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Growing Hoya-yvesrocheri Part Three

Finally tiring of waiting months for this plant to bud up, I was forced to monkey around with its day length cycle, and moved it from 14 hour days down to 12 hour days. Apparently this was what the doctor ordered, as it began to bud up almost immediately. The flowers were much nicer than I had anticipated, and it produced a multitude of 1 inch pink blooms.

Growing Hoya-yvesrocheri Part Two

Hoya-yvesrocheri was never a great grower, and by that I mean that it has a tendency to have leaves yellow and fall off, which always makes me crazy. It was not near as vigorous as stenophylla, but it still grew steadily. It developed its first peduncle at about 2 years of age, but there was no signs of it ever wanting to bud up even after it had 20 peduncles. Below the plant as it looks now: