hoya serpens

This is a plant that I bought form Logee's Greenhouse. It grows like theres no tomorrow but getting this little sucker to bloom is a bit on the tricky side!! The plants stays covered with peduncles. I have managed to bring mine into bloom twice. Both times on the same peduncle and both times with full clusters open.

I've since moved it to a new location which it seems to like. It has made even more peduncles and i'm using the beer fertilizer on it so hopefully i'll be able to get it to bloo more freely now. With or without flowers though its still a neat little plant.

dmichael

David,
I am so impressed by all your beautiful hoya plants. You certainly have a green thumb. Did you say you were using the the beer recipes ? If so, how long and how often do you use it ? Thanks also for sharing you photos with us all.
Patti

Patti,

the recipe for the beer fetlizer was originally posted around the end of october. I mixed some and began using it shortly thereafter. Somewhere around the first of novmber. It is supposed to be used at a rate of 1 tablespoon ful per gallon of water. use a little more because my watering can is little over a gallon.

It was also recommended to use it once every 2 weeks I think. i have been using it every time I water and have read on here where others have been doing the same. So far no problems.

I have a small amount of the orignal recipe left but I think I may toss it out and mix up a batch of the revised recipe that Carol posted and see how it works.

dmichael

The Chemist who revised that forumula said that the cheaper and the most UNrefined the molassas is, the better!!! Sorgum molassas is better than beet, too. After he did this study...he decided that a little bit of molassas in any fert. would be good as it is really so complete and full of minor and major elements!!!

dm, your plants are HUGE and very very healthy looking!!!

Carol

Would you believe that just less than a 10 minute drive north of my house is a farm where molasses is produced? It's owned and operated by several members of a local black family.

They grow the sugar cane on the property and the entire production proces is done by hand and mule. The cane is harvested by the people,preped to go into the press which is driven by the mule and the syrup is boiled into fresh pure molasses.

It is available for sale but I dont recall for how much. Though i do remember it being quite inexpensive.


dmichael

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/local/16063485.htm?source=rss&channel=thestate_local


This is an article about the farm that produces molasses. I can drive and be there in just a matter of minutes from where I live and didnt even know the place existed until I read the article in the local paper a week or so ago. This article is from our state paper but is the same as the one which appeared in our local paper.

dmichael

A molases farm and a stones throw away from the ocean, spoiled spoiled spoiled. I would kill this plant in a heart beat. You have the touch David, congrats on such a pretty plant.