I just caught these flowers opening this morning. This plant seems to have picked up for me as I have struggled with it for some time. It has two of these peduncles full of flowers right now. If you have never seen these in real, they are really something. It is like H. lacunosa flowers on steroids.

My ‘Lisa’ went months without growing at all as I think that there were root rot issues going on, but it is growing wonderfully now. Here is a photo of some new growth from this morning:

I have taken a lot of photos of the blooms on this one over the past year, but this one is probably my favorite.

It won’t be much longer on these seedpods. Here are my two prospective mothers hanging out together talking about the possibilities. There will be over a hundred seed in the multiflora pod, but based on my past experience, there will only be at most 15 seeds per pod on Hoya ruthiae.

The last time this one flowered was the end of August and here we go again. There are 8 flowers this time, and we will take a couple of days to appreciate it as this is a Hoya that I had given up all hope of flowering at one time.

Hoya ruthiae is going to be a mom!! Tomorrow the maternity ward.

I first got seedpods on Hoya ruthiae back in 2019 and thought it was a complete one in a million fluke as the book A Guide To The Hoyas of Borneo says that “fruits of this species are unknown.” Well here we are in 2021, and I once again have seedpods!

This Hoya is actually covered in buds, but this is the first couple to open. Excuse the reddish tint; the older type LED plant lights cause this issue.

Hoya celata did nothing all summer, and as soon as I got it into the grow tent, the plant went crazy with growth and is now budding up on a peduncle. Here is one of its leaves from this morning.

I never thought I would say that again as this is one of the hardest Hoyas to keep alive period. I thought that I had lost this plant and had a two leaved cutting that I stuck in leca and pretty much forgot about it, and surprise; it refused to die! More on this plant if the buds make it to term.