I nag at my hoyas all the time! Works wonders. Just like with the DH.
Julia
February Blooms
My final piece of multiflora finally bit the dust. I picked up to look and see if there were any roots and every leaf fell off. I have green stick now. *sniff*
pd....try laying your multiflora trunk on the top of the pot and cover the nodes ever so slightly...and keep it really moist. Be sure to cut ALL rot off first...it may spring back...worth the try!!!
gonna try - Thanks Carol.
Julia- thanks! What's really crazy is that the poor thing is growing and blooming like that in a jar of water (saw that someone else had done that on here). It's got another group of blooms open with a third that should open in the next week or so. I have the second bella in a pot in the bathroom (there's a window in the shower) to see how that one does in soil. :)
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I finally got a bloom on this hoya I purchased as cv. Christine, but it appears to be Hoya Pachyclada:-(, which I already have 2.
Blessings,
Awanda
Awanda...NO WAY is that H. pachyclada. That lovely sweet smelling bloom is cv. Christine. The growth of the leaves shows it too, as H. pachyclada's leaves grow somewhat differently....at least for me they do. Congratulations...!!!
Carol, it must be the pain pills, but it still looks different from the one you have on your website:-(????
The corolas on your photo have not reflexed yet... or there is a stage between just opening and just 'dying' when the corollas (the outside petals) are rotate....when they go from closed to their final position....i.e. recurved. I think that is what has happened. The corollas on H. pachyclada are recurved too.....
Carol
Looking at your photo and seeing the other buds still closed, I would say your umbel is just opening...perhaps you could look at it now and take a photo...you will probably see a difference...then, again...I could be wrong.
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Those are beautiful flowers. I agree though, it doesn't look anything like pachyclada flowers (pachyclada blooms have either a dark red or a creme colored center depending on the clone, and your's look pink).
How does that one smell? I find no smell with pachyclada. Carol, what is cv. Christine a cross between?
Gabi
Gabi - cv. Christine is a cross between H. subquituplinervis X H. pottsii 'Chiang Mai'...done by Michael Miyashiro years ago...at least that is the closest we can come and what MM remembers. It is extremely fragrant and has a fabulous growing habit: it grows almost laterally and the nodes are close together...the leaves usually quite thick. Of course the leaves can change thickness due to different growing conditions.....
Thanks Carol. Sounds like a great hoya.
cv. 'Christine' also is very floriferous. I've had a barely rooted cuttings of it blooming away.
It does look a lot like pachyclada, subquintuplinervis, pottsii from Chiang Mai, they are all very closely related, and you usually can't tell the difference without looking at the leaves.
Sorry to interrupt the diagnostics, but I am home today in the light and looking at my hoyas, I see buds on my multiflora, lacunosa, brevialata, and my first to bud from last year's DL order-callistophylla!! As a newbie, I am SOOOO excited!!
Congratulations Boojum. Good growing! Post photos when they bloom.
Doug
Thanks, Doug. I love when I get something to flower. I wish I could post NOW!!
A few of my hoyas are budding up too, its just a wonderful time of year, with days getting longer and everything waking up in the northern hemisphere. I took a flashlight last night to inspect a few of my shelving units and found buds on H.longifoloia (first timer!), H.shepherdii (first ones), H.heuscheliana, H.finlaysonii (another first timer!), H.cv Sunrise, H.nicholsonae, and H.carnosa is just loaded. There's new peduncles on more of them than I can remember so I'm optomistic that this year just might bring lots and lots of flowers.
Christine
Good job Christine! Even though I'm digging out yet again from another 12 inches of snow (we just broke the February record for recorded snow fall), I can feel that there is hope for spring in the air. It is nice to see the increasing day length.
Doug
H. calycina with its biggest cluster yet, 30 flowers! Each one is huge, about 1-1/2".
Oh how pretty, I can't wait for mind to bloom!
Incredible bloom Mark. I have to put that Hoya on my must have list.
Doug
I think this bloom is from my pubicalyx, some of my hoyas are all tangled togther. I knew something had bloomed when I opened the greenhouse this morning!!
Blessings,
Awanda
Gosh those 2 are wonderful!! Christine, I am about to dig the snowfall from the roof from behind my car so it's great to hear about all those flowers!! They must know something I don't know!
I agree, absolutely beautiful flowers. My calycina's never bloomed either; I had to restart it last year and don't have any new growth yet, but it'll get there, I'm sure. Spring IS coming, despite what the weatherman says today - right now it's -12C (10F) and tonight it's going down to -17C (1F). That's not even factoring in wind chill. By Friday it'll be above freezing again, but snowing. This has been one weird winter!!
Christine
Mark, what an amazing picture and gorgeous blooms!! I need to show that to my 2 calycina plants!
Boojum, congrats on all your hoya action!
I also have lots of new growth, and new peduncles have developed on a few hoyas. But I'm really excited about my H. kanyakumariana from last year's David Liddle order (I think it was the Fall order - the one that Sara hosted) - it had a peduncle when I got the cutting, and now it just developed 2 more!! And one of them is already budding up! What a fast grower that hoya is - it's been growing NON-STOP since I got it, even over the winter (and there is no artificial light on it).
Gabi
Amazing Bloom MarkRoy68! Really lovely!
AwandaI that is a very pretty H. pubicalyx you've got there too!
I am so in Awe of all the beautiful Hoya plants some of y'all grow! I can see how easy it is to get hooked on them. I can't wait to get my cuttings from the DL order! I just hope and pray I can get them to root and grow for me! I don't even remember which ones I ordered, guess I will go find my copy and look up photo's to remind myself.
Y'all are really making me want a greenhouse ... just for Hoyas!
Thanks, Gabi and Lin.
I find that calycina resents drying out and has a very vigorous root system, so is easy to underwater. This plant and H. australis usually start budding in late fall and go through New Years (for me), but they were both late this year. I thought it was something I did, but Julia's calycina is blooming now too, so I guess it must have been the weather. ?
My calycinas are forming buds again....fingers crossed. They really get pouty when on a diet...lots of fert too!!! Like H. imperialis!!
Gabi...how do you grow your kanyukamariana? Cool? Dry? Not one of my great success stories!!!!
Carol
While it's still February.... just. I thought I'd pop in a few blooms from down under. I always think of Hoya carnosa as the family pet . Good old faithful.
This is my first bloom of H.padangensis. only small but quite attractive poking out of the shadow.
H. lacunosa.
H. Multiflora or Javanica I'm not sure which.
Hoya mindorensis, another first time bloom.
Wow! Great show and I love that Hoya mindorensis.
Carol, I grow my kanyakumariana in my regular mix (1:1:1 ratio of regular potting soil, perlite, and orchid bark), in eastern exposure (it's right on the windowsill), in a 4" square plastic pot, and I keep it dry. That's it! Oh, and I also use Eleanor's VF-11 on all my plants.
Since I grow it on the windowsill right next to the window, I can't really specify whether it grows cool or warm (because it would be cool during the winter, and warm during spring and summer) - however, I have a radiator below that windowsill (several feet below), so it might be grown warm year-round. It's hard to tell, cause the window is cold and the windowsill is warm-ish. Sorry to be so confusing!!
Gabi
Nice photos, everyone. Yes, Mark, our H. calycinas appear to be in sync.
Here is my mystery h. Pottsii in my office. I walked in this morning and the room smelled of hyacinths. Photo taken with crappy camera phone, but you get the idea.....
Julia
Kanyakumariana ... now that name is a mouthful! That's a new one to me, had to google to see what it looks like ... I like the foliage on that one!
JuliaSF: Nice H. pottsii bloom, so pretty. Aaah ... must be wonderful if it has the fragrance of Hyacinths!
Julia, judging by the leaf, I'd guess that is Hoya acuta 'Bronze'?
Roy, how do you like padangensis? Is it fragrant?
sorry Mark, I left too late to have a smell. maybe next time.