Despite the mangy chlorotic leaves, the plant managed to put on three different peduncles on these long mostly leafless vines. It was nothing however to get too excited about as it began blasting buds just as they would begin to form. I tried everything from different fertilizers to different locations all to no avail; the buds continued to blast.

After discovering rot, I took a cutting and restarted the plant. I used a net pot this time so that I could more closely monitor when the plant was dry enough to require watering. It grew strongly at first putting out a long vine sparsely populated once again with chlorotic leaves. Below an example of the yellowy leaves:

Hoya danumensis is supposed to be difficult to root, but I did not have any trouble; first rooting it in water and moving it over to soil. The plant did okay at first putting out a strong vine, but the new leaves were sparse and began to show chlorosis. Within a few months it had ceased to grow, and when I took it out of its pot, the roots were heavily rotted.

I first tried to get this plant from Thailand and because it is one of those thin leaved species that don’t travel well, it was dead on arrival. I was quite surprised when I received a cutting of it in a trade with a collector in North Carolina in the Summer of 2018.

Hoya danumensis is named after the Danum Valley in Sabah, Borneo. Tomorrow I will begin discussing my long road bringing this one into flower.

I chopped up my Hoya griffithii plant over the summer and sold it off. I was left with a couple of tiny cuttings. The smallest of the cuttings has now flowered for the first time.

Hoya sp. Bangkok Red was given to me by Melanie Myers of Tennessee. What ever happened to Melanie, I do not know, but I will always thank her for giving me this wonderful plant. I have owned it now for well over 12 years, and for the first time last spring I chopped it all up and sold it off as cuttings. I kept a couple for myself and started it over; just as I remembered, it was very easy to not only grow, but flowered very early. The flowers also have an amazing scent. Here is my reincarnated plant from this morning:

I absolutely love the foliage on Hoya sp. UT-012 Aff. forbesii and just wish it was easier to grow. I got so tired of restarting this plant that I finally got rid of it. I can only recommend this one for the advanced grower, or intermediate grower who is looking for a challenge.

All I have for background on this Hoya is that it is endemic to Java.