Pendecule Starting from Hoya Co_op order

I was brand new here when I saw the chance to join the Hoya Co-Op order from Carol. I had bought a few hoyas at HD or Lowes but the only thing I have seen bloom is my hoya mulitflora (javinca) that I bought from Robs this past winter. It bloomed with 4 leaves and has kept right at it all spring and summer....

Anyway I digress..... I bought H aff Finlaysonii with my co - op order because I loved!!! the leaves, never planning on seeing a bloom for years.......but look what I found yesterday.....the cutting has only been potted since the 10th of June!!! I'm am so thrilled to see this!!! Or am I deluding myself that anything could come of this with a new cutting barely planted up a month??

~Brenda

Another angle.....

Brenda,

Congrats! Hopefully you'll get blooms but don't fret if they blast...that can sometimes happen with first-time umbels or with new cuttings. Either way, that *peduncle* will set buds again and again...so no worries!

Good luck!
Gabi

Brenda you can and most likely will see flowers on that. I have a 4"pot of H. davidcummingiii on ebay right now that I started as a handful of cuttings. One of those cuttings only had one leaf node on it and a peduncle. Within a month it had formed buds and bloomed.

Several of mine from that same co-op came with peduncles but none have formed buds yet and at least one came with flowers open on it in the box.

dmichael

OH dear, is there a way to edited the titles of your post threads....like with the correct spelling of peduncle?? LOL

Thanks for the encouragement! With my aff finlaysonii cuttings I couldn't stand to cut them all up as I so loved the leaves so I planted a few long pieces of them in two different pots. I also did a pot with several two leave node cuttings so if they all work out I'm going to have a lot of aff finlaysonii :))

Here is an old peduncle that is in the second pot and it has a few little (what?? I don't know what to call them, buds maybe?) forming on the old peduncle so maybe between the two I'll see something....

~Brenda

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The flowers are lovely and smell devine... Alas, on the finlaysonii group they don't last too long!!! But worth it!!

What exactly is a hoya co-op?

Hi Bhavana34, It is where a lot people get together to place an order with a vendor and thus get good prices because of a large bulk order...here is the link to the Hoya Co-Op thread from this past May, it will explain it all much better than I can!!!

http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/726643/

~Brenda

Congrats on your almost bloom. I really like the finlaysonii group, but the blooms are gone in a couple of days. Keep up the good growing.

A hoya coop is where a bunch of people get together and buy alot of plants/cuttings, from a certain vendor, in the last/only case for a hoya coop it was Carol aka Aloha Hoya's. It allows you to purchase cuttings at a great rate.

I get the impressions these co-op's open and close really fast!! By the time I had it figured out, they had closed it, and weren't allowing anyone else to join.

It kind of reminded me of the ice cream truck when I was little. By the time I could run inside and find all of my change lying around my very messy room, the ice cream truck was LONG GONE!!!!! There is one in our neighborhood now, and I tell you what, hearing that music still makes me tense!! DH thinks it is darn funny, and loves to tell me that he is sure our insurance will NOT pay for me to have therapy because I wasn't smart enough to keep my quarters all in one spot, and not quick enough to catch the ice cream truck!! HA! Cold man him.

Sara