Hi-
I've seen this hoya listed as curtsii and curtisii.....
I am having a terrrible time trying to grow this. I had it in a greenhouse max 80 min 60 degrees. It sat for a long time and finally put out this sad leader. It didn't look too impressive, but it had aerial roots on it, so I figured I'd try mounting it. I put it on a tree fern slab with sphagnum moss. I have it hanging next to a macgillvarayii and carnosa and both of those are doing great.
Ideas?
Terri in Buffalo
(Hi, Carol!)
Hoya curtisii
Love your name...Triviologist!!! Good one.
H. curtisii was named after someone named Curtis....
This hoya is definitely an understory "likes shade" slow grower. Mine grows on the inside row of a 6' overhang and since it covers the pot, I don't have to water it much. I have another growing under the front overhang, that gets brighter indirect light and less water and it thrives. Yet another I put at the foot of a tree and it s l o w l y started to climb...I have seen it climb a smooth painted post!!! Perhaps your GH light is too intense? It does like ambient humidity and when I grew one on Tree Fern bark I kept the substrate very damp...it grew like gangbusters.
HTH
ok, awesome-
I'll move it down with the begonias and the like.
Besides, I have to make room for my incoming shipment :)
-terri
L O T S of room!!!
Carol....do you mean it likes outside humidity instead of applied humidity? Mine hangs under an oak tree, gets filtered light and the darn thing has not bloomed for me!
Thanks for the tips,
Sylvia
Today I noticed one of my big hanging pots with the vines on the 'dark' side reaching for the dark! I suspect that, to the plant, the lack of light may indicate a tree to climb up....it is a climbing fool. Mine blooms in the spring...
Sylvia...I think any kind of humidity is good...even hitting it with a hose (the water, of course)....;>)