Mark that is GORGEOUS!! Lovely photograph too!
Ann
July Buds N Blooms continued.......
If I tilt my head back at my desk, I look up into this: I've heard lacunosa is very popular this week. Wonder why...
Hi,
I haven't been lurking in a while. This year I'm finally getting some flowers and thought I would post a pic. Here's my Hoya cv Mathilde getting ready to bloom with 8 umbels, it's been blooming all summer.
Vilde
Also, my Hoya lobbii is getting ready to bloom for the first time.
Vilde
Wow! That is a very nice cv. Mathilde you got there. Keep us updated on the flowers!
Christina
Thanks Christina! I'm very excited, I received it last year as a small rooted cutting from Sweden. I will definitely post pics of flowers.
Vilde
My lobbii just opened today. I guess it's the time for lobbiis!
Christina
And little wightii var. palniensis is about to open.
And here's an update on the strange samoensis flowers. No normal flowers yet, but I'm hoping for the 3 that aren't open yet...
Those are some great pics and beautiful flowers! I wish I could get close-up pics like that! What kind of camera do you use?
Vilde
Vilde, thanks for posting those gorgeous photos of your mathilde and lobbii buds. Your plants are gorgeous! Make sure to post updates when the buds open!!!
Christina, as always, those blooms are simply smashing! I wonder why the samoensis has so many abnormal blooms? I kind of like them.
Ann
Just beautiful blooms everyone, must be the time of year for H. lobbii, and what a pretty color of flower it is.
Vilde your H. cv. Mathilde is sooo cute. Have you gotten any peduncles on your H. kanyakumariana? It sure looks nice and healthy. I have tried this hoya twice from cuttings, with no luck.
Marcy any updated photo's on your IML 50?
Ann, how do you treat your H. pusilla? I just can't seem to make this hoya happy. I received it as a full plant, but soon began to lose it. I have cut it way back and it still seems to be unhappy.
Tami...it is very much like H. lacunosa and H. obscura...
Carol
Tami, I keep mine in an east-facing window, where it gets about 4 hours of early morning sun, with a constant humidity of around 60% (I try and get the humidity level higher via periodic misting). The temperature in the room where the plant is, is generally around 70 degrees all year around (right now its up to nearly 80 degrees). Since I live in the Pacific Northwest, I am able to keep most hoyas right up next to the window, but I am not too sure if you can do that in AZ. Also, I don't really let the soil get too dry for too long. I hope this helps! Don't feel bad, I have just killed my megalaster (believe me, I tried everything!).
Ann
Sigh... :( I just love her leaves too. I didn't know she was going to be so finicky. Well she is getting the right light, so I guess I will work on her humidity level. Other wise she is going to Idaho....... with the obscura......
Thanks for the tips, it has helped alot
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Tami, I have several penducles on my kanyakumariana and it has bloomed three times already. The little flowers were so cute, and it's getting ready to bloom again soon!
Vilde
Nice to see you posting Vilde. You should join us more often. Congrats on the blooms.
OK....here is that IML 50 Thailand labeled hoya bloom finally opened all up. It is quite round but looks like a carnosa bloom to me. Must be a clone of it or something. Of course some of them look alike to me that are really different when examined more closely by experts.
Marcy
A closer look
Tami...I have my H. pusilla in a North window (bright light, but no sun). It has grown like gang busters this spring up until this heat wave. Now it looks kind of droopy so I keep checking it for water needs, but nope...doesn't need that. I guess it is just sulking with the heat. I love those leaves too. I thought it was a weed the way it had been growing all winter & spring. I even took a bunch of cuttings because I ended up with so much of it & all these longggg vines.It has never bloomed though so maybe some more sun would have helped that.
So if yours croaks....I have extra. Ha.
Marcy
Marcy, that is beautiful!!!
Tami, did you say you mist it? I mist my plants at least once in the morning, in the late afternoon, and evening. I also have a fan going so there is some light air movement. I hope this helps.
Ann
It does look like the carnosa Marcy, the leaves resemble my H. motoskei, well what I think to be H. motoskei, blooms will tell. Does the stem on this one start out purple? I will get this darn hoya ID if it's the last thing I do.
I figured H. pusilla hated the heat, I have her set way back from a eastern window. Ya know when you get a large shipment of plants and it takes you awhile to adjust them and figure out where they will do best. This is what happened to her, and I let her get to dry and hot. Def. my fault, but she hasn't been happy since. I am going to get her repotted out of her clay pot tomorrow and down in the cool shade. My lacunosa, bella, and cv. sunrise are just loving it down in the cool shade with the misters running. But thanks Marcy I will keep you in mind if she croaks all the way.. :)
Ann, I do mist alot, I would say 5 times a day. They all have humidity trays under them to. I think I just need to keep her wetter. Seems like she grows a leaf and then a leaf will turn yellow and fall off. Just a never ending battle with her.
Vilde, please share your photo's when she blooms.
Thanks again for the advice. I have been doing alot of plant shuffeling this week !!!
Well Buddy finally gave up some blooms. He blasted he's buds 3 times. I moved him into more light, have been watering him more and blasted him with the messenger, So now I don't know which helped... If you all remember this is the H. verticillata that my sister gave me because she didn't want to be in charge of so many bloom spurs... ???? Ha Ha she cracks me up. There are 18 more peduncles developing umbels in different stages. It is also a different color than my other verticillata, so I'm happy about that.
The blooms on this verticillata are a white with pink freckles on the backs of the corolla.
This one has a tinge of green to it. It is such a reliable bloomer, I think this is her 4th time this year.
OK, I've looked at all the blooms; maybe not read all the posts though. I got sidetracked way back in the thread. Marcy, your Bella in bloom knocked me out. My very first experience with hoya was in maybe 1974? I was wandering around San Diego County, being new to the area (1973 from Indiana) and found this guy with a greenhouse in maybe somewhere close to Vista? Don't really remember except that the area was nothing but avocado and orange trees (boy are those days gone). He was pretty bizarre, wearing a long white robe and with a shaved head. And his greenhouse was the weirdest thing I'd ever seen. He had burned-out long flourescent bulbs, horizontal, stacked on top of each other for the sides of his greenhouse. Claimed that some boys were playing softball next to it and the ball didn't break the glass. Whatever, it was amazing and I'll never forget it. In the center of this greenhouse was a pole going to the peak. And planted at the bottom of that pole was this plant that twined up around the pole and then cascaded down from the ceiling, covered with these awesome sugar-coated, totally fairyland to me, blooms. I remember their scent made me immediately have "The Sugarplum Fairy" dancing in my head. And I never forgot that this plant was called Hoya Bella. I still don't have one. I still want one. Yours is gorgeous and brought all those memories back. Anybody know a great place to find one that wouldn't take ten years to get to a decent size?
Tami, that verticillata is absolutely gorgeous!!! I can't believe the peduncle in the one picture - that thing has been blooming for years. Yes, I have noticed that my pusilla gets really cranky with me if I let it get too dry, so it just sounds like the clay pot was letting it get dryer quicker than your other plants. It ought to bounce back for you really quick!
Hi, stellapathic. Glad to meet you! Do you remember the colors of those blooms? The reason I ask is because I think the bella is more of a shrubby/bushy kind of plant, rather than a climber/twiner. I wonder if it was a minibelle or a carnosa? Either way, I think it is so wonderful that you have such a funky and fond memory!!!
Ann
You know Ann, you're probably right, now that I look at the leaves and structure of the plant. I just always assumed that guy knew what he was talking about and have carried around that notion of Hoya bella for thirty years, lol. Probably carnosa. Which I have. Now I only need to stay in one place for 15 years so it can grow up a pole and cover the porch ceiling. I remember walking through his greenhouse, looking at all his plants and he warned us about getting sticky droplets in our hair from the flowers. I said "what flowers?" and then looked up. I was soooo amazed. Right then and there I decided I needed to check out these hoyas. Now I live in a place where they do beautifully, inside or out. Now that I have the garden in better control (I've lived here a year) I can maybe focus more on rounding out my collection. Any suggestions for a seller with a good variety?
Well, for the basic ones like carnosa, lacunosa, DS-70, etc. I would suggest checking out the big box stores like Home Depot, Lowes, people have even found them at walmart. Then, for less commonly sold varieties, I would suggest you check the plant scout at http://davesgarden.com/ps/ just type the word hoya and it'll list a few sellers for you.
I want to live in a place where I have a hoya growing from floor to ceiling too!!!
Ann
stellapathic Garden Watchdog is also an excellent place to check for companies that sell hoyas.
http://davesgarden.com/gwd/
Blessings,
Awanda
Yay, I am doing my happy dance ... my cv. Jennifer bloomed!!
What a pretty flower Ann. I like the two tone colors. What is going on with your leaves though?
Sorry, Tami. I darkened the photo so you wouldn't have to see the messy kitchen and it made the leaves look dark & unhealthy.
;-)
Ann
And, my H. camphorifolia has rebloomed too. Happy Happy dancing!
LOL your funny, and one heck of a fine tip. I'll have to remember to do that. The leave just looks like it has bumps or something. H. camphorifolia is beautiful, I just love that pink. I will have to put cv. Jennifer on my list, she is pretty.
All of you, nice blooms!
Ann, love that Jennifer and her abnormal flowers.
Here's wightii var. palniensis with a few flowers fully open.
Christina
Christina that is one fine-looking bloom!!
Ann
Ooops...
What's abnormal about Jennifers' flowers? Have you said anything to Jennifer? Does she know?
Nice wightii flowers Christina...always wondered what they looked like....
Carol
Carol, don't you see the weird coronas in Anns' cv. Jennifer photo?
Christina
OH YES...didn't enlarge the photo the first time...my old eyes missed them. Wierd...two of the lobes fused on some of them. Neat!!!