Where to Find GPS 8860 ?

Does anyone know where I can find GPS (IPPS?) 8860?

Great looking hoya. Really hard to find.

Write to Paul Shirley...it is his ID number.

I didn't know.

Judging by his website it looks like this is not gonna
happen.

Not shipping to the US.

I have found that his cuttings do not travel well - or he doesn't know how to pack them, The first time I ordered from him they took an age to get here and they were toast. When he replaced them, the ID tags were paper written in pencil and the cuttings barely survived and the labels were mush. Others may have better experiences...but I would never order from him again. He took over another mail order business...forget the name..

Where did you see this glorious new hoya?

I had a bad experience with him years back and vowed I wouldn't order from him again.

S

I have that hoya, and a lot of the others sp. Sulawesi hoyas they so lovely and easy to get in to blooming.
Here´s one that are quite similar Hoya sp. Sulawesi IML 1384



This message was edited Jun 4, 2009 10:42 PM

Carol,

Look at Jeanette Karlsen's "Growing Hoyas" under "sp".

http://www.growinghoyas.com/hoya_sp_sulawesi_8860.htm

Does that make you want one or what? I just wish there were easy
ways to get some of these. I like the sources we have and are
used to here.

Very pretty!!!!

I love googling and looking at Hoya photo's and am always finding new ones I've never heard of, but I'm so new to these plants there are really hundreds I've never heard of! One I would love to find, beautiful foliage and blooms look like candy: http://apodagis.com/Hoyas/hoya_species/tomataensis.htm

Lin, it's pretty. Apodagis is in Thailand I think.

I haven't ever ordered anything from them, so I don't know - but I
don't mind ordering from Thailand. It has been pretty good for me.

But then again, I know a little bit about what to expect having bought
other plants from Asia. I used to get some aroids and ferns from a
Philippine supplier, and I have gotten plants from Aleya in Thailand.

It's not like just getting them from across the country or even Hawaii,
which never seems to set them back at all healthwise, or timeliness of
delivery. International is not like that.

Well, what do you know, there's actually a hoya benefit to living in Canada. I've never had a problem with Paul Shirley's hoyas that I didn't cause myself. When I moved last year I got the letters and numbers mixed up in my postal code and a small shipment from him took nearly 3 weeks to get to me. I only lost one of the 5 cuttings though. Now that I've seen these flowers, I think I'd better place an order for them once the dust settles here. My DL order came in yesterday - 213 cuttings amongst 15 people, every muscle in my body is screaming at me to rest...lol.


Christine

Alison: I just found that site googling and thought the photo's were really nice. I had never even bought plants on line from companies in the U.S. much less ordering from as far away as Thailand! I did get cuttings from DL last spring in a co-op here on DG. I had never even thought about plants through the mail until joining DG and learning that folks trade that way! I'm still somewhat of a newbie! I google and find photo's of so many really pretty Hoya's ... my wish list is a few pages long!

Christine: Wow! 213 cutttings? Did you have to sort and re-pack and mail all of those by yourself? I hope you had some help ... what a job! I bet your body is rebelling about now!

I ordered 2 cuttings of H. patella from DL through Joni. When she gets back from her vacation and gets her DL order she will probably be needing Ben Gay or something for sore muscles too! ^_^

Christine - if you are ever ready to order again from Paul Shirley
please let me know.

Good luck with your cuttings!

Lin, David Liddle is an amazing supplier. Each person's order was in a separate J-cloth type bag (in some cases several bags) and each cutting is labelled with my and their name on it. I was required expresspost seven orders out, and seven people came to pick theirs up. My job was to hydrate, hydrate, and hydrate some more, and time it so that one person's was ready when they got to my house, and the others were all ready to be packed up to go to the post office before the cut off for shipping yesterday. And I missed it because someone came early to pick his cuttings up. And of course, I had to give him the royal hoya tour...

I didn't even open my own bags until way past bedtime last night, and I plopped them in water with B1 vitamin and then I collapsed into bed. This morning they looked like they'd just been cut. Except for that fussy lobbii.

Yes, Allison, I will definitely let you know when I order next from Paul Shirley.

Christine

I joined in on a David Liddle Nursery Co-Op here on DG a year ago and they were all labeled with the DL number and my name and the name of the guy handling the co-op. Something happened when the cuttings hit the U.S. They apparently got held up in California for awhile before being shipped to the guy in South Carolina to the co-op host. Then he had to sort through the more than 300 cuttings and re-pack and mail them out to all of us. I only ordered six cuttings and after weeks in transit, only one was dead on arrival, and it was a small leaf variety with a name sounding like cagayanensis or something like that.

I was really pleased with the ease in which the DL cuttings rooted, especially after me wafting back and forth about how I wanted to root them. I was new to Hoya's and had never tried rooting one before. I have rooted many other plants with ease but was a bit nervous with my first hoya cuttings! I'm amazed they survived after what they went through with me not being able to make up my mind about how I wanted to root them! First I put them in potting soil, then I read where some folks were rooting in water so I took them out of soil and stuck them each in a little glass of water, then I thought I'd try the zip lok bag method someone was talking about, then I changed my mind again and ended up going back and potting them all in my mix that I use for most everything else (combination of orchid bark, perlite and potting soil.) These Hoya's sure are tough plants! I figured if they could survive my fiddling with them and changing my mind so many times, they could survive anything, LOL.

One cutting I rec'd last year in the DL co-op was labeled IML# 0079 H. acuta but I posted a photo of it awhile back when it was in bloom and, I think it was Carol who said DL has changed that one to amoena. I have an amoena I received in trade last year but it hasn't bloomed yet. The leaves on the two look identical, but the leaves on the DL plant are much larger. The others I got in the co-op last year haven't bloomed yet. I'm still waiting to see blooms on pubicalyx Royal Hawaiian Purple! I love the foliage on that one. I also got H. magnifica and am dying for that one to bloom. H. memoria is still real small but I noticed a new growth on it finally!

I really can see why people get Hooked on Hoya's! Sooo many gorgeous ones out there!