I know very little about this Hoya other than Nathalie Simonsson discovered it in Fiji in 2005. It came to me as a rooted cutting from Julie Kennedy in May of 2024. I was a little apprehensive about growing this plant as I have had a tricky time growing the regular mauve flowered vitiensis and the yellow flowered one in the past. I rooted it in coconut husk, and it was off to the races. This plant was far more vigorous than the ones I had grown before, and was difficult to keep it in check. It required several up-pottings, and constant work keeping its vines from covering and tangling other plants in the grow tent. It produced a peduncle and began to bud up for the first time nine months after starting it. Sadly all the buds but one blasted the first go around.

The only problem I had with the cultivation of Hoya sp. aff. vitiensis NS05-021 is that there was a tendency for some of the leaves to get a bit chlorotic, whether that has to do with coconut husk as the substrate, I am unsure. It was not however an impediment to blooming it. The most amazing thing about the flowers are how long lasting they are. It took 17 days for the open flower to begin to close up.

The flowers of Hoya sp. aff. vitiensis NS05-021 are at least 50% bigger than on any of the other H. vitiensis that I have grown. The blooms are almost 3 cm point to point.

It did not take very long for Hoya sp. aff. vitiensis NS05-021 to pick up steam with its flowering. After my fist single flower, the plant in short order put on a large number of peduncles and began flowering in earnest.

All good things must come to an end, and so we bid farewell to Hoya sp. aff. vitiensis NS05-021 for now. While I have not grown the orange vitiensis for long, I can heartily recommend it to novice, and advanced Hoya growers alike. It is the easiest to flower of the three H. vitiensis flower colors. It grows so fast that it may require frequently restarting it from cuttings; I have already chopped mine up after only a year. I kept one nice start and spread the rest of it around the U.S. so it should be widely available soon.