I didn't realize how much this hoya had grown until I repotted it yesterday. I've had it about 4 years but still no flowas.
Blessings,
Awanda
Hoya Teretifolia
Nice plant Sistah! How is that awesome H. retusa doing? Has it taken over your greenhouse yet?
Awanda. That plant is awesome! Sadly, the little cutting you sent me a couple of years ago never made it out of the box (we can blame USPS for that). You GROW girl!
Carol
Mel my retusa hasn't quite taken over the greenhouse, but it's going to need one of its own soon:-). Carol, I do remember sending you that gift box of cuttings and you telling me you left the teretifolia cutting in the box for a couple of days because you didn't know I sent it. That's too bad it's such an awesome plant!!
Blessigns,
Awanda
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That is really a great looking plant, Awanda. Four years, huh? Even if it is a slow grower, it has enough personality to make up for it!
Oh, Awanda...you must have hoya piggy ME confused with someone else...the box never lasts 5 mins before it is shredded and hoyas in place..... Why...never would I do that.... lol...the boxes are usually opened by the time I get to my car!!! LOL.
Mark I agree with you, it has a wonderful personality and it's also a bit of a water hog! Blooms or not it's kewl!!
Blessings,
Awanda
What a darling plant.. I have never heard of this hoya befor. Very Kewlio.....
Awanda...can you share your success secret with H. teretifolia? I found two cuttings from DL rooted just fine...and I don't want to lose them. Drier than most? Low light?
Thanks,
Carol
Oh wow, I didn't know David had this one. Hmmmm I better check it out or ask him if he does have it for my spring order ;O
OOOOps...misspoke...they are from Ted Green. But I am sure David has them too...
HmmmmAwanda must be away.
Great plant Awanda..............
As I wrote in the above post my Teretifolia is a water hog. I grow it in indirect sunlight. Tami David does not have this hoya. I purchased mine from Kartuz's about 4 years ago. Thanks Sandy!
Blessings,
Awanda
BTW - for anyone interested...I just learned this morning that this is the hoya that Ted Green named H. acicularis. There is some doubt if it IS a hoya... I love the leaves...
I have an 'itty-bitty' one of these plants that I, too, bought from Kartuz last year....and I've noted that it has *finally* started growing, has grown about 4" in the past month or two.
Carol, hope you know the answer to this.....if there's doubt that it's a hoya....why is it named, at all?
Working on that...also the care and feeding thereof. Hope to have more information later.
Christine Burton, being her usual helpful self, has this to say on the subject in a recent post on the MSN forum regarding this thread:
" There was doubt. Mr. Green, who named it Hoya aciculatis, thought it was a Dischida when he first started listing it in his catalogs. Michael Miyashiro and I were selling it as a Hoya for at least 5 years before Mr. Green conceded that it was a Hoya. How did we know and he didn't know it was a hoya? Elementary, my dear Watson. Ours blooomed and his didn't. "
Thanks, Chris!
p.s. please note that Mrs. Burton misspelled the name in her post as "aciculatis". The correct name is "acicularis".
Received an email from TedGreen, who published H. acicularis, who said to grow it dry..
Awanda...you must be one lucky woman...maybe your wonderful dry climate helps!!! I have trouble growing things ;'dry'. Oh well...
Carol
Two (or more!) points of confusion now....Mr. Green published it, but wasn't sure that it was a hoya....
Yet C. Burton and M. Miyashiro (who didn't 'publish' it, yet knew it was a hoya) were selling it as a hoya.
I still 'don't get' that....perhaps I *am* dense.
Where did the 'teretifolia' come from if we're to assume this plant is H. acicularis......*IS* there a H. teretifolia that acicularis has become confused with?
Awanda says hers uses a lot of water, yet Mr. Green says to grow it dry.......'atmospherically dry' or 'dry at the roots....or both'?
My little plant has had it's fair share of watering, but no more or less than, say a carnosa.
It seems to have needed more watering just recently, and less water last winter.
Mine is also grown in 'indirect' light on a south-facing windowsill, and I would consider that a rather 'dry' location.
It is just a 3" square pot at the moment...but when it's necessary to re-pot into a larger pot, I may have to move it from it's current location, so am curious as to how others grow it.
Did C. Burton mention, by chance, how she grew it, markroy?
Awanda....is yours indoors or in your greenhouse?
Nan doing the first couple of years I grew mine dry so to speak and it just sat there...doing nada! I then started to water it a bit more and it just started to grow and grow. So for mine it seems to love water; I grow mine in the greenhouse year round. I'm going to continue to call it teretifolia since that's what it's been answering to:-). It also stayed in a 2.5 inch pot until just recently when I repotted it into a 4 inch pot. HTH!!
Agape,
Awanda
Well... I don't know why the confusion about it...just passing on what I have been told.
It was called teretifolia because someone picked up on the 'terete leaves'....Nurserymen are not famous for the labeling, eh? If the fellow who published it as H. acicularis says that's what the name is...who am I to argue.
I think there is a happy medium between DRY and WET - perhaps that's the answer. I think, from the leaves, I will grow it like H. retusa.
Carol
Yep....not shootin' the messenger...not me! LOL!
Thanks for the info.
I can see that in Teds Island home dry would be good...In Awanda's Dry Dry area you would have to water more !!!!! So it must depend on your area and how dry your air gets.............It is so hard to give a firm answer when things change in every area--every season etc.
That does make perfect sense, Sandy.
YAY...here the "drier" is working...new growth from all 5 nodes. I am a happy girl!!!