You think it is time????
This huge plant of H. motoskei was growing inside another pot and the roots grew outside. I had to cut this pot off of the roots and put it in a slightly bigger one!!!
Potting UP
Oh my goodness, that is amazing! Looks like it's one happy plant, but I bet it will be even happier in a larger pot. Great looking plant!
Wow Carol, that is massive root system. I bet it's happy to get into a bigger pot.
They are survivors once they get going!!! The only thing that can do them in in root rot!!!
That plant hung out under a big bush...and is now growing epiphytically in the bush...AND blooming. I watered it maybe once a month and it got chancy rain thru its leaves and the overstory so it was always looking for water. That pot on the outside collected water which lasted a long time and the roots grew into it.
Amazing plant. It sure is a survivor. I guess hoya are the 'tough guys' in the plant kingdom. Sometimes I think we baby them too much. A little neglect doesn't seem to hurt them at all.
Tall_Shadow
Apr 04, 2009
Sometimes it is hard to find that "slightly bigger pot". The biggest
gap I have is for 5 inch pots.
Plenty of 3, 4, 6 and up....but when it truly needs to be only slightly
bigger - I have to hunt!
For the big pots, I use a lot of bulb pots which are shallow and wide...they work really well.
Quoting:
Do you put soil in the outside pot also?
growing inside another pot and the roots grew outside
Pod, I wondered that also but figured it was just sitting inside another pot for stability purposes, to keep it from tipping over?
I have a few small hoya's that are placed inside hanging baskets just to be able to hang them. I sure wish I could find a source for 4" hanging baskets, (if there is such a thing!) I always have to sit plants that are top heavy inside larger pots to keep them from falling over. I've never seen anything like that one of Carol's with that amazing root system ... that is one content plant!
Susan, you mean there is such a thing as 4" hanging baskets? I will have to d-mail Awanda! I wonder if she has them in any color other than white? I like the terra cotta color best but do have a couple of green ones too.
I have had to do that before...repot a hoya 'on the fly' so to speak, when it was potted and hanging, and it grew up and up and up and was hopelessly entangled in the other plants above it. Usually when its happened to me there is no more soil in the original pot (or very very little), just roots, so I get a new bigger pot and fill it halfway with new soil and then position the hoya rootmass in it, attach the hangers to it, and then fill it the rest of the way.