Hoya stenophylla came to me in September 2021 as a rooted cutting growing in Pon. I kept it this way for a couple of months, but I kept losing leaves, and I have a very difficult time to tell when to water this substrate. I eventually moved it over to tree fern where I barely watered it, and it seemed a little happier. I misted it every day and did not pay it a lot of attention. One day I noticed that one of its vines had twisted around a Hoya polystachya vine in my tent and was rapidly climbing to the top of the grow tent.

I first flowered this plant back in April, and I’m just getting around to discussing it now as there have been so many new flowering for me in 2022.

This Hoya came to me in a trade made in the early fall of 2021 where I traded a very talented grower and Instagram star from Phoenix a couple of H. thailandica plants for three plants of which Hoya stenophylla was one of them.

I finally have this plant back where it continues to be mysteriously pollinated in the grow tent. See It below in its full glory:

Hoya australis ssp. Oramicola is one of the Hoyas that lives quite happily on a window sill upstairs. I use a tiny t-5 strip light to supplement its meager light supply as the window has a large overhang that shields it from all sun.

It will take a long time to get this one untangled out of the tent where it has wrapped itself around almost everything. It is now flowering on two different peduncles.

Hoya sp. Black Leaves, which is really some type of verticillata is budding up on multiple peduncles and is flowering on the windowsill in the regular house. I really like this Hoya.

The flowers of Hoya myrmecopa are available in a few different colors; my clone was sold as purple. I no longer keep this plant but would like to give it another try someday, experimenting with some looser growing mediums and watering much less. The flowers are cute and a well grown plant is very nice to see.

The flowers of Hoya myrmecopa rank among the worst smelling blooms of the genus, but we won’t hold that against them!

I finally got this plant to grow well enough for me to get it to flower in February of 2019. I strongly suspect that I simply could not keep this plant warm enough to grow well. I also think that I was using a mix that held too much water and was not airy enough. If I still had the plant I would experiment with other growing media.

I received Hoya myrmecopa in the summer of 2017 from AH Hoyas in Thailand as a small plant rooted in coconut husk. It never did very well for me developing root rot on several occasions necessitating me have to start it over a number of times.