I got my new Hoya lauterbachii. SO excited! Didn't realize it was fuzzy. First fuzzy Hoya I've owned. I potted them (2 small pots) into a small hanging basket. But have noticed it's tendency to be stiff and upright. Is hanging appropriate for this one?
Thanks for any input! Diane
Hoya lauterbachii- How Do You Grow Yours?
Hi Diane - I got a lauterbachii in my last order, too. Don't know anything about growing conditions for this one - but I'm sure someone will come along soon and help us out!
Karen
All I know about it is that it is one of the eriostemmas so I would guess that WARM is a key word and bright light. Also assuming you can add a tad of crushed coral to the potting soil when you pot it up.
Crushed coral...hmmm...I used my normal potting mix wich is a good ph balanced canadian spag. with vermiculite etc Berger brand. Added some exotic orchid potting mix and threw in extra perlite. What do you think?
Diane, I am sitting with about 70 four inch new hoyas and have no idea which ones need to climb and which ones will hang over in a basket. Join the newbies here.
A friend and I are going back to the nursery next week in Seguin where I found all these wonderful blooming hoyas. We need to ask her what to do with them. She knows all the names and how to grow each one. I feel so indebted to her.
Maybe some good soul will help you out when they catch this thread.
Hi. I don't have lauterbachii and I'm no expert, but "hanging basket" doesn't come to mind when I think of this hoya. I'm sure it wouldn't hurt, but it might look better on some sort of trellis.
Do you have a pic? I'm just curious what Logee's lauterbachii looks like.
I just read what was written about this hoya on www.hoyor.net - it says "Eriostemma. Not easy to bring to bloom as it requires lots of light, humidity and warmth. Add limestone to potting mix."
HTH,
Gabi
I knew someone like Gabi would jump in! Thanks so much.
Don't have good light right now but here is one view of my lauterbachii
Diane
Hmmm..it actually does look good in a hanging basket!
It's 'looks' OK but will it be Ok. Been reading about how some Hoyas want to grow upwards and if you try to make it grow down, the end will fall off! Weird.
H. lauterbachii, like all of the other Eriostemmas, really like to climb. They tend to reach a height they like and then will hang down and bloom. Some like cv. Ruthie will bloom willynilly. Some will bloom climbing up....but they are climbers.
Carol
Thanks, Carol
We are learning so much on this forum. The hoyas make a great addition for me to grow. My gesneriads are very time consuming and the hoyas seem to thrive on a little benign neglect!
I also think that if you want to keep it in the basket, it will find a way to climb! I think what you read about vines not liking to hang down actually means that they don't like to be *forced* to grow downwards (like, you don't want to clip it to a trellis in a downward position - but if it grows downward on its own, I think that's where it wants to grow). But anyway, I've had plants that like to climb in hanging baskets, and they just end up climbing up the hanger! And if you put it in a regular pot, it might still climb something besides the trellis - my pubicalyx grew a stem that climbed all the way up my blind cord until it reached the ceiling. No matter how many times I took it off, it would wrap itself around it the next day - so I just gave up and let it do what it wanted!
By the way, what Carol said about some blooming when climbing up - so true..my carnosa KP formed a bunch of peduncles this summer, but only on the one vine that decided to grow up and around the hanger! So if they want to climb, they will - hanging basket or not!
Gabi
Thanks for that explanation. I don't have those growing hoops so the ones in baskets on the front porch just climb up the hanging basket wires and on to the chain attached to the high ceiling on the porch.
I am glad to know I don't have to figure out each one right now. I will learn in time as I watch them grow.
Has anyone had any luck with getting this one to bloom under average home conditions? I have a cutting, lost half of it to root rot but have been able to successfully root the remaining nodes. I am not so sure I am that much in love with the foliage that I want to keep it around if it isn't going to bloom.
From everything that I have read it will probably never bloom under normal home conditions. But stranger things have probably happened, and yours could be a first.
Ha! I can barely get it to root.