I had numerous bud blasts on Hoya BP-01 before managing to get this plant to bring its buds to term. I am unsure if it was the coconut husk substrate, or not, but I am glad that I finally pulled it off.

I thought I knew most of the accession number abbreviations, but had never heard of this one. After posting a video, on this species, and asking what BP stood for, someone kindly had the answer: BP is the accession number for Ban Phaeo Hoya Nursery in Thailand.

The strangest thing about this Hoya is the fact that it seems to carry two different types of leaves. One leaf is flat, with subtle venation and the other leaf has pronounced scalloping.

Hoya BP-01 came to me as a cutting from my friend Naomi in a trade early last summer. I rooted it in coconut husk chips where it grew well and rather quickly formed a couple of peduncles.

To think that I had to wait more than five years for this one to flower for the first time, and now it will flower for the second time a couple of months after the first blooming. I will move this one out of the tent and take more pictures after they open but for now all I can do is get the back of the buds.

My first ever set of buds on Hoya desvoeuxensis is looking very good. There is still every chance that they won’t make it, but so far I am liking what I am seeing! The photo below was taken about 10 days after the first one that I brought you here.

Here is a photo of the leaf from Hoya clemensiorum seven days after the last photo. It has now moved from 4.5 inches to 6 inches. So the rate of growth has slowed down somewhat but it has now put on almost 6 inches of growth in about a month.

Here we have Hoya lyi with Hoya patella inserted into Hoya bicolor. It is interesting that the Hoya patella blossom is almost as big as the entire peduncle of flowers of both of the other Hoyas.

Here is the second flowering of Hoya lyi as seen with Hoya bicolor.

There is little to say about this photo as the picture says it all!