My DD:S Birtday gift.....Need help with Hoya Calycina

My daughter Hanna turned 13 today and she is into AV:s and Hoyas. She visits this forum often :0))
Today she got a Hoya Calycina as one of the birthday gifts from me and her brother and she needs help with this one.
What she needs to know is. should she put this one in full sunlight or just daylight or can it be grown in a shady (East/north/east)window etc.
Should she take this one of the "wire" its on and mayby let it climb around a window or do they do best hanging??
She knows about the re potting of Hoyas or should I say the NOT re potting :0))
All help she can get will be greatly appreciated
Janett

PS the velvetlike leaves on this one is 6 inches and it has started to form buds on one ??? and I dont want her to lose the buds.

Hi Janett. My calycina doesn't like strong sun, so I have it getting a little dappled sun - a shady window would be great. It will likely outgrow its hoop fairly soon, so probably something more substantial to grow up and/or creep around would be better. Mine didn't have a promising start. I got it as a young plant last summer, and it lost most of its leaves. It has recovered though, as I noticed new growth in early February, and it now has a very strong and healthy vine growing. Good luck to your daughter!
Christine

I have found H. calycina not too fussy...but bright indirect light seems to please it best! It is a heavy feeder..and grows quite rapidly out of its pot size. I would wait until she blooms to fuss with her...mine are blooming too and it is a treat worth waiting for!!!. Best to give it good support NOW because the stems/vines can be very stiff when they are older.

Carol HTH

Hanna says thank you very much. She had to read your answers herself :0)) good exercise with her English and she had to translate it all to me.
We will definitely look forward for its flowers to appear.
Janett & Hanna

Wow!!! Hanna what a great birthday gift. Be sure and send a photo when it blooms for you. Looks like it will for sure need a steadier support. Looks like a nice healthy plant. Should do great with all your great windows.. Hanna let me know if you want to try some cuttings of other hoya's and I will try to sneak some in with your moms DL package!!!! Congrats on being a teenager now. Happy Birthday....
Tami

Happpy Birthday Hanna.. Have a wonderful day. Your hoya is beautiful .
Patti

During the fall she herself with her own money bought cuttings from a Swedish E-bay like site I just said/ordered her how high she was allowed to go. She rooted and potted them up and they have started to grow. She lost a rooted and potted H. Wayetii that came with mildew and we discovered it to late to save the plant. All her hoyas and some of my plants got the darn thing. She has
H. Tzangii
H. Carnosa "Krinkle8" and "Krimson Queen"
H. Serpens
H. Australis
H. Sheperdell
H. Lacunosa
H. Parasitica
H. Pubicalyx
As long as she has the interest and live at home I wont get me any Hoyas. I do love them but wont go there for the risk of killing her interest. There is enough species around to get addicted to. I was trying to get her the
H. macgillivrayii but that one was all sold out. I had checked a few days before and then they had plenty of them. THAT is annoying to say the least. She always checks the Hoya actions and she frequently reads this and the AV forum. When she gets 16 years old I think she can wright good enough English and I will buy her her own subscription. I think you have to be 16 to post in here or??
Janett

Oh yea.... I see that little peduncle, trying to hide from the camera!!! Hanna you have a nice start to your collection. It can be very addictive, and Sweden seems to have lots of hoya's.... She said with a jealous tone to her voice.... Keep up the good growing and don't let your Mom hog all the window space!!!! If she is going to collect, she should know that her H. tsangii is really H. DS-70, there is a article in the forum about H. australis that she may find interesting as well.
What a good way for her to learn to read and write English. What other Hoya's are on her want list?
Tami

Hej Janett och Hanna!

Why wait until Hanna is 16 to post? She could write and you could post it!

Keep us updated on the progress of the calycina buds. They are SO worth waiting for!

I have the wayetti saved for Hanna and it has started growing now... AND the other ones she wished for!

Christina

Thank you Christina, She will be thrilled. She didnt know that I started this tread at first but after that, she has done nothing else but keep "nagging" me if she got someone "new" that had answered and I know when she comes home from scool today, the first question will be if she has gotten any new replies as she did this morning before I even had my first coffe. Our adress is in the extras.
Janett & Hanna

WOW didnt look at your pic at first just after I posted. DO YOU MEAN YOU WILL SEND THAT BEAUTY.
Janett

Well, when we talked before (D-mail) you wanted to get Hanna a new wayetii and I had cuttings on rooting. I've saved one for Hanna and I've kept my part of the bargain! It's just a baby plant in a 2 inch (5 cm) pot and it has 3 peduncles. Potting cuttings with peduncles can sometimes result in that they fall off, but this one has kept 3 - so far.

D-mail me and we'll talk more. It's too cold to send anything by mail.

Christina

If you have answered any of my old D-mails(with a new post) and not created a new D-mail those are totally lost. When I changed my nick all my old mails and folders are gone. They are somewhere on the servers and if you anwered them they whent there never to be seen my me, Sorry
Janett

This message was edited Mar 9, 2006 11:18 AM

When did you change your nick?

Christina

Little over a month ago
Janett

Thank you MyHoyas i have seen the photo on "my" hoya :O)) And it is a beautiful plant :O))
Hanna

Well that answered my next question, I was going to ask you if you knew Christina, MyHoyas, who also lives in Sweden. Hanna needs to check out her wonderful website, with all the great pictures.
Tami

I have already visited her web site :O))
Hanna

And now when the little teenager is asleep, I dare to post a picture of her with her Birthday cake. I guess she will strangel me tomorrow :0)
Janett

So that's how our newest and youngest (?) hoya addict looks like!

That cake looks good too... Yummie! Oh well, I'll get to eat cake too - tomorrow when my boyfriends mother turns 70. Can anyone guess what she'll get for her birthday?!?!

Christina

LOL Christina - make sure its in bloom!! That's how we foster new addicts....

She'll get flowers too, but NO hoya. This is her collection: http://www.myhoyas.com/egg%20cups.htm I know this is a little off topic, but it's an impressive sight worth showing.

Goodnight from Sweden!

Christina

PS. I knew you'd guess a hoya. There ARE other things, you know!

Oh yes I can see the addiction in her eyes... What a little cuttie pie. I don't think she will be home long after 18 with those big blue pretty eyes!!

Oh darn I could of guessed that one Christina... Egg Cups.... I will have to send you a photo of my newest. I think I found a real treasure. You will have to show your boyfriends mother this one. I have never seen one like it.

Hurry Spring
Tami

Christina, looks like she needs new shelves as a present too. I found the close up pictures too and its an awesome collection she has.
Hanna has the most strange colour to her eyes I have ever seen. They are not clearly marbled but they do change colour from the clear blue to dark gray and even to yellow. She has sooooooo thin lines of yellow in her eyes and some days they really glow.
I did mention the yellow to a friend and he said your nuts no one has yellow eyes, one day we where a group out with two boats and he turned around and was going to say something to Hanna and his jaw dropped. what the **** she HAS yellow eyes. I said..... I told you so and you didn't believe me rotflol.
Those days I call her my little yellow eyed witch........and some other days too when she is in a bad mood.
Janett

My husband has yellow in his eyes. I never saw it, until one day when we were out in the sun. It was crazy, now I see it all the time. We went to the science museum one day and put our eyes in this exhibit and sure enough, he had yellow throughout his blue eyes! I tell him it's the gypsy heritage in him. Your daughter is smart and beautiful, couldn't ask for much more!
Heather

What a beautiful daughter you have Janett. You are a wonderful Mom to be helping her with such a wonderful addiction.
:) Donna

Is that something to do with just blue eyes? I can see myself now checking out every ones eyes.... Maybe just the sunlight? Hmmm something else to ponder on..

Tami

Your daughter is just BEAUTIFUL Janett. That is a very ah..."trying" age she now enters. You are lucky she has a wonderful hobby like hoyas and plants to keep her busy. She is very sweet. Happy Birthday to her and congratulations to you for encouraging and feeding her interests.
Marcy

Hi Janett!
Oh this was so funny to read.
I am an hoyaaddict from Sundsvall and I have a daughter, Maya who is 11 years, absolutly love hoyas and orchides.
She loves the bella variants...all bellas.
This is her hoyas, big plants,
kerrii
2 bellas
tsangii
pubicalyx RHP
pubicalyx silver pink
and one dischidia ruscifolia.
This is her hoya wish-list,
bella `variegated´
bella `louis bois´...i killed her this winter :-(
wee bella

We also have the hoya engleriana, a mini-mini bella.

Yesterday we had a hoya-meeting here in (with Hoya-Marie, also here on DG) Sundsvall and Maya was with me, i think the other was very impressed of her hoyaknowledges.

She loves to take picture of my hoyaflowers, here is a pic from Maya.

Jeanett, du får gärna D-maila mig :-)

/ Maria

I am not allowed to water any of my daughters flowers since I overwatered one of her AV:s and killed it. OOPS didnt even think of feeling the soil since the others where totally dried out and this one was just more "hangy" so I watered it a "bit" more.
Your daughter is a good photografer, Just bought me a digicam this Christmas and have a hard time learning myself. I told Hanna just to tried the different setting, no sweat since its no developing cost on digicams. :0))
Janett

Wow Maria, tell Maya she takes gorgeous pictures!!! Btw, Janet, I forgot to mention Happy Birthday to Hanna!
Heather