Thanks Christine! Yes, please post pictures Dominic of the entire plant, I really want to see a smaller plant with blooms. Also, it will give hope to many people who don't have a plant as big as mine that they can bloom this thing too!
Doug
Magical Mystery Macgillivrayi or Happy Halloween Hoya
almost..............casi..................just might get my first glimps tonight......:))
The bud touching your index finger will pop tonight I'm sure!
Doug
Doug: I could never get tired of viewing photo's of that one, whether the entire plant, leaves, blooms ... it is just beautiful!
Dominic: Looks like you are going to be a Mac Daddy real soon, those buds do look like they are ready to pop. It's so much fun watching and waiting for these things to bloom, isn't it?
Someday I might add a Mac to my meager collection, and you better believe I will be a protective, impatient but excited expectant mom if I were to see the sign of one little peduncle! I wouldn't allow anyone within ten feet of that baby, LOL.
Great growing to both of you " Mac Dads"!
Ditto that PPL!
I will be on the hunt for one of those when we get back to the states in a year or 2. Such an all-around beautiful plant!
"Mac Daddy" good one Lin **grinning**
Hmm...this 'Mac Daddy' is still waiting..still not open yet.......
Well, Mac Daddy ... keep pacing, keep pacing ... you know how babies are, they take their sweet time! Lil' Mac will bloom, but only when he's ready! ^_^
Well done!!!! Macgillivrayi is hard for me to get to bloom. The ONLY one I had bloom was one I put out on a tree and against all conventions it bloomed. I have at least 12 bigger plants and NONE of them have bloomed, but one has peduncles. This is the season when they want to grow drier (cool and dry in the winter) and mine are putting out tons of new growth. Archboldiana is blooming! Crazy!!! Australia has some gorgeous hoyas, eh? I got all the Macs because I wanted to see which flower I liked best....the tags all faded so I have no clue... I am noticing a lot of new growth right now which I had never noticed before this time of year....
YEEEEEEEAY.!
Its a Boy..!!!!
Finally..........
Stunning flower......Huge......will upload a couple of pics, then Im gonna show how small the plant is in another pic
Dominic
BIG FLOWERS
Congratulations
How wonderful! They are beautiful!
This is not the best photo, but it shows you how small the plant is. It has about 20 leaves ( its covered in dust at the moment cos I have builders here . Im just about to go and hose them all down to clean them , a daily chore at the moment ).....so, there is hope for small young plants to flower
Dominic
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Congratulations Papa Dom, on the first bloom of your Baby Mac! ... such a pretty bloom!
I'm really taking a liking to the looks of the Hoya's with huge flowers! I might have to try a Mac next spring! I've been seeing pic's of (I think) archboldiana? on another thread too. At least I think that's the one. Is archboldiana an Eriostemma's one with the large blooms? I need to go look a couple of them up, I get so confused.
Anyway, I'm so glad Doug and Dominic have shared photo's of their gorgeous Mac blooms ... it sure is a pretty flower.
Gorgeous... You really grow, Dom!!!
I really never expected the buds to follow thru when they started as the plant was so small.....but, must it be a happy bunny with the climate here. This H mac is the 'Mt Tozer' clone.......Its just staring to get dark here and theres a very nice perfume starting to emit, will see how it develops during the night....;)).
Not sure its my growing Carol....Torill did tell me a few years back that the climate here would be good for Hoyas...so far so good. I have now 4 rooted lauterbachii's ready to experiment with outside from under the shade cloth..fingers crossed.
I would say that this particular mac clone has been getting direct sun in the afternoons, where as my other clones havent, just bright filtered sun. They havent flowered yet, but Im going to move them a little forward to get some direct sun.
Have my H imperialis 'Alba' budding up now.....will be watching that one closely
Dominic
Congratulations Dominic! and Wow you were not kidding when you said the plant can bloom small. That photo really should give everyone hope that this is a plant that anyone can bloom. I'm really wondering though if there is something genetically special with some of these clones that make some Macs much easier to bloom than others. I'm beginning to think it might be the luck of the draw as to whether someone is lucky enough to get a bloomer. I say that because there are some really experienced growers, that know how to grow Hoyas far better than I, that can't get their Macs to bloom. I'm thinking that if someone really wants to blooms this Hoya, they would do best to get several clones from different vendors to improve their odds.
Doug
Did you say you werent too keen on the fragrance at first, right Doug? I must say...I've brought it in my studio tonight and I love the fragrance.......Fills the room, is quite strong, but sweet and not overpowering, like perfume.....unlike say H thompsonii, which is also blooming for me, but too heavy a perfume to be in the house......Impressive at first, then gets a bit cloying. Not this one. This one is something akin to Lily of the Valley...but its not that either .....very refreshing, the perfume. Deffinitely going be growing this very near to the house when its finished.
Dominic
Beautiful Prop! Isn't it neat to hold ONE flower in your hand like that? So different from most of the other hoya.
hmm ... How many clones of this one are there? ^_^ I can envision a garden of Big Mac's!
Dominic,
You also got H thompsonii to bloom - I can't even get it to grow. The climate there must be absolutely perfect for Hoya cultivation. I envy you! Hoya nummularioides has completely obscured any other smell in my house, and it is like you say cloying, so I can't really smell the Mac this go around. I can't take my nummularioides outside, because it would freeze in short order.
Doug
I took some cuttings of thomsonii a couple of years ago off the mother plant Doug. 1 pot of cutings is growing, albeit slowly, copmaed to the mother plant, but the other pot hasnt moved at all in 2 years....it does seem a little temperamental
Dominic