Wow...loving everyone's blooms.
Jan, great pic of mindorensis. And you have so many other great ones blooming.
Karen, LOVE your pic of polyneura!
And Katie, that subcalva X australis is to die for - I can't WAIT for mine to bloom!
Gabi
October Hoyas
I guess 'tis the season for H. polyneura!
Mine actually held on to it's blooms this year - they didn't abort!
Oh Nan, that is some kinda gorgeous! I really wish I could keep it alive. :(
Barb
Oooh, pretty bloom Nan! That's one I wasn't able to keep alive either. I just couldn't figure it out! :(
Barb,
I'm with you...new on many of these forums so I mostly lurk. I'm always amazed where I see boojum...now I know why with that list of plants you grow!
Sarah
Hi Sarah! Welcome to the most addictive plant ~and forum~ there is. Don't lurk... c'mon out and share your successes and your failures and pics and questions. There's a good bunch of folks here.
Barb
Ok, Barb. I'll bite with a question, since I'm just starting my collection. l have several hoyas that I received recently. Some are noid's. For the ones I know what they are, how can I find out how they grow...meaning do they climb, will they do best in a hanging pot, etc.
Thanks! By the way, I've been a DG member for several months now, and DG folks are the best!!!
Sarah
Welcome Sarah! I am still pretty much a newbie to growing hoyas. I found some great information regarding culture and growing in the "stickies" at the top of the hoya forum!
I have begun to let my hoyas decide "how" they want to grow. At first I was putting them all in hanging baskets but soon realized some seem to want to grow upwards, so those I put on trellises, others grow out and downwards so those I let live in hanging baskets.
I think one of the stickies also tells different temp ranges some hoya prefer. When I joined DG 2 years ago I had one hoya. Now I have 51 ... bought five cuttings in a co-op last spring, all others have come from Exotic Angel plants bought at Wal-Mart or Home Depot and many trades here on DG!
edited to finish a sentence! ^_^ Duh ... getting old!
This message was edited Oct 24, 2008 9:24 PM
PLLin,
I didn't have any until about a month ago. I made a purchase on the DG Marketplace, and got several hoya cuttings as a bonus (thanks, gessiegail).Then I saw another DG vendor who had a couple for sail and all of a sudden I have 7! Since 4 are still cuttings waiting to root, I guess I'll have to wait to see how they want to grow.
I have checked the stickies and thanks for the reminder. There's lots of great information there.
Sarah
Sarah, sorry for the delay in getting back to you (company in for a visit), but I would have said exactly what Lin did... the stickies are a fabulous source of information. If you can't find an answer, ask away and someone will help you.
Again, welcome.
Barb
Sarah...in general, hoyas climb or wind UP something. If they are forced to, they can hang (like H. lacunosa, H. obscura) and be happy, but given the chance, they will look to grab something and climb along a limb, up a limb etc. That, I think is one of the reason that the tip of the vine should be secured in the 'up' position when training on a hoop.
HTH...carol
Thanks, everyone. Carol, I think I'll invest in some loops so I can start training them while the stems are still short.
Sarah
These pictures and information are fabulous. I love my Hoyas. Didn't label them when I was told what they were. so know what I have ( sort of) just not which one is what. My first one I had for about 7 years, not knowing what it was, but enjoying it just the same. It put on beautiful bloom display every summer. Now there is one in that has been in bloom for about a month , I think. It smells like Butterscotch to me, and I believe came from PLLin (she is such a generous sweetie!). It wasn't until she told me that they usually start smelling around 5pm. Well, I can just about set my clock on that little tidbit of information. So, come 5pm, Igo sniffing and smiling around my blooms. Thanks Lin and Carol and all of you that I have learned so much from.
I have 1 orchid, a Catalaya(sp?) and it was wonderfully fragrant for a few weeks. The bloom finally died these last couple of days. I hope the plant stays healthy. It still looks really good.
Sheri
Here is a favorite of mine...H. magnifica. Some people say it smells like horse poop or dirty diapers, others love it. I think it smells of hay in a barn...a scent I happen to really like.
Ive expanded my collection over the last few years since I moved to warmer climes, and some, like H wayetii, have surprised me by its habit of scrambling up and rooting in the basket liner with its ariel roots, whereas I was expecting it to be a trailer. I like them growing in baskets because the cats dont knock them over, but some are obviously going to have to go back in a pot...ie H coriacea, H fraterna ( if the correct one, leafwise mines very similar to the former), and a good few others which are pretty straight up vines
Dominic
Oh my ... that is Gorgeous! Now I can't wait for mine to grow up and bloom! My cutting from the Spring Co-Op this year is growing and looking good ... can't wait for the blooms to appear! I've heard a couple of people describe it as smelling like horse poop. If the fragrance is of sweet hay, it might not be too bad but if it smells like horse doo doo, it will be the first "fragrant" hoya I don't want to ever bring in the house when in bloom, LOL.
That flower sure is pretty!
Carol....Is that H. magnifica flower that is open in the picture a 4 petaled one??
Also....I have a good supply of dirty (fish poop) aquarium water that I suction out accasionally. Would this be good to use for watering my plants??
Wing waves,
Sheri
Very beautiful, pristine white blooms on that H magnifica Carol ! Maybe it'll
have to go back on my wish list after all!!!
Paula
Sheri:
On various houseplants forums, I've read that lots of people use their aquarium water for their plants. I don't see it harming in any way, and it could prove very useful!
Hoya variegated macrophylla in bloom. The flowers are very small & dainty, smells like fresh cut hay to me.
W/ leaves for the size comparison.
Sunshinesw: Very nice plant! What cute little blooms. I have a small one I received in a trade this summer and I just love the foliage, hopefully I will see blooms someday!
Nan: I use fish emulsion for a lot of my plants!
We have a salt water aquarium so I wouldn't be able to use the water for my plants but I would think water from a fresh water aquarium would be okay once in awhile, not sure, I would think there would be lots of good broken down organics in there that the plants might like!
Here's cv. Iris Marie....
And H. carnosa KP
Close-up...
Oooh, so pretty! I bought a nice sized iris marie from a friend a few months ago and really look forward to the blooms ... hopefully next year! That's a great pic Gabi!
We are predicted to have temp's of 39-40 tonight so I hauled my orchids in this afternoon and a few hoyas, but some hoyas are still outside along with a hundred other plants! Thank goodness it will only be cold for a couple of hours and hopefully everything will be okay. I watered well today.
Wow! Those close up shots are fantastic!
Really. Hey count your blessings, lin. Sposta get 1-2 inches of snow tonight-our first white stuff (usually none till Txgiving).
Beautiful close-up, Gabi!!
Karen
Oooh ... I will just enjoy photograph's of the white stuff! Don't want that down here! I've never driven in snow and ice and just can't imagine it would be fun at all! Back in the late 80's/early 90's we had a really, really cold winter here and there was a lot of ice. It was real bad in the Jacksonville area and it snowed! People were told to stay off the roads if at all possible because it was so dangerous. There was a young couple with two kids somewhere here in central florida. They were born and raised in Florida and had never seen snow or ice. They wanted their kids to see the snow so they drove up to Jax and were in a bad wreck trying to drive on the ice and all were killed! We have the black ice during summer down here when it rains. The oil on the roads mixes with the rain and it's real slick. We always hear warnings about slowing down during the rain but not a lot of folks listen.
We actually have had Snow flurries a couple of times down here! It's fun to watch but of course it doesn't make it to the ground!
That's a terrible story! We have sand and stuff that makes the ice melt at a lower temperature on the roads and lots of snowplows. We are prepared or we would be in the same boat. Sometimes the weather beats the equipment and the roads are bad, but mostly the road crews keep our roads pretty safe. They are a dedicated group.
I had never even seen a snow plow until about twelve years ago. We took a trip to Denver Colorado at Thanksgiving with the Basketball team from the college where my DH teaches. Had never been in temps below zero either! What a shock! We were driving from the airport to the hotel and saw these huge trucks on the interstate with shovel thingy's attached to the front and I was wondering out loud what they were, Duh! Talk about a blonde moment! My DH has lived in Florida since before he was a year old but he knew what they were! My family is originally from coastal Virginia but has been in Florida almost 42 years. We didn't have snow plows in the area where I grew up!
I think I will just stay down south during the freezing, snowing, cold winters and let y'all post pictures of the pretty, snowy scenery for me! ^_^
I remember last year we had snow flurries here one morning, first time I had seen them in 3 years. But then I had my fair share growing up in Ohio and then living in Wisconsin. Lol..
On a side note...this will be night #2 for my hoyas out in the greenhouse without any heat and temps down near freezing. They looked ok today but tonight is supposed to be colder. I haven't been able to fix the plastic on the front and back yet so they are open but the rest is covered with plastic and the shade cloth. There is no way I could move them all inside in one evening. I guess I will find out which ones are more touchy about cold.
Kim
Kim,
You could put a paper bag over those Hoyas in the cold (Never use Plastic!). Therpaper would further insoulate those precious plants during the cold.
BB wing waves,
Sheri
Kim,
For what its worth, last winter I had a lot of tropicals in my GH with no heat and they all did really well until the temps went below freezing and stayed there for longer than a couple of hours.
dawn
yea...that's the nice thing about here is that the temps usually don't stay that low for very long. It's 34 this morning, so higher than yesterday and I am sure they all will be fine although probably all mad at me! Just goes to show you they are more resilient than we give them credit for.
:) Kim
Well, we didn't get as cold last night as they predicted thank goodness! I checked the thermostat @ 5 a.m. and it was 43 degrees ... it's 46 now and * * * chilly * * * but none of the white stuff, LOL. Supposed to have one more cool night tonight of @ 44 and then it will be warming back up to high 70' daytime and low to mid 60's at night! I went out and checked my plants this a.m. and everything is of course fine. It would take a few hours of real cold to do them any harm I think.
Hope everyone has a beautiful day!
Lin, thanks.
Gabi, great photos!!!