I have a hoya (sort of) that my mother gave me from her plant. It is a leaf with a bunch of roots on it. I planted it in a small pot 3 years ago & I still have a leaf with roots on it in a pot. It is still alive and hasn't browned or wilted but it hasn't grown either. Is there any hope for it to grow into a plant. I have 2 other plants that she gave me with actual stems & leaves & 1 actually bloomed for a minute but the bloom fell off. (Found out I was overwatering). I have learned alot from this site and very much appreciate the info. If anyone has an answer for me I would love to know.
Thanks for your time.
will a hoya grow from a leaf?
Well - the definite answer is YES/NO.
Some leaves WILL eventually sprout growth and some will sit like that for your lifetime! It all depends upon where on the leaf stem it broke/was cut from the vine...although I know someone who had a pubicalyx grow quickly with no leaf stem. I am too long in years to have the patience to do it...but if you have the time......
The Thais mass produce H. kerrii by cutting the leaves from the vine with half of the vine (the other half goes to the opposite leaf)....
I have one, don't know which hoya it is, that a piece broke off of last year. I stuck it down in my 10 gal aquarium/terrarium like I do with a lot of broken pieces of plants and it took root but as AlohaHoya said, I don't expect to see it grow much in my lifetime! I just have a habit of sticking bits and pieces of stuff in the terrarium to see what happens.
Here's a picture I just took looking down into the terrarium ... this one I think is H. carnosa with the speckled leaves. My terrarium is crowded but I think you can see the two speckled leaves.
Found another one in the same terrarium, other side that I think is H. shepherdii, but not sure without going and finding the "mom" plant that is labeled.
edited to say: forgot to say ... this was a long cutting that has rooted in a couple of places along the stem.
This message was edited Jun 21, 2008 6:41 PM
Hi there, I once planted four carnosa leaves and left them. Out of those, at least one started growing new leaves after a couple of months. Eight years later, it matured and started to bloom for me. It's now one of my most reliable bloomers.
I would say (and this is my opinion only) that after a couple of years, if it hasn't started growing, it's incredibly unlikely it's ever going to. I would go back to your mother and get a cutting with a stem and some leaves, if you can.
Sorry! Hope that helps!