Despite my best attempts to prevent root rot, I did observe some rot in March or April, I pulled off as much of it as I could get at and used high pressure water to flush the leca of as many impurities as I could. I then saw that the growing tip died back, and thought well, here we go again, but surprisingly soon after the tip died back, it put on a peduncle near the end of the vine and actually started budding up!
The plant went through the autumn and winter of 2020/2021 with slow but steady growth, sending up a vine in February. I was so afraid of root rot that I kept very little water in the reservoir letting the leca slightly dry out between waterings, which I flushed with a high pressure hose after every watering.
I had to make a decision on how to grow the plant after it arrived. It was rooted in coconut husk, and I opted to go with leca using the semi or passive hydro method of growing it. The only reason I chose that method was that I had killed Hoya undulata growing it in normal mixes. After a month, it still had not died so I felt maybe I had a chance at keeping it alive for a while!
Mandy Lin who is a fantastic grower in California sent me a different clone of Hoya undulata which I did not know existed prior to her telling me about it. I suffered so much trying to grow this plant that I was not even that excited to receive it, thinking that I would probably kill it.
I have a strong feeling that there is root rot once again in Hoya sp. aff. clemensiorum, but I just don’t have it in me to deal with it right now! I have started this plant over so many times that I have lost count! Here are the buds from this morning:
What Hoya Rebecca does best is flower, and it seems quite happy outdoors this summer. Here are the flowers from this morning:
This Hoya has a powerfully sweet scent, and it is a real pleasure to go into the greenhouse and smell it right now!
I’ll be honest; this plant does not seem to grow nearly as well for me as it did in the past, but I very happy to find these flowers this morning!
I am thrilled about getting this H. undulata clone into bud as Hoya undulata has been my nemesis since I got my first specimen 5 or 6 years ago. I want to thank Mandy Lin for giving me this clone last year, which was a phenomenally nice thing to do! Here are the buds this morning and much more after the flowers open!
A couple of years ago I got annoyed at the nectar mess that Hoya sp. AH-014 made when the flowers were open so I cut off all of the peduncles; that was a mistake! It did not produce another peduncle for a very long time, but finally it has and is currently flowering with another set of buds coming right behind this batch of flowers. I will not be cutting off any more peduncles!
