I have bought quite a few hoyas from ebay. I've had mostly good experiences. Boy, do I wish I bought from you! So nice of you to send all those extra cuttings.

As for packaging, I'm no pro, but from what I've received (and I also just sent out some packages)....you can wrap the cut end with a moist paper towel and then cover that part with a baggy or saran wrap. Then wrap loosely in newspaper and tape it closed. Then fill in the box with crumpled newspaper. Some people also put the cutting/s in a ziplock bag, spray a little spritz of water into the bag, and fill it with some air before closing it. Then fill the box with crumpled newspaper. I'd use Priority mail so it gets there faster...and it's pretty inexpensive (around $4 to send a thin box if the contents are under 1 lb, and the box is free). Overnight shipping would cost way too much, and it's not necessary this time of year.

Good luck! And I hope you hear back from your buyer.

Gabi

I did use priority mail. I love priority mail, and the free boxes. Free shipping material? Oh heck yeah.

I can't wait to see how these cuttings came through. Next time I'll have try another method. I think that these cuttings should have been fine, based on my experiences with hoya cuttings (I once forgot a dischidia 'pebble beach' cutting in my pocket for over three days,.. found it when I went to do laundry, threw it on a pot full of H. carnosa,.. forgot about it again, and the darn thing still rooted. Amazing!
I sell under the name of ultasol on ebay. The auction went for $15, and there were some difficulties with paypal on the buyers end, so I felt like she really deserved a little extra.
If you have it to share, why not send someone a box that will put a smile on their face?

I know there are some hoyas that are hard to root... which ones are more difficult?

Someone got a whole load of extras when they paid for one item on Ebay!
I have to say, sometimes additional extras are great, other times they're not so useful. I got sent a Lipstick Vine that I didn't really want and to this day I still want to throw the damn thing away, but I can't because it's a living thing... perhaps I should try and re-sell it on ebay!

Most of the cuttings I make these days I pre-root in a Jiffy 7 pellet and send the plant out still rooted in that. I recommend to my buyers to remove the pellet because it tends to retain water, not good for the hoya, but they root well in them. They all go in baggies, easy to identify then. Any straight cuttings get wrapped in damp tissue paper and put in baggies.

A warning about ebay - someone hacked into my account the other day and tried to sell a load of items. Very scary, but thankfully I managed to sort it out fairly quickly. PLEASE, please check any emails purporting to be from ebay for authenticity.

Hills

I have had a lot of success selling hoyas and a few other things on Ebay. I usually don't start until the weather is warm in all parts of the US so I don't worry about anything freezing on someones porch. I usually just pack in newspapers. I have sold plants already rooted by packing paper towels around the soil and taping it on. Then wrapping the whole thing in newspaper or a paper sleave and packing newspaper around it. Cuttings really do not have to be bagged. In fact, if you get too much water in the baggie, they will rot. Hoya cuttings seem to last a long time just wrapped in some slightly damp newspaper or paper towel, then dry paper around them and loosely packed. Or you can wrap the cut end in something damp and just pack the rest in dry paper. Never label the package "Plants" as some states do not allow you to send plants without inspection.

Also...Hills is very right about a lot of bogus emails one will get pretending to be Ebay people trying to find out info, etc. Never believe anything you get as an email from Ebay without just going to their site for the info.

Selling on Ebay can be a fun and profitable experience.
Try writing to that person again to see if they got your very generous package. I always acknowledge people and let them know when something is sent and received. Maybe they just forgot.
Marcy

I just received a lacunosa through eBay. I also received a bonus cutting of DK-2. Can some one tell me what this is? Thanks.

gootziecat

Well, I heard back from the lady. Turns out it was the first time she had made an ebay purchase, and she was so delighted with her package she is now bidding on a philodendron cutting I have up. She says the cuttings all look absolutely fantastic.
Seems like my ebay experiment was a success.

What is DK-2 pls., I've never heard of it, is that supposed to be some type of Hoya?

I also received some cuttings of "DK-2" as a bonus to a Hoya Mindorensis. I think the seller calls it that because it hasn't been identified yet (might just be her own name for it). It is very similar to Hoya nummularioides but has a lot of reddish color (mostly on the back of the leaves). The leaves are also pubescent ("fuzzy") like H. numm. She told me it doesn't drop its peduncles after flowering like H. numm does (supposedly...mine hasn't bloomed yet so I wouldn't know if the peduncles fall off of H. numm), it has more flowers per umbel and the blooms last longer, there are 2 umbels per node, and the leaves are larger than H. numm.
She also said that some sellers sell "DK-2" as Hoya numm. I noticed a similarity right away, and thought I had a different variation of H. numm (sorry about the abbreviation, but too annoying to spell!).
I absolutely love this hoya...I hope I can root the cuttings! Here is a pic of the foliage:

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Gabi, there are two types of nummularioides out there, yours looks like one of them. This has been discussed on another forum a couple times, if I remember correctly here are the differences - the one you are showing here is a dangly twining version, whereas the other is woodier. Yours has olive green/red tinged foliage, the other is darker green. Yours may bloom from August to Nov on the same peduncles, and the other only blooms in or near Oct and the peduncles drop after blooming.

I have the drker green version, but believe I saw this one in a casino lobby in Atlantic City, growing at the base of another plant...of course some cuttings "fell" off and I was nice enough to pick them up and bring them home, they rooted in water and died when I planted them. Chris at HoyasRUs is the one I got this info from, she said that the darker green nummularioides color sets the flowers off better. I don't care about that, I would get this one if I could, I love nummularioides - there is also a version out there with yellow coronas, I am looking for that one too and am willing to trade my first born for it if anyone is interested.

Anyway, IF that is what you have there, get it growing so we can see some flowers! And get some cuttings!

LOL...how nice of you to pick up those poor casino cuttings ;)

Thanks for the info. Well, I hope I can grow this one. I haven't had much luck with nummularioides (my other one...the greener one....just died on me).
I hope I have luck with this one...I will certainly show blooms when/if I get them. And Ines, if I get this plant big enough, I'll be sure to pot some up in a plant in AC for ya ;)

Sounds good - I have a 4" pot of 3 rooted nummularioides cuttings (drk green)thats been growing since last summer, and already have a huge plant of the same, so maybe in time we can trade. I usually let this plant get dry all the way thru before watering, it seems to be happy that way, I have never lost a leaf.

Honestly, I'm quite happy with just one nummularioides...they don't seem to like me very much! But if I can get this thing growing I will be sure to send you a cutting (no trade necessary). And hopefully it will have your yellow coronas...and I'll even let you keep your first born :-)

I think your new one has the same pink flowers as the dk green - one of their flowers is "hairier" but I forget which.
Did you keep your nummularioides too wet? That could be it. It really is such a slow grower, though. I was lucky to find a full pot last year...

I actually kept it pretty dry, because I had read that it likes to be on the dry side. Not sure what caused its demise. I'm having the same sort of bad luck with my calycina now...leaves have been yellowing and then dropping since the day I got it. I guess we all have certain Hoyas that just don't do well for us.

yeah, I have heard that said, that we all have certain hoyas that don't do well for us - but I really don't think it's a personal thing, do you? Maybe your conditions aren't right for it, or you got a bad cutting. They don't all make it, that's for sure. I have had a plant or two that did fine for years and then up and died on me, which is even worse. Have you tried reading up on calycina?

Yeah, I've read up on calycina...I'm at a loss with that one. I keep that one on the dry side too. Good question about whether it's a personal thing (maybe I just don't know how to care for those hoyas)...not too sure. And not too sure if it has to do with conditions either. Maybe it's the actual plants I received (I think they were from different sellers). But there are a few people on here that have mentioned that they've had bad luck with certain hoyas on multiple occasions, so who knows!

Well, I sort of agree with that "superstition" but then I don't - there are certainly people who with very little effort have lush and beautiful plants and flowers, and then I, for example, have no trouble with some plants, but kill every ficus tree I have ever had in my life...but I don't know, do plants really sense the difference between owners? Maybe it is a combination of things, a weak cutting or lack of humidity, forgetting to water or watering too much...

There is a book called "The Secret Life of Plants", written in the 70's, that claimed that plants really had feelings and recognized people and even knew when a nearby plant was being harmed - they actually hooked a plant up to a lie detector and then burned another nearby plant's leaf with a match and the plant that was hooked up responded! Really "trippy" stuff but made you think - they ARE alive, right? So who knows Gabi- maybe generations of the calcyina variety have it out for you for some reason, maybe you were a little rainforest monkey in a previous life and they were your favorite plant to munch on...If we look at it from that point of view, like a buddhist, you may be doomed to never have a nice hoya calcyina.

I have been studying since 4pm and I think I better go to bed, I am starting to feel delirious.

I wouldn't doubt that I was a hoya eatin' monkey in my past life!

That's really freaky about the lie detector test...I need to read that book. Now you just scared me....that calycina is going out of my bedroom NOW.

Iris600. As a BUYER on EBay..I have gotten many very good hoyas and other plants there. I have had little success SELLING my rare or hard to get plants...as rooted cuttings or growing small plants. So I stick to buying. As for not hearing from the buyer. MOST buyers seem to be rude and dont leave you feedback or tell you anything unless there is a problem. As a Buyer, now only leave feedback if the seller leaves it first, and I email them and tell them I will leave positive feedback IF they leave it first. Because I am tired of MY number not going up...yet they get my feedback and their number goes up! So..as a BUYER I have pretty good luck. As a seller, little luck. It sounds like you went out of your way to pack and send your package. Let it go..you could leave them feedback if you care to. But I wouldn't. You arent going to get any it sounds like.

Floridabear,

This was actually a thread I dredged up when I was looking up "DK-2". I saw that someone was asking what it was and if it was a hoya, so I was giving some info on it. As for Iris600, if you read the thread, you'll see that she already heard from the buyer and everything went well.

I've sent out two packages (of plants) thus far in my plant selling efforts. The first person liked the package enough to leave me feedback *and* bid on the next auction I put up. The second I haven't heard from yet, but I only sent the package last week.

I've purchased gesneriads and orchids over the internet... it seems to work well for me.