I my newly potted doesn't seem to be "thriving" like I think it should. However, I don't know what thriving for an incurvula means.
Does it like to be kept moist, or dry out a little bit between waterings?
What kind of light does it prefer?
etc., etc.
Thanks all!!!
Ann
Hoya incurvula - growing conditions
I a couple in the greenhouse...bright light, water. I have another hanging outside under a tree...lots of rain, shade...the one outside seems happier as it blooms more. Hmmmm, maybe it blooms when it is unhappy????
Hi Ms. Kitty. This is the first chance I've had all day to look into what was going on in DG. I'm going to send a couple of pictures. One is the plant that was wrongly being called H. incurvula for a few years and the other one is H. brevialata, which was the correct name for the one being called incurvula. I hope you can figure out what I'm saying...I'm getting dizzy just typing it.
If you can pin down which picture is the one you have, I can probably tell you which is the best way to grow it. The number one with all the flowers is actually H. brevialata. The number 2 picture is H. incurvula
OOP's I got em backwqards...the first one (NO FLOWERS) is H. incurvula. Not because it has curved leaves like some seem to think but because of the coronal scales that swoop down from the very tip where the corona meets at the top and curves up at the ends. This number 2 picture should be H. brevialata unless I mess it up again.
Ann
Here is how I tell the difference: brevialata on the left, incurvula on the right
OMG look at the blooms on the H. brevialata! What are you feeding that thing?
Pimpette. what is everyone, including me, finding in the EA baskets? H. brevialata? I have to go yank a leaf tomorrow.
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Oh, btw Miss Kitty, mine isn't thriving either. Somewhere I got the idea that it likes a little sun. I've tried sun, no sun, water, minimal water, sheesh.....
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I had two of those EA baskets of "whichever one it is". They both bit the dust after a few months. I think it is the EA soil. Even tho I tried to let them dry out from the soggyness...it was still too wet I think. Also, one of them got too cold because I let it out too long in the fall. I tried cuttings, lost them too. I just decided it was not the hoya for me. Some I have luck with...others...forget it.
That one with all the blooms is a lovely sight though.
Marcy
Ann...looking at the bases of the leaves...do those look the same?
I'll just show ya what I'm talking about. It is just a very unhappy (angry?) plant.
Any ideas as to how to make it happy?
Ann
I would say there is something "a miss" with the roots....like they are rotted or dying. Why don't you tip the plant out and check them?
It's back in a glass of water - dead roots.
But, in the meantime, what conditions does it like to live in?
Ann
I've had this EA Hoya for awhile - I think it's brevialata, but I could be wrong. I've had trouble with the leaves looking dehydrated like that, too. What I did was take cuttings of all the dehydrated ones, leaving the nice "plump" leaves. The dehydrated ones rooted fine and have started to put on new growth. The old dehydrated leaves look better now, too. I think it just needs more moisture than a lot of them, but I did repot it out of the EA soil when I got it, so that has probably helped. My main plant is growing like crazy right now. I think the key is keeping an eye on it and not letting it get too dry.
Denise in Omaha
Thanks Denise. I suspect I let the newly-potted cutting dry out too much.
Ann
That brevialata photo looks manipulated. The umbels look identical with the same light green leaf and stem underneath it.
Here's a photo of three leaves all found on the same plant. I bought it as H. incurvula 'Sulawesi', but was told it was brevialata...
Christina
I have had two of the EA ones also, i repotted both of them, but last year i lost both. They just started declining and i could never get them back. Im like Marcy, its just not the hoya for me!!
Mine were happiest when I had them rooting in water. Could I just keep them in water?
Ann