This new Hoya serpens’ clone could not have come along at a better time for me as I had struggled with the regular H. serpens for years, and was on the verge of losing it. It did finally succumb to root mealies less than a year later. I chopped up the cutting that was gifted to me into three small pieces and rooted them in coconut husk chips. What I noticed almost immediately was how much easier Xiaojie 001 grew than the regular serpens that I had kept for 15 years.