Laughing at you...........I feel great today! But........when you start pushing 70, there are a few more aches and pains...........lol
January Hoyas
Here is a hoya I am calling H. sp. Palawan...I love the colors...almost neon.
Here is the SAME plant and the SAME peduncle during another bloom. Does color really mean anything? No.
Wow ! Big difference - no wonder all the confusion, eh ....
Wow, beautiful Hoya! Very cool, the differences in color. That first bloom really does look neon! I love it when plants do their own thing and grace us with surprises like that! I can't decide which color I like better ... they are both so pretty. I can just picture that plant with bunches of blooms, half with the lighter shade and half the darker!
Very interesting...does it have to do with amount of light do you think? Also, I have to ask, is it fragrant??? Thanks..
SR
Thought this was a funny shot.
WOW!!
That is a great shot!
Fantastic Photo!
Doug
Oh, that is a Wonderful shot! Love it! You need to enter that one in the DG Photo Contest next year!
Thanks all !
Paula,
Great shot!
Carol,
Those pictures of H. patella (both regular and close-up) are amazing! Apparently you took some photography classes...come on, fess up!!
Gabi
Carol, the second pictgure of palawan looks like it had more sun. You can see the red showing in the leaves. Both are beautiful blooms.
Paula, what a GREAT shot. When I first read the post, before opening picture, I thought, what's so funny about a multiflora bloom?. That anole is one cute fella.
Paula...does the Anole have an accent? GREAT shot!!
Gabi...didn't even see that 'tear' on the patella until I downloaded...pure luck!!! Will report on the fragrance when I go out there now...I don't remember. I think it WAS a lot warmer when the darker flower bloomed...it was summer and now we are having a very cool winter!!
I would love to have an enlarged print of that patella with the tear ... beautiful!
Great photos everyone!
Forever flowering multiflora.
I am having the darndest time growing multiflora. I have is in a west window (has shears on it) I am watering from the bottom. Do you keep it on the dry side? The is my second time with cuttings given to me. Yall make it look so easy!
Isn't multiflora the best! It just never stops flowering. Mine is one month shy of never being without flowers in 2 years. I think it should be one of the most popular houseplants that everyone keeps, but most people don't even know about it - at least those people that I come into contact with.
Doug
My multiflora just finished blooming.
I had a very difficult time growing multiflora when I got mine a year ago, leaves were yellowing and falling off right and left, the plant just looked awful and I thought for sure it was going to die. Then someone on this forum told me the multilfora LOVE'S water! I had been keeping it very dry. I planted mine in one of those 2 part self watering African Violet pots and it has been very happy since. I just make sure to check the outer reservoir pot for water every few weeks and add water when it gets low.
This picture was taken January 4th.
Pdoyle,
If you are having a hard time with mutiflora, give semi-hydro a try; it seems to thrive in it. I was having a hard time trying to establish some new starts of it, and a cutting that I started in semi-hydro in October is getting ready to flower now, and seems very healthy.
Doug
Ok, I've gotta get me one of those! I have three mature hoya plants and 6 cuttings that I rooted in October or so and none show any sign of blooming any time soon. The cuttings don't even show any sign of active growth, although I have verified that they do have roots. I'm getting discouraged. Of course I can't grow them outdoors in the winter, so that may explain their slow development. Regardless, I'd love a hoya that bloomed non-stop!!!
Sarah
Sarah,& pdoyle, I love my multiflora because none stop flowering and mine loves water too.
Good luck!
I'm gonna look for the semi-hydro. Thats those rocks like things right?
Yes,
Little round clay balls. A couple of the names of products that work well are Hydroton, and Prime-agra. You don't need anything too special for a container. Just take an opaque plastic container (What works well for me are the quart paint mixing containers from the hardware store), and heat a hot poker ( I use a phillips screwdriver) and poke a couple of holes in the side about 1 1/2 inches from the bottom. Soak the balls for 24 hours before you first use them and keep the resevoir full - you can't really over water them because the excess pour out of the holes on the container. I fertilize with most every watering, and flush it with clear water from the kitchen sprayer about every 2 weeks.
Doug
Thanks Doug, gonna give it try!
Sarah,
If you want a hoya that blooms non-stop, then I would DEFINITELY get multiflora and lacunosa! Those are year-round, non-stop, profuse bloomers for me!!
Gabi
Thanks, Gabi. When I look at all the pictures of the beautiful blooms, that you all post, you all make it look so easy. I think I need some of these easy ones for my collection to offset the ones that I'm not so successful with!
Sarah
I totally agree with Gabi...lacunosa is a real winner!
If it likes you...:))
Starting a new thread....
H. cumingiana (Large Leaf form) just starting to open.
Here it is fully open. H. cumingiana in all its forms is one of my few real Hoya successes. It takes the cold, dry air, attacks of spider mites, mice attacks and all my other problems in stride. It is my fastest growing Hoya - I took cuttings that were 8 inches long around 16 month's ago to have insurance that I would have a new plant should my pride and joy ever bite the dust. The cuttings if now stretched out would have to be 3 1/2 feet long. I encourage anyone who lives in the cold Northeast and has less than favorable conditions to give this plant a try.
Doug
And the fragrance is heavenly, too, right!!!! ?
The fragrance is incredible. One umblel of flowers lightly perfumes the entire room.
Here is a picture of H. multiflora. The plant and the bloom are no great shakes, but it shows how much this plant likes to grow the semi-hydro way.
wow, how pretty. I probably will never grow them indoors but could you tell me what you have in the container>?
I started this cutting in October after having problems getting starts of this plant to keep growing for me. It has already bloomed twice. All of the cuttings that I put in semi-hydro are still alive, which is saying something, because the ones I chose to try were on their last legs, and if not for trying this method would now be dead for sure.
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Gessigail,
You could grow this plant with hydroton (little clay balls available in any hydroponic shop). I don't think there is anyone in the country who could not grow H. multiflora this way. Here is a close up of the roots in the cup.
Doug
Wow, I am impressed. I have never tried to grow hoyas inside as I live in zone 9 although the heaters are going strong on the front porch wrapped in poly. The temps will be freezing tonight.
Thanks, just for fun I am going to try this with multiflora.
I am the only fool that keeps growing and propagating hoyas and.........I always forget which is which. I brought this basket in from the front porch thinking all this time it was a multiflora but the leaves don't look like yours?
