Hoya life in Sweden these days...

Hi everybody!

It's been a while since I was here last time, but tonight I've read pretty much everything on the last 7-8 pages of thread and there were PLENTY to read and lots of nice photos to look at. Thanks for sharing them!

I think I wrote somewhere that I sold the house and moved to an apartment last summer... It's soon one year ago and life is quite good! Even for my hoyas these days. Takes A LOT of time to settle in with as many hoyas as possible, but I think I've done okay.

Here are some photos to let you see how they're doing... I hope you enjoy them!

First out is a photo of my bedroom window from October last year. I tooks some new ones today, but they didn't turn out the way I wanted them...

/Christina

All other photos are taken this weekend...

Here's H. 'Christine' and this one umbel fills the whole kitchen with it's fragrance!

Then we have H. limoniaca opening up in the sunshine.

Same umbel a few hours later.

Found this little nice red leaf on my H. obscura and thought it was so cute!

H. juannguoiana opening up in the sunshine earlier this afternoon. LOOOOVE that fragrance!

Frequent blooming little H. tsangii.

A closer shot of the tsangii. Smells great too, but I can't describe it!

Here's a photo of my living room window.

And last a photo of my kitchen window.

Hello Christina, Nice to hear from you.
Your plants are beautiful!!!
How nice to have so many blooming at once.
I love the H. juannguoiana , I had never seen it before. I love they way you display your hoyas.
Congratulatios all of them are gorgeous!!!!!
Lourdes =)

Hi Christina,
Beautiful display...all so coordinated and tidy.
Where do you tag them...don't see any?
My H. juannguoiana is about to burst open and now I know to be sure to take a wiff of it.
Thanks for sharing and I hope your apartment feels like home by now.

Joni

Oh, I'm so glad to see you still have great window space at the apartment as well! Great photos!

Kelly

Wow! What great displays! I would love to have a house full of windows like that! Looks like your kitty is enjoying that sunshine as much as the Hoya's are! Thanks for sharing your lovely photo's!

Christina...lovely to see/read you!!!! As always, your hoyas are beautiful!!!!!

Carol

Christina,
Incredible setup you have for your plants and the flower pics are beautiful!

I do have a question; I have a plant labeled as H. tsangii, but it has red flowers, not yellow. Is there also a yellow cultivar of H. tsangii or is my plant mislabeled?
Thanks,
Mike

I really don't know much, but I think a lot of people mislabel H. tsangii when in fact it is DS70. They also sell it as H. bilobata which is wrong too.

H. tsangii has narrow small longish leaves and yellow flowers.

But like I said, I really don't know much.
Lourdes =)

OK, now you've jogged this old memory of mine - my plant was labeled as H. tsangii when I purchased it, but now that you've said that, I need to check the label and relabel my plant as DS70. I'll have to check since I may have already made the new label and just forgot. I think my Halfzheimer's is acting up again (it's not quite Alzheimer's - Yet!)
Thanks,
Mike

p.s. is the real H. tsangii available in the USA? Anyone know?

Not sure if it is available or not. I know I have one tiny plant that is growing out...SRQHoyas might have it....

Lourdes, you know much more than the average bear!!! And you are right....H. tsangii WAS called H. odetteae...

Better wait until someone that really knows shows up to confirm what I said.

With your permission, I'll start using the Halfzheimer's I just love it! (lol)

I got a rooted cutting (small) on eBay, good luck
Lourdes =)

Our messages crossed Carol. ;)

I'm glad i was right for once. . I learn a lot here, but still have a long way to go

Lourdes=)

So do I, quierida....So do I!!!

Exotic Angel labels, or I should say MIS-labels ds-70 as tsangii.

Here's the Plant Files listings for ds-70 with lots of photo's: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/82251/

I have a couple of the EA plants, and someone here in this forum correctly identified them for me as ds-70.

I am frankly amazed that the person who published DS-70 as H. tsangii could have been SO off base because they are NOTHING alike....totally different.

Christina, I love your windows full of hoya. What a great display. What do you do when the long vines start growing? Your plants are so close together don't they get entwined with each other? I am finding out that the pubicalyx love to travel up the hangers and into the chains holding my plants.
Some of the vines I cut off and stuck them in a vase of water. After a few months little plants have started to grow on the vines. Now it's time to cut them off and pot them up in small pots. I never really thought they would grow. Sure fooled me.

Wow, I have never heard of that, IMADIGGER....I have to try it!!! Did the new vine have any leaves at all?

none at all. I got so tired of wrapping it around and around. I kept waiting for leaves and nothing was happening. I cut off four long vines and stuck them ina small vase of hydroton balls. It put out roots right away. I just kept adding water when it got very low and soon there was these little clusters of leaves along the vine. I'll take a picture tomorrow and make a new topic post. It was an experiment that I think I'll try again with another hoya.
It's past my bedtime now, so I'll say goodnight.

I'm curious, Imadigger, will you leave them in the vase now or pot up?

Thanks,
Susan

I think I'm going to put them in individual pots. Here is a link to the new post with pictures. I hope I did this right, if not the post is Growth from bald pubicalyx vines.

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/978641/