Should I cut this completely colorless branch off?
Not sure if this is normal since the rest of the plant is greenish pink?
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@Morgan3300 You can if you really want to, but you don’t have to. krimson queen hoya, right? I like to think of all-variegated stems like that as the plants way of saying, “wow thank you for all this light! The green stem(s) have so much chlorophyll that we can afford an all variegated stem like this!”
So just be careful to never decrease their light, because the white stem will be the first to be sacrificed if the plant, as a whole, isn’t producing enough chlorophyll. 😅 And you might already know this, but don’t try to propagate the fully variegated stem, it wont work 🙃
What I might suggest to fill out the top of the pot and get more stems going, is to maybe take a couple cuttings from the stem/s that have green on them too, and pot them back into the soil when they’ve got roots. Or, you could just pot the cuttings into the soil and soil prop them. Honestly, for hoyas, that’s my preferred method and doesn’t involve lots of steps, or changing out water! 💦
So just be careful to never decrease their light, because the white stem will be the first to be sacrificed if the plant, as a whole, isn’t producing enough chlorophyll. 😅 And you might already know this, but don’t try to propagate the fully variegated stem, it wont work 🙃
What I might suggest to fill out the top of the pot and get more stems going, is to maybe take a couple cuttings from the stem/s that have green on them too, and pot them back into the soil when they’ve got roots. Or, you could just pot the cuttings into the soil and soil prop them. Honestly, for hoyas, that’s my preferred method and doesn’t involve lots of steps, or changing out water! 💦
@Morgan3300 my pleasure! ☺️
