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.
Tomorrow I will begin the discussion on Hoya kenejiana Variegated. Here is a couple of teaser photos of the flowers:
They are flowering at the same time – so why not?
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!
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.
I pulled the plant out of the grow tent yesterday to try to record for posterity all of its flowers.
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.
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.
Currently Hoya versteegii has four peduncles with open flowers. This is a very poor photograph, which I am going to try to remedy tomorrow by taking it outside to take better pictures, but if I can’t, this is better than nothing I guess.
All of my H. sp. Haruku plants in the past have had much smaller leaves, because they were expose to too much light. This plant hangs in a North window and the leaves are almost twice as large and much nicer to look at in my opinion. This plant is grown in 100% coconut husk chips. Here is a photo after I gave it a shower this morning. The photo does not do the plant justice!
