
h. Iris Marie
h. Red Buttons
h. Acuta
h. Black Star - not doing too good
h. ciliata
h. Guppyi
h. Obovata - gonna repot next spring
h. Onychoides
h. Purpureofusca
h. Samoensis
h. Sussuella - not doing too good either
h. Vitellina - will need repotting next spring also
Wow! You have a lot of great Hoyas! I love that noid (pubicalyx?) bloom ... gorgeous color! Very cool having seed pods on wayettii, are you going to sow the seeds? I'd love to find seed pods on my wayettii, or any hoya for that matter! I have a large Iris Marie that has new vines sticking out all over but no sign of buds yet ... I keep hoping! I also have the same H. acuta but I think I read here that DL has changed that one to H. amoena? Mine was a cutting in the 2008 DL order and it bloomed for the first time this year. Oh, I hope you can save your Black Star, do you know what the problem is with that one? I have a large obovata that I repotted this year. It's had a peduncle for about a year and a half and yet still no sign of any buds or bloom. Maybe next year.
I can't imagine having to move so many plants inside during the winter ... my house is so small there just isn't enough room! I guess if I lived much farther north I wouldn't have so many plants.
Black Star and the other one that's not looking so good I'm going to ask Carol about. The Acuta - I didn't know the name changed. I'm going to look into that. Thanks for letting me know. I have quite a few more that I didn't post yet. As to bringing them in... well they all go in the house. I will keep the that can handle the cooler temps in the unheated sunroom attached to the house. All the others go in the livingroom, bedrooms, kitchen....
As an afterthought, I getting ready to water everyting with BATS to prep for brining them in. I'm also hoping this will fix the two that arent looking so good.
The Wayetti seed pods, I hope to collect seeds the. I have a tray ready and I check it daily. I was able to get the seed pod on my Arnottia. I also have a seed pod on Obovata and Red Buttons. I planted a bunch from Arnottia and only about 5 or 6 sprouted. Better than nothing. Still it's so much fun to try and grow these from seeds. My family loves it too!
pdoyle - what kind of light do you have the black star in? My black star is in full sun, try adding a little lime to it. All my Eriostemma's get mostly sun and have a little lime to them. At least that is what is working for mine.
Dee
Thanks Dee, I have them all hanging in my Mimosa tree, that one I have fairly high in the tree so it gets sun all day.
Great looking plants!!! Your cv. Black Star and the H. sussuela are remarkable for growing in Virginia!!!! I would suggest that you take off the leaves with the black spots and spray the plants with a copper fungicide as the spots look like insect bites that have a fungus on them. Eriostemmas are probably the MOST difficult to grow as house plants....and they are extremely sensitive to temperature changes. Any plant going thru a stressful time becomes weak and then is open to viruses, fungi and bugs. You might even just spray everything with the copper fungicide before you bring them in.
Fungi/viruses etc. are all around...lots of them: in the air, soil, other plants...and that's why it is important to keep them healthy so they don't get weak and attract them.
Yes, I believe your H. acuta is H. amoena.
NOTE: when writing a name of a hoya, the H. is always upper case, the name of the hoya, IF it is a species, is always lower case and the name of a cultivar is always initial Upper Case; that way the reader can indentify which is a species and which is a cultivar. Your first photo could be Royal Hawaiian Purple or Red Buttons OR some seedling someone has put into circulation. The corollas recurve a bit too much unless you took the photo towards the end of the bloom.....
Really hope this helps.
Thank you Carol. I appreciate all your info. Going to make some notes and learn the difference between the species part and the cultivar part.
My biggest hurdle will be over wintering the Eriostemmas.
Of those I have a ciliata which is growing well but not showing any signs of flowering anytime soon. And 2 sussuella, one which is slowly making progress ("Bamaga") and the other ("McIlwraith Range") which is barely showing any progress, but isn't going backwards though.
more... H. magnifica
H. calycina
H. cummingiana - 2 years old, slow going for me on this one
H. odorata - 2 yrs and JUST started taking off this year
H. pentaphlebia - these was from a order I got this past May they rooted REALLY well. corrected spelling
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I can't read the name on this one - will update tomorrow.
Ruthie
The unknown is H. imperialis...99,9% sure.
I also think the unknown is H. imperalis. Sure looks like it, anyway.
Mike
Your unknown that you can't read the name on looks like imperialis to me also. I can't wait to see blooms on mine. I got this imperialis in trade about 1 1/2 years ago, as a small rooted plant and it really began putting on growth this summer, possibly because I fed it a couple of times, LOL.
I love the foliage on ruthie ... is that one of the eriostemma's?
Lin - yes it is an eriostemma
Carol - you are correct it is H. imperalis. I couldn't read the tag from the picture and had to go and read it.
Lin, I like how you have yours supported. I need to do something like that before I bring mine in for the winter.
My imperalis is on a metal trellis but I'd like to find a taller one than it's on because I broke a couple of branches trying to wind it down, through and back up. I saw some kind of spiral shaped trellises at Target garden center a few weeks ago, they have the shape of a Christmas tree and came in three different sizes. I got the shortest one and used it for my Hoya cummingiana. I'm thinking about going back and getting a couple of other sizes but I think I might wait a few weeks because I have a feeling with fall coming they will go on clearance! I don't remember what I paid for the short one but I think it was $9.98 and I like it but it would look better with a really viney hoya growing all over it. If they reduce the prices enough I might buy a few of them in all different sizes.
Here's a picture I took earlier this week. The cummingiana is on the left, imperialis in the center and cv. Iris Marie on the right ...
Lin---hang in there! I got two of those Christmas tree shaped trellis's at K-Mart last Fall, on sale for like $5 apiece...I love them...I have my RHP on one, and the other is in reserve, waiting for my next really viney hoya to get big enough for it :-)...
Shelley
$5.00 ... that's a great price!! We have only one K-Mart left that hasn't shut down, I will have to check to see if they have them.