Randi, same care as others but one's with the succulent leaves like little drier.

I treat all of mine the same..I did find that some do not like cool temps in winter, so as a general rule. I keep them all in the home with warm temps in good sun light or under trees in dabbled light, or in areas where they only get morning or late afternoon sun. None of mine are kept in full after nooon sun...They get very light leaves and sometimes burn...They are also allowed to dry out before their next watering..For me the key is to flush them often and keep the leaves clean of dust..

Thank you, guys! That's how I treat my other hoyas, so I should, I hope, be able to grow this one.

Obovata is awesome! One of my old favorites. Is yours the standard (older leaves super succulent...) or the silver flecked (which seems to have less succulent leaves, and lots of pretty splotching...)?

Denise in Omaha

It's not the new variegated type, but it does have some speckling on the leaves, Denise.

I didn't know there were two types. I wonder what mine is?

But since I am now on a different device (the one I used to complain about all the time....yeah, it went to salt water heaven Saturday night) so now I can't post pictures.

Wow! Is that one cutting or more than one in the same pot?

The pot looks so full, but then again so does my reverted carnosa but that's just because I have like three cuttings and a bunch of loose leaves rooted in a 3" clay pot lol. I also took the new growth and swirled it around and pinned the little root nodes to some substrate.

im so sad I can't post pictures anymore.

Oh, I love the variegated one! So pretty! And yes my plant is, I think he said, either two or three cuttings in a 4" pot. Seeing more mature obovatas, now I can't wait until mine gets bigger. They're so attractive.

Randi, are you getting your obovata from the cowboyflowerman on ebay? I saw some gorgeous Hoyas on his listing.

Yes, I am! I love his plants, and have been ordering plants from him for years.

Oh good! That means he really had nice plants, for a collector to be such a loyal customer! How are they doing in transportation all the way from FL?

CBFM is where I got a lot of my Hoyas in the beginning. I should go take a gander and see if he has anything I don't already have because I was always very happy with his plants!

Denise in Omaha

Denise, how did you come across that obovata/carnosa? Did you breed its seed?

Agreed, CBFM has awesome plants.Mimalf, I don't remember but maybe one plant in all these years that has arrived even a bit wilted from him. And that one perked up in no time! They seem to have no trouble traveling from FL to CA, although sometimes it takes up to 4 days!

Thanks Randi. So you're in CA too? N or S?

is obovata a really aggressive climber?

Southern California, high desert area. What area are you from? I grew up in the Ontario/Montclair/Upland area, and moved here 23 years ago.

We lived for more than 9 years in Chino-Ontario area and moved in Riverside last year. Oh wait, it's been an year already! Last week!

Only an hour away from me! Yes, we do have very dry weather, don't we? Very low humidity. It has it's positives and negatives, but I can't tolerate humidity, so I guess S. California is the place for me to be!

Same here, haha! Too bad so many plants need high humidity to thrive... :(

Maybe we can exchange some cuttings. Do you know about the Hoya groups on FB, or the Plant Exchange group for Inland Empire? We have fun there. :)

No, I'm not aware of the groups. I've only gotten "into" hoyas in the last few weeks or so. I wish I had plants big enough to be able to take cuttings. Most of mine are small. The only large is a common carnosa. I struggle with plants because of the climate, but I don't give up! I'm going to check out FB for hoyas and Plant Exchange for Inland Empire right now! Thanks!

Can anyone answer Stacy Hikari's question?

I've not had mine long enough to know!

Its okay, i was trying to identify a mystery hoya and obovata was on my short list. turns out its an australis. the reason i asked is this thing will entwine anything had to move it 4 times in 5 days. but thanks for bumping my question. :)

No problem, didn't want you to be lost in the flurry of notifications. I miss posts all the time on really active threads that I don't pick up on til later (or the person was editing it and it wasn't viewable to me at the time lol).

Like Denise did with my question lol.

fair enough, but its nice to have a busy & active forum to talk about our lovely Hoya

Absolutely!

im trying to trick my obovata to put its aerial roots into a piece of TP that I've loosely folded around the stem where the aerial nubs are and put some hydroponic rooting super duper something kind of liquid that I got for free, so I'm gonna use it on my non-food plants. Sorry for the run on sentence.