April Blooms

I didn't say that right. I meant: H. fraterna is really unusual, not like many other species.

All your blooms are so beautiful, I am so envious! I do have a few "in bud," but nothing blooming yet. Shephardii, cv Noelle, multiflora, and juanngoiana all are progressing. Sad to say that cv Iris Marie blasted her buds....Oh well, I can (and do!) live vicariously through the pictures here! Good growing everyone!

Karen

Lin, I will be on the lookout for another variegated Hoya variegated Kerri.........if it will make you feel better, I killed mine, too.

Wow, spring is really throwing out lots of hoya blooms! And all of your pictures are so beautiful.

Mark, I agree with you about the colour of H fraterna's flowers; I'd been stuck on how to describe it, but your description of 'dusty dark gold' is perfect.

Christine

Forgot to attch my picture of my H fraterna with the flowers all the way open. The colour of the flowers in a picture, if taken with a flash (for me anyway), is far brighter and lighter than it is in real life, i.e., a dusty dark gold.

Christine

Ah, just wait a day or two, Christine, and you will get a surprise!
This is H. wayetii. They always look pinkish in photos, they are actually a kind of somber dark purplish-red. Smells like burnt sugar syrup.

Cool flowers Mark. Love the colour! Is that picture upside down?

C.

Christine, it is upside down. I turned the blooms up to get better light.
Say, how does your fraterna look now?

My hoya I have labeled as "cv. Bright One" has bloomed.

Blessings,
Awanda

I guess I get to contribute to this thread afterall...and this was an unexpected bloom. So tiny, I almost missed it! My husband just got a brand new Sony camera and I think I'm in the process of slowly taking it over for myself lol.

Here is H. heuschkeliana:

Willow...what a GREAT shot!!!! Don't you love the fragrance?

Awanda...very pretty. 'Bright One' is one of my favorite pubicalyxes!!!!

Carol

Carol, I do love it. Smells like butterscotch candy. I wish I could bottle it up and take it to work with me lol.

Jen

Willow...I think your husband should just give you the camera....thats a great shot!!
ric

H. heuschkeliana: One I must remember! Uh oh ... I think I'm in BIG Trouble! That is an Awesome bloom! So different from other hoyas! Oooh and did someone say it is fragrant too? Now I know that's one I must put on my list of wanted hoyas!


And, I agree ... that is a great shot!

Great heuschkeliana picture Willow! I can never get the blooms that clear and big. You sure have the knack!

Mark, the fraterna flowers are simply closing up now; there's no sign they're falling off though. What am I supposed to be seeing?

Christine

Absolutely lovely yellow heuschkeliana!

Here are a few new shots from this afternoon... H. vanuatuensis is first!

Next is H. pottsii...

H. pimenteliana

And last a sunny H. montana

Hej! Christina....beautiful shots! I believe it has been determined (by DL and CMB) that what we called/call H. pimentelliana is really H. cagayanensis.... As the hoya turns......

Aloha

Hey Awanda - that looks just like my previously unknown pubicalyx...it must also be cv. "Bright One." I was surprised to see that many of the flowers only had 4 petals (corollas? excuse my ignorance). I like "Pink Silver" a little more because of the contrasted white/pink blooms.

Nice variegated Kerrii, Carol. Mine refused to grow! It's put on 3 leaves, in 3 years...meanwhile, the green one is huge and budding up.

Julia

Oh, what beautiful sunny hoya blooms! For a yellow bloom, I especially love that H. montana!

H. pimentelliana is one of the cuttings I ordered in the Spring DL order and I was confused when I received it ... it had the same IML number of the one I ordered but it did say H. cagayanensis. Unfortunately it was the worse one of the 6 cuttings. I cut into the stem and there doesn't seem to be much soft wood, I don't think it's going to survive. :(

Christine, when my fraterna bloomed the flowers were flat for a few days and then the petals turned back really sharply, so that they looked like shooting stars, a bit. Yours didn't? Maybe the temperature of something. Beautiful either way, ain't it?
Willow, the heuschkeliana photo is very nice. They always seem to want to be slightly out of focus for some reason.

DL said that the name pimentelliana changed to cagayanensis. I got it too and it is losing leaves daily. Sigh!

Mine didn't have any leaves on it ... they were all yellow and in the newspaper wrappings. The stems were really light in color and brittle.

Skippity hop hop giggle giggle - found another budding peduncle on cv Iris Marie (the other one blasted). These are a little further along, so keeping my fingers crossed. How I'd love to see her bloom!

Karen

t's gonna knock your socks off, Karen!!!!

Thanks everyone for the compliments. Everyone's flowers are so beautiful. I love that H. Montana bloom. Such a pretty shade of yellow.

Jen

Karen,

How old is your cv. Iris Marie? Mine is five years old, huge and has never even attempted to form a peduncle. I'm hoping this may be my year to see it bloom as well.

Doug

Doug...lots of warmth and good high indirect light! Mine lives outdoors and gets tons of water!!!!! Blooms all year long.

I really think one of the clues to blooming (and happy hoyas) is aircirculation!!!!

Only three buds on my archboldiana made it all the way, but at least I got those three!

/Christina

Doug - I have her in a south-facing window in my sunroom, where I also have two ceiling fans running and a humidifier. So, like Carol says, she gets lots of warmth and air circulation. I've had her less than a year - got her as cuttings in the AlohaHoya Coop. (Coop. forum on DG) last June. The first peduncle blasted it's buds, so I'm hoping this one makes it! Here's a pic of the whole plant.....

Karen

...and here's a pic of the much-watched (!) buds!

I don't believe it but my callistophylla that bud blasted twice is trying again! What a determined hoya! I am keeping it damp this time.

Way to grow, Karen.

I love, love, love my cv. Iris Marie. I only wish she bloomed all year, but, once she starts she keeps on blooming! Doug, mine took several years to start blooming just as yours. I had wonderful luck using Alaska no nitrogen fertilizer, but, it is no longer sold in my area.

I am in awe of all the nice photos and blooms.

Thanks, Mel!

Sistah K I can imagine and share in your excitement, my sp. Chicken Farm finally has a peduncle on it. I go to the gh every morning to see if it's gotten larger:-). My cv. IM is just sitting there, doing nada.

Blessings,
Awanda

This message was edited Apr 23, 2008 9:21 PM

Boojum-
My callistophylla is doing the same thing! It's blasted twice so far (different peduncles). Now the first one to blast is trying again. I might try moving a fan in there for the air circulation to see if that helps. And you said to keep it damp?

Beccalynns it's good to find a friend to commiserate!! Well the last two times it blasted I had done my weekly watering the night before. Carol said they really like to be watered a lot so I thought I'd try keeping it damp so that it's consistently getting water instead of dry and wet cycles. Just a stab in the dark. I don't yet "understand" what makes this plant bast it's flowers but it keeps giving me more chances to learn about it!!

Well - so many things are so relative! With a lose mix where the roots have air...damp is really good. In a thick mix like Promix with no chunky bits...damp is ...well...can be deadly.

Carol