April Blooms

Beautiful photo, Carol!

Here's my regular hoya bella:

Nice one Kelly!

Carol, glad you are sending your's to Stemma...like Alison said, the opened buds and unopened buds make it a great pic.

Gabi

I got this as fungil but is it?

Hoya vitiensis

Hoya lacunosa "Snowcaps"

Hoya cv Iris Marie buds

Jan,
I'm not sure! Wish I could help you. My fungi has one peduncle, but has not bloomed.

Kelly

Jan...can you show leaves of your 'fungii'?

Kelly, beautiful photo of vitiensis....

Carol

The snowcaps are so cute. They are different than the regular lacunosa. These look like feathery little caps.

Aaak! Kelly---Next to H. buotii, my next gotta-have hoya is H. vitiensis! Could you tell me if it's hard to grow, what conditions you gave it, and does it have any fragrance? Thanks so much...you do so well with your hoyas and you're so close to me geographically it gives me hope :)

Shelley

Kelly, nice photos.
Here is the plant. Could it be motoskii?


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Shelley-

Received vitiensis as a cutting late in 2007. It rooted fairly quickly, but took a while to get started. Once transferred to semi-hydro the growth rate improved. It's actually grown fairly well for the last 6 months or so and has quite a few small peduncles on it. This is the second time it's bloomed - the first back in January when all but one bud dropped! I actually don't think the flowers photograph well - they're much cooler in person!

Haven't noticed any scent, but nummulurioides and lacunosa are currently in bloom which pretty well negates all other scents. If I can remember I'll take it into another room this evening and sniff!

I've totally been lucking-out with my hoyas this year! I currently have 9 either in bloom, bud or throwing out new peduncles...although I've discovered new peduncles are not necessarily an indication that buds will soon follow....


We'll have to meet up at some point! Maybe we can do a trip to Asiatica for their open house (May, I think) OR I'm hoping to do the Philly Flower Show next year (how far is that for you?)!


Kelly

Kelly---Philly is like 8 or 9 hours from me....definitely too far with all the obligations I have at home, although I hear that flower show is FABULOUS...if you go, take lots of photos!!

I know what you mean about peduncles not leading to flowers--if we had a new thread entitled "teeny-tiny-new-peduncles- you-can-barely-see-with-a-magnifying-glass" I'd be all over it :D....My H. thomsonii has a teeny fuzzy little peduncle, my H. cinnamomifolia has three enormous leaves and one small peduncle, and my pale purple NOID that I got as a cutting last year (and I wish I could remember from who because there was some discussion about it and no one could ID it, but it's very pretty) has a little peduncle...of course the fact that I look at them roughly 36 times a day probably isn't helping their development...My H. lacunosa is in heavy bud (yay!) for the second time, my nummulariodes is blooming, and my bella is busily forming and blasting peduncles at lightning speed :).. One of these days I'll have something to contribute to the bloom page, and I can't wait...

I'm thinking of setting up a big aquarium just so I can use the water on my hoyas--I'm convinced that's at least part of the secret of your success....besides, I like fish :)

SR

Jan...I think your plant IS H. motoskei.

Carol, thanks!

Yes I agree - I have both H. fungii and H. motoskei and your plants leaves favor H. motoskei...

Thanks Paula, I've changed the tag.

Jan

I guess my fungii is also motoskei. I got this plant as a cutting labeled fungii a few years ago.

Here is a picture of the entire plant. It grows like a weed.

Looks just like mine.

Starting a new thread, k guys !

Here once again is H. cv. Iris Marie, which has pretty much bloomed all winter.

Doug

Here is the entire plant just in case you want to know what this plant looks like when grown for almost eight years from a cutting. I think this may be one of the toughest, fastest growing, hardest to kill Hoyas out there.

Doug

Wow! Doug, thta is one huge beautiful plant. Good growing!!!

wow Doug!!

Look at those new vines!! Supports my theory that a Hoya would strangle us in our sleep if we slept near enough...

Stunning plant Doug!

Doug,

Thanks so much for showing the growing aspect of the plant.
That is the hardest thing to find!

Photos of flowers, buds, and plant parts abound; it never makes
much sense without the 'big picture'.

Thanks to seeing that I am not going to grow mine hanging I don't
think.

Thanks everyone! I had to drag this plant to work, because I no longer had the room for it. It really likes the sun, I'm going to try to take it home for the summer once again to wash off the dust, if for nothing else.

Doug

Alison,

It is not the easiest thing to grow on a trellis - it took an awful lot of dragonfly clips and zip ties to hold it up, but I think it is worth it in the long run. It is currently in a 10 inch pot, and I will probably repot it over the summer into a 12 inch pot.

Doug

It's a monster.

I'm just thinking what it would be like hanging!
Maybe too big to hang almost anywhere.

Wow, Doug! Fabulous plant! You now have me scared about when some my cuttings grow up! My Iris Marie after struggling for some time just took off late last summer, early last fall - no where close to looking like yours though!

What's the scent on the flower, so I'll know what to look forward to when mine bust open?

Kelly

Kelly, It has a beautiful perfumed scent, to me it smells a lot like lacunosa smells. As far as size, there comes a point when you have to ask yourself has this plant gotten too big to handle - do I need to chop it down? It is a hard decision to make, and I have a number of them that are getting to that point now.

Doug

My Iris Marie is still the same way I got it. I have it one year and it is still the same three cuttings with two leaves each. It hasn't grown at all. No sign of new growth. What can I do to make it start to grow? Would superthrive help it at all? I'm ready to try anything. It's in a 4" pot. I'm tempted to down-size it into a smaller pot. Maybe shaking it up will wake it up. Any suggestions Doug? Your plant is georgeous!

Digger,
I've had my Iris Marie for 5-6 years and the previous owner who traded it to me said he had it for 6 years with no blooms or significant growth.
It actually looks like a small tree, sorta bonsai 'ish'.
This week it decided to put growth out everywhere actually doubling in foliage. I am guessing, but may have been the Messenger - MSU treatment I did a few weeks ago.
Of course I cannot be sure, but how's an educated guess? Maybe this is the year for a bloom?!

Joni

Eileen,

I don't know what to say. I would think in Florida you would have a hard time getting this plant not to grow, and it would be running rampant. I also have two hanging baskets of it, and they are growing wildly too. Maybe you do need to shake those things up and repot them. If you don't have any more luck with it in a couple of months Dmail me your address, and I will send you some new cuttings to play around with.

Doug

Although I don't really know I attributed the sudden and since non-stop growth of my Iris Marie to two things 1) being cut up and rerooted, 2) hyrdroton.

I'd seriuosly consider restarting it, Eileen. I did this as well with an obscura cutting and while it certainly hasn't grown at the same rate as Iris Marie, it is growing now!

Kelly

My cv. Iris Marie hangs outside gets LOTS of rain, little fertilizer, lots of sun and bright indirect light and it blooms nonstop all year. It's pod parent is H. odorata which, for me, really enjoys the same conditions and blooms and blooms. We never get really HOT here...and there is usually a breeze. I do know that neither likes to be dry. I think my cv. Iris Marie smells like lilacs....

Carol,

I can't wait for mine to bloom. I love lilacs almost more than anything and
they WILL NOT grow here.

My cv. Iris Marie grows like mad, and I only just rooted it in October. It
is growing a long, long hanging stem that reminds me of one of Doug's
stems.

OK folks. That settles it. Tomorrow morning I'm going to un-pot it, give it a very good talking to, and re-pot into a smaller pot. I have some hydroton and I'm going to mix that in the pot along with fresh mix. If that doesn't do the trick, I think of something else in a few months. ^_^.
I'm waiting for my phyllura peduncle to open. I think I read somewhere on here, that it's the same as clemensorium. I'll post a pic as soon as it opens.

Congratulations Doug!!!! That is a beautiful and huge plant. I'm impressed that it came from a cutting.