No smell yet!
H. BSI-1 X australis
Your camera is just so awesome.. Looks so darn real, I thought I could smell it!! What kind of camera do you have again? It's just a beatiful flower.
Tammy
Tammy, its a pentax optio s40. It IS awesome, I used to hate taking pictures, and always started yawning when anyone got their camera out, but this is so much fun! And plants are easier subjects then people.
Wow...what a beautiful flower. Sort of has the shape of the australis but in a pink form. I have never seen the BSI-1. Where did you get this combo from?
Marcy
I got this plant as a cutting from Carol at Aloha Hoyas. Who hybridized it Carol? I think it was Ed Gilding?
That's right, Mark. It sure bloomed quicklly for you. How are the leaves?
I stopped offering this plant because the leaves would start looking chlorotic, and like they were dying...but it is the PLANT...something genetic in it. Mark really wanted to try it so I sent a cutting. I am hoping someone will find a way to grow this plant where the leaves don't look sick and sunburned!!!
WOW!!
I think the real name for this lovely hybrid is Hoya cv Pinkie, at least mine has that name and i got mine from Torill Nyhuus here in Sweden. But i have just a small one.......
With thoose lovely pink flowers, Hoya cv Pinke is a suitable name for this hoya.
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I've seen Ted Green sell one australis/SBI-1 cross as cv Pinkie as well, but are they all clones? Carol, do you know if Ed Gilding sent out cuttings or are they seedlings? Still no smell!
Beautiful flower !! I love the color. How does the plant look? Is it a good grower for you?
Hi Mark, great flowers. Bet you feel they were worth waiting for, now that they're open. What size are they?
Have they been open in the evening yet? Maybe the scent will come then. I'd think it unusual that 2 very highly fragrant species would produce an offspring that had no scent, but I guess you never can tell. Looking forward to the update!!
Matt
Sigh....this is just beautiful, and even if it doesn't smell, it's okay:-).
Blessings,
Awanda
Hoya cv. Pinkie may or may not be a valid name. This is the same cross that Ed. did, and cuttings from an entirely different seedling...wait, not clear. Someone else did a cross of H. australis X BSI-1 and that is one Ted Green has. Ed did his own cross and gave me a cutting of it. Mine does have a scent, here.
What are the leaves like, Mark?
Carol, the leaves look fine so far, it's just barely rooted and hasn't grown any new leaves yet. Keep your fingers crossed for me! (incidentaly, I repotted SBI-1 in a new planting mix per your suggestion, the new mix is 2/3 good quality potting mix and 1/3 perlite. Hopefully it will improve with the richer soil.)
The flowers on SBI-1 X australis are 1", or would be if the corollas were fully extended, they cup slightly.
And... of course I got up in the middle of the night (around 2am, shouldn't that be on the hoyaholic warning signs list?) to check for a fragrance, and... yes! It is fragrant. Oddly, its not a particulary striking scent. Sweet, and suits the beautiful pink flowers well, but so far not of the note of either of it's parents. Not australis' heavy honeysuckle or SBI-1's fruit fragrance, it's merely pretty. Maybe like the old notion of two people of superior intellect often producing rather dull children. Oh well, it's still a lovely flower! Very delicate, and with a nice porcelin finish.
That is a beautiful flower! Love to color!
Whatever it's true identity, it sure is pretty!
Fantastic picture. Just perfect!!!
Wow are the flowers are so beautiful! Great picture. I have had my plant since 1997 and still no blooms! I guess I need to have a long and serious chat with my plant. No threats, just constructive encouragement.
Deb
No, Deb, threats! Threats work!
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Lovely photos! I've shown them to my little cutting... doubt it will help, though...
Carol, have you had this in bloom? If so, are the flowers like naumanii? Just looking at photos of the flowers they look similar, but I have both plants and I have to say that the leaves of naumanii gets a lot bigger but other than that they look similar. At least to me they do.
Christina
Christina...yes, the flowers are VERY much like H. naumanii...but they smell differently to me. The leaves on the hybrid Ed gave me are much more like H. australis (thicker, different shape) than the H. naumanii, tho' and the new growth on the H. naumanii is a lot different....
Still...a pretty pretty flower!