So I learned that I need to photograph a plant even if I think that it will never flower. I still can’t believe that I can’t find a photo of the plant before I chopped it up. I can tell you that this is a plant that whatever they did to its DNA to make it variegated created a strange creature. Many of its leaves would morph into distorted shapes, and I also believed that this was stopping it from flowering. I have no idea why it never bloomed on a large plant with numerous peduncles, but then flowers on a lousy looking cutting.
Growing Hoya kenejiana Variegated Part Two
The big mistake that I made with this plant is that I never photographed the plant when I had a nice size specimen. As per usual, I generally don’t photograph a plant until I’ve gotten it to flower, and I thought that my Hoya kenejiana Variegated would literally never bloom! It had numerous peduncles that would always blast newly emerging buds. It blasted these new buds scores of times until I had really long peduncles which had never produced a flower.
I finally got sick of it and chopped up the plant into cuttings. I took these cuttings and gave most of them away as freebies to customers who bought my eBay offerings. I saved the worst looking cutting, and what do you think happened? This ugly little cutting actually produced a peduncle, budded up and flowered! Below the plant:
Growing Hoya kenejiana Variegated Part One
I received this plant as a cutting from a local collector name Naomi in May of 2020 during the height of the pandemic scare. The cutting rooted quickly and surprisingly put on rapid growth. Tomorrow I will go into the big mistake that I made with this plant that still makes me mad.
Let’s Talk About Hoya kenejiana Variegated
Tomorrow I will begin the discussion on Hoya kenejiana Variegated. Here is a couple of teaser photos of the flowers:
Hoya danumensis and Hoya inflata
They are flowering at the same time – so why not?
Hoya danumensis Back From A Restart
My original H. danumensis had gotten to large to properly care for so I chopped it all up this spring and started a number of cuttings. I sold the best of them and I saved the two worst looking ones for myself and put them in a large pot with coconut husk, and it has already flowered! It took me forever to flower this plant originally and now it flowered in only a few months. The moral of the story is to never be afraid to restart a plant from cuttings!
Hoya versteegii – The Entire Plant
I probably won’t have this plant featured again in a while, or unless it exceeds more than four peduncles full of flowers, which is probably pretty unlikely.
Finally I Have Better Photos of Hoya versteegii.
I pulled the plant out of the grow tent yesterday to try to record for posterity all of its flowers.
Hoya inflata and Hoya desvoeuxensis
Hoya desvoeuxensis is rarely out of flower and now I can hold a bloom up against a plant that is rarely in flower – Hoya inflata.
Hoya inflata Is Back!
When I first got Hoya inflata about 10 years ago, I managed to grow a decent looking plant, and flowered it a number of times. Then for years, I struggled with it, and barely could get it to grow a leaf. It has been started over numerous times, and quite frankly I am surprised that I still have it. That was then, but I started it over again this spring, and for some inexplicable reason it is growing better than it has since very first plant. I have two specimens now growing leaves all over the place and one of them just flowered.