February blooms

This is a bit off topic, however...the ugly leaf on H. onychioides was obviously missing something!!! All three cuttings I got from the large cut became like this...and it was NOT a virus. After about 1,5 months using the MSU Fertilizer...look at the new growth...healthy and green. This has convinced me it is GREAT! No need for Eleanors, ST, extra thises or thats...plain and simple. By the way...none of the cuttings, once rooted, had put on any growth since last fall when I got the cuttings. Now the growth is bounding and it is so healthy.

Carol

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carol...that pic of callistophylla is awesome...i love the look of the leaf and the only hoya i have in bloom right now is shooting star...has been for awhile now so they are beginning to fall off...sigh.. but i am really excited because several are putting on new growth... and one that i thought i had lost ...i just couldnt give up on ...i mean it had no leaves left....but the stems still seemed like they had life in them...so i hung on to it...and woohoo...it has new growth

Tooooooo cool, Carol!!!

I'm convinced. I've ordered the MSU fertilizer. I got it just in the nick of time too as he said he is leaving to give a speach somewhere & won't be mailing anymore until he gets back. Whew.
Marcy

My Hoyas seem to be liking the dry, cold, sunny winter we've had so far. Buds are popping up everywhere. This is H. waymaniae, budding from the same peduncle which flowered in January.

This is cv. 'Christina'.

This is H. pachyclada. The peduncles are 1/3 of an inch wide or more, and mostly about 3 inches long. This is one of the parents of cv. 'Christina (with H. pottsii).

These are my first buds on H. lacunosa 'Tove', complete with cat hair.

Finally, one fully open one. H. verticillata.

Mark, I have just one word to say to you ... JEALOUS!!
How do you do that in cloudy, rainy SF???
Ann

Normally, Ann, you don't! This winter has been really sunny, though, with very little overcast.

Oh good, it is nice to see some blooms comming forth. Blooming now I have H. javanica, H. obovata, H. DS-70, H. brevialata, H. thomsonii, H. heauschkeliana pink, IPPS 8845. Budding up, H. australis ssp. australis, H. cv. sunrise, H. naumanii, H. bella, H. lacunosa, H. verticillata, H. heauschkelina yellow. Oh happy day...

I also have a piles of paper on my desk I need to straighten up and figure out my income tax debt for last year :( Oh sad day...

Tami, how does the H. thomsonii smell?

Mark, it smells really super good. I want to say it smells of jasmine with a little gardenia. Very potent, and the flowers are lasting along time.

Here is H. citrina ....bloom lasts for about 6 days...smells devine!

Mark...dont you just love H. verticillata? In any form, they are such good bloomers. Here is one of my favorite clones in the shade house....full of blooms....

H. cv. Joy finally turned out to be a joy!

Christina

Mark.... the blooms are gorgeous... I am packing up heading south keep your eye on them:)


Wow Tami.... you have lots doing their thing too. So where do you keep them are they easy to get at (hehe)

Thanks for sharing everyone just kidding about packing up, tempting though.

Bea

Carol.... Love the H. verticillata sure does well for you. Do you really need to grow things in a shade house in winter?


Christine......H. cv Joy sure is pretty! Does it smell as nice as it looks?

Bea

Sigh ... great shots of lovely flowers. I especially like the verticillata; now why don't I have one of those? Better fix that...

I have buds on my compacta and the buds on my Thomsonii keep blasting before they get started. I just might move him. I'm sure there's something else I've missed (she says hopefully...lol...)

Christine

Bea...I keep many plants in the shade house all year... The shade is 73% which is still bright...but it lets in the breeze and the rain...they love it. They are close by the greenhouse and I can keep my eye on them!!! I keep all my Specimen Plants out there too!

Carol

No blooms to report, but I do have what I believe I have a seed pod developing on my H. parvifolia (my most favorite plant because it was a thank-you gift from that crazy upenatem3am lady that has been very quiet of late ...). So cross your fingers and toes and hope that I don't love it to death!

Oh, Ann, how neat!! Keep us posted!

Mark, Carol and Christina - beautiful flowers and pics!!!

This is Hoya lacunosa 'Tove' blooming for me for the first time. The new leaves are a rich purple color, and the buds and peduncles are flushed with dark pink. This has a more perfumey quality than regular lacunosa. There are many Hoyas that are said to smell like perfume, I don't find that particularly true of most of them, but it is of 'Tove', even during the day. A keeper!

I can almost smell it Mark - beautiful!

I agree Mark. It really is a beauty, isn't it!!!

Nice flower and pic, Mark!

Beautiful pictures everyone.

Mark your 'tove' is really beautiful. I have regular lacunosa blooming, 3 peduncles and 2 peduncles of australis, there just about ready to run me out of the office at night, very intense smell.

Ms. K, what a treat, keeping fingers crossed the seed pod makes it.

Christine you do really need a verticillata they are so darn pretty. And bloom there little hearts out.

Ok, ok, so I am cheating a bit here as I only just bought this plant.. but look! H. Bella, looking, well, molto bella!

H. pachyclada

Hoya cv. 'Christina'

Mark and everyone else with blooms, I would be jealous but I just discovered this ... on my H. tjadasmalangensis. Wait a minute ... I'm still jealous :-)

And here's another one that I got a closer, more intimate shot of

Ann, that last shot is alien and glorious. Could you send me a copy, via regular e-mail?

it's on its way Mark!

hills... that's not cheating it is your plant and your photo:)

Ann.... ohhh the anticipation builds can't wait to see these open and nor can you I bet:) Don't forget to post when they are open.

Thanks for sharing all the pretties.

Bea

Mark how do you treat your pachy? Mine is showing some signs of new growth, but I haven't been able to get it to produce any blooms. Does it bloom for you all year?

Ann, very nice photo's of your Tj. How is the seed pod comming along?

Tammy, it's getting a little bigger each day - so, at least I haven't loved it to death yet ...

Ann and Mark - nice blooms and pics! Ann, that closeup is amazing!!

Mark - yes, how do you treat your pachyclada? I got a cutting from our last DL order - it's just now FIINALLY starting to put off some growth, thanks, I think, to the new MSU fertilizer. Any suggestions? Thanks - Karen

I treat my pachyclada pretty similar to my other Hoyas that seem to like strong sunlight, in a south facing window, though I am carefull to never water until the soil is dry. In the active growth period that's about once a week, if the plant is established and the roots fill the pot. In the winter before growth starts I give it less water, maybe every other week. This and H. subquintuplinervies definitely have growth spurts. They usually start around now in winter and grow and bloom for several months then stop. It seems to me that H. subquintuplinervis also has a growth spurt in summer, but I don't recall for sure. When these two do start growing, they reliably bloom as well, and they have a peduncle at nearly every leaf node. The new stems are impressive, they are more than a centimeter wide even at the very growth tip. So they get strong light, less water, and a better draining mix (more perlite) than my other Hoyas.




This message was edited Feb 27, 2007 5:49 PM