Well, I finally got one. Have been wanting this one for a long time. Logee's finally got them back in. Cant wait the see the large blooms on this one. Anyone got this one, I want to see your blooms!!!!! The leaves are fuzzy!!!
My personel holy grail..........
And it is callled............
Cool...fuzzy leaves.....added it to my wish list........
I posted some H. lauterbachii photos a while back. They love to climb ... and then when they hang down they start to bloom...it takes a while for them to bloom (mine took 4 years but then...someone else could have blooms in a different time frame, so don't take everything I say as gospel!!). They are gorgeous!!! Edited to say, 3.25" diameter
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I cant wait!!! MIne is growing straight up at this point. Thanks for the pic!!!
I hope you have better blooming time than I have:-). I have about 10 eriostemmas and some I've had over 5 - 6 years and never had any of them bloom! For me they are very tricky to get them to bloom.
Blessings,
Awanda
My eriostemmas have put on lots of growth, but atlas no flowas!
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HI Lisa, A nice hoya you have there. I am looking forward to seeing it bloom.
Awanda we all know you grow beautiful hoya, but could it be the humidity or lack of? JUst a novice here ,and very curious.
Patti
Eriostemmas will take full sun in the bush...mine grow in full sun most of the day... Lots of water but really good draining medium...and they do NOT like to be moved. Their habit is to grow UP a tree to the sun and once there, hang down and start blooming. Hanging down, they eventually touch the ground...they grow along the ground until they find another tree and climb UP, only to repeat the process. I have about 20 Eriostemmas growing up trees (rather, 20 trees with Eriostemmas growing up them) and not one has grown/bloomed any other way. I have seen cv. Ruthie growing along a telephone wire and blooming...fullon sun.
I doubt that it's lack of humdity, my greenhouse humidity stays constant between 73 - 75% and the temps don't go over 95 or 96. I have a fan that runs 7/24. They can't take our direct sun, but then not many plants can:-).
Blessings,
Awanda
Definitely something wrong with the plants then, Awanda!!! LOL
There are so many subtle differences in temperatures, light etc., it is hard to tell. My feeling is that perhaps, for the benefit of your 'other' hoyas, the shade may be more than the Eriostemmas really like. Growing hoyas in the dry desert is a challenge, and one that you have fought a valiant battle with, Awanda...and sometimes you just have to give up the ghost and say... "this hoya/plant will simply not do well for me here". I have done that with a few like H. linearis...I don't even try anymore. Eriostemmas are hard to grow in artificial enviornments. I know you have done a fine job.
Carol
They are like some kids the more you do for them the less they will do for themselves. You have spoiled hoya's Awanda. LOL
Patti
My hoyas/eriostemmas all receive early morning sun until 10 or so. I'm at the point where I'm going to glue some flowas on them:-).
Blessings,
Awanda
Since their nature is to start blooming when they feel they have reached the tops of the trees = full sun, they may need MORE sun than a few hours. Even those I have on a trellis will bloom when they are hit with a lot of sun most of the day..
With our sun that's about all they can take without the leaves starting to burn,
Blessings,
Awanda
Hoyas do well here and bloom like crazy.
Carol, why wouldn't linearis do well in Hawaii? You would think that everything would do well there...It is a mystery to me how I have managed to keep my linearis going, in spite of all the things I have heard people say about it.
I have heard they grow in cracks in limestone, lots of light, very little actual nourishment, it seems to me that that would mean they would be easy to care for, would need so little.
Well...I really don't know why it is so difficult except that my weather tends to be warm and humid... and perhaps I am heavy on the watering... My limit is 3 - after I kill it 3 times it obviously is a signal to me that there is something I cannot control that kills it. Sad, too, because I really like it!!
I gave up on eriostemma's along time ago. I bought them befor I really new what they liked. When you see there beautiful flowers, well they are just to hard to resist, and I had to get one of every kind, only to later realize they were going to grow like wild fire and never produce a peduncle. They really do need a climate like Hawaii to produce flowers, and well Arizona is a far cry from that. I think our humidity is up to 11% now. And well the temps, HOT HOT HOT....
I could be wrong, but I don't think I have ever seen anyone besides Carol post pictures of their eriostemmas blooming.
Another hoya that will not bloom for me, it just grows and grows is tanna island, oops cv.
Never say never, right..
Tami...you aren't wrong...but it is sp. Tanna Island. It can take a while...but let it hang or climb... The critical factor is not to let it get dry...it hates being dry!!! It is from Vanuatu where the humidity is about 110% all the time.... I have big signs on my tray...in red...DO NOT LET DRY OUT... Callistophylla is the same...don't let it get dry. sp. Tanna Island likes to grow in a 'mess'...just all over the place, randomly and wild...and she will bloom.
Carol
Well, whether it blooms or not, my fuzzy H.lauterbachi cutting now has roots!! This one is my third eriostemma (I think I have another new one...can't remember right now), so I know they'll grow for me. I have the older two in a very, very sunny south-east facing window. One (H.guppyi) has grown about ten feet since it was a cutting last summer, and even taking cuttings from it doesn't slow it down. I do let them get dry between waterings though, so I guess I'll have to treat H.lauterbachi a bit different.
Christine
Carol, once thing I have noticed about linearis is that it never seems to become a "mature" plant in a sense that the stems thicken, get larger and get woodier - I know they must age but they always seem like "cuttings" if that makes sense. I would also imagine that the way they grow in the wild would mean they like or are used to less water and lots of fresh air circulating. I do keep mine in very bright light in a very dry room with no AC or heat.
This forum will be the death of me - or at least the death of my savings account - every other day I add a new hoya to my list!
Jen, one explorer found H. linearis growing in cracks in a limestone cliff in Burma, but that is only one population of the plants. I believe they are mostly epiphytes, so don't judge the whole species by that one instance.
I did grow one, one time....high light and dry...and then the mealie bugs took over and I threw it out. Don't need that kind of grief while trying to nurture...LOL
Well, mine has not done absolutely perfectly, about a quarter of it did die back over the winter. About halfway thru winter I placed it in the best spot I have indoors where it gets very bright light all day and it is doing great now. Like so many new plants I have, not just hoyas, it takes time with the fussier ones to get a feel for what they like.
With all of the other species I have and love and can grow easily...I am too "mat ure" to spend time begging a plant to like me....LOL.
Carol
LOL Carol.
I see it as a challenge myself - like I am going to get this plant to live if it KILLS ME!!!
No, really, I give up myself. So far I've been lucky with hoyas, but I don't have as many as most of you guys do...but there are a few other plants I can't seem to keep - like ficus trees. Forget it. No point in even trying. Gardenias too. Ferns of any kind and Baby Tears. Even most cacti I will kill sooner or later. I don't have a "natural" green thumb like my mom. I have to work at it a little.
Yeah...I try that too, Jen. Then life just becomes too much fun and I find such joy in so many small triumphs that losing one or two just doesn't bother me. I look at it like insisting I can fit into a DKNY size 12: I'll stop eating, I'll stop drinking wine, I will run 100 miles a day...NOT. It just isn't going to work. So, I buy the 'other' one and have fun at lunch with divine sushi and a good bottle of wine with DH with dinner and the devil take the hind most. Far be it from me to think I can be all things to all plants...or people.
BTW...ficus ARE fickle!!! I have killed more in my life than I care to remember, yet here in HI I have a 25 year old Ficus benjemina banyan in the front...100' diameter canopy and it is the tree that ate Cleveland. DH loves it so he has planted 2 more... OMG...we won't be able to grow anything else in 50 years as it will be covered with Ficus.
Go figger!!!