My Hoya obovata has put on a neat show, it has taken over my back door awning and I guess it likes it there.........I counted 17 blooms from a 6" hanging basket plant. The foliage on the forground is a Mokara orchid......lets see if the Mokara can out do the ovovata.
Good growing...nice display of blooms there..does he have a nice scent?
I doubt that orchid will ever have anything on that hoya!!!! Hoya obovata is the most rampant grower of all the hoyas I think!
I currently have mine growing in an 18" pot with a 4ft trellis. It is wound round and round the trellis and is all the way to the top of it and has no grown past that and is touching the top of the gh. So the overall height of the plant now is around 6ft with al of the new gorwth.
If anyone has ever had any experience with wisteria and you konw how out of control it can grow,well hoya obovata in my opinion is the wisteria of hoyas! It blooms like crazy also. My plant is covered with open peduncles of fowers and as you can see from Rics picture it'll make a peduncle at almost every leaf node.
Anyone who doesnt currently grow it and you're looking for a very fast growing easy to care for,free flowering hoya,give this one a try.
dmichael
18 inch pot??? WOW! Can you post a picture by any chance? I would love to see that. I have an obovata growing in an 8" pot, and it doesn't grow fast for me at all. I need to start talking to him and tell him to get movin'!
Gab, I took this picture about 5 minutes ago. The plant is currently in bloom but seems as though all of the open ones are to the back of the plant.
I've only had this plant for right at 2 years now and it was in an 8' basket when I got it from a local nursery. Over the past year I have shared numerous large cuttings with people but to look at this plant you'd never know it.
dmichael
Oh. My. Gosh. Now, that's a hoya!
Karen I think they like it here!!!! . At the rate they're growing in another year they'll all be that size!
wow...impressive...now I've got that one on my list for David Liddle next time.....lol
Thanks for posting that....IMPRESSIVE!
Gabi
Are you still using the "brew" fertilizer? I agree - they sure do like it there!!
Karen
karen, I stopped using the "brew" on my hoyas and am now using the MSU fertilizer for well water as I water all of my plants with well water.
After awhile I began to notice a few yellowing leaves on some hoyas and thought it might be because of the brew. I was using 2tbs per g every watering as opposed to the called for 1tbs. I cant say for sure that that had anything at all to do with the yellowing of the leaves but I did stop using it.
I water my hoyas now at the dosage called for using the MSU and have had great results in doing so. I still use the brew on all of my cactus and tropical plants though.
I'mnot fertilizing at every watering now either,i've had a few people to tell me to flush the soil after several times of fertilizing. So I fertilize for waterings 1,2,3 and on 4 & 5 I water with just water and make sure it runs through the pots.
dmichael
Holly Toledo!! Thats the largest potted hoya I've ever seen. I bet its a show stopper when its in full bloom.
Ric
D, why were you using 2 tbs instead of the one recommended? Do you have a reason or are you just one of those "if a little is good, MORE must be BETTER" kind of guys? I would be afraid that over using any fertilizer would hurt the plant, but I don't know much about them chemically. I started using the beer fertilizer this year, but I have seen no miracles, thats for sure, just typical spring growth. My first round I used a tablsp per gal, now I use a teasp w/ every watering. Maybe that isn't enough?
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B, I'm hard headed and dont like to follow directions for one thing!!! I watered all winter using the brew at that dosage and my hoyas actively grew and not just a little bit either it was an amazing amount of new growth. Several feet on most of them during a time when they should for the most part be at least semi dormant.
Dormant may not be the correct word here as i'm not so sure that hoyas even go dormant but they do tend to slow down during the winter months. Mine never did and began to put on peduncles as early as January.
Ric that is one huge plant and I cut it often to share with people and it just keeps on going no matter how much I chop on it. My hindu rope has the obovata beat though. The rope is so long I cant get the entire pant on one picture. It is now at least 9ft in length and has been blooming since early this year and at last count I had counted over 130 clusters of flowers.
dmichael
Holy Obovata, David your plant is a real beauty.. I thought mine was big, but yours is just huge. Good growing.
Tami,
From the base of the pot to the top, the overall height of that plant is close to 5ft. This is one of those hoyas that if you stand still long enough you can almost see it grow!!!
dmichael
LOL, thats what I have been thinking about the cutting of latifolia you sent me !! By next year I will have to add on another room to the house. Come to think of it, I am getting larger leaves on this one since using the MSU.
