I am so in love with my Hoya linearis plant that I have to show it off one more time. It actually has nine peduncles with open flowers.

The aerial roots emerging on this Hoya macrophylla vine make if look like a centipede!

This is the finest Hoya linearis that I have every grown and it is growing in 100% coconut husk chips. It is currently flowering on 6 open peduncles and the smell at night is amazing. When you hold a set of blooms and smell it at night, I think that this is one of my favorites scents in the Hoya world.

If I ever get lucky enough to flower this plant again I will bring it back, but for now our discussion of this wonderful species is over!

Before I moved my H. obtusifolia from a 14 hour day to a 12 hour day, I lost hundreds of buds. The plant would continually struggle to produce viable buds, but they would yellow and fall off at between 1/8 and 1/4 inch in size. The poor plant wanted desperately to flower, but was simply unable to.

As I have said many times, Hoya obtusifolia will not flower without a period of shortening day length. This can easily be achieved with two different grow areas using lights. I grew mine for a few months at 14 hours of day light and then moved it to 12 hours of day length.

Ordinarily Hoya obtusifolia would be opening her blooms in mid-October, but because of the miracle of being able to change day length with grow lights I bloomed this beauty way back in June.

We have reached the end of October everyone so Happy Halloween everyone! We are now going to spend a few days talking about Hoya obtusifolia as this may have been my most impressive Hoya flowering of 2022.

I had to start my Hoya paulshirleyi seedling over again late summer because of root rot, and it is already flowering again. This is the Hoya that I received with the name Hoya GN-01 that is really a sister seedling to Hoya Paula and for all intents and purposes is that Hoya. It is a winner that is almost continually in bloom!

PES-03 is such a difficult little Hoya to grow well that I always have to celebrate when it comes into flower. Here I have a couple of peduncles full of blooms on a plant that lives in a 3 oz cup. It goes to show you that you do not need a very big pot for this plant, and as a matter of fact small is probably better. Flower comparison photo with Hoya multiflora is also shown.