I was so very excited to come downstairs and examine these buds with a lighted magnifier every day. I think that most of the fun in growing these Hoyas is the anticipation brought on by bud development. This turned out to definitely be the case when the flowers finally opened on this plant. This is one of those Hoyas in which the flower only partially opens during the daylight hours; the corolla never fully extends even at night.

As I examined the slender little vine twirling around another Hoya vine, and climbing ever upward, I noticed something strange. One of the new leaves slowly pushing out seemed strange looking and the closer that I looked at it, I started to realize that it was a newly forming peduncle. I was ecstatic as I never really expected to flower this species as there were almost no photos of this plant online. I followed this peduncle with a magnifying glass for a couple of months as it tried to bud up. The earliest buds would blast but finally with very careful watering two buds held on and began to grow!

Hoya stenophylla came to me in September 2021 as a rooted cutting growing in Pon. I kept it this way for a couple of months, but I kept losing leaves, and I have a very difficult time to tell when to water this substrate. I eventually moved it over to tree fern where I barely watered it, and it seemed a little happier. I misted it every day and did not pay it a lot of attention. One day I noticed that one of its vines had twisted around a Hoya polystachya vine in my tent and was rapidly climbing to the top of the grow tent.

I first flowered this plant back in April, and I’m just getting around to discussing it now as there have been so many new flowering for me in 2022.

This Hoya came to me in a trade made in the early fall of 2021 where I traded a very talented grower and Instagram star from Phoenix a couple of H. thailandica plants for three plants of which Hoya stenophylla was one of them.

I finally have this plant back where it continues to be mysteriously pollinated in the grow tent. See It below in its full glory:

Hoya australis ssp. Oramicola is one of the Hoyas that lives quite happily on a window sill upstairs. I use a tiny t-5 strip light to supplement its meager light supply as the window has a large overhang that shields it from all sun.

It will take a long time to get this one untangled out of the tent where it has wrapped itself around almost everything. It is now flowering on two different peduncles.

Hoya sp. Black Leaves, which is really some type of verticillata is budding up on multiple peduncles and is flowering on the windowsill in the regular house. I really like this Hoya.

The flowers of Hoya myrmecopa are available in a few different colors; my clone was sold as purple. I no longer keep this plant but would like to give it another try someday, experimenting with some looser growing mediums and watering much less. The flowers are cute and a well grown plant is very nice to see.

The flowers of Hoya myrmecopa rank among the worst smelling blooms of the genus, but we won’t hold that against them!