I have been asked many times how did you get hooked on Hoyas, and despite starting out like everyone else with H. carnosa, what really got me hooked is when I bought this plant way back in 2006 on eBay, from a woman who lived in Oklahoma, who was getting rid of all of her large leafed plants. I paid what was then a princely sum of $50 for it and still have this same clone today. I got a lot of praise for flowering what was considered a Hoya that was difficult to flower, and that was what got me hooked on the genus.