Never be afraid to restart a plant if it looks a little lackluster or worn out. Hoya sp. UT-247 was started over as a cutting only 4 months ago and look at how nice it looks now.


Never be afraid to restart a plant if it looks a little lackluster or worn out. Hoya sp. UT-247 was started over as a cutting only 4 months ago and look at how nice it looks now.
Hoya inflata at its peak of showiness.
There are actually five peduncles full of buds on this plant, but only three are visible in the photo. This is the start of a week full of plants that may or may not be in flower or bud, but are at their absolute peak of health and vigor.
I have kept Hoya leticiae for quite a few years now, and started it over last winter. This is the first time that I have grown it as a hanging basket, and also the first time that I have grown it in ambient room conditions. It seems quite happy and just produced its first flower. The photo is not that great because the blooms are so darned small that it is hard to shoot well with just a phone camera.
It is time to say goodbye to Hoya narcissiflora for now, but I hope to have it around for a long time and bring it back with subsequent flowerings. This is a great Hoya for anyone that has had good luck growing and flowering campanulate species such as H. danumensis. I would rate its difficulty level at somewhere around 6 on a scale of one being dead easy to grow, and 10 being all but impossible.
The title says it all.
Here is a comparison photo of the flowers of Hoya narcissiflora and an umbel of Hoya sp. Surigao Del Sur blooms:
Here are a few macro photos that I took of the blooms:
Here is the first photo that I grabbed with my phone after most of the flowers were open:
The flowers opened up over the course of three days. Here were the first that popped open. There was no detectable scent.