Here are two photos of the Hoyas in the windows in our living room:
Here are two photos of the Hoyas in the windows in our living room:
Below are my dining room Hoyas; I have to run a T-5 strip light here, because the roof overhang cuts out too much light to keep plants in the space. Note the pipe insulation on the electrical cord; we have a cat that likes to chew on them. If we ever have a fire, it will be because of that darned cat chewing wires!
Below is our guest room with only one window. I could sneak another plant into this window if I had to!
This is a spare bedroom that we call the cat room as it is where we keep the cat littler boxes. We have two windows in the room. Top photo contains a couple of hanging Dischidia with Hoyas below. I don’t have the time to name all of the Hoyas in these photos and look up their correct spellings so the photos will have to do.
Over the next week or so I will show the Hoyas sitting in windows in the house. Most of these will cease growing and go into hibernation over the winter months. The goal is to keep them alive until a late spring day when they can move back outside once again for the short Vermont summer.
Below are the windows in the room we call the computer room as it is where I do all of my computer work including writing this blog.
Hoya celata managed to bud up and flower as the days are quickly growing much shorter here in October. This plant now resides in the regular house, and seems to like the conditions.
Here is a video that I made of my attempt to root the nearly impossible all White Hoya bella using powdered rooting hormone. Spoiler alert: it didn’t end well!
Hoya walliniana was not a very easy growing Hoya, and unfortunately I did lose the plant, but fortunately not before I was able to flower it. I would recommend the plant to advanced growers as it is not suited to beginners. The plant was not forgiving of mistakes, and when I tried to save it through taking cuttings, I was not successful. If I ever get the chance to try the plant again under different conditions, it might well fare much better.
Hoya walliniana was stress flowered. I have had a number of Hoyas over the years that flowered under stress. It sometimes is a plants last gasp at being able to save itself, hoping to be pollinated, and set seed before it dies.
I constantly struggled with Hoya walliniana over a two year period. For every two new leaves grown, I would lose one. The one saving grace was the phenomenal leaf coloration. Below you can see the leaf color and the coarse bark it was grown in: