Thanks to my friend Naomi, Hoya papaschonii has come back to me after having lost it last winter to root rot. A big shout out to Naomi from Vermont!

It took quite a while in the cool basement grow tent for the flowers to fully open but open they did. There is no detectable scent with these blooms.

Here is one of my smaller grow tents in the basement, which is doing far better this year with a larger light that throws off more heat. I can keep it in the low to mid 70s during the day now, which is far better then the high 60s of last winter. That couple with going back to tap water is making for a better winter for all of the plants held inside.

Putting this species into the grow tent and giving it some TLC has sure made a huge difference in the plant. For the first time in years, it is putting out tons of new growth and lots of new leaves. It is always a joy to see a Hoya in the picture of health!

Here are the first couple of flowers just beginning to open on Hoya hanhiensis:

Hoya sp. Haruku is just so happy and flowering continually in the grow tent this winter.

Happy New Year everyone! We made it through another pandemic year where life is still not back to normal, and who knows if it will ever be the same again. I always like to take time to go back over the highlights of the previous year as we begin with much hope the start of a new one.

2021 was a bad year of plant losses for me with many hard to find species lost to root rot, but there were still some bright spots to be found. We start in January with the flowering of H. collina which took me years of struggle to coax into flower.

Hoya sp. Kalimantan (SLM-02) flowered in February, which was thrilling, it is now tempered with some sadness as this is one of the species lost in 2021.

February also brought the last flowering of Hoya nyhuusiae before I lost that plant. Here is a photo I took with it next to the flowers of H. amicabilis:

The highlight of the end of February and Early March was the flowering of Hoya australis ‘Lisa’ for the first time and Hoya anncajanoae.

March also brought the flowering of my favorite new Hoya from 2021 Hoya sp. Kalimantan (SLM-01)

April brought the first flowering of Hoya insularis, a definite weirdo in the Hoya genus.

May brought the flowering of Hoya gildingii, RIP, which I also lost last year.

We now move into July with the flowering of Hoya onychoides ‘New’ AH-307 which took a few year of trying to get it to bloom.

The summer of 2021 also brought multiple flowerings of Hoya undulata, which was heartening to see!

September brought the long awaited flowering of Hoya nervosa, which took five years to bring into bloom.

The final highlight of 2021 came with the late November/Early December flowering of yet another Hoya onychoides ‘New’ Clone AH-455.

Well, there you have 2021 in review; as I look back over it now, the year was much better than I initially remembered. I hope that your look back at your own growing in 2021 was every bit as rewarding as mine. The best to all of you in terms of health and happiness in 2022 and Happy Growing!

My Hoya hanhiensis has come back to life with lots of new growth and is budding up on several peduncles. Here are the buds with a flaxen paper overlay:

Those buds fully opened over night so here are the flowers of Hoya micrantha:

Hoya micrantha is an example of a plant that can be saved from root rot by doing nothing except waiting for a really long time for new growth and flowers. I think that I waited close to two years for this plant to start growing and flowering again. I don’t recommend this method to anyone, and I only did it because I was too lazy to restart from cuttings. Here are the buds with a couple of flowers just starting to open: