The aerial roots emerging on this Hoya macrophylla vine make if look like a centipede!

This is the finest Hoya linearis that I have every grown and it is growing in 100% coconut husk chips. It is currently flowering on 6 open peduncles and the smell at night is amazing. When you hold a set of blooms and smell it at night, I think that this is one of my favorites scents in the Hoya world.

If I ever get lucky enough to flower this plant again I will bring it back, but for now our discussion of this wonderful species is over!

Before I moved my H. obtusifolia from a 14 hour day to a 12 hour day, I lost hundreds of buds. The plant would continually struggle to produce viable buds, but they would yellow and fall off at between 1/8 and 1/4 inch in size. The poor plant wanted desperately to flower, but was simply unable to.

As I have said many times, Hoya obtusifolia will not flower without a period of shortening day length. This can easily be achieved with two different grow areas using lights. I grew mine for a few months at 14 hours of day light and then moved it to 12 hours of day length.

Ordinarily Hoya obtusifolia would be opening her blooms in mid-October, but because of the miracle of being able to change day length with grow lights I bloomed this beauty way back in June.

We have reached the end of October everyone so Happy Halloween everyone! We are now going to spend a few days talking about Hoya obtusifolia as this may have been my most impressive Hoya flowering of 2022.

I had to start my Hoya paulshirleyi seedling over again late summer because of root rot, and it is already flowering again. This is the Hoya that I received with the name Hoya GN-01 that is really a sister seedling to Hoya Paula and for all intents and purposes is that Hoya. It is a winner that is almost continually in bloom!

PES-03 is such a difficult little Hoya to grow well that I always have to celebrate when it comes into flower. Here I have a couple of peduncles full of blooms on a plant that lives in a 3 oz cup. It goes to show you that you do not need a very big pot for this plant, and as a matter of fact small is probably better. Flower comparison photo with Hoya multiflora is also shown.

It appears that over the summer my Hoya cumingiana Seedling was somehow pollinated again so I have a seedpod developing. This is always a rare and exciting moment here in Vermont!