This plant went through a couple of up-pottings and eventually ended up in a 5 inch clear orchid pot using coconut husk chips as a potting medium. I was surprised by a peduncle with relatively large developing buds that was hiding under one of its massive leaves. From cutting to flower, it only took about 9-10 months growing in a tent.

I can only make a supposition on where Hoya Seeds AH-138 comes from. AH Hoya Plant Nursery in Thailand has a lot of plants blooming at the same time all over the place, and insects are continually going from flower to flower. I believe that cross pollinations happen quite frequently producing seed pods. Many of these seeds are planted to see what kind of plant is produced. When something comes across that is interesting, they number it, reproduce it, and sell it as cuttings or rooted plants. I believe these plants are sort of wild crosses, and I’m not sure that they know what the parentage is.

Hoya Seeds AH-138 was not on my radar when it was very kindly gifted to me by my good Hoya friend Wil early last fall. It arrived as a cutting that easily rooted, and had relatively small leaves. It gave no indication of the massively large beautiful leaves that it was capable of producing.

I’ve had this clone of Hoya macgillivrayi now for at least 15 years, and I’ve lost track with how many times I’ve started it over from cuttings. This time around there are hardly any leaves, and really, it is not much to look at, but look at the flowers that it put out after only about a year from starting it over. Truly a remarkable plant!

At least six times I have had this same number of four flowers appear on this peduncle. It seems no sooner that one set of flowers falls off, another set starts forming to replace it. This plant is a must have!!

Hoya soligamiana is almost always in flower, unless I get annoyed with the dripping nectar and cut the buds off. Here is a photo from this morning:

After years of trying to grow a decent specimen of Hoya aff. Bella PES-03, I finally have done it. I have a large plant with two open sets of flowers and many more peduncles with developing buds. Here is a photo I took yesterday of one set of flowers. More to come as the other buds begin opening. The secret to growing this plant well is apparently in the substrate used. It seems to love large coconut husk chips.

Hoya MB 1247 now has an official name; it will henceforward be called Hoya ‘Raspberry Sun’. What a beautiful and fitting name for this fantastic Mike Bernardo cultivar!

I don’t know that I have mentioned it before, but it seems that about 50% of these Hoya verticillata types have wonderful fragrances. Hoya sp. EPC-610 is definitely one of the best. This plant gets many of these balls of flowers and at night the smell is intoxicating!

I know that I have never flowered Hoya sp. EPC-209 on a windowsill in the regular house. I lost this one once, but really never want to be without it again. I want to thank Naomi K for bringing back into the fold for me!