This is H. waymaniae about half-way open. Started tonight around 5pm, maybe done tonight!
By the way, H. waymaniae is going to be the featured Hoya in a new Hoya e-magazine to be published soon. Any interested parties can e-mail me at markroy68@yahoo.com for details.
This is the back view.
Cool Mark....emailing you now. We NEED an e-newsletter to learnlearnlearn!!!!
Cool blooms Mark!!!!
:-)
Nice, Mark!
Your flowers look almost white with a tinge of orange...mine came out pumpkin orange. Is it is picture or the real flower that is so light?
Sent you a email Mark.
Patti
They are fully open now, and a little darker. They weren't as dark as I thought they would be- perhaps the temperature? It's been unusually cold here, in the mid-40's each night, and the apartment stays cool, perhaps into the upper 50's where H. waymaniae is hanging.
Mark,
Do you by chance have a picture of your whole plant? I am becoming a bit fascinated with this hoya, and have seen lots of flower pictures, but would love to see the growth habit of the whole plant.
Ann - you also grow this one well, do you have a pic handy?
Thanks in advance you guys,
Sara
Slambii, I have not been as successful at blooming this sweet thing as Mark, so I got no pictures of my own, although I do have one I took of Ann Wayman's plant a few months ago.
HeeeHeeee Ann, I only wish that I were worthy of the great title "slambii"...Someday, I will proudly wear it, when my hoya lambii is as great as dlambii's
Meanwhile, thank you for that picture. I bet yours is better than you think, but I can only imagine what a treat it must have been the times that you got to go and visit with Ann Wayman!! The growth pattern of this hoya is pretty awesome.
Mel, do you have a closer- up picture of yours? I am fairly intrigued with the sprawlyness of waymaniae.
Sara
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This is one of my favorites, Mark. Mine has bloomed all spring and summer.
Mel
Here is a closer shot of the leaves, Sara.
Oh Mel, thank you for sharing that awesome picture! That is exactly how I am hoping mine will look. I don't currently have anything that grows like that. Too cool!
S
Mel, lovely colors !
My waymania is young and has green leaves,maybe I'll put her in a southern
window,to get some sun and become red.
Anyone have any tips on getting this one to root? I'm having a heck of a time getting mine to root.....it's down to just two nodes....
Karen
Karen, the advice I got here trying to root an impossible austrailis (down to ONE node) was to try straight perlite, water with water mixed with a litte superthrive, and cover it to up the humidty. Worked like a charm, I had roots within a week and have new growth now, it has been about a month I guess.
Here is my new waymaniae, I can only hope it will grow up to look like Mel's - but right now, I see no resemblance....
Do the leaves get the curlier edges as they mature? The oldest leaf on mine has a tiny bit of burgundy coloring, but as you can see they are very green and I was wondering if the shape and color are right for young leaves, or for a young cutting.
Does anyone know how many types of waymanaie there are, besides this one and the round leafed version?
Thanks, Jen, I'll try that!
Bhavanna................do you know whether there are other mixes that do work also with rooting hoyas? other than straight perlite...............thanks
Gail, I usually just use the same mix I grow all my tropical plants in - orchid bark (shultzes brand with charcoal and gravel), perlite, and commercial potting soil. I used to use equal amounts of each, but am now using alot less of the potting soil. I buy it all at Home Depot. I find that the less actual soil I use, the more I have to water, but I don't mind.
Some people use sphagnum moss, which I would imagine works good too, but for simplicity, I just use what the plants will probably spend the rest of their lives in, that way they won't have to adjust to a new mix when I repot them. I only tried the perlite because the australis cutting I was trying to root kept rotting up the stem on me until all that was left was one small node with one set of leaves. I kept trimming off the rotten part of the stem and trying to reroot, and when I was down to that last little piece, someone here suggested the perlite. Now I have nice roots and 4 sets of leaves.
thanks, bhavanna.....................need to be doing some of that myself but working daily on my avs separating babies...............shouldn't have planted so many leaves at the same time!!!!!!!
