If one of mine doesn't bloom I am going to start hacking them to death. No really but I sure would love to get a bloom before I pass on. Maybe I should start changing my attitude toward them. If I smack them and yell you think it would do any good?
If one of mine
I've heard of a few here that show their plants the pictures of someone elses blooms and then tell them "do this or else..."! LOL Maybe that will work for you!
Good thing the leaves of most all the hoyas are so beautiful!!
~Brenda
LOL
You're not alone ;)
I wish the same thing.
I have one multiflora that had flowers when I bought it, but after a week they were gone, hope not for good.
Lourdes =)
I have 5 hoyas and not one bloom.
LOL....I have 300 or so hoyas, and only about 10 are blooming.
Every time I've threatened one of my hoyas to throw it out or sell it, it has "rewarded" me with flowers and I've had to keep it... Last one was montana this spring and since then it has bloomed 4 times!!! Now I just can't throw it out or sell it...
/Christina
This is my one and only Hoya and I've cared for it but not pampered it. The only thing I did recently was cut a long and I mean long , branch, applied rooting hormone and stuck it back in the same pot. Now a couple of weeks later I noticed this "thing".......I think it's flowering. Remember the old saying, " A watched pot never boils".
Anaid...goodness...Seems like you have a H. australis...and this is its' time to bloom. Patience is not my long suit...but I have waited years for a bloom....and then never tired of them as they keep on coming.
One thing that works sometimes is to change radically the way you are growing the plant...they will bloom when the conditions are comfortable or if they think they are dying because the conditions are NOT comfortable.
Carol
So I should get a big knife and stand over them yelling die die you stupid non blooming plant?
I am a believer that your feelings is picked up by any living thing, including plants so dont do that. Maybe like Carol suggests, make it more comfortable and it will bloom. Too much pressure to bloom might cause it to stress and that's the opposite of what you're trying to accomplish...........good luck!
I given the the best I have. I even named all of them beautiful names. What more do they want?
Perhaps not being where they are?
How old are they? Which hoyas?
Some are VERY long to bloom...
Some need less water or darker areas.... or versa visa
Makshi,
Have you done research to find out what conditions each of your hoyas like? Also, you might want to do a search on here to read about the kind of conditions hoyas like in order to bloom. It's a subject that has been discussed a lot, and you might get a better idea of what you can change to "try" and get blooms.
But most importantly, you need to be patient....because like Carol said, it can take a VERY VERY long time. I know how frustrating it can be (I waited several years before seeing my first hoya blooms), but once you get them, you'll see that it's well worth the wait.
Gabi
Hoyas are definately not the plant for the impatient. I am not really all that patient, but I started with hoyas because I loved the foliage, and the viney way that they grow....I had seen the flowers and knew how awesome they were, but didn't think hoyas would bloom unless kept in a greenhouse. Since I went into it with a un-expectant attitude, any bloom was a plus, icing on the cake, not the reason for my having hoyas. Even today, I will pass up on any hoya if I don't like the foliage - since that is what I will be looking at most of the time.
But I really believe that like most things in life, the things that are the hardest to come by and make us wait the longest are the best rewards and definately more worth it!
Well I got mine for the foliage in the first place. I didn't know a lot about them and never knew they bloomed. I am like you in that I have several plants I keep only for the foliage.
LOL
Odd suggestions...
I was once watching some fluffy afternoon show, years ago, and this lady was showing all the many ways to make plants happy. She pulled out, with a straight face, this 8", battery operated "back massager" and started caressing the plants leaves with it, lol.
Then there was Myth Busters. They put the same types of plants in different green houses and took care of them the exact same way but in each green house, they played a different genre of music. I think some didn't have music but rather had either someone cooing sweet nothings to the plants and another getting yelled at (on a looped recording). The good/bad talking greenhouses had equal results and did better than the control greenhouse (the quiet one) and the heavy death metal greenhouse did remarkably better than the other which had classical music.
So I should take my plants to rock concerts? :) Very interesting.
I play classical music for my plants a lot. I get those CD's in Wal-Mart where they sell candles, fountains etc. They have very relaxing classical musical. I enjoy it, too which is a switch for me because I like rock, soft rock, soul etc (which I also still play for the plants sometimes).
What I've noticed about my spoiled brat hoyas is that if one gets shoved to the corner, it stops thriving but when I start pampering them and hovering over them, they perk up and this is not my imagination. :)
Susan
This kind of goes along the lines of what Carol stated....that if you radically change their care they're kind of 'fooled' into blooming.
I have several Hoyas that were happily hanging in the apple trees outdoors until the night it threatened to freeze and frost (this was about 3 weeks ago) and they were then carried into the garage (relatively dark) and (shame on me) they didn't get watered, as when I took them to the garage they were pretty wet from a heavy rain.
They had become very, very dry in that period of 'temporary storage'.
I found (just a few days ago) that my H. polyneura not only has 2 peduncles, but 2 bloom clusters that will be opening soon! Woohoo!
I really think it was the change in conditions and the 2 1/2 - 3 weeks of benign neglect!
I'll try to get a photo of them tonight, if I can get the camera away from my son!