A few days ago I brought you the unusual double buds on single peduncles on Hoya patella. They have now opened.

I don’t think that I have had these two in the same photo before; so here they are:

Hoya apoda blooms look big until you compare it to Hoya imperialis!

Here is a photo of the entire plant with the white spots being sulfur residue:

Since it has been so long since I flowered this one, we will spend a couple more days with it.

The blooms of Hoya imperialis vary in size from flowering to flowering. These were particularly large with one flower coming in at around 3 1/4 inch in diameter.

Hoya imperialis has been one of my signature Hoyas now for well over a decade. I have flowered them dozens of times over the years, but for the past couple of years I have struggled with them. I simply could not figure out why they would no longer grow for me for months on end. I made no sense at all. I now believe that once again flat mites were causing all of my problems with stunted and deformed plants. Since spraying my Hoya imperialis have been doing far better. Here is Hoya imperialis Palawan from yesterday:

I will have much more on this plant at a later date, but here is what it looks like before going under the second sulfur treatment.

I finally lost my giant chinghungensis plant to sooty mold and flat mites this year, but did start a couple of new plants from cuttings. This is a plant that normally flowers in late summer, but because of the restart, here it is flowering in January!

There are so many Hoyas that fall into this group of easier to flower than to put on new growth. Just a few that come to the top of my head would be: Hoya undulata, Hoya buntokensis, Hoya megalaster, Hoya inflata, Hoya calycina ‘Stargazer’, and Hoya amicabilis. There are many more, but that is all that I can think of right now. Here is Hoya amicabilis from this morning helping to prove my point.