My large Hoya kanyakumariana is not doing that well, but I started a few cuttings this year and low and behold one of them actually budded up!

I have been asked many times how did you get hooked on Hoyas, and despite starting out like everyone else with H. carnosa, what really got me hooked is when I bought this plant way back in 2006 on eBay, from a woman who lived in Oklahoma, who was getting rid of all of her large leafed plants. I paid what was then a princely sum of $50 for it and still have this same clone today. I got a lot of praise for flowering what was considered a Hoya that was difficult to flower, and that was what got me hooked on the genus.

Well this is the first time that I have flowered H. macgillivrayi when grown in leca. It is still not my preferred way to grow this plant, but if did flower very quickly in about 18 months.

Hoya linearis seems to like where I have it in the bathroom and has four different pecuncles with buds or flowers. Here is the first to open. I love the scent of this one!

I was so surprised and gratified that one of my YouTube channel viewers from Australia named Kim sent me these wonderful photos of how she used my trellising idea for her own Hoyas. The fence she used is not quite the same, but she ingeniously made it work for her. Note how she used the branch to hang them from. I am so impressed! By the way, I still use this trellising method almost every day!

This is slightly trickier than Hoya bella to grow, but the flowers look identical to my eyes. It does make for a very cute little plant though.

H. cutils-porcelana has been flowering more than it ever has since I started keeping it so I thought I would show it off against Hoya patella which flowers quite frequently.

I wish Hoya amicabilis was as easy to grow as Hoya patella is. I still feel that my ability to keep this plant alive long term is somewhat tenuous.

It should not be too long before these buds open up. I am looking forward to the wonderful fragrance that should really be quite powerful in its little 4×4 grow-tent.

Here are a couple of photos of their introduction. It is too bad that these could not be bred together – wouldn’t that be a heck of a cultivar!