Haven’t Flowered This One In A While

I recently chopped Hoya sp. EPC-610 aff. acuta up into cuttings, because of root rot, and started it over. A number of those very tiny 2 and 3 leaved plants produced peduncles and have now flowered. Sometimes if you really want to flower something, the best thing you can do is to start it over! This is a great plant with a fantastic fragrance.

Final Day With Hoya fungii x Hoya pubicalyx RHP

This is a Hoya cultivar that gets my absolute highest recommendation for its outstanding foliage, very early first blooms, and ease of care. I really can’t say anything bad about this one; simply everyone should have it in their collection!

Let’s Talk About The Parentage Of Hoya fungii x Hoya pubicalyx RHP

I had to look this one up as I was unsure of how this was done. If there is a wild cross and you are unsure of the which plant bore the seedpod of a suspected cultivar, parents are written in alphabetical order. If you know which plant was the mother and had the seedpod, the mother is written first, followed a multiplication sign, followed by the father. I have seen this plant written both ways on the internet so I have to go with how it was labeled when I got it; so I assume that the plant that bore the seedpod was Hoya fungii. Please let me know if this is incorrect in the comment section of a YouTube video that I will post in the near future.

Growing Hoya fungii x Hoya pubicalyx RHP Part Two

I rooted this plant in coconut husk chips and moved it to soft tree fern substrate after the 3 oz up was full of roots. It graduated to a 4.75 inch clear orchid pot, and soon produced numerous peduncles and strong buds soon followed. This is a strong plant with no annoying tendency to blast buds thankfully!

Happy Independence Day – More Hopeful Buds

I am now 80% sure that I have lost my buds on Hoya desvoeuxensis, which is pretty disheartening, but it does at least show me that it is theoretically possible to flower it. To help assuage my bud loss on that Holy grail Hoya is a newly discovered peduncle and developing buds on Hoya stenophylla, which was not even on my radar as a possibility of flowering. Everyone please cross your fingers on this one for me!