Oh Wow, there are some real beauties out this month. Very pretty everyone .
July Blooms
Hoya Polystachya is almost ready to bloom for the first time!
Blessings,
Awanda
The photos are just beautiful everyone. Once again this is my favorite thread.
Someday my cuttings will grow up and I will be able to share too but for now I am loving it right here:)
Carol... rubida is my color and a hint of rose you say. Must put it on my list of must haves.
Bea
I must say that it has taken too long for H. rubida to bloom!!! Lush foliage and just starting....I should have kicked it outside in the snow with the dog!!! It would have bloomed immediately!!! GRRRRR.
Carol
Wait a minute....is that an expression or do you have snow in Hawaii?
Gorgeous blooms everyone!
Jeri, I am blown away by your multiflora! What a show that is. Mine is getting ready to put on a show, but the blooms aren't all together like yours...well done :)
As for cutting it, I have been struggling with the same question. Mine is almost 3 feet tall from the soil line, and it needs to be clipped onto bamboo sticks to stay up. But I actually like how it looks.
Carol or anyone, do you think I need to cut it or is it ok to leave it like this?
And a close-up of a bloom from multiflora:
And thanks to Carol, I have the BEAUTIFUL H. lobbii with gorgeous dark red blooms:
And a side view of lobbii blooms...
Thanks for looking,
Gabi
I do love that multiflora....hopefully they grow fast, my cutting is only about 5 inches long....lol
Gabro...as for cutting the multiflora...if you want it to be bushy you could cut it...then the new growth with help. Sometimes when mine start pouting for some reason, I cut them where the leaves fall off.
Jen...it IS an expression but we DO have snow on our two mountains, Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea during a winter storm!!! People drive up to 13,000+ feet to ski, build snowmen etc. and we slap on another blanket!!! The snow is generally thin but it IS gorgeous up there with the sun shinning!
Threegardeners,
Multiflora, for me, is my fastest growing hoya. It grows like a weed! Here's a pic of it in March, so it's easy to see how much it's grown in less than 4 months when you compare to my other pic! This pic was when the plant was in a 6" pot and still on a plant stand, and now it's in an 8" pot and on the floor! Yours will be huge in no time! Give it lots of water to drink...this is a thirsty hoya :)
Gabi
WOW...it did grow fast!!!! thank you .
A small comparison of dimorpha and montana. Dimorpha on the top half of the photo and montana at the bottom... not much different except colour (but that is irrellevant!)
Gabi your plant is gorgeous!!! Have you staked it yet? I got mine from Carol in March I think and it has doubled in size and almost non-stop blooms.
Jeri
Gabbi, your flower on H. lobbii is just beautiful, what a stunning color. Great photo.
Thanks Jeri :) I'm not sure what you mean by "staked it". If you mean have I put stakes in there to hold the stems/branches to, then yes. It would fall over otherwise! I got mine in March also, and it has AT LEAST doubled in size! Non-stop blooms too (although it doesn't put on a show like your's does!). And I could swear it grows a pair of leaves every day!
Tami..thanks! I am just loving this hoya. But I can't take any credit for getting it to it's healthy and blooming state...that's all Carol's doing. But I did take the pictures :) I love any blooms that are such a deep burgundy like those blooms. Most lobbii flowers I see are lighter in color, so I lucked out. As you can tell by the wall in the background, my favorite color is burgundy! I think the wall actually matches the corollas perfectly!
Gabi
You are quite welcome Gabi!! Yes that is what I meant. Mine is kinda leaning every which way.
I'm still having trouble figuring out how to display my hoyas so that they aren't a tangled mess.
Jeri
I can't believe the difference in color from Christine's H. lobbii and Gabi's. While there both beautiful, I think I am partial to the deeper, darker purple. Great growing girls, there beautiful.
Christine, when I got the plant from Carol it was already blooming, so I don't know if there were speckles on the buds. I'll be sure to post pics the next time they are budding up though.
Gabi
Sorry this is a bit fuzzy. It was raining and hazy here this mornig and as soon as I went outside the camera fogged up!!
This is H. meliflua ssp. fraterna IML 0124 from David Liddle. The red that you see on the flower is nectar.
dmichael
Wow, look at that foliage. I would have sworn it was a spruce tree, not a hoya....
Me too....ahahahahaahahahahahahahahaha.
WHAT!!!! You guys dont have a hoya with foliage like that!!
That meliflua plant is so long that I couldnt get a picture of the bloom spur without some kind of support and that norfolk isalnd pine just happened to be close by.
The pine was a tabletop x-mas decoration that I brought home from work about 5 years ago. It was a grouping of 3 trees about 6-8" tall when I first brought it home. It is now over 6ft tall.
dmichael
yeah those pines can get out of control! If they like you, they can be gorgeous though!
Here is my kanyakumariana. It bloomed while I was in Reno, at the end of June, but I just got the pictures dumped on to my computer, so I figured I would post it in the July thread.
Lucky for me, the person watching my house and cats collects hoyas too, so she took a picture of the bloom in case I missed it. I didn't, it was still blooming when I got home. It really is rather fragrant. Kind of a mild version of lacunosa.
Sara
Beautiful, Sara!!!! What is your way of growing it???? Mine sits like a lump.
I was just going to ask the same thing....lovely bloom Sara
Thank you Carol,
Sandy, we were posting at the same time, thanks.
For the longest time, this hoya wasn't doing too much, then I saw that one of my cats was EATING IT!!! I ended up moving it to a windowsill right above my kitchen sink, and it get hot, hot, hot west sun. It isn't to the extreme of sunburning, as my house has awnings installed on the west and east windows, so it is filtered, but I notice that the hoyas growing in these exposures dry out quite a bit.
Once I moved it, it hasn't stopped growing. I have cut tons of it for friends, and trades, and it just keeps filling in. I LOVE it. It has a really lacy look to it, that makes me want to touch the leaves every time I see it.
Here is the whole plant. I took this one in early May, I think, and it has grown even more since then.
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Awesome looking plant Sara!...what a showpiece on the trellis.....mine is just a 3-node cutting and i was lucky to get it so i will sit and be patient with it....That is something to look forward to..i agree, very lacy and pretty ..so it seems to like the warmer temps ...great to know....thanks for posting that pic..
Sandy
This is my kanya and I am patiently awaiting for it to bloom. I find it to be a rather fast grower for me as this plant is only a little over a year old and came to me in a 2" pot from Asiatica nursery
No question about it...mine is going in the SUN!!!
I was told early on by someone that kanya was a bit tricky and slow to grow but I havent found that to be the case at all. Mine grows in very bright indirect light and I keep it a bit on the moist side but not dripping wet and it grows very well like that.
dmichael
Dmichael, your kanya. is also a lovely plant...very nice!....thats a lot of growth from a 2 inch pot to what it looks like now....
It surprised me at how fast it grew as I was told that it was a slow grower. Of course i've been told that about a few other hoyas as well,which I also have and they grow like weeds.
Hoya latifolia IML 88 supposedly is a slow grower for some,mine grows like kudzu!! A month or so a ago it threw 14 runners from the top part of the plant all at once. It looked like an octopus!!
I hear a lot of people say that H. kerrii is a slow grower for them. I grow both the green and variegatted varieties and they grow rather fast for me. Hoyas just seem to like it here. Our summers are usually in the mid 80's to the mid to high 90's for the most part and the humidity from May to August is between 80-90% or higher sometimes. My plants get very good air circulation and misted every other day so they do quite well for me.
The only thing I have a problem with with kanya is getting it to root,seems to take a long time but I did manage to get a few new starts to finish filling in my pot as it wanted to grow one sided.
dmichael
I am sure blooms will be right around the corner for you on kanya.....I can see why you have such success growing hoyas, you have some high humidity there!..wow....I was lucky, i got my kanya rooted from a friend in a trade....i find kerrii grows in spurts for me and curtisii is a robust grower ....Its funny how everyone's experiences differ with growing different hoyas....
Sandy
Hoya curtisii is a no can do for me. I've killed more of those than I care to admit!!! I think I have finally given up on that one.
Yeah it seems it can be a bit stubborn for some.......i am growing mine under grow lights....its certainly not overly humid indoors....the bloom smells like citrus....var. bella is a picky one though,,,,
H. lobbii- it does look like the pink variety. Christine, how did you know?
