My h. latifolia IML 1410 has basically just sat here, looking pretty, for about 2 years. This summer, she has put on five new leaves! I'm so excited - SOMETIMES, for me, getting new leaf growth is as exciting as getting a bloom!
Karen
ALMOST as good as a bloom....
Nice, Karen! That aff. latifolia sits like a bump and then has amazing growth!!!
Carol
Oh my goodness ... those leaves on that one are huge! I have to go look that one up!
Sis K I can relate especially with this hoya. I have a new leaf starting on mine...the first one since I've had it.
Blessings,
Awanda
That's great! Five new leaves is a lot for this hoya. I have 2 of these (but I think only 1 of them is the real latifolia - the other may be loyceandrew.....??), and neither have grown even one leaf. Now I have more hope!
Gabi
I find H. glabra is the same way for me. Had one with just one big leaf sit and do nothing for 2 years...then boom...off it went.
Marcy
My H. kerrii is doing the same darn thing. It was growing very slowly earlier this year, and it seems to have taken off since I moved it outside. Wow. The growth is doing much better. Not five leaves, but at least a few more!
I've had a lacunosa 'Tove' for over two years now- it flowered once, but has not grown a single leaf or stem since then. Just collecting dust. Sigh...
Isn't it strange that we have one (or more, in my case) that just sits on "idle" for ages and tests our patience? H. vitellinoides is the worst offender for me.
Karen, that one is a beauty!!
Barb
Don't ask me why....but I have a sneaky feeling that it has something to do with the time of year the cutting was taken. 2 years ago I made a tray of H. archboldiana cuttings. This summer 4 of them put on new growth. I have unpotted the others and their roots are just fine...healthy as heck....but they simply sit there. A whole tray of H. vitellina too with the same story. And something tells me that the later in the summer a cutting is taken, the less chance it will be robust. I simply am going on gut feelings here.... anyone else have any thoughts?
My theory is that some hoyas just need time to adjust to their new conditions and/or to amass enough roots to sustain new growth. I've had cuttings taken in October have new growth by December and cuttings taken in June take two years to show new growth. I'm also noticing that the more I move a hoya around the more stressed it becomes, and it may stop growing as a result until it "recovers".
Christine
Hmmmmm. back to the drawing board. Maybe I will do a little study??? Use a temperamental hoya and a workhorse like H. australis and start cuttings every month and see how they fare....
Carol
I still have several that just sit there - glabra is one, loyceandrewsonia (sp?) is another. Both are healthy, look beautiful, but go nowhere. Oh well, that's why I was so excited about latifolia.....and you know, I do wonder about moving the hoya - I've had to move mine several times - from the greenhouse, to the house, to the screened-in porch for the summer, back into the house.....maybe some of them don't like to be moved? I know for sure that I lost an h. coronaria for that reason - she was REALLY picky, and died slowly but surely after being moved from the greenhouse to inside...oh these are tempermental little fellas, aren't they?!
Eriostemmas can be really silly!!!