Just a quick hoya share: my tiniest hoya bloom vs. the st...
Just a quick hoya share: my tiniest hoya bloom vs. the still delightful SAO111 bloom (i.e. my up-to-date biggest hoya bloom. (With macgillivray and lidleana still toddlers and the magnifica a pipe dream 🫣😅). Just had the 'Mini Pixie' open her buds last evening and found the size difference too finite funny not to share them side by side.
Enjoy the rest of your Thursdays, my fellow #hoya lovers. More blooms coming soon here. The hoyas are hoya-ing. #hoyahangout
Enjoy the rest of your Thursdays, my fellow #hoya lovers. More blooms coming soon here. The hoyas are hoya-ing. #hoyahangout
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@Idplantthat it's hard to capture without a third hand or getting too close to the bigger petals, but they are even smaller 😀 unless you meant the whole tiny peduncle (which is just a tiny bit bigger than the bigger petals😀) I can't wait for my truly huge ones to grow and bloom
@MusicalRedmint correct, I did mean the whole flower. 🌼 I’m terrible with communication, 😂 being human is difficult sometimes. 🤦♀️ I love how fuzzy those flowers are. I love the fuzzy petals. 🩵
@debbiedo I don't do anything special. I find most of mine are easy bloomers (once they've reached the age they are mature at least, which can vary widely from a few months to several years depending on the species). From what I've read, it's often a light issue if they don't bloom.
Oh. And if I think one of mine might give me problems or I start wondering why they aren't growing/ blooming, I look up tips specific to the species. The Vermonthoyas website is a great resource for that. What kind of hoyas do you have?
Oh. And if I think one of mine might give me problems or I start wondering why they aren't growing/ blooming, I look up tips specific to the species. The Vermonthoyas website is a great resource for that. What kind of hoyas do you have?
@MusicalRedmint The two that are several years old and well established are my Pubicalyx (on a trellis in a west window) and Krimson Princess (hanging in a south window that is partially shaded by a tree) 👑
I have a Compacta Mauna Loa that I got as a tiny rooted cutting. It grew quite long over a couple years and I just snipped it back and have those cuttings in perlite.
I also have a Bella that I’ve grown from cuttings a neighbor gave me.
Those two are hanging in the same window as the Krimson Princess.
The others are in bookshelves with 12-hour grow lights. They’re all quite new to me. I bought them as freshly rooted cuttings and they’re now putting out their first new leaves for me: Burma, Tsangii Albo, Latifolia, Krimson Queen, Suzie Q, Ilagiorium, Meliflua, and Verticillata Splash.
I have a Compacta Mauna Loa that I got as a tiny rooted cutting. It grew quite long over a couple years and I just snipped it back and have those cuttings in perlite.
I also have a Bella that I’ve grown from cuttings a neighbor gave me.
Those two are hanging in the same window as the Krimson Princess.
The others are in bookshelves with 12-hour grow lights. They’re all quite new to me. I bought them as freshly rooted cuttings and they’re now putting out their first new leaves for me: Burma, Tsangii Albo, Latifolia, Krimson Queen, Suzie Q, Ilagiorium, Meliflua, and Verticillata Splash.
@debbiedo
Ah. Carnosas (so I guess the at the very least related compacta) are famously late bloomers. 4-5 years upward is what I've read, at least. Which makes it so annoying that they are often traded as beginner hoyas to people who want blooms.
I think I've heard something similar about the pubicalyx, but since the sources on that weren't quite as abundant and reliable as those concerning the carnosa, treat this info with a grain of salt. But yeah, that was also the reason I was so happy about this bloom after just 1 1/2 (?) Years, because this one is a pub RHS x fungii hybrid, and I thought it would take its time.
The light sounds great for the carnosa since they also seem to need a lot of light to bloom. (Theoretical info, mine are still too young for me to have first-hand knowledge)
What does confuse me is the bella. They are extremely quick to bloom mine was almost still a cutting during her first attempts. Granted, she drove me up the walls for months and months after that because she kept producing literally over a hundred new peduncles to only drop them, but a) at least she tried and b) that was a me-issue. I gave my mother a cutting and hers successfully bloomed on her first attempts.
Given what I see now on my rather well-established bella, it probably was the light as well. Before, she was in some distance under artificial light. And she loved it, grew like crazy. At some point she also finally successfully bloomed. And since the bella is generally said to be (relatively) low light (compared to other hoyas), I never thought that would be the issue.
*but* now she is bursting with peduncles. She is directly in my window. Of course that's only dreary northern German light most of the time, and apart from a 90 minute window not even remotely direct sun, but it's enough that the leaves are no longer dark green and have even produced some stress.
Add to that my mother's always blooming bella's prime spot in a bright window as well and the magnificent mother plant full of blooms in a south window, maybe you could try giving that one a bit more light.
Those blooms are to die for, and it's a great time for it to bloom. 🤞
All those other's are none I have real experience with, which again leads me to recommend the Vermonthoya site, if you are curious if those have some specific care needs or blooming triggers.
Good luck.
To give you hope, I'll look for a bella picture, so you can see the size at which it already could have bloomed (it it hadn't obviously chosen to torture me instead)
Ah. Carnosas (so I guess the at the very least related compacta) are famously late bloomers. 4-5 years upward is what I've read, at least. Which makes it so annoying that they are often traded as beginner hoyas to people who want blooms.
I think I've heard something similar about the pubicalyx, but since the sources on that weren't quite as abundant and reliable as those concerning the carnosa, treat this info with a grain of salt. But yeah, that was also the reason I was so happy about this bloom after just 1 1/2 (?) Years, because this one is a pub RHS x fungii hybrid, and I thought it would take its time.
The light sounds great for the carnosa since they also seem to need a lot of light to bloom. (Theoretical info, mine are still too young for me to have first-hand knowledge)
What does confuse me is the bella. They are extremely quick to bloom mine was almost still a cutting during her first attempts. Granted, she drove me up the walls for months and months after that because she kept producing literally over a hundred new peduncles to only drop them, but a) at least she tried and b) that was a me-issue. I gave my mother a cutting and hers successfully bloomed on her first attempts.
Given what I see now on my rather well-established bella, it probably was the light as well. Before, she was in some distance under artificial light. And she loved it, grew like crazy. At some point she also finally successfully bloomed. And since the bella is generally said to be (relatively) low light (compared to other hoyas), I never thought that would be the issue.
*but* now she is bursting with peduncles. She is directly in my window. Of course that's only dreary northern German light most of the time, and apart from a 90 minute window not even remotely direct sun, but it's enough that the leaves are no longer dark green and have even produced some stress.
Add to that my mother's always blooming bella's prime spot in a bright window as well and the magnificent mother plant full of blooms in a south window, maybe you could try giving that one a bit more light.
Those blooms are to die for, and it's a great time for it to bloom. 🤞
All those other's are none I have real experience with, which again leads me to recommend the Vermonthoya site, if you are curious if those have some specific care needs or blooming triggers.
Good luck.
To give you hope, I'll look for a bella picture, so you can see the size at which it already could have bloomed (it it hadn't obviously chosen to torture me instead)
@MusicalRedmint Oh my goodness, my Bella has some catching up to do! 😂
I did have to make a couple fresh starts with it. The first time I put it in dirt it declined. So I chopped and propped again.
This is its first spring in this spot and it’s putting out lots of new growth, so I’m hopeful! 🤞🏻
I did have to make a couple fresh starts with it. The first time I put it in dirt it declined. So I chopped and propped again.
This is its first spring in this spot and it’s putting out lots of new growth, so I’m hopeful! 🤞🏻
