Tracy,

Just keep doing what you're doing. Sooner or later, I'm sure you'll get regular variegated growth. I know how utterly painful it is to clip new growth off a plant, but you're doing the right thing. As you said, if it was a mature plant, I wouldn't fret about one all-white vine. But under these circumstances, I would do the same thing.

Denise in Omaha

Speaking personally, I just don't do this, I've never found it a problem & I LIKE those white/pink leaves. That said, I inherited a rather old & woody KQ, which threw a whole white branch which was half the plant, so I left it on.

Personally, I'd leave them be, let the cutting leaf out & get better established. Then when it throws a new branch or separate new stem I'd cut the white off if you still feel you must.

I also leave them alone, they are one of my favorite things about this hoya. I have an old old tricolor in hydroculture that I have kind of neglected over the years and recently started nurturing again - well, it put out three white leaves in a row and now is turning out the green and white again. I also have a large hanging tricolor, with functioning peduncles, on a vine with all white leaves.

The reasons for removing them are valid, but I leave them alone cause I like them.

I have a couple other KQ's with white leaves that I have left on, but those plants are growing well, the only reason I cut them off this one is because it only has two green leaves, so for it to have three white leaves, it just seems to stop growing after that. I want it to get a bit bigger before I start leaving white leaves.
Tracy

I also never remove white leaves. I think they are really neat. I see the "scientific" reason behind taking them off, but I just LOVE those pure white leaves.

If it was a more rare hoya that you were "experimenting" with, I'd say don't take a chance at this stage since it's just a cutting. But KQ's are so common, and you also mentioned that you have a few others. Why not experiment with this one and see if you can actually get a mainly white-leafed plant? You never know! And if it grows very slowly because of the white leaves, I would think it's worth it...right?

Anyway, up to you. But maybe the plant is trying to tell you something, since it keeps growing the white leaves despite your efforts to get rid of them!

I'm attaching a link to a gallery post from Leon with a really cool picture of white leaf growth on a KQ...and he actually got flowers on that stem!

Gabi

Here is a link that might be useful: White-leafed stem with an umbel

Well since you put it that way Gabro....lol, maybe I will just leave them and see what happens. I, like you and PG and ines love the white leaves, I think they are so cool......so maybe, only because I have other KQ's, I will leave them and see what happens.....I am afraid it will pop out a few more white leaves then stop growing, as the white leaves take so much energy from the plant.

Tracy