question about hoya cuts

Just curious and would like to know how many of you pot hoya cuttings with calloused stems or recut the stems prior to potting? Also, do you recut the stems of cuttings for their initial soaking upon arrival when they have been in transit for a few days?

If they have been sitting around or in the mail for a while, I fill a sink with water and a little superthrive, make fresh cuts and then throw them in to soak for an hour or so - my feeling being the fresh cut will help them to soak up the water and any nutrients. Even if I don't soak, I was taught years ago when I first learned about growing plants from cuttings to make a fresh cut before putting them into the soil.

I always recut.

Me too, sometimes I recut a few times if I don't think that things are getting soaked up well enough.

S

Me too, Shirley. I always cut the stems until the sap flows. That way, I know I am rooting healthy tissue. Hoyas are not succulents despite what many people think!

I always think of roses, and how they say that when you get some you should hold the stems underwater and make fresh cuts, this allows the water (and not air) to flow up the stem to the flower head.
Sometimes I cut my hoyas underwater, but like was mentioned above, I like to be able to see the sap flow to make sure I am cutting healthy stem, and that is hard to see underwater.

Just out of the box, I will soak them in plain water. I do always recut, but just as I'm potting it up for rooting.
Christine

Thanks for the input everyone.