For anyone interested in this hoya, I just visited Logee's website and they currently have it for sale as a new item. Price is $24.95 Dont ask if I bought one!! You know I did!!!(LOL) How could I resist when the x-mas bonus checks arrived at work today!
This hoya addiction thing that I have going on is eventually going to get me into trouble and I have no one to blame but Mel. She played a big part by helping feed my addiction in the begining!
dmichael
H. lauterbachii
HA Dmichael, I am right there with you.....My friend and I just ordered one too. She saw your serpens, so she got one of those as well. See.....maybe you are as bad as Mel, as I wouldn't have even known Logees had one of those, and my friend wouldn't have ordered a serpens but for your BAD hoya influences!! (of course it has nothing to do with my weak, hoya greedy personality!!)
S
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I just found that one also and I had to have it also. And I am not a hoya freak. I only have 2. Just think 30 years from now my children can see the first bloom.
Beautiful hoya, but I am so burned out on the eriostemma's. Hey soferdig I have a sister that lives in Kalispell, well for a couple more weeks any way.
Hey Steve (soferdig) I have it on good authority that you bought one with Hellen and me just to see who could grow the biggest hoya!!!
Sara
Being a man I know that I have the biggest Hoya. Ya sure you betcha. And seeing that I will get the crummiest one of the group because they are comming to your house, I will be patient before comparing. Hi Sara. Helen and I talk about you often. She says you are the cause of her hoya abundance. Well done. My only problem is 25 bucks for a dinky 4" plant. Pretty uppity to me.
Hi Steve,
I am pretty sure that your lauterbachii will only have one or two leaves when it gets to my house.....shipping is pretty tough on plants you know!!! HA!! Yeah, 25.00 is pretty high, but it is pretty average too - seeing how you hang out over in compost we " uppity" hoya collectors will forgive you this time! :)
Sara
Hellen talks great things about you too......says you're pretty fun to have around the office! Be carefull, hoyas have been proven to be fairly addictive!
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Grow them warm, kiddos...nice and warm...and bright light. Did I say warm? Not too wet, either. It took 4 years for my H. lauterbachii to bloom...4 years growing up a TREE!!! but it did bloom. Yours will probably bloom next week!!!!
Some folks say to grow them in slightly sweeter soil...with a bit of crushed coral. I put a handful on my eriostemmas every year...
HA! Carol, isn't that how things always work?
I have a huge carnosa that bloomed twice a year for the firs two years I had it, then for the last 4 years, nothing. I gave 3 huge cuttings to a friend who is the WORST with plants, and it bloomed for her in 6 months!! I know that is sort of comparing apples to oranges (carnosa to lauterbachii), but the principle is the same!
The cv. monette that I got from you is growing gangbusters, and it is in a warm, bright west window, and I haven't moved it since it arrived in August. Thanks for all of your helpful tips and tricks.
S
HA! My husband is finally tending to a small gh I used to use for hoyas and which he uses for his orchids. What with one thing and another...the orchids are in bad shape (try watering?) so he is out there weeding and tending to them - with a huge pile of weeds and dead plants in the middle. In the mess he has found some errant hoyas I had left behind...in 2" pots, growing like gangbusters, happy as can be, rooting into all the orchid pots. I tell you..Hoyas need to be treated maliciously and with abandon!!! Your friend, Sara, had the touch!!!
My only experience is with my grandmothers hoya and I give it soil (fair) and compost tea every 3 months and it soars through my sun room. You have seen it before. But you are right Sara I am very emotionally attached to this one. I just want another one to travel down the family tree. Hence Lauderbachii. I always include my house plants in the joy of christmas. Here is their family picture.
Awesome picture Steve!! It is very easy to become emotionally attatched to one's plants, and your granny's hoya is beautiful!! My kids have accused me of loving my plants more than them. HA....some days, when the bickering gets really intense, I wonder if they aren't right. What a great tradition, handing down family plants. I was pretty sad that none of my grandmother's plants were saved when she passed away, but I do have one of her planters. I also have a yellow schlumberga from a neighbor who is in her mid 90's, but was always like a grandmother to my sister and I. She actually gave me my first plant cutting back in the 3rd grade. I still have that plant too.
What is the plant with the red flowers behind your pink schlumberga? That is really cool. I have thought about using compost tea, but think I will wait until summer. I have been using the beer fertilizer with amazing success, and will continue with that for the duration.
Sara
Sara I may be wrong but the plant you are asking about looks like an abutilon aka flowering maple. I see several in the pic.
Very easy to grow and awesome flowers.
dmichael
You are absolutely right dmichael. I want to over winter the abutilon so they are taller next year out in my garden so I brought them in to give me the pleasure of their company. They have been blooming since April and more and more flowers each growth. I think they will be a constant transplant indoors each year until they are too big. This is another view.
Soferdig, Those plants have to warm your gardening soul on the cold winter days. Nice display! I love the flowering Abutilon. That's one I've lusted after before. pod
Here is the upright shot.
Believe it or not the abutilons are cold hardy here. They die to the ground and return come spring. I do have one huge plant that I keep in the tropicals gh though. When it touches the roof I cut it back heavy and it bounces right back in no time and they are very easy to root.
dmichael
Yes but your zone is 8a mine is 4b. I cannot overwinter I feel here. Have you heard different? I left one out this winter to see. I hope. But I want to have them reach high to see the downward appearing flower. This is where I have them on the Right and Left Atrium of my heart.
soderdig... Your abutilon is just gorgeous! What is the name of this one? I have yellow, pinks and peach all are of the bella series but I really like the red one you have. Your heart shaped flower bed is lovely too.
Bea
I have a few of the bella series and I also have a plant that I bought from a local nursery thta gets huge. I grow it in a pot in the gh. The flowers done open up all the way flat like the bells do and seems like I remember them being a maroonish red color with spots maybe.
dmichael
These red ones are 'Voodoo'. I have two yellow and one peach but they didn't seem very heardy here in Montana. I don't want to take over the Hoya part of this. Does anyone have a Lauderbachhi I can view in any size? Please post picture. Thanks Steve
Steve...I haven't a picture...but I do have a H. lauterbachii growing 30' up a tree and hanging down 15'. They are a large plant when in the right environment. I posted picture of the flowers about 2 weeks ago but I forget where.
Carol
Steve,, This pic of Carols H. lauterbachii in bloom is in the november blooms thread on page 3.
dmichael
I just got a notice from Logees that their lauterbachii is on sale for 22.95. Still too much, I think.....but their picture is great!
Well, the plants arrived yesterday, and they are very nice, rather large, healthy vines. I was really quite pleased. Have you gotten yours yet Dmichael?
Steve, Hellen picked first for you and her - had to despell the myth that because I am home days, and usually all plants are shipped to my house, everyone gets the crappy leftovers!! HA! I think you will be pleased.
Sara
Sara you are a gift to allow me to have anything but the best. Helen will be pouring some toxic waste on it just before I pick it up. Could you get a soil test on it before she tries to kill it. LOL I need forensic evidence of her plot. Gosh I can't wait to see my new child. Thanks Sara.
Steve,
LOL!! just in case you were a little excited to see your new child, I did take a picture of all three plants. I took one of the smaller ones, but all were pretty equal health wise. If Hellen gives you a bad time, tell her you saw the "befores", so your plant better look good when you get back in January!!
Such a beautiful little child. Goo Goo.
Sara,
After Carol spoke about getting an email stating that the plants were on sale I contacted Logees. All plants were sold at the sale price it turns out. They also informed me that mine would be shipped out on (12/20).
Sorry it took me so long to reply to your question but I left home around noon to go to Columbia for a Jim Brickman concert and that was a little over a 3 hour drive and i'm just getting back in.
If mine was shipped o the 20th I should get it friday or saturday at the latest.Santa should be dropping me off a VERY nice box from Hawaii today though.
I have to say coming from Logee's those are some large plants. Anyone who has bought from them before i'm sure already knows that they are not known for sending out the largest of plants but they are always packed nice and are healthy.
Glad to hear that people are starting to get them already!!
dmichael
Well I still dont have my lauterbachii even though its been in the postal system for 3 days now floating around somewhere. I called Logees this morning to see how it was shipped because it's suppose to get down to more seasonable temps (30's) here in the next day or so. I was told it went out first class on wed. So I should have gotten it today (but didnt) or tomorrow. We'll see!!
dmichael
I imagine the Christmas rush is what is taking so long. Mine came in Mon. Hope it gets there soon.
Look what I came home and found in the mail box today. It's interesting how they pinched it to make it gain some height. It was allowed to make a growth point from the leaf node then the top was pincehd. it was allowed to make anohter growth point and then the top was pinched out of it. This was done at least 4 times. Allow it to make one set of leaves from each new point of growth then pinch out the tops.
It's nice and healthy and very well rooted,no the cat didnt come with it!! That's Gizmo who has to be involved in EVERYTHING that goes on. I just got back in from petsmart paying almost $70 for what other than cat toys and a pot full of cat grass. You think he wanted his own $4 pot of cat grass. No he wants this pot full of hoya that set me back $32!!!
dmichael
