It started growing really well in the summer of last year (2022), and finally rewarded me with buds and flowers for the first time in last September. I grew it in a five ounce, clear, plastic cup and used primarily tree fern fiber for a substrate.

In 2020, I made a Thai order and the vendor for some reason omitted one of my requested plants and put in Hoya griffithii var. silver in its place. I was far from thrilled as having failed with this one twice before, I was not really in the mood to try it again. I rooted it anyway, as what other choice did I have. This time for some reason I made out far better than in my previous attempts and the plant at least stayed green and alive.

I had been very successful growing the regular H. griffithii for a few years, before obtaining the silver variant. I anticipated no problem with its cultivation, but I could not have been more wrong. On two different occasions, a couple of year apart, I tried my best with it and simply could not keep it alive.

There are a few different varieties of Hoya griffithii and the variant Silver has lots of silver flecks on the leaves, which I assume is where it gets name.

I have only flowered Hoya thailandica once in nine years of keep it, and had pretty much given up hope of ever flowering it again. So imagine my surprise when I found these buds forming on my trashy looking plant. Much more to come if I manage to get them to open up!

I had to put Hoya danumensis ssp. Amarii and Hoya imperialis Palawan together since they both graced me with flowers at the same time.

Here are two sub-species Hoyas that both have campanulate flowers.

I think of all the Hoyas that I have brought back from near death, Hoya danumensis ssp. Amarii came the closest to actually dying. I was down to a single leaf that sat in a small cup of coconut chips for months before finally sending up a small vine. I really had to nurse this one to get it to survive. It also blasted hundreds of buds before I could finally get it to flower again. I really like this plant so much more than the regular danumensis, which get too large and grows too rampantly to be a good houseplant. It also has a tendency towards chlorosis, which I hate in a plant.

I can now say that I have bloomed pretty much all of the different versions of Hoya Bella. I will bring back ‘Luis Bois’ when I have a bigger plant and have spent more time trying to cultivate it.

I received this inner variegated form of Hoya Bella called ‘Luis Bois’ over the summer, and it has been much more difficult than the outer variegated form called Anneke Bois. I recently had to start it over because of root rot, but it did bring the plant into flower.