I somehow managed to just barely keep this thing growing, when finally it started to hit its stride in the spring of 2022. I was almost afraid to do it, but I transplanted it into coconut husk along with some large perlite and put it into the summer greenhouse. It continued to slowly grow, but after I sprayed all of my plants with sulfur for a flat mite infestation the plant really took off. Hoya hamiltoniorum has never been shy about putting on peduncles but they would never successfully bud up. That was about to change.

I received Hoya hamiltoniorum as a small rooted plant, that Jimmy Myers was kind enough to save for me, from a bad Thai shipment in September of 2019. I struggled with this plant for years having to start it over numerous times. I thought that I had really lost it when I had one cutting left with just a couple of leaves, but as you can see from the photo below, I have a remarkable turn-around story.

I finally have a beautiful specimen of Hoya hamiltoniorum; it took me four years to get here, so we will spend a few days on it.

I could not stand this vine full of peduncles on my plant that is now called Hoya latifolia. These little buds continually fall off like large dust particles all over everything. The flowers on this plant are usually spotty and not all that exciting so I made the decision to lop this off and the plant looks better now.

These two species are very closely related. Here they are flowering together this morning:

These two look pretty good together and I don’t think that I have featured them before, so here you go:

I finally have my first peduncle on this one so I would hope within the next six months or so I should have flowered this outstandingly beautiful plant!

It took me a long time after restarting this plant, that is one of my oldest to have a decent looking specimen again, but finally I do, and it flowers regularly.

I believe that this is the first time that I have ever photographed these two Hoyas together.

I finally have a really nice healthy specimen of my famous Hoya imperialis Rauschii Seedling flowering again. After I got the flat mite infestation knocked down, this one really took off. You can tell that this plant is healthy because the flowers are not blotchy like many of them appear online. This is how they are supposed to look.