Denise,
Not even a consideration...keep it!!! I've heard that polyneura was pretty hard to get blooms on, so that's a prize plant you got there. But that's just my opinion. I wish you luck either way...
Gabi

Oh gosh...that's an easy one! Keep it!! Maybe you should take more cuttings and then place them all in a pot together and sell the mother plant instead. ;)

I was just going to say you should take some more cuttings and sell the mother plant instead! I don't think I could bring myself to sell off a hoya with buds.

Oh my God I would "KEEP IT" .My Polyneura is a very slow grower,It is just starting to grow two new shoots after having it for 3 months so I would do the same as everyone else said, sell the mother plant..Hope you have a succesfull auction....Karen...

I would keep the flowering polyneura and divide the mother plants to sell part of it. Then you'll have your flowering baby plant and most of the mother plants.

Depends on how big the peduncles are.. Mine gets them all the time, but they never amount to anything...

I'm chewing my fingernails...what to DO! Well, I've got just about a month before the auction, so I guess I'll keep an eye out and see what happens with the mother plant. Like the rest of you, I'm not sure I could bear to part with one that's about to flower... without having had said flowers before! Ines, you dash my hopes! But I know what you mean - it's just the nature of some Hoyas to tease you several times before producing flowers. How long have you had your polyneura? I assume you mean that your peduncles start to develop, then blast? How far along do they get?

Denise in Omaha

I've had several polyneuras in different places for several years, and never got a bloom on any of them. Ha.
So I don't know what I would do either. However if you have a whole month...you should know by then if it is going to bloom or not. Quit worrying NOW..it's much too early. You will have an ulcer by the time of the auction & won't be able to go anyway.
Marcy

Tee hee, Marcy :) I'll just keep a close eye on both of them!

Denise in Omaha

Sorry Denise, I hate to be The Dasher of Hopes, but it is true that polynuera is a tough one to bloom, I hear it all the time...strange cause it roots so easily and grows so fast!

I will say one thing, and maybe you could tell by looking at yours, but the peduncles I get are VERY small - so small you may miss them, cause they are at the node between the leaves but on the underside. When I say small, I mean SMALL, teeny weeny tiny small. Way smaller than bella peduncles when they first appear. When I first noticed them, I had to get out the magnifying glass just to be sure they weren't just new shoots of foliage, and I have perfect eyesight, so imagine that small - I am starting to think of Steve Martin on the old Saturday Night Live episodes and his "This place is so small..." jokes - I think he even had an album called "Lets Get Small" Oh boy, I am really dating myself now.

Anyway, they are small. And they usually stay small. And then one day you wake up and they are gone, and if you look on the floor you will never find them, and you know why?? Cause they are just too darn small.

Are you getting the picture? If yours are bigger than what I have described above, then maybe there IS hope!!

Nope, Ines, they are itty-bitty right now. (Notice my optimistic "right now"?) I guess we'll see what happens. If it's that hard to bloom, I'll probably just go ahead and sell the rooted cutting. If there's someone out there who's gotten their's to bloom, maybe you could tell me how long it typically takes for the buds to develop.

Denise in Omaha

Denise, sad as it makes me say it, I get those peduncles on my polyneura too. I was going to cut mine and try and make the plant look a bit fuller but then it got those peduncles.. I waited and waited, but still nothing. I think it's lying! I might just cut it anyway, once I get my growtray set up once more.

Just thought I'd post a follow-up... I did go ahead and sell that polyneura. A few weeks before the sale (which was this last weekend...), I had to move it up to a 4" pot as it was constantly tipping over. Anyway, that little 4" pot with 4 rooted cuttings (which were quite healthy, mind you...) sold for $30 at the auction!! I had several other Hoyas (rooted cuttings) - kerrii, lacunosa, incurvula, wayetii, obovata, a couple australis ssp., and a couple Dischidias, a few succulents. I made enough money (escecially on the Hoyas...) I'm going to be a propogating fool next spring!!

Denise in Omaha

Just thought I'd post a follow-up... I did go ahead and sell that polyneura. A few weeks before the sale (which was this last weekend...), I had to move it up to a 4" pot as it was constantly tipping over. Anyway, that little 4" pot with 4 rooted cuttings (which were quite healthy, mind you...) sold for $30 at the auction!! I had several other Hoyas (rooted cuttings) - kerrii, lacunosa, incurvula, wayetii, obovata, a couple australis ssp., and a couple Dischidias, a few succulents. I made enough money (escecially on the Hoyas...) I'm going to be a propogating fool next spring!!

Denise in Omaha

Hey, that sounds good! I hope that the mother plant will decide to do something more for you than sit there and grow a bit and produce peduncles that yellow and fall off... keep trying to convince mine that it wants to flower, even have it growing in the bathroom... we will see!