I next re-rooted what was left of the plant in my regular peat-based, chunky potting mix. It grew slowly for awhile and then I once again lost the plant to root rot, or who knows what. I was about ready to give up on it, and decided I would re-root it one more time and I used pure coconut husk this go around. Below the leaves of the plant, which come in dark red and eventually fade to matte green.

When I received the rooted cutting, I tried growing it in hydroton using semi-hydro, which I was using on many Hoyas at the time. It like most of the rest of my plants growing that way failed from root rot in a fairly short time.

Hoya sp. Sulawesi No. 1 was given to me as a tiny rooted cutting from Mandy Lin in 2020 during the heart of the pandemic. I expected it to be an easy to grow and flower Hoya, but that was not to be the case.

I have had this plant now for a very long time. I think it originally came from Ric Morier and has been with me ever since. I love the orange and white flowers on this one, which surprisingly don’t drip so much nectar that I have to cut them off.

There is not much to say other than I am grateful that Hoya imperialis is regularly flowering for me again.

This is one fantastic Hoya with just one drawback. It is one of the heaviest nectar drippers of any Hoya that I have grown.

Hoya desvoeuxensis is flowering yet again so for something different I applied a paper texture filter to the photo.

A few months ago I had to restart my Hoya buntokensis, and these are the first flowers from the new start. It is growing in only a 2 inch clear cup in coconut husk. This is the first time that I have had the flowers show this shade of pink.

You can clip a cup to the peduncle to catch the nectar as is seen with H. sp. MT-02 in the top photograph, or you can just cut the peduncles off as seen in the bottom photo with Hoya sp. Sweet Scent and Hoya vitellinoides. Whatever you choose something has to be done, or the mess becomes unbearable to cleanup after a while.

All of these plants now fall under Hoya verticillata. They all have similar flowers, but the leaves vary quite widely. Some are highly scented and some have almost no fragrance. This particular one is highly perfumed.