Hoya sp. EPC-209 has always been one of my favorite Hoyas and I was sad that I lost the plant a couple of years ago, but happily my friend Naomi gave me a cutting last year. It quickly rooted in coconut husk and has now flowered for the first time.
Playing around with the effects that can be applied using my photo processing software and found this oil painting effect. This is another very small rooted cutting that decided to bloom with a few flowers.
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.
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!
There are not many Hoyas that will put on this kind of floral display at 10 months from starting it from a cutting!
As long as these were both flowering at the same time, why not!
Here is a photo of Hoya pubicalyx Royal Hawaiian Purple along with its newly opened flowers taken the same day as the first blooming of its offspring
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.
This plant is very lovely even without flowers, because of the highly speckled leaves:
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!
