Hoya hainanensis just flowered for the second time for me and has also grown another peduncle which is budding up. This beautiful Hoya from Vietnam is a must have.  Here is a photo from this morning:

Probably not the world’s first photo of these flowers together, but it is my first photo of them together!

My Hoya platycaulis that I bought from Gardino’s last September was looking sadder and sadder, so I decided to try to restart the plant. I reasoned since it had done so poorly for me in soil that I would try it in some other mediums. First I had to root it, which is extremely difficult, but was fairly straight forward using my water method. After it rooted, I put two cuttings in sphagnum and two cuttings in a product called Lechuza Pon (much more on this medium at a future date). The flowers below are from one of my cuttings in sphagnum. It is still to be determined if this medium will work out, but the plant is holding its own for now.

When you have flowered as many Hoyas as I have, it is nice to find a Hoya flower that is really different than everything else out there. Hoya ruthiae definitely fits the bill, and is one of the most photogenic Hoyas around. Here are two peduncles full of flowers from this week:

Hoya ruthiae was such a tough Hoya to get going for me and now has been a pretty much non-stop bloomer. Oyster shell added to the mix made all the difference in the world for me. I recently sold four cuttings of the plant and I was worried that it would not recover, but it is still flowering like a champ.

Hoya sp. Bangkok Red is one of my oldest Hoyas having received it in a Hoya trade from Melanie Myers (what ever happened to her?), back around 2007 or 2008. It is such a trouble free plant and is really unlike anything else that I have as far as leaves. I wish more people had this Hoya, because it is an awesome plant!

If you are looking for a Hoya that literally never stops flowering on multiple peduncles, then look no further than Hoya sp. Mindanao UT-247. I have probably talked about this before, but this one definitely takes the cake for flowering. Below the plant from this week:

Hoya wallachii looks bad sitting on its own terrible foliage, but looks pretty nice when sitting on other Hoya leaves. It is sitting on some species Hoya that will remain unidentified for now, as I don’t really want to go all the way downstairs to try to find its accession number.

This may be the only photo of this pairing in the world; I have no way of knowing for sure.

This is a Hoya that is almost never out of flower, but for the life of me I cannot figure out what makes it happy. The foliage is chlorotic and just unbelievably ugly; the flowers only fully open in the morning for a couple of days and then close. I cannot really recommend this plant to anyone, but a completest collector.