I finally got this picture posted. It's on a 3 1/2 floppy. The second picture ever.
This is my Hoya,
Actually, I bought a smal hanging hoya at an estate sale last friday for 1.00. Different stems. Browner, drier, with bumpy nodules.
I hope it's not a disease!
Anybody want to guess? I can't wait to name her.
Thanks,
Debbie
ANOTHER...
And one more....
What a wonderful looking plant. How long have you have this one? Has it bloomed? I am not sure of the name, but it sure is a nice big one. Why don't you take a picture of the one you just got at the estate sale. Maybe some one can tell if it is diseased. Good luck! Binky :)))))
Thanks Binky.
I think that this Hoya is beautiful and I'm concerned about the weather. It's the first. I bought it early septemtember, I think.
It is very heavy and difficult to move without a dolly due to it's height and trellis.It would be a bummer to loose it.
Pic #2 shows one of the Catteleyas I bought at the same time.
I posted about this Hoya after I aquired it.
Aye carumba! I've got to start checkin' out Estate sales!!!! Great plant! K
What a bargain!!! WOW. What you have is a very healthy good looking H. carnosa...Ay Caramba is right. A plant that size would go for 10 times that in bloom, especially!!! And it looks big enough to be blooming. Do you see any peduncles (rachis) along the vines!
Great Going!!!
Carol
Carol,
I think I see some peduncles. I'm not really sure what they look like. It appears to have alot of little bumps on the stems. God I hope they're not bugs!
comparing the big one to the little one, the stems are more elegent if this makes sense.
the new hoya's two main stems are very thich, like an old plant,one almost as thick as string ncheese.
The leaves look healthy, the same color and length as my not so little princess, only more narrow with a few specks. this also has bumps. there are things growing at the leaf joints that remind me of small soft pinecones. Could these be rachis? The only thing I did to this plant is give it a bath. Looked like she'd been hiding in the flowerbed under a shrub for awhile.
My next door neighbor has several hoyas, I'll show them to her.
I'll see if I can borrow a friends camara, too.
Big girl's stems look pretty good. I brought her in the house tonight, temp in the mid 40's tonight and my hubby is in Colorado for a week.
the tips are super perky and there are pieces of 'stem tissue' growing from the leaf joints.Can't tell if this is new or old growth. It all looks the same to me.
Peduncles...funny name for it...are small "stem" looking growths, coming out of a leaf node (between the leaf stem and the vine) and they look like small microphones. In hoyas, some have long peduncles and some are quite short...some hoyas keep their peduncles from blooming to blooming, and some drop them, only to form them again when ready to rebloom from the same spot. On the hoyas that keep their peduncles, the "rachis" is the part at the top where the flowers have come out (equivalent to the black foam part of the microphone), and this part grows longer and longer with each blooming. Some people call the peduncles "spurs"... Sounds like your "pinecones" fit the bill!
They are often not too obvious...gotta look behind the leaves...they like to hide and then surprise us!!!
You re going to have fun with that beauty!!!
Carol
