I was completely taken by surprise at how long the peduncles on this Hoya were. I think that they are among the longest in the Hoya world; below you can see that the peduncle itself is 9.5 inches long. Add in the length of the pedicels and your talking almost 11 inches!
I was thrilled to finally see good growth and an actual plant materializing out of the tiny cuttings that I was forced to use this go around with this tough to grow little Hoya. After about two years of growth, I was finally rewarded with my first peduncle, and I was really thrilled!
After 3 or 4 years of fiddling with this plant, I finally turned the corner with it when I started it over using a series of net pots where I could actually see what I was doing as far as watering the plant.
I started this cutting over many times during the first 3 years that I owned this plant, and invariably I would rot the roots off. It was just a very difficult Hoya to get growing. I would just start to see some new growth, and then it would just sit there for months doing nothing. The leaves looked like those on Hoya DS-70 and I expected it to be easy like that plant and nothing could be further from the truth!
We are moving from one difficult to flower Hoya in Hoya sp. UT-240 right into another in Hoya sp. NS05-240. I know that I received this Hoya as a cutting from Ric Morier probably in 2013, or 2014. Below the buds of Hoya sp. NS05-240:
This indeed will be the final day with Hoya sp. UT-033; I will be taking a couple of cuttings from this wonderful plant, but I may never see blooms from this one again, because if it takes another five years to flower, I’m unsure that I will still be with the hobby at that point. Perhaps it can be flowered sooner if one used rainwater, or RO water right from the start. That is what I will shoot for.
This is a plant that gets my highest recommendation for even if one can’t flower it, the foliage more than makes up for those shortcomings. 
Tomorrow we wrap up the discussion of Hoya sp. UT-033, but for now here are a couple more photos of the wonderful apple-green colored flowers of the plant.
After Hoya sp. UT-033 flowered the first time, it flowered numerous times on multiple peduncles throughout the summer, but cease all vegetative growth. I have had this happen before on multiple Hoyas and it usually means that it is time to restart the plant.
The buds developed quickly and flowered soon after. The flowers have a very mild, fruity fragrance.
While this Hoya grew vigorously, I was kind of dismayed that I would get no peduncles even when I used numerous tricks like using various blooming fertilizers. Finally this past winter I started using exclusively RO water with all of my unflowered Hoyas, and after almost six long years I got my first peduncle, and shortly there after another. Below the buds on Hoya sp. UT-033:
