My H. kerrii is FINALLY gearing up to bloom! It has had about 9 umbels (right term?) on it for a year now. One is beginning to push the flowers. I will take pics soon, I notice the Plant Files reference does not show any in bloom, so I will ad mine if no one else does. Wow, I'm really happy!
Karen :~D (big smile!)
Hoya kerrii....finally!
I get blooms every year from my all green one, but those darn variegated ones are sooooo slow to do everything. They only grow a couple of leaves a year it seems. I have yet to get a bloom on one of them. However, they are my favorite and I love looking at those leaves. They are all different, and they look almost fake.
Marcy
Congrats KC! My kerrii is also blooming and dripping nectar everyplace, but at least it's on the ground!!
Blessings,
Awanda
Hoooooooray, Karen. Yes, please post pics!!!
Carol
I will, thanks all! Sharing a long awaited success makes it so much sweeter! If mine is as "drippy" as Awanda's I may place it just outside the kitchen in the afternoons when I get home to share with the hummingbirds! Wouldn't they be happy!
Karen :~D
Yay! The first one opened, and now 9 others are on the way! DD Megan is standing in for Vanna. :~D
Karen
The obligatory close-up!
I noticed about 3 weeks ago buds on my variegated kerrii ( bought last Fall). How long do I have to wait to see it bloom? I read - a year?
Ursula
DD Megan is a hoya head in waiting if I ever saw one!
DD loves my plants, too. When she gets her own place one day she will inherit some plant buddies to keep her company! I can't wait to see the flowers of the variegated one....why don't you show it my blooms, maybe that will motivate it! LOL
K
Your plant is beautiuful and Megan is absolutely precious! Congratulation on your blooms!
Very nice Kerri you have there. And Megan sure is a cutie.
Thanks so much. Meg is my best little buddy and all around great kid. The plant is one of my largest! Yay!
:~D
Oooh...beautiful!
I have a small plant of the the 'darned slow tempermental' variegated kerrii , (lol!)
and have some cuttings of the green kerrii on their way to me as we speak...now I know what I have to look forward to!
My variegated kerrii opened yesterday. Happy!!
I bought this plant last Fall. When I saw it in the store, I remembered having read about it on this forum. It followed me home...
Nice! Lucky you, those are the first blooms I've seen on the variegated kerrii.
Cindy
Oh! They look like tiny red beads with little white feather boas! How cute!!! I look forward (in my elderly years....LOL) to enjoying that bloom on mine! Thanks for sharing, it's sooooooo fun to see!
Karen :~D
Today, In Wallmart, I saw variegated H. kerrii in 2 gal. pots. thick on a 24" hoop for 20.00. Heck...I would sell it for more...lovely plants!!!
Carol
I "scope out the plant shelf" wherever I go. DD just says, "Mom!" (use a winey voice) "...don't you have ENOUGH plants?" LOL Came home today with a handful of little leaves and starts from the (Walmart) succulent shelf. They were sitting on the shelf, some careless person broke them off the plants! (HONEST!!!!! THIS time at least! they were callused over and everything!) I took them to the check-out with my purchase and said, "I found these little guys laying on the shelf under the cactus. I just can't bear to let them die in the sun, may I take them home?" The checker said, "sure" and got out a little bag for them. Ha!!! SCORE!!! DD just rolled her eyes. LOL
K
Thanks Susan. No it wasn't hard to train, it seems to like the support. DD, my lovie buddy. :~) I wanted a pic of the Loropetalum,used here amazingly well in a commercial planting! The little hambone said, "Now take a pic of ME" LOL
Karen
Definitely cuter than the plant!!!
LOL
Is Kerrii one of the hoyas that likes to be pot bound? I thought I'd read that a lot of them do. I just got one yesterday. I also got a pot the next size up, but didn't repot it yet. Should I wait?