About all these two species have in common are that the are both Hoyas.

The title says it all! Hoya calycina on the left and Hoya alagensis on the Right.

Once a week I will show a photo of the newly emerging Hoya clemensiorum leaf and we will track its progress. I have always wanted to try this and now we will give it a try.

Well, I think that I have said all that I have to say about Hoya alagensis – New Clone. So if you can find it, pick one up and give it a try as it is a lot of fun to experience in person. I will leave you with a photo smorgasbord of this wonderful species!

Here is a real fuzzy handful of Hoya alagensis Flowers. I wish everyone could see it in person as it is much more impressive than experienced through photographs.

Both of these are flowering at the same time so what the heck here they are meeting for the first and probably last time.

Hoya alagensis is endemic to the Alag River, Mindoro Island, Philippines. It is a lowland species that was found at about 150 meters in elevation. It is considered an endangered species. Mindoro Island is the seventh largest in the Philippines, and loss of plant habitat to agriculture is the greatest threat to many of the endemic species.

I thought it would be kind of neat to compare the flowers of the two different H. alagensis clones that I have had the privilege to cultivate. The only differences that I can detect is that the corolla tips are a little narrower on the new clone and the inner corona appears to be more pointed on the newly discovered clone.

Within 4 days of discovering the buds, they opened with the scent of vanilla. The plant is in a six inch pot with the substrate mostly consisting of soft tree fern fiber. It flowered under a very bright LED light that consumes 300 watts of power. Humidity ranged from 70-90% with day length set at 14 hours. The temperatures reached 80 degrees during the day and when the lights were off it could get as low as 58 degrees. It was watered with a weak fertilizer solution approximately every 5 days.

Hoya alagensis not only started to grow well, but soon was growing almost too quickly to keep it in check. It could easily grow 4-6 inches a day, and it began to put on peduncles until I had more than a dozen on the plant, but it never would bud up. I would check it every day and there was never any sign until recently I discovered a set of giant buds nearly ready to open that were hiding in plain site at the soil line.