I am excited to have this one flower for the 2nd time for me. It is another one that is growing in leca, but only started growing okay and flowering after putting it on a heat mat. I have found that growing in semi-hydro only works okay for me if I can keep that root zone warm enough. Otherwise, I end up with total root rot.

Since it is relatively rare to flower this species, I will take another day with it, as you never know if it will be the last time that I can pull it off.

I don’t know what else I can say about this plant other than I will be starting it over again in hopes to get a specimen growing outside of leca, which I pretty much have come to hate.

I hate it when a peduncle forms right at the top of the pot, but it is nice that this species is trying to flower for me again. This is a plant that likes to live in coconut husk, and be watered when dry. It also does far better in tap water than RO or rain water.

I started this plant over again as the roots all rotted out in leca using semi-hydro. I used two different mediums this time: Coconut Husk and Tree Fern Fiber. Both worked pretty well as long as you water very little and only give sips not complete soakings. It is very susceptible to root rot. If I had to pick the best medium, I would go with coconut chips.

Here is another flower comparison photo with Hoya thomsonii ‘Pink’ on the left and Hoya soligamiana on the right.

I wish that I could figure out how to grow Hoya amicabilis well as I constantly struggle with it. It flowers extremely easily, but growing it is another matter altogether!

I can’t remember at this point if I have had these two species together or not so here we are. It may be the last H. mirabilis photo for some time as I just had to start the plant over because of root rot. I am now moving to coconut chips to see if it fares better than in leca.

Here you can see the buds of both Hoya undulata and Hoya onychoides ‘New’ I guess I must have done something right to be blessed with both plants in bud at the same time.

This is my favorite undulata clone, the one with the smooth edged leaves, because it is so much easier to grow. Here you can see a record number of buds for me. Tomorrow a close up of the buds.