How did I miss the Hoya Forum

I'm a hoya nut as you can tell by my Hoya Page http://www.cindys-stuff.com/hoya.htm . How did I miss this forum?

Welcome to our small but growing group Cynthia.
Hmmm haven't I seen you in another Hoya Group before?Anyways I'm another Hoya Nut here so now I don't feel so alone anymore LOL.
Your above Pic looks like EA baskets of H. lacunosa, picta and possibly tsangii.
For me locally there are once in awhile EA baskets with Hoyas but mostly with lacunosa and compacta. Waiting to see some others here and waiting especially for a EA Dischidia pectinoides ;). I do hate the soil they are using and the missing ID's but they are always very well grown plants (when you catch them early) for a good price.
Milan

Edited for having spell check but using it only after posting :)
And writing nummularioides instead of tsangii eeeek!

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I'm so glad someone posted today! Last night I was worried that if we don't keep this going, Dave'll decide the subject's not worthy for a whole forum. I just love my budding hoya collection. Things are a bit slow at the moment as it's a little chilly for growth. But I think I saw a bloom in the dark last night. I'll go out in the morning and get a picture. Cindy, I'm off to visit your hoya page. There's something magical in a hoya. I'm not sure what, exactly - maybe it's because the flora is so unassuming and the flowers are like something the sugarplum fairy would wear in her hair.

To me the whole Asclepiadaceae Family just gets me going LOL.
Currently waiting for my H. kentiana flower buds to open. This one has been slow growing and is still very small but already working on flowering.
Just a quick shot this night so quality is not the best.

Hi Everyone
PanamomCreel, do you think it is nummularioides. Everyone I asked said the middle plant was Tsangi and the one on the right Picta. I'm trying my best to properly ID them. They are EA plants. Here is a better picture of tsangi???
Cindy

This is a picture of Picta??????

yep looks like tsangii and picta

Cynthia, welcome to the Hoya forum. I only have 2 but hope to get more. One is Carnosa or something like that with varigated leaves that start out with a pink tint to them. KathyJo sent it to me. My other one is green with white splotches like paint spatters on some of the leaves, neither has bloomed yet. When they do I'll probably be bouncing off the walls.

You will definitely do some heavy breathing. I lost about 8 hoyas last year in a house fire and they were all blooming size. The look of the blooms and the smell was wonderful. I started collecting again and have about 20 different hoyas now. Most of them are cuttings right now, but they will get there.
Cindy

Cynthia, I'm sorry you lost your nice plants in the fire. Was your house a total loss? How long ago? How large do hoyas have to be before they bloom? I would like to get more kinds but have to wait until spring before it would be safe to have any come by mail. Where did you get all your replacements? I can't recall ever seeing any for sale in nurserys.

I missed this forum too,I don't have one,but I love them,my mother has one.
Guess that gives me something to shop around for.
Great Forum Dave.
Root.

My house fire was March of last year. Everything except the basement had to be rebuilt. The fire started in the sunroom where most of my plants were. I lost 100+ plants. Hoyas don't need to be very large, just root bound. I have gotten mine from Pike's Nusery, Lowe's, Paul Shirley's, and Ebay. I have gotten some nice hoyas from the cowboyman on ebay. His web site is http://www.secretgardenrareplants.com/table.cfm

Cindy

Thanks for the cowboyman's link Cindy. I'll be doing some shopping.

Thank you Cindy, I just checked out the link, there is lots of variety even if I stayed with the least expensive. I'm glad you are rebuilding your collection.

I have also bought from cowboyman on ebay. He has some excellent hoyas, good sized plants and healthy. I believe the collection he offers on ebay of 7 different plants is a very good value. The hindu ropes come 3 to a 4" pot. I got mine just 2 or 3 months ago and they have really grown a lot. Good luck to you Cynthia.

Molly

I love my three hoyas too. Never had one bloom as they are only newly rooted cuttings, but a couple of the knuckles are starting to swell a whole lot! I keep my vareigated one on my unheated back porch (sheltered from frost), and she's really rooting and kicking some buns.

Panama has that Kentiana opened yet. I have one, but it has not bloomed yet.
Cindy

Yes it already had opened. Flowers only lasted about 5 days though.
http://plantsdatabase.com/showpicture/32557/

Oh, very pretty. It makes me anxious to have a hoya in bloom.

I want one!!!!! Do I just order these babies from anywhere or is there a certain place better than others?

Tina

Hi Tina,
Hoyas are not found too often in stores. The most common ones available are Hoya carnosa, pubicalyx, tsangii, picta, lacunosa, kerrii and bella (lanceolata ssp. bella).
These can sometimes be found in Garden center and most often than not are nice full (but mostly without ID) EA baskets.
For the more uncommon ones make a search under Category "Hoyas" in the Gardenwatchdog to find Mail order companies for them. There You'll also find buyer comments identifying their satisfaction with them. Note that most sell only cuttings of Hoyas to sometimes very high prices.
Last but not least try E-Bay.

Hope that helps

Thanks for your help;)

ooops, forgot to put the Gardenwatchdog link in my prev. post, well here it is:
http://gardenwatchdog.com/advanced.php?category=107&submit=Search

I've been slowly browsing the different forums since I joined DG and just dropped by to find out what this is about. Hoyas are gorgeous ... I'm hooked!

I've been browsing for hours now and am impressed with: l. coronaria, 2. multi-flora, and 3. purpureo-fasco "Silver Pink". These are available at http://www.robsviolets/.com (I also love african violets.) Do any of you have experience with these?

Rob's Violets is at http://www.robsviolet.com/

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I dunno about H. corinaria, only info I got is that it is a species native to Thailand.
H. multiflora is relatively easy to grow non succulent species that flowers in an early stage but is prone to "bud blast". H. multiflora likes to be well watered and some people even have its pot stand in a saucer of water.
There is no such thing as an H. purpureofusca cv. Silver Pink and the one at robsviolets is most likely H. pubicalyx cv. Pink Silver. The corona lobes of purpureofusca flowers are fully brownish red colored whereas the ones on pubicalyx are white on the outer corona lobes. Also the foliage of purpureofusca is heavily veined and looks identical to H. cinnamomifolia foliage.
BTW your link to robsviolets above does not work due to a "/" typo in it.
Hope that helps and don't hesitate to ask, but please create a new thread if you have more questions since this one is getting a bit long :)

I just got a plant called a "rope plant" The person I got it from says its a hoya but I have my doubts. Anybody ever heard of it?

It may be a Hindu Rope, (h. compacta) check into www.plantsdatabase.com look under Hindu Rope

You were right Molly. Thanks a bunch

Tina

Cynthia, hoody glad to see your name here.

You certainly have some whoppers, please tell how you grow them, and what species do you have? How long have you been growing these beauties? Good light, or bright shade. They look wonderful?

Hi Crasulady2
Some of them were bought as large plants. I grow all of my hoyas in a suroom that recieves afternoon sun. I have only had these hoyas for about 2 years or less. I have bought most of the large ones at Pike's Nursery. I had about 10+ hoyas that I lost in a house fire in 2002. Most of them are still small cuttings. So far I have:
albiflora
archboldiana
australis ssp. tenuipes
australis ssp. keysii
bella
camphorifolia
caudata
compacta (hindu rope)
compacta variegated
cornosa
ciliata
cumingiana
fungii
heuschkeliana
imperialis
kentiana
kerrii
lacunosa
macgillivrayi
meliflua fraterna
meredithii
multiflora
obovata
obscura
pauciflora
picta
pubicalyx
scortechinii
shepherdii
splash
tsangii




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You have a great collection going. I am growing mine on the north side of my house in a tiny hothouse, I know I need more light. I do have lights up, but only turn them on when we have dark days. I have a heater and a fan in there as well, the fan starts up at 80F the heat at 70F and on nice days I leave the doors opened. I have more species than you do, but more is not necessarilly better. Quality if important and the documentation should be intact.

I am so glad this forum is working out for all of you, will you all report when you see umbels. Some blast or fall off, which is really a big dissappointment. What are we doing wrong? What causes this problem? Why do my rooted cuttings rot off or die, is it because of fungus, rot, drying out? Have any of you started using Eleanor's VF 11 product, it is great.
Here is a phone # where it can be ordered 188 711-8585

It has been working on all my plants. Here is another mail order place http://www.kartuz.com he is very slow mailing out his plants, he can't keep up with his orders, you can only take so many cuts off a plant in a year. Then there are the slow growing species. It takes forever before you can take the first cut. There are several overseas mailorder houses, but I would stay away from those until you learn how to take cuttings and are successful in rooting them.

I think I have a # where you can get the old Hoyan journals.
they run about $13.00 ea. plus postage. She may also mail order plants? I look up this email address later for you.
The name is Lois Duffy, she is a grand lady.

Milan what are the rules of mailing into Canada. Can they be sent with no roots or soil. That means I must trim off airiel roots from the stems? Crasulady 2

Hiya Norma,
sorry for the late reply but been extremely busy lately and thus rarely on DG.
Plants can be imported with roots and soil but may complicate it. It has to be indicated on the import permit if the plants are unrooted cutting, rooted plants, if and what type of soil used.
I do recommend unrooted cuttings if it's chanced to send them without permit across the border.

WoW! I just spotted this Forum.
I have several Hoya I inherited from my Mom. Not even sure what kind they are. The largest one has dark maroon/brown blooms & smell like chocolate. (oh darn) I have one spotted one & one with pink edges. Neither of those have bloomed. I really don't know much about them, how much water they like or light, what kind of soil they like. So far they are doing ok, & I have had them since Feb. I'll take some pics of them & post them. Then maybe someone can tell me what they are.
Bj

Welcome to the Forum Bj.
Some say that H. carnos flowers smell like chocolate but the flowers are light pink.
Waiting for your pics and maybe we'll be able to ID your Hoyas here.

Cynthia, the same I did, and I started this forum. Norma