Unbelievable photos Mark! I'm constantly amazed with all of these Hoyas that I've never even heard of.
Doug
January Blooms
Beautiful photos, Mark - lucky you for getting to spend some time in hoya paradise!! I'm jealous!!
Karen
Arrrrrrgh! I am having computer trouble and can't see photo's. We had some storms throughout Florida Saturday night and lightning struck a transformer :( We were without power for 3 hours and the electric company finally got a truck out here and got power restored, but then at 2 a.m. it went out again for an hour. I guess when the transformer blew our modem got fried. The cable guy came out and brought another one but it isn't working right. The modem they brought is apparently a used one, all scratched up and not working properly either. Because of the holiday yesterday, they can't get back out until this evening - so hopefully by the end of today we will have a new modem that works and I will be able to view photo's. I guess I should be thankful I can use the computer to at least correspond with people!
I really look forward to seeing the pictures!
Wow...I love those photos!!! I am finding those huge umbels of H. sussuela all over the place now. It must be her season!!!
YES, H. cv. Optimistic.
Mark is not only bright (just read STEMMA!!!), and cute and funny and has great friends... he also takes great photos! We had fun!!
Carol
Woo Hoo ... got the new cable modem this evening and it's working fine! Now I can see everyone's beautiful photo's!
Wow! Awesome photo's you took Mark! I'm so new to hoya that I haven't heard of most of them until this past year after joining DG. I love the color in those blooms of 'optimistic' and 'sussuella'! Beautiful!
I can just envision Carol's greenhouse as well as her property! Paradise!
So glad to have the lowdown on multiflora. When the heats on here full blast, it gets really dry. So I've been showering it once a week lately and it loves it! I just looked at it and decided to trim it this spring because it's getting leggy at the top of the tall wire shelves I have my dishes on. Lots of my hoyas hang off these shelves-I love multipurpose furniture! My lacunosa is blooming again! What a happy guy. It was blooming this fall, too. Looks like 4 peduncles so far.
Just opening.
Edited cause I am stupert.
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Another one-opened longer. Great scent-smells like spring bulbs to me. This is a variegated plant from Angel.
Here is my contribution for January blooms. Not sure which one it is so if anyone wants to give a guess, please do. The picture is shot from underneath so all you can see is the backside of the leaves.
Dee
Nice color, derge!
Dee,
Nice blooms. That looks like H. DS-70 to me, also known as H. tsangii.
Gabi
Thanks Gabi. I tell myself that I am going to keep better track of my hoya names but I guess it is not that important now. But I am going to make a marker as soon as I finish this. Since you know much more than I do I will go for DS-70 / H. tsangii I am so thrilled with the blossum.
Dee
Wow boojum, that lacunosa is gorgeous!!! I can't get mine to be happy for me. I bought mine from HD as an EA basket. Everything was going great for a long time. Then, several months ago, I had a blonde moment and I watered the basket from the top. About a week later some of the leaves began to yellow and drop off. Ever since then this plant has gone downhill. I repotted it a week ago into a chunky mix with lots of perlite and bark. Still, it has continued to drop leaves and now a majority of the leaves on the plant are very thin, almost dehydrated looking. I now have it sitting in a tray of water hoping that I can save it.
So I'm just wondering how you get your's to bloom and grow so beautifully so that I can correct my mistakes if this plant makes it through.
Lovely Blooms! I just bought one of the speckled leaf Lacunosa ... can't wait for it to bloom. I'm assuming it will smell just like my other lacunosa?
Derge: Looks like DS-70 to me also. I have a large basket of that one and at first didn't like the fragrance but it has really grown on me! At first it smelled kinda musty but I don't know if the fragrance has changed or if it's just my nose! I like it a lot now! But, H. lacunosa is still my favorite!
Hi Kathy! Your lacunosa blooms are gorgeous. It's nice to see the comparison of the regular and variegated. Thanks for posting your pics.
Barb
Boojum,
Nice blooms.
Just want to clarify though (in regards to Barb's above post). Even though Boojum's pics show the blooms to look different, the variegated/speckled leaf lacunosa has the same looking blooms as the regular lacunosa. It looks to me like the pic of Boojum's speckled leaf lacunosa was taken when the blooms were just starting to open (before they fully reflex). Correct me if I'm wrong Boojum - I just didn't want Lin or anyone to expect different looking blooms on their speckled lacunosa and get disappointed when they turn out to look the same!
Duncanji,
I water all my EA plants from the top, but I know many people water from the bottom. Are you sure that's when it started to go downhill? If so, I can't think of why, but maybe someone who waters from the bottom will have an idea. Unfortunately, my lacunosa hasn't been doing so great either (it's not an EA hoya - not that it makes a difference). It had about 50 peduncles on it, and I took a look today and noticed almost ALL the peduncles are gone (they must've disappeared into thin air cause I never saw any on the ground!). Also, there were some yellowed leaves that dropped. Ughh. My fault though - I moved it to a location that was too far from any window when I got my Xmas tree (I had to temporarily move some plants to fit the tree, and I just never got around to moving the lacunosa back). Anyway, to answer your question, when my lacunosa was a blooming fool I just kept it in full morning sun and kept it constantly moist (it's a water lover).
Gabi
This "lone soldier" is the first of more buds ready to bloom right behind it. It's australis ssp. australis - one that I started from a cutting about 3 years ago - so this one blooming is a thrill for me!
Karen
Karen that is beautiful. Love the open flowers. Can't wait for some of my cuttings to bloom!
Gabi, that's right. Barb, both pics are different stages of the blooms on the variegated plant. Duncanji, I water once a week from the top but not tons of water. Some of the leaves fell off when the heat cranked up so it prolly needs a bit more water. I really think that the dry heat does a number on all house plants and it's hard to keep up with the fluctuations. I have the lacunosa about 4 feet from a big south window so it gets bright indirect sun when it's not snowing or dreary. So hard to tell why a plant goes downhill. I'm not very good at saving the ones that take a nosedive. But it sure makes one appreciative of the ones that do well!
I'm struggling with my lacunosa as well, but I always have in the winter. I really feel the dryness in centrally heated homes are hard on them in the winter. If we can hold on to them unitil late spring, early summer I'm sure there will be a complete turn around for all these plants.
Doug
My lacunosa's are doing pretty good but our air conditioning is still going down here! I've had to move plants in and out only a couple of times so far this winter because of cold temp's at night. It's supposed to be 39 here tonight so they are all back inside again and everything out on the pool deck will get covered with old blankets once again. We are supposed to be back to 79 by the middle of this next week. I like it when night time temp's stay in the 50's and our days are in the 70's. I feel for y'all who have to put up with such long, cold winters. I can't imagine it. I know I wouldn't be such a plant enthusiast if I lived up north where it gets cold for a few months! I am a wimp when it comes to cold!
Thanks for the clarification, Gabi and Kathy. I did think they were from different plants and appeared different. For some reason I have never been able to find the regular leaf version of this plant around here. All the big box stores carry is the speckled leaf EA lacunosa. I have learned something today.... so that makes it a good day!
Barb
I learned something by taking those pics, too. I didn't realize how the blooms change over time. But it was indeed one plant. I've never seen the regular h. lacunosa around here either.
I have kept all my hoyas out on the front screened in porch this winter. The porch has poly wrapped around it and I just use space heaters when it is cold. They are happy campers and I am amazed at the temps they can take. I try to never let the porch get below 55 degrees and the hoyas are thriving. (Do I know the names of any of them..............NO.......I might have known at one time but have senior moments every day)
Periodically when one blooms I come and ask what it is and some nice person helps me.
Gail, you need to buy some of those stick on labels and write down the name and slap a label on the pot. I use the plastic plant labels that you stick down in the soil but I've had so much trouble with those getting knocked out or blown out and then don't remember what plant it came from ... so now I'm using the peel off stick on labels!
Lin, you smarty pants........That is what i am learning to do with my gesneriads for the same reason. I even bought the peel off labels. Thanks so much. A friend does that and then puts that clear wide scotch tape over it. Why didn't I think of that.
Poor Lin,
I will have to ask again before the labels get put on. If you help me this spring with the names, I promise I will send you some new ones I have found at Lowe's by EA.........
Gail, I am so new to all these different hoya plants, I could probably name one out of 25 and get it correct! I think I've read that many are hard to ID without blooms? I know a few are easy to ID by foliage just because of the distinct type of foliage - like the polyneura (fish tail hoya) and kerrii (sweetheart hoya with the heart shaped leaves) ... but as for most others, I would need help too!
good...........that makes me feel better...........I know about 8 of them and none of the rest......not even sure I can make it to 8...........(LOL)