The two nicer cuttings that I grew in semi-hydro put on very rapid growth with a peduncle growing at every leaf axis. The cutting in the two inch pot grew much slower, but grew a peduncle that began to bud up almost immediately.
The cuttings very quickly put on roots in a jar of water with a couple of drops of KLN Concentrate. I decide to try growing it two different ways. One cutting I put in a two inch pot with potting soil and the other two cuttings I grew in semi-hydro using a 4 inch pot with leca.
When Mandy asked me if I was interested in Hoya burmanica, I looked it up and thought that it looked a lot like Hoya pandurata, which I grew at one time. I had high hopes for H. pandurata, but it proved difficult and disappointing in cultivation. When I received the small plant, it was rooted in sphagnum, which I did not like and I could already see the signs of root rot. I was able to easily get 3 nice cuttings out of it and I threw out the root ball.
I have to thank my good friend Mandy from California for getting me this plant, which I had not heard of before. It is a strange little plant that I will begin talking about tomorrow.
I am looking forward to seeing these flowers in person; Hoya sp. Kalimantan SLM-02 is also known as the Red Wallichii, and the photos of these blooms are breathtaking. The only issue is getting to them before they close up in the morning.
Here are a set of buds emerging on a Hoya that is new within the last couple of years to the trade – Hoya sp. Kalimantan SLM-01
One of my oldest Hoyas, Hoya sp. Bangkok Red, is doing fantastic after a restart from cuttings this summer. It has been flowering like crazy; here is a set of buds from this morning:
I cut my last Hoya nyhuusiae flower off to do a comparison photo with Hoya dennisii.
I’ve always grown Hoya lobbii as a trellised plant in the past. Perhaps some of you have seen photos or a video of the giant plant that I had in the past. Well, that plant is no more, but it lives on in cuttings. I decided to try growing it this time as a hanger to see what it looks like and so far I’m liking it!
Happy New Year Everyone! Let us all hope that 2021 brings all of us a much better year than we had in 2020. The pandemic made our lives pretty miserable and we will hope and pray that by this time next year, we will be much more back to our normal way of living.
Every year at this time I like to look back at the my Hoya keeping highlights from the previous year. We have to go all the way back to June to find anything really noteworthy and that would be my flowering of Hoya undulata. This is my candidate for the most difficult Hoya that I have ever grown, and I was pretty darned proud to say I finally got this one to flower.
Another exciting flowering in 2020 would have to be Hoya sp. SR-2017-012 Frog Foot, which I am pretty sure may now be called Hoya amrita.
My next blooming highlight of 2020 would be the flowering of Hoya flavida after five years of trying.
My final flowering highlight for the past year would be a recent one, and that was the gorgeous Hoya nyhuusiae.
The other two Hoya keeping highlights for 2020 was getting to do an podcast interview with Maria Failla of Bloom and Grow Radio. If you have not heard it and want to hear me talk for an hour on Hoyas, here is the link: https://bloomandgrowradio.com/hoya/. The other highlight would be all of the positive responses that I had to the Hoyas that I offered up for sale last year. It totally blew me away! Well that is my wistful look back at 2020. I wish all of you the happiest and best growing years of your lives in 2021!