Queen, nice photos of your babies. All your plants look healthy & happy.

Jan

Quinn, thanks for sharing your hoyas...everything looks nice and healthy!

"I can't wait until these get to be bigger, fuller plants"color>

LOL...you might be regretting those words soon...be careful what you wish for :o) You will be rearranging or removing furniture to make room for your bigger hoyas(ha!). Enjoy them while they're small...Kidding aside I know what you mean...I wouldn't even mind if they didn't grow too big, if I just saw an occasional bloom now and then. Guess that's why I usually get hoyas for their leaves...since that's what I'll be looking at everyday.

Quinn,
Lovely plants in a very inviting and cozy corner!
Happy growing!,,,,Debbie

Quin,

Very lovely plants and I really like your plant corner.

Congrats and can't wait to see future pix.

Nae boston

Nice pictures quinn, I'm going thru the same growing pains, I'm trying to figure out how I can rearrange my office to get my huge plant stand in there. The window in there gets morning sun and come winter their gonna need all the help I can give them.

The shelf is full now and I have 6 more hoyas coming in the next week.

I best get busy huh. . .

Very beautiful quinnfyre!!! Do you use artificial light too?

I know what you mean about "gonna need all the help I can give them" maid. I was just saying in another post that it has been like late October here in Southeast Wisconsin for the last week or so and won't get back into the 70's until Thursday and then just barely. Uggggggghhhh!!!

Tish

Tish...here in Michigan we're experiencing the same weather...lows in the upper 30's...and the highs are too low to even open doors and windows. The strangest summer I've ever experienced! To make it worse, not only is it cold, but wet and cloudy everyday. Yes, Pug...send some warmth and sun up here in the north. How is it in MN, Mike?

Thanks everyone! I spend a lot of time in my crappy castoff office chair, picking up and watering all those plants. I was originally going to get rid of the chair, but I need a swiveling chair in that space to access everything properly. So it stays with me for now. Hey, I didn't say I wanted them to get big enough to take over the world ; ) Just big enough to fill out and start thinking about blooming. Or at least more leaves. I think I have enough space for them to spread out at the moment, and I will be training them onto some sort of support, hoop or trellis. That's why I rearranged. A bunch of them were originally on the top shelf, which is shorter. I moved some violets up, an orchid over, and put the hoyas on the taller shelf, which is also the shelf that gets better sunlight. No lights at the moment, except for a bit of spilloff from the orchid case and African violet propagation shelf, which to me doesn't really count. I am thinking of giving them some supplemental lighting this winter, but not sure what form it will take yet. I did however line the bottom of each shelf with aluminum foil to reflect light back downward. It was an experiment to see if it made a difference. I think it did, so I'll be replacing it with Mylar at some point.

Does kerrii grow at a snail's pace? I've been looking at the same little nubbin of a new leaf for weeks now. All the other hoyas have pushed out decent sized baby leaves in that amount of time, but kerrii's is still just the tiniest little green speck. It is your plain old green kerrii.

Beautiful healthy plants, that Hoya subcalva is really tempting me.

Mike

OK someone, is the Hoya publicalyx 'Chimera' just another name for one of the publicalyx or is this one I need to have. I just love the publicalyx.

Thanks,

Dee

I think it is another name for RHP. I want to see what it looks like when it blooms though. Which will probably not be for a very long time. It is currently in a 2in pot, if that gives you an idea of how small it is.

Patrick,
It's the same here in MN - very cool. The low last night was 46°F, which is a bit too cool for some of the hoyas.
I don't put many hoya out for the summer, so I need to bring them in so they don't get frosted one of these nights. (:o( As expensive as these plants are, I'd hate to lose one due to my foolishness, rather than my lack of proper cultural conditions! (:o)
Mike in MN

Thanks Mike...this morning I went outside to water some plants...I think I need to move them indoors...I could see my breathe!! This is more like early December! I love cold weather...but, I'd like alot more sunshine than what we've had this summer....so drab and dreary. Patrick

Patrick,
Yes, I could see my breath outside this morning, too. It's just a little too cool for me. I love the warm weather. I'm not looking forward to winter at all.

I have ordered so many hoyas this year I don't know what I'm going to do with all of them when I have to pot them up and find window space for them. I guess my eyes were larger than my windows. (it's not the first time this has happened and I'm sure it won't be the last!)
Mike in MN

Dee,

Like Quinn says, I also think Chimera is another name for RHP...here's a pic of my very first RHP bloom from a couple of months ago. Its actually pretty similar to my Pink Silver blooms. I'm hoping the next ones will be a little darker? I'll see if it is?

Mike and Patrick...please let me send you guys some of our heat and sun...you in turn can send us some of your cooler weather. I'm ready for a break,lol....

I was cold here in MO this morning too. I took a few hours off work so I could do a deep clean on my living room and bring some of my hoyas in from the greenhouse. I am not going to heat it this year, just moving everything back indoors, maybe next year. I figured that I needed to hurry it up and move them in before I made the mistake of something dying. (someone mentioned that above.)

shanna

Queen,
Great looking hoyas, they are a great shade of green. I have noticed some of my hoyas are lighter green/yellowish from all the sun in my greenhouse. Kinda ugly but I have had alot more blooms this year.

shanna

Subcalva has awesome huge leaves. The newer leaves it arrived with have grown quickly into big leaves that are only smaller than my kerrii's leaves at the moment. I don't know if they're done growing yet either. I got it for the famed grape scented blossoms, but am loving it for the plant itself because the form and the leaves are so nice. I'd wholeheartedly recommend it.

Pottsii seems to have shot up a 6 in vine out of nowhere. The last time I remember looking at it carefully, it was a little nubbin just starting to peep out. Tanna Island did not miss a beat and has been growing well in the week or so that I've had it. Usually new hoyas drop a leaf or abort new leaves right after I receive them in shipping, and I take that as a matter of course. Tanna Island doesn't seem to have cared one bit. And I'm finding buotii to be a gorgeous plant. These guys are surprising me. Yay hoyas!

I was freezing last night too. It was warm during the day, and I was dressed for that when I left for work. The walk home though was quite chilly. I had to book it just to warm up. Wasn't ready for that.

Kerrii's new leaf nubbin grew another millimeter, hooray! Ha ha.