I picked this hoya up a few months ago. I don't know the name ,and I am hoping some does.
TIA
Patti
Speckled hoya unknown name.
Hoya lacunosa - very nice plant, reliable and early bloomer! Be careful not to overwater, check it often and only water when it starts to get dry. The grower uses a stay wet additive in their potting soil and their plants are susceptible to root rot if you are not careful.
It seems to be a sport of H. lacunosa ssp. pallidaflora. Dianne sent me one which is starting to loose the flecking on the new leaves...perhaps it needs more light? Dunno. I love it!!!
Carol
Thanks Bhavana 34. Oh by the way, I am from South Jersey too. I was born in Salem county. Medford is just up the road from where I use to live. My heart will always belong to"South" Jersey.
Yes I love it Carol. I was hoping it was the one you got from Dianne. That was a beautiful plant she sent you.
Patti
Hi Rose - how nice to meet someone from home- I was raised here but moved away after high school ( a long time ago ) I most recently was living in Ocean County, just moved back last year. I am considering moving down west of Cape May, on the Delaware Bay, where the Maurice River opens up to the bay. Getting very expensive here, more so than ever...and more crowded too - even down where you are from, though I think that is still the least crowded part of NJ, except for the Pine Barrens and the northwest area.
I have been hearing about a more variegated lacunosa from EA, but I also heard it was just a few plants that lost the variation as they grew, and that maybe it was just the result of high light levels in the growers greenhouses.
It's nice to meet you too Bhavana. Salem county hasn't change much since I left there 8 years ago. My family is still there. I talk to my family once or twice a week , so nothing happens there I don't know about it. LOL I was down to Wildwood 2 years ago with my husband who has never been there before. We had a blast. There are a couple of people on Dg from Cape May. Is west of Cape may around Leesburg area.?
I don't miss the taxes there. LOL . The soil there is something I do miss. We have clay here. Yuck. There is nothing like a Jersey tomato either. Oh my, I am getting home sick.
I have a EA Lacunosa I bought from HD,and it blooms from spring to late fall here. I just love it.
mmmm....jersey tomatos, they are just about out now, corn not quite. Wish I could send you some. I have been to Texas, not real impressed with the bread, cheese, and lunchmeats there. Funny how most people who have never been here picture all of New Jersey to be like that horrible mess of factories and smoke stacks and highways around New York City. I grew up surrounded by farms and woods, the beach so close by....
Leesburg is right in that area, I have looked in a town called Heislerville, I think it is south of Leesburg.
At least one thing is for sure, no matter where you live in this country, there are Home Depots. I have heard good things about finding hoyas in the Houston area. My first hoya came from cuttings I got in Texas, I still have the plant.
I just washed all the EA soil off my H. lacunosa and when it is re-adjusted and growing, I am going to grow it in higher light to see if the flecks stay.....
I need to take a day an just repoting all of my EA plants.
I have the same thing going on - four EA plants, and I just can't water them. They never seem to dry out. They still look happy, but it is disconcerting not being able to water, because the soil always feel damp or wet.
Do you have a spot outside for your EA plants? They dry out faster outdoors.
I hate how wet they stay too, it is very disconcerting. Since I have lost them even after repotting, I decided to stop doing that and just go with it - they take forever to initially dry out after purchasing, but I got both of my recent ones from a store that must have some lazy employees, they were both relatively dry....so I am hoping no root issues started at the store. Now I just water very lightly, becuase another thing I have found with these plants is that they are barely past being rooted cuttings, they don't need 4 or 5 inches of wet soil under them, their roots aren't using it, having it sit there like a big soggy mess is not doing them any good. So I just water the top few inches lightly and check frequently because it dries out quicker that way.
Besides, repotting these plants is a nightmare! Thats where you see that they are just rooted cuttings, they fall apart in your hands!
Bhavana34, That is good advice, and I think it is the best course of action for my situation. The cuttings are packed so tightly into the basket, it is hard to get a finger into the soil to check it. I usually just judge how wet it is by the weight of the basket.
I found my basked from Dianne actually had good roots...so I tied a plastic grocery bag around the top to the soil line so I had ONE mess to deal with not hundreds, and with a friend we unpotted it, washed the soil off and repotted...a lot by putting the plants in a bigger pot and filling medium thru the top as well. This was 5 days ago and it hasn't skipped it beat (fingers crossed)....I lost a couple of EA plants I was gifted not EVER watering them...but it is humid enough here that...well...not a pretty story!
When you buy them, Exotic Angel plants look so full and lush, but when you see below the soil, the fullness is an illusion, you are still dealing with cuttings, just a heck of alot in one pot. An older established plant can deal with a little watering abuse now and then, too much or not enough and they have a strong enough root system to handle it and bounce back. Not so with cuttings, add to that the wetting crystals and all that wet soil under the cuttings, so many little cuttings that are crowded in so tightly that you can't even see the soil surface so you know alot of air isn't getting in there...so the soil stays even wetter. Carol mentioned in a previous post that if one cutting gets root rot, it can spread to the next and so on and so on. It is a wonder some of these plants make it at all! It might make more sense to buy them and break them down into 4 or 5 smaller plants to transplant in smaller pots, share with friends etc- I wouldn't be surprised if that were what alot of Ebay sellers do. You could get quite a few little plants out of a 6" $10 pot. But that kind of defeats the purpose of buying them in the first place...I already have plenty of small hoyas taking forever to grow from cuttings, buying the EA plants satisfies my urge for a big one!