Bump... good info that needs to be brought to the surface again.
3 Tiered Ratings For Hoyas Growing In Cool, Dry Conditions
YES...it is good information.
Doug...I perhaps missed the information when I was reading the posts...but do you grow them during the winter in an artificially summer environment or do you let them go dormant?
Rats, I wish I would have seen the photos of those hoyas in the photos above before I made my list for the DL order! Oh well, my list for the next order is already started!
Mike
H. polyneura is a great hoya to grow next to the airconditioner!!!
**crosses polyneura off of my list**
We're lucky to get to run the AC for a month...and for 9 months we have the furnace going so no cool air.
A lot of water has gone under the bridge since I first wrote that list. Plants that I have managed to kill from the lists are as follows: H. archboldiana, H. pururea fusca, H. retusa, H. polyneura, and all the rest from the bottom of the list are gone as well except for H. heuschkeliana Pink and Yellow version, which I can now grow well because I have moved it to a humid environment. Other than those deaths, I pretty much stand by the rest of what I wrote.
Many of these plants with the exception of H. cumingiana do go completely dormant in the winter for me (months on end here) unless I move them to my plant room where I can control the humidity. If I can keep the humidity up, I can get most of them to grow year round for me. I also now heat the house differently than when I wrote that list originally, and keep the house warmer, but way drier than before, and for the most part the Hoyas do not like it. Better cool and dry, than hot and dry.
Anyhow, ask me in another 3 years how this list has changed and I'm sure there will be many more. I'm always working on better ways to grow these very challenging plants, and I've made many, many mistakes along the way, but for some reason I keep at it.
Doug
hmm ... I gave H. polyneura a try a year ago, and it bit the dust real quick! Now after reading y'alls posts I'm realizing it was because it didn't like the heat and humidity of my pool area! Maybe I should try growing that one again, inside the house where air conditioning runs @ 10 months of the year? We keep the thermostat set at 76º year round and the heat automatically kicks on if the inside house temp drops below 72º which rarely happens.