I spotted these on the back of the plant when I spun it around yesterday:

Here is a photo of Hoya Sulawesi #1 just beginning to open its flowers. Sulawesi is in Indonesia, and I just read a very insightful article on palm oil in the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/14/business/economy/malaysia-palm-oil-european-union.html These palm oil plantations are quickly wiping out all of the jungle diversity where Hoyas like Sulawesi #1 lives, but the story is very nuanced. Anyhow, I recommend the story if it is available to you.

I was really shocked to find what I thought was a Hoya that would only do well and flower in a tent blooming away on a north windowsill.

H. sp. EPC-610 Aff. acuta, now called H. verticillata, is budding up on multiple peduncles and flowering on the windowsill. Here is a photo of the blooms from this morning:

Last summer I lost the roots on Hoya griffithii Silver and tried something different. Rather than rooting one cutting at a time in a small pot, I took several cuttings that I rooted into a large 7 inch pot. I am using 100% coconut husk chips, and now I have a plant that is well on its way to becoming the nicest specimen that I have ever had of this H. griffithii clone. It is so unbelievably healthy and vigorous!

I have been through a lot with Hoya chinghungensis through the years. It made it as the center spread in the Swedish Hoya Telegraph way back in 2019. I probably sold over 300 cuttings and starter plants of it so it has spread all over the U.S. It has really become a precious plant to me. Here is the restarted plant in 2024; it is not what it used to be, but it is on its way.

I have not put much care into this plant now in a very long time, but somehow it continues to survive. The plant is in a very heavy glazed clay pot, and the soil is also far to dense for it, but it keeps on keeping on…

I had to start this plant over a number of times since I first acquired it. Here is its latest reincarnation:

I figured this plant would be long dead setting it up to grow in a hanging basket, which was too big for the size of the plant, but surprisingly it is holding its own.

Here is a very common Hoya cultivar that gets my highest recommendation to keep for its beautiful foliage. Photos don’t really do it justice.