Yeeeehawww - I just got word that my fiance in South Carolina picked up our Hoya linearises that just got into Home Depot!! Whooooo Hooooo three years of trying to order that stinkin' plant from EA nurseries has finally come to fruition!!
Actually Dlambii turned my proposal down, but I am in denial about that!! LOL!
Pictures to come.
Back to the desk grind for me......
S
edited to add: Maybe someday my lambii will be as big as David's is, and I can be "slambii"
This message was edited Sep 13, 2007 12:49 PM
Hoya Linearis!!
Okay, Mrs slambii here is a pic of the 2 linearis plants that have almost turned my hair white for 3 years trying to get!!!! They are in 8" baskets and somewhat full but nice and healthy. This pic is a bit fuzzy but at least you'll be able to see what size they are.
EA had to ship a minimum of 6 plants/full case in order for me to get these and for the first time I also found and entire 8" basket of H. nummularioides at the store as well. Since I already have 3 cones of it there was no need for me to purchase it.
dmichael
Sara you are too funny! Take pictures of your new baby as soon as it arrives! Hoya linearises will be a new one for me to see!
~Brenda
Susan, trust me they ARE NOT making the rounds again!! You have no idea what i've been through to get these plants delivered over the past 2 weeks. I could write a book!!!!
The experience would take about 2 hours to get typed out so just take my word for it when I tell you that it wasnt the most pleasant experience at times as on more than one phone call there were some rather CHOICE words exchanged and just the dealings that i've had with these morons today alone has made me feel like I need a vallium and a triple shot of gold tequila!!!
This H. linearis was THEE one hoya that I have been trying so desperately to add to my collection and now I can rest a bit as I have it!!!! I still have a small wish/want list of hoyas that i'd like to aquire but none that will be so hard to get as this one was!!!
dmichael
Sara - does Bryan know you're trying to get engaged????
You two are too funny!
Karen
Well, the hard work payed off, David. Linearis is a wonderful plant, and what a rare for EA to be propagating! Beautiful plants. Any flowers coming?
No need for apologies Susan. It's just that i've had to go through 2 different sources,both working together in order to get these hoyas and it's just been total confusion on al parts for the most part!!!!
First they sent 2 hoyas that ended up being the wrong ones, then they resent them and supplied me with a fed-ex tracking number showing me that they had in fact been delivered this time but out of 6 people no one had any idea which store the box with the plants was at.
Someone at my local store told me that they hadnt received anything ,then I call back today only for them to tell me that yeah it did come in yesterday but someone left the store witih the entire box. It's been quite the experience getting these to plants but finally I got them tracked down and have them in my possession.
In real life I am not her fiance. She is currently living a fantasy because she so desperately wants to get her hands on the plant that you see pictured below that she is willing to go to any extreme to get. I have repeatedly asked her real husband to get her some help but he refuses!!!!
Theres a group called S.B.W.L. that is more than qualified to get her snapped back into reality and realize that she alrady has a husband and children. All I have to bring into a marriage is 2 cats,2 dogs and several hundred hoyas!!!
Dont anyone take this seriously. Sara and I are good friends and joke with one another like this all the time. How do you think I got the name dlambii!!!!!
This message was edited Sep 13, 2007 4:15 PM
I see that I was typing at the same time dmichael was sending off the pictures! Nice big plants!!
~Brenda
Nope!! No flowers or peduncles on either of them Mark. But I can wait for that,i'm just happy to finally have the plant!!
EA started distributing several of the less common hoyas last year but they are few and far between. I have driven up to 5 hours to track some of them down with no luck. It's just a matter of you walking into either lowes or home depot and just finding one sitting there and usually when you do find them it will only be 1 plant of the rare ones.
This is a list of the less common hoyas that I know they started putting out last year::
polyneura--curtisii--longifolia--nummularioides (found one today but didnt get it)--linearis--multiflora--speckled leaf (snow caps) lacunosa
Good luck to any of you who decide to try and special order any of these through your stores!!!!
dmichael
Where is the EA nursery exactly? It might take you less time to actualy drive there and demand entry!
Mark they are located in Homestead,FL. I'm not sure just how far that is from where i'm at but like you said I probably could have driven there and gotten them a lot faster!!!!
They sell their plants on the sears.com website but all they offer is a variety of tropical houseplants and the very commmon carnosa types of hoyas.
dmichael
Maybe you should plan a east coast hoya convention and descend on EA, Bob Smoley and Tropiflora. There aren't any good destinations I am aware of on the west coast, though I AM closer to Hawaii than you are!
Great find David, I'm so glad you finally found one, the search is over.
Tami you summed it up pretty well there!!!(LOL)
Susan you're right they only put 1 specialty hoya per box and they ship them about 500 miles apart!!!! And you do almost have to be right there when they come out of the box to get them!
dmichael
I also have a special order in to my HD for linearis, but as I am not nearly as persistent as Dlambii, he got them first. In the event that they actually get mine in, I will let everyone know....
Ha! I would never exchange "choice words" with anyone, again I am sure that is why David won the linearis race... Maybe there is something to be said for crabbiness :)
David is being kind - he actually simply ignored my proposal. I was quite crushed if you all want to know. HeeeeHeeee. I promised to just move into the greenhouse, it is heated you know, I would bring my own blanket and napping mat, and I am sure that it wouldn't cost that much to feed me.
S
I am here in Bellingham, Washington and about to run out to a LOWEs or a......
If you want to know how to kill linearis..I can tell you....I am an expert.... I know I water it too much!!!!
Great score, Sara and David!!!
Carol
Carol, I not even gonna ask how to kill this one as long as it took me to get it but if you want to know how to kill a polyneura or a curtisii just ask me!!!!
dmichael
My thoughts and prayers are with you to keep those plants alive after all the work that you did to get it. Have you installed a video cam so you can keep track of it every minute! LOL Very nice score.
I wish we could fast forward a year or 2 to view dmichael's plant because I know it will be grown well and I think years ago I saw a picture of a matured linearis, and that thing was awesome.. It thickens way out as it grows! (I think that particular plant was grown in a kitchen with lots of humidity)
Susan
This message was edited Sep 17, 2007 9:48 AM
This message was edited Sep 17, 2007 9:48 AM
I haven't found this plant very hard at to keep, same bright light as the rest of my hoyas, and as with all the EA plants, I water very lightly until I figure they are old enough to have alot of roots in the basket.
I will say that I lost the center growth last year, and i would think it is because that center area of the pot stays the wettest when you water, unlike the soil around the perimeter of the pot, which dries out quicker. So though this plant does not like to be bone dry, and will obviously wilt when it is, it is very sensitive to being too wet also. The parts of the plant growing in the driest part of the pot are the ones that are still going strong. Sara, I know you like to water from the bottom with the EA plants, but you may want to try something different with this one, at least until you are sure it has built up a good root system.
I took alot of cuttings from it this summer and have them growing semi-hydroponically in clay aggregate and they are doing VERY well, so I am looking into getting a hydro pot that I can hang and am going to start a hydroponic linearis. I have a feeling it will do great, maybe even better than in regular soil.
And no worries about root or stem rot!
Here is my linearis sibling, fresh out of the box today!! HeeeHeee, I am sure that 3 hours at Dlambii's house wasn't nearly enough time to convince it that it would be better off in S.C.
I am very impressed with the health of this plant. I accused David of sending me the nicer plant, but he maintains that BOTH were pretty awesome.
Jen, I do think that I will stick with the bottom watering though, you know what they say...stick with what you know, and all that. I would hate to rot it out with top water, and that is almost always what happens to me, so for now that is the way for me. It is quite moist though, and probably won't need it for a while anyway.
S
Dear Slinearis,
That is quite the stunner - Congrats!!!! I am officially jealous.
;-)
Ann! Thank you. Of course all congratulation go to dlambii - he was the one who contributed the blood, sweat and cussing that got the special order through. You will notice that the special order I placed prior to his, still has not come through. Good thing we weren't "racing" for money or prizes!
S
Nice plant, Sara - and good job, David. Now, is this plant and David's a "twins separated at birth" saga that will keep you two connected forever?? You two are too funny!
Karen
Yes, Karen that is exactly what they are - twins separated at birth. I don't know if it will be a saga so much as one of those nature vs. nurture experiments that were so popular in the 70's with all of the psychological/sociological twin studies.
Dr. Ann, you are the sociology expert, when did they conduct those ethically questionable twin studies?
Fantastic plant Sara! I just wish there was some way to order these plants direct from Exotic Angel. Has anyone ever contacted them to buy plants in some sort of Cooperative effort or are they just so huge that they are unapproachable for that kind of thing?