This is my Hoya Archiboldiana. It came as a small planted plant and has been living in my "incubator" getting a good misting several times a day. Our home is not heated in the summer and runs 50 to 70 degrees. No direct sun as it is cloudy everyday and averages 75 - 100% humidity. The plant arrived very healthy looking (a few leaves got crunched but very healthy) and remains even better looking after 2 months in the incubator.

I would rather not replant: the bottom inch is the hydropon clay balls and the dirt is orchid bark, coal, potting soil, perlite and some peat moss.

Just find a pretty pot I can put this home depot paint container inside of, or should it be repotted?

Thanks for the help - Robin

I like the idea of using a small, vertical greenhouse to keep them moist. Is that how you use it for them? Keep it closed all the time and opening it only when you need to water or chesk on them?

Hi Robin, Thank you for your kind words! Welcome to the Hoya addiction, you have great set up there and all the Hoyas looks great! I would change to a smaller pot(4") for that archiboldiana, are there drainage in that container? I would be careful using peat moss in the mix.

I agree with mimalf, that is a really good idea.

Robin, You don't have to move to smaller pot but it takes lot longer to fill that pot with the roots. The plant will use so much energy to fill the pot, no time to flower. Some Hoyas like to be root bound to flower.

Robin, I feel for you. I grew up with ONE, came here as a lurker for input when it became entrusted to my once black thumb, and the next thing I know all these wonderful folks sucked me in, and I have 12 hoyas and some 30 other houseplants. Hoping to add a few more before the growing season is over. I will have to look for a greenhouse set up like yours, could be a huge help for mine come winter time. Fortunately our winters in Spokane are shorter than yours! There is a gal in the succulent forum who grows jades in Siberia, if she can pull that off so can we with our hoyas. ;)

Robin, your plants look great! I've been growing Archiboldiana for 1.5 years and yours looks better than mine!! Lol. Welcome !!

my mom has H. Carnosa Rope. When I found out there was others I had to have them!! It's nice to meet you. I've traveled to Alaska 1 time and maybe going back this fall. I loved it there, Very beautiful state!!

Teisa (TN)

Kim - right back at you for being sucked into this site. I have never joined or read a forum, decided to look at growing hoyas and ended up reading this site daily for months. Just like you - I am hooked.

Teisa - thanks for the compliment but I have only owned the Archiboldiana for 6 weeks. Gardino Nursery sent it like this. It has a new leaf on it too. Love Alaska and just recently visited TN (my daughter got her PhD this spring). What a beautiful state as well. We will fill them both with hoyas and they will even be more beautiful.

Robin

Hello all!!)

I was wondering why you use baggies or feel the need to increase humidity? I have never had to do that although the only time of the year I do root anything is spring, summer especially, or fall..I hear you about the Hoya bug! I caught that because of this site.lol

Now I won't even begin to tell you what the 'houseplant,citrus,fig,fragrant,or cactus and succulent' forums have done to me..I think I am overdosed...Beautiful plants and good job by the way)

mikerno - I read on this site that rooting takes place a little faster with higher humidity. I was just trying to increase my chances. 40 baggies was a lot to tie up and untie everyday, but my little incubator seems to be doing the job. I am not really sure i need it where i live, but it also increased the tempature a little so that is always a good thing where I live.

As far as another forum - never again. I could not afford it - ha. I like to quilt so between these 2 hobbies I use up all my spare time and make beautiful things. One day i will post a picture of one of my blooms. How many hoyas do you have? I just read on another thread today - some people have 200+. i can totally see how that happens. Yikes.

Robin

Robin, that's a good question..I think I have well over 25, but not sure..I should take a count and see how many I have. You know, my very first Hoya was handed to me by a friend that was passing away with cancer at the time..She was only 40\. That thing grew so big, it had to be hund at work in front of very huge windows loaded with blooms every spring. I had to leave it there when I left that company and it died..Fortunetly I took a cutting and it has yet to flower, but it smells so good when it does, Then I found this forum, thinking there was only couple kinds of Hoya that smelled good, just to found out there were thousands and a person named Joni sold all kinds of them. That is when my wallet began to feel the pinch and my spending habits spiraled out of control, that is until I met a couple of wonderful group of freinds here that were willing to share the plants..Let me tell you, once you become close friends with a person here that has countless of Hoya, beware, you need to make lots of room because your desire to have one you thought you had has to be in your collection..lol It never ends!

Want to laugh? I just finsished rooting several of them sticking them into my Bark Mulch in my flower beds! Now I have I dig them out and replant into pots..It only took about 2 weeks for those to root..

It seems that if I want to root anything, like gardenia, jasmine, banana, Hoya, succulents, figs, rare tree clippings and so on, all have to do is stick them in mulch in my garden and waer every day in this heat.