CONGRATULATIONS Denise!!! I'm going to have to remember that for future reference. You are always a great source of information!

Tish

I agree, great info! Cool things always happens in your greenhouse! Will be keeping fingers crossed for you.

BTW, just another point that may have made a difference... I was utterly frustrated with the plant and decided to put it amongst a lot of my big, sun-loving plants in the south window of the GH at the beginning of the winter. So it's been getting full sun (well, on days we actually HAVE sun!) So either it was just ready to get going, finally, or the full sun made a difference. Maybe someone who grows caudata well can chime in and tell us how much sun they give theirs so I know whether to leave it in full sun or back off on the sun as spring approaches...

Denise in Omaha

Congratulations on the new Hoya caudata growth Denise. I have had my Hoya caudata for the same amount of time an it is a slow one so don't feel bad. My plant was one stem about three feet long with seven leaves until it started another vine from the base earlier this week. There are three peduncles on my plant now so at least that proves that it does not need to be large to flower. I find this one very easy to damage due to the rough stems and I have killed the new growth more times than I want to admit.

Mike

Thanks for the "heads up" on it being prone to damage, Mike. What exposure do you grow yours in?

Denise in Omaha

Hi Denise, I received a two leaf newly rooted Caudata cutting last year(Oct.08) It was "painfully" slow growing hoya for me. It took 5 months or so before it started to put out a new leaf, only to die shortly after. Took another month or two and finally started growing and now has 6-8 leaves. I have mine in full sun in(winter)in front of a south window about a foot away for 3-4 hours a day. In summer I have it in a bright, indirect light because I have sunburned one of the leaves before when I accidentally left it in full FL summer sun :o(

Hope one day soon to see a bloom like Mike.

Denise those rough stems always seem to snag on other plants so I have learned to be extra careful when I move this one. I have been happy in that new leaves seem to grow from along the stem every so often because the cutting I got was quite bare for the first year. It sounds like both Puglvr and I are growing our plants in very similar conditions. I have mine on a light stand about three feet back from a large south facing window. Bright light that is filtered through the plants set in front next to the window.

Pug there are some buds forming on two peduncles right now but I have a bad habit of missing these ones because they open flat and have a short life. I should get a photo of the buds as they develop because they are a very cool looking spindle shape.

Mike

Congrats, Denise! That's exciting! Caudata is one slow-growing hoya, but I love the leaves! I have 2 - 1 from a trade and 1 from DL. The two are vastly different in the size of the leaves. The one from the trade gets southern exposure with protection from a sheer curtain and has put on two leaves in the past 10 months or so. The other currently has an eastern exposure and has put out a vine, but no new leaves.

Mike, do you have buds on the peduncles yet? That's VERY exciting!

Also meant to add, I totally agree with you, Denise about not giving up on a hoya! I've had two now that have come back from no roots and no leaves! In both cases it was literally MONTHS before roots and leaves started to form. In fact I have one now with just one little leaf - at some point the tag went missing and I don't have a clue what it is...although I keep hoping it lambii....

Kelly

Exciting Mike...would love to see a pic of your buds.

Kelly, congrats on getting leafless and rootless stem to eventually grow, good news indeed. Keeping fingers crossed its lambii for you.

Good job Denise, I swear you could grow a string in a concrete slab. . . lol.

I have a nummulariodes I am nursing right now. I got it from Gardino's and It wasn't very healthy when I got it. But it's lost almost all it's leaves, and the ones that are still there are pretty shriveled up. I WAS going to give up on it, but I heard this little voice in the back of my head. . . 'don't give up on it, theres a chance it may pull thru' which are your words. . . lol.

Hopefully I can report here one day about my near death experiance with the same good results.

Maid~

Debi,

I don't grow numm well either. Not so far, anyway. Mine has dehydrated leaves, too. It actually did bloom last spring, but it just doesn't look healthy. It's one I'll probably give away this spring to someone who will have a better chance of getting it to come back...

I was just admiring the itty-bitty growth on my caudata and discovered a second stem sprouting from another "stump". I didn't even know that stump was in there - it had apparently died back before I got it, so it must have started out as three little plants originally. I find it interesting, though, that I've got these two little sprigs of growth coming from the old stumps and nary a growth nubbin' coming from the one that has two healthy leaves. Hmmm...

Denise in Omaha

Denise, well. . . just maybe the caudata will become one of your favorites, since you gave it life. . new life. I really am happy for you, you must feel overjoyed.

I moved my hoya that's suffereng into a room with full sun(south) and I wlll keep an eye on the water, sparingly, so I don't kill it with kindness, and hopefully I will see new growth too. I did take all the cuttings form this that I could, and like you cut it down to the soil line. I'd really like bring this plant back, it's such a nice plant. I looked back at the picture I took when I first got it, it just makes me sick. . . but keeping my fingrs crossed for a full recovery.

congrats again Denise,
maid~

Denise, I think your caudata has decided to call your place home. I love it when that happens.

I have a numm cutting, two leaves at one end, and the rest, just stem. I wasn't sure it was going to do much, but just this past month, it gave me a new leaf! It is in my rooting terrarium right now. It stays moist pretty much all the time, and I try to keep the humidity in there around 50-60%. Does this mean that numm doesn't like to dry out? I don't know much about it, and I was kinda being cautious about getting too attached to it while it was in its 'could go either way' stage.

My heuschkeliana cutting looked to me like it wasn't going to make it for a while, as the leaves shriveled up quite a bit, but you could almost see the moment it developed roots. It rehydrated nicely and is now also putting out new growth. I'm excited because it is the yellow form, which appeals to me a lot for some reason.

I will have to try and see if I can revive my pottsii, then. I had pretty much given up on it, but if one can get leafless stumps to put out growth, then there may be hope for it yet! Because that is what it is now: leafless, and sad : (

Hi Quinn,

Heuschkeliana was like for me at the beginning, too. It took it quite a long time to root, and then it did nothing for a year. Then it put on some growth, but not much. It was the next year that it really started to grow. It's still a little thing, in a 3.5" pot, but has grown a LOT. And it bloomed last year. It's worth the work!!

Denise in Omaha

The both of you did better rooting Heuschkeliana than me. I got it at end of Aug and it just sat there and did nothing. Then in Nov it yellowed and died .At the same time I got a rooted yellow Heussckeliana it seems happy but also no new growth.It looks like this one needs time to adjust before it starts to grow.

Cindy