I continue to keep up the good fight to keep this one alive and hope that with the warmer weather around the corner it might help. Hoya sp. SR-2017-012 Frog Foot is just tough to grow well, but I just love it so much that I will be sad if it does not make it. Here are flowers on my tiny remaining plant from yesterday:

Semi-Hydro, or passive-hydro, whatever you want to call it, was a complete disaster for this plant, and I came very close to losing it. Hoya burmanica is very susceptible to over watering and wet roots, so growing it in terracotta seems to be working very well for this it.

It is almost as if Hoya hainanensis has two different types of flowers. The fully reflexed flowers last a couple of days, but then they are followed with four or five days of fully open flowers like the ones below:

Hoya danumensis ssp. amari is one of the Hoyas that flowers to the point of being annoying. I have taken to cutting most of these things off, but here is another set that I missed:

Here is why I think Hoya multiflora is superior as a houseplant to Hoya lockii: Hoya multiflora has nicer foliage – the leaves are broader and just nicer. I think the flowers are more interesting with better coloration. The biggest reason that I like Hoya multiflora more than Hoya lockii is that it is just a much more vigorous and easier to grow plant, so three cheers for Hoya multiflora!

In the last several years it seems as if Hoya lockii has supplanted good old Hoya multiflora in a popularity contest. To me this just is not right. Tomorrow I will tell why I like Hoya multiflora more.

Hoya sp. Kalimantan SLM-01 was my favorite new Hoya of the past couple of years primarily for its amazing bronze colored foliage, growth form, and delightful flowers. It gets my highest recommendation!

I loved this Hoya so much that I spent a couple of hours with a cat whisker and a head worn magnifier trying without success to pollinate Hoya sp. Kalimantan SLM-01. It was easy to remove the pollinaria, but impossible for me to insert it into the flowers lock mechanism. I really feel that if you want to successfully pollinate Hoyas, there would have to be an apprenticeship served under someone who has mastered the technique. Attempting to do this from what one can glean on the internet is darned near impossible. I am also wondering if I have the patience for it!

The flowers began opening over the course of a few days in early January (2021). There was absolutely no scent, but they were claw like and quite beautiful.

It was now impossible to tell when to water this plant so I opted for once a week and since the Pon holds little water, I submerged the pot in fertilizer water. This was purely a guess on my part, and it seemed to be the right guess. I did it religiously every Monday morning for months and the plant thrived. It put on two peduncles in late December (2020) and budded up strongly.