Today’s photo and tomorrow’s will be the last that you see of Hoya Seeds AH 002. After years of keep it, I finally chopped it up and gave away all of the cuttings. It is simply impossible to keep them all, especially when you want to try new things.
Not much to say other than they look pretty good together!
More flower comparison photos coming up. Here is Hoya stenaokei against Hoya cutis-porcelana.
I have never had a lot of luck growing Hoya mindorensis, part of the parentage of Hoya MB 1594 C, but this is another example of a hybrid being easier to grow than its parent. I currently have this Hoya just growing in ambient conditions sitting on a windowsill. It has even flowered there. Hoya mindorensis never would have stayed alive there, let alone be able to flower. This is a hybrid that gets my highest recommendation!
Here are a couple of photos of the blooms close up:
Here is what the entire plant looks like all potted up nicely:
It took about a year and a half to bring Hoya MB 1594 C into bloom, but the wait was worth it. Although the plant was not Scarlett O’Hoya, the blooms were completely stunning in their own right.
I received this plant as a cutting in 2021 and it rooted quickly, but took awhile to establish itself. It went through 3 different up-potting’s and finally came into its own. Below the leaves of Hoya MB 1594 C:
I received this plant as a trade from a woman in Maine in the fall of 2021. This cutting turned out to be a case of mistaken identity. She had desperately hoped that the plant she had purchased was Hoya Scarlett O’Hoya ( Hoya MB 1594 A). I flowered it first and found out that the plant was from the same seedpod, but not the plant she was hoping for. As far as I can tell, there were three released plants from this cross in 2018. Scarlett O’Hoya (MB 1594 A) which had deeply red flowers and a band around the perimeter of the leaves; Hoya Sunshine (MB 1594 B) which had a yellowish flower with white in the corona, and Hoya MB 1594 C, its flowers having a orangey-yellow color with red/pink corona. Below the flowers of MB 1594 C.
Most of the Mike Bernardo Hybrids are worth searching out and Hoya MB 1247 is no exception. Give it enough time, and it can become a gorgeous specimen plant that you can be very proud to have in your collection!
