While this Hoya has now bloomed a number of times since it made its film debut, A Visit with the White Hoya patella is special, because it was its first time flowering.

I really like this Hoya a lot and hope that it comes through in this little video tour I made of the plant.

It’s not much of a plant, but for what its worth, here is A Visit with Hoya sammannaniana.  Since this video was first filmed, I have begun to figure this plant out, and it is growing far better for me than it ever has.

Here is a very short little time-lapse of the flowers opening on Hoya archboldiana.  I was very lucky to capture what I did as this was all taken in the day light as the light I plugged in malfunctioned.

Two years ago when I made the move to my new house, I took a few short videos of the process including a before and after shot of my former plant room.  While that plant room provided me with a lot of enjoyment, it did cost me a lot of money and aggravation.  Before I covered the walls in plastic and foil insulation, I rotted out the window that was in the room, and I had to board it up.  When I went to move, and removed all of the plastic from the room, I not only had to repair the wall, but had to clean up a tremendous amount of Mold.  When we sold the house, we had to pay $5,000 in mold remediation, which was ridiculous, but those are the games you have to play now when you sell real estate.  It took me as long as it did to put the video together, because of time issues and the bad taste it left with me.

Here is a short video that I shot of Hoya griffithii just before Halloween.  Nothing scary here, just lots of wind with me trying to shoot the video before it was too dark to see.

When I made my first How to Re-pot a Hoya Plant video, I had no idea how successful it would become.  It is by far my most watched YouTube video and has been viewed over thirty thousand times, which is not too bad for a potting video for a small niche plant!  I followed it up with How to Re-pot the Severely Root-bound Hoya, and now I have made the film below titled How to Re-pot a Hoya in a Hanging Basket.

I had been think about making this video for a long time, but just couldn’t bring myself to make it, as I have dreaded trying to re-pot my five, or six year old plant.  I was afraid that I would destroy it, and that the results would not be worth the effort.  I was wrong and just like every other task you can think of, the worst part about the project was to get started in the first place!

Here is the video that I made of the wonderful floral display from Hoya archboldiana last month.

Happy Halloween everyone!  Here is I believe my 215th Hoya YouTube video titled: A Visit with Hoya wightii ssp.  palniensis   Also, if your in the mood for something to celebrate the day I re-present my Happy Hoya Halloween from 2012.  I don’t make videos like these any more, but watching it again for the first time in 3 years brought back many fond memories for me.

“Hoya archboldiana was found at an altitude of 450 meters near Rona on the Lalokoi River in PNG.  It was growing epiphytically in the upper canopy of the rainforest trees.”*

* Quote from the Rob Stirling September 2015 article in The Plantsman titled Three Large Flowering Hoyas.