Such GORGEOUS plants everybody!!! I love this thread - very inspiring!
Karen
July Blooms
Gabi, I don't see how that plant would not do well in that window. I hope you are finding out how everyone cares for theirs. I wonder if you can expect a certain amount of adjusting with such an established plant...also, and I hate to be negative, but you should take some cuttings yourself, just to be safe... but I bet it will grow fine and bloom for you.
Gabi, that serpens is incredible. To everyone who is having difficulty with serpens: Don't despair, mine literally sat there for 3 years doing almost nothing until this year. I don't understand what happened to make it grow like crazy and bloom this year. The only thing that was done differently was to start fertilizing with the MSU on a regular basis.
Doug
How are those of you having success with serpens growing it?
I have never been able to get it to *root*, and I now have a teeny tiny piece remaining mounted on cork w/sphagnum....it's hanging in there, but that's about it!! It did start some new growth, but then the old growth died off when I let the sphag get too dry!
I have a nice little plant of H. cv. 'Mathilde', though, that's growing by leaps and bounds!
I took a photo last night of my first bloom on H. obscura....then left the camera at home:(
Also blooming for me right now is multiflora/javanica (?) (these are the first buds on this one that haven't blasted) and H. aff. finlaysonii just finished blooming...will post photos tomorrow.
FABULOUS plant, Gabi!!! I'm envious! (Ü)
Nan, I have had serpens for a little over two years now, and have grown it outside all year long. In SF, that ranges from the lower 40's at night sometimes in winter, to the upper 70's during the day in the summer. Serpens has always been happy out there, and has grown constantly the whole time I've had it. It is in bud right now, and was going along fine, but slowly, so I brought it inside and put it near an always open window where it can stay a little warmer, and that seems to be speeding up the blooming process. I keep it always moist, and in the winter sometimes it stays sopping wet, and has never complained.
A new one for me.
H. juannguoiana
Way to go Tami, that's nice, I can't wait for mine to bloom!!
Blessings,
Awanda
Tami - could you post a picture of the leaf on that one? Thanks - Karen
Tami, I'm jealous. Didn't we order H. juanngoiana at the same time from David Liddle last year? Mine is growing well, but no flowers. How does it smell?
Karen, sure I will snap it's leafs tomorrow when I get home.
Thanks Awanda, I'm sure your's will be blooming soon. Are you getting all this nice humidity from the Monsoons. Today was are second full day of rain. I'm having a major melt down, but the plants are loving it.
Mark, I did get some cuttings last year, but I also recieved a small plant from a friend. It came with 3 peduncles on it, but one dried up fast and fell off. The remaining two are pretty dry. As soon as I repotted it this spring into new soil and put it in the GH it started to really grow, and on the new growth three peduncles formed at every node. I was pleasantly surprised. I am detecting a nice light fresh scent of cloves, or perhaps carnation. I brought it in tonight so I could sniff it without smelling all the other flowers in bloom. I love this hoya, and can't wait for a nice blooming size plant, it's a keeper !!!!
Karen, here is the leaf of H. juannguoaina, awesome huh?
H. callistophylla round two.
Nice Tami, I'm going to have a talk with my juannguoaina:-). Since you got your greenhouse all of your hoyas are bloomin their little hearts out:-).
Blessings,
Awanda
Tami - that is BEAUTIFUL! Oh, I have to have that one....wonder if it's in David Liddle's catalog - I can add it to my order - I'm off to look....
Karen
Karen, he does have it :) I can't find my list right now, but I know it was on there.
Tami - I've just added it to my list - it's really a pretty one! Thanks for posting it!
I have a question for everyone that posted a photo of their H. lobbii. Do you have the IML #'s that go with them?
My leaf of H. juanngoaina is so different from those....guess it must be the lighting!!! The flower looks very neat!!! Any fragrance? How long did it last?
Carol
Tami...the IML #s are on my comlete hoya list.
What does the aff. mean? Example: h. aff. carnosa
dawn
Carol, can you post a picture of your leaf on H. juannguoiana? The flowers were closed this morning, so only a two day show, but I loved every minute of it. They flowers smell of cloves/carnation. Thanks for the IML information, I will go check out your website.
Thanks Christine, I need to hunt some of these down.
Here's a picture of my juannguoiana; different growing conditons from Tami's.
Blessings,
Awanda
H. serpens.
Gorgeous pic Mark!
Here is a picture of H. tomataensis/sp. Sulawesi
Ann...is the flower really tiny? Can you send a photo of the leaves/flower??
Will take a pic of the H. juanxxxxxxxtomorrow and post it. Mine seem to be pretty solid without a lot of venation.
Carol, yes, the flower is really small (at least I think so).
Here is a photo of the bloom and leaves, sorry but the blooms look a little washed-out on this one.
:-)
Here's a photo of a leaf
And ... here's another up-close-and-personal shot of the blooms.
It's funny how colors change depending on the kind of lighting you have. The blooms have a much more tomato-y color today with lots of natural light, than they did last night with just the camera flash.
Ann...tell me about the name...please. I have it as H. sp. Sulawesi per CMB who got it from Mel... is it the same as H. tomatoensis? (by the way, it was named after a person, not the fruit)... The leaves get really really red when growing in high light.
Carol
Carol, I have mine listed as H. tomataensis, but I notice that many also list it as H. sp. Sulawesi, so I have it written down as both.
Take a look at David Liddle's photo of H. tomataensis http://groups.msn.com/HoyasRUs/davidliddle.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=552 obviously his is grown in much higher light, but I believe that H. tomataensis is the same as H. sp. Sulawesi. Is there agreement or disagreement on that? Or, is this one of those areas of continued debate?
:-)
Also, H. cv. Noelle opened for me today.
Whoooops ... forgot the picture ... here it is
The light pink on the tomatoensis almost looks frosted.
And how close to the real thing is the cv Noelle picture? I don't think I have ever seen the flower so close up, the colors are gorgeous!
A really, wondrous picture, MsKitty, the H. cv. Noelle! Thanks!
OH good...a name for a species. I love that hoya!!! NEVER stops blooming!!!
Thanks, Ann...
Carol
H. anulata bloomed for the first time for me today. I only got one flower, but I won't complain!
Here's a pic of it that I took a few hours ago when it was still opening up..
And here's H. anulata fully opened
H. multiflora is still going
