Kim, what should I do with that cutting with the tiny bud, it is in water now?
Newbie to Hoyas, Need help please!
Clem: That looks like Epiphyllum Oxypetalum: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/2443/
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=epiphyllum+oxypetalum&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=5&ct=title
I have one but it has not bloomed yet. I repotted it and tied it to a trellis a couple of months ago because it was so heavy it kept tipping over.
Clemen, if you keep it indoor. I usually just pot it directly into potting medium, I use promix or similiar potting mix. Keep the soil moist. Most of the stems usually have snubs (swollen roots bumps) on them, thus rooting in soil is just as easy.
Lin, yeah yeah that is it, your seems like it is climbing up a wall, lol.
Kim, ok will do that tomorrow, now that i know there is a tiny tinie bud will be carefull , so happy, you know how much I love flowers!
I broke off this stem from my Hoya ds-70 this morning to post a picture for someone asking what a bloom spur looked like. You can see the bloom spur at the top right with little buds just forming and the one on the left with a larger bud cluster.
See the little nubs along the stem on the right. I pinched leaves off in those spots and if you plant the vine with those leaf nodes under the soil, it will put out roots in those areas.
Lin I have one of those on Jeri's cuttigns, but she has no roots, what do i do??
Yep, I was searching for something to use as a trellis for an old Hoya Krimson Princess that I've had for many years. I was in the shed rooting around and found these two 8' or so tall aluminum railings that had been from our back patio in the 1970's! (I don't think I will hassle hubby about being a pack rat anymore, LOL.) I had him cut them in half so I got four of them to use as trellises! Worked great! I used one for the Epiphyllum , divided my Hoya Krimson Princess into two pots with two more, and used the last one for a Variegated Pandora Vine.
Here's a picture of my Hoya KP's on the trellises. They are doing great! Bloomed like crazy this summer!
Now with that pic i really get an idea of what they really look like, the are gorgoeus!
You have one of what on the cutting you got from Jeri? A bloom spur is where the buds will form. If you cut them off you will not get blooms.
Oh gosh .. I am not one to give advice about hoyas. I am a newbie to these plants myself.
I can only tell you what I do. When potting up cuttings I pinch off two or three sets of leaves (the roots will form at these leaf nodes.) Or I lay the vine on the soil and lay a rock over the leaf nodes to weigh them down ... roots will form and grow at those points.
The mix I use is a very chunky, fast draining mix. I take a big tub and dump in Miracle Grow Potting Soil, lots of Perlite and lots of Orchid Bark. My plants stay outside year round and I water them with a garden hose. We have such high humidity that I like a fast draining mix like that for my conditions here in Florida. If I used straight potting soil I would have a lot of rotted plants. Been there, done that! LOL.
You will be a Hoya addict in no time ... all it takes is one and you are hooked!
edited to say: Oops, I hit send before I was finished typing (old, blonde here!)
When I joined DG two years ago I only owned one hoya, the KP that came from a dear elderly friend more than 30 years ago. It wasn't particularly a favorite plant of mine, just had sentimental value because the elderly friend passed away a long time ago. I had no idea there were so many different Hoya's until finding this forum here in the garden! I got cuttings and plants in trade and bought a few at Home Depot and Wal-Mart and went in on a Co-Op (my first experience with a co-op) here on DG last sping. I now have a total of 56 Hoya's! I have read where some folks have HUNDREDS!
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lol Lin , I can see that and thanks to all of you too, zzzz for me and more tomorrow, love the crowd, all of you, Silly Clem!
I love my hoyas! Can't wait for them to bloom for me! Do the ones with bigger leaves have bigger blooms? I have bloom thingees on both! The bigger ones are doing better than the little ones.
You lucky girl Audrey, way to go!
^_^
You have the hick ups girl, lol!
How'd that happen? Just my pc, I guess, it's still giving me trouble!
lol, that has happened to me many times, that is why i said the hick ups, sometimes my sentences repeat 10 times, ha ha ha!
I'm a newbie to hoyas too, and I have a question on the bloom spurs. Where do they come from? If you have a cutting and root it, will that cutting form bloom spurs? I know not to remove them, but I'm wondering if the cuttings and plants I've gotten recently will ever bloom.
Thanks.
Sarah
Sarah,
See the pix I posted above? (Just below the QOTN's bloom after Clemen's). The little protruberance coming out along the stems of the vines. Those will produce flowers in the growing season.
It all depends on the maturity of the vines. I've several young hoyas bought from Lowes, they are not showing any sign of those 'spurs' yet because they're young vines and not ready to bloom. I'm not certain how many years will it take for a young one to come to blooming age. I've mine several years, once they bloom, they bloom again and again.
Lily_love, so what you're saying is that once the hoyas are mature enough to bloom that they will develop the bloom spurs? Ok, now I've got it.
Thanks.
Bloom spurs (peduncles) will only develop on new vines, but not all new vines will produce peduncles, mature or not.
Um, that sounds confusing. Lets try this: Peduncles will not grow on old growth. However, when new vines are produced by a hoya, peduncles will sometimes grow on these new vines. (I like that better...lol.)
Either way, once you've got a peduncle, flowers will happen eventually.
Christine
Christine, so you may or may not get peduncles on new vines? Wow. That sounds like a gamble. I guess I'll just have to wait and see if I get flowers.
That's right. There's no gambling involved, just proper care and growing conditions. A hoya isn't just going to throw out only one vine in its lifetime, it'll throw out dozens, but not all of them will have peduncles on them. But a lot of them will. Its not something that can be dictated, its just the way hoyas grow. A benefit to the non-peduncle producing vines is that you can take cuttings from them and not lose a peduncle. So, the key is to have lots and lots and lots of different hoyas so that you're always getting surprised by them. 8-)
C.
Christine,
Somehow I don't think it's going to be a problem "to have lots and lots of different hoyas...". ^_^
C, I Love your thinking! ^_^