Unbelievably beautiful. The leaves are such a unique healthy green. Love the veins in them. Nice job

robin

So pretty, Jimmy!

Wow! Beautiful Jimmy. How long did you have the plant before it bloomed for you?

Thanks everyone!these are 2 year old cuttings I took from a large hanging basket of polyneura I bought back at Lowes years ago.The basket died,but was able to get these cuttings to bloom!

Love the leaves of the Perak! I may have to be on the watch for that one!

Denise in Omaha

What Denise said! Is it fragrant, Jimmy?

Thanks!No smell as of yet.It appears there are not too many photos of this hoya in flower.The Thailand hoya club has photos of this along with Epiphytica's site.Same #SR-2009-003 but the pics of the blooms show a different color corona.One is red in the center like mine and the other totally cream color...strange.

Once again, I am so taken by the leaves! One day I will post a bloom myself. Those are beautiful!

robin

I love all the hoya blooms! Fragrant or not.

Thank you for giving me hope on this two polyneura plants i have.

No problem...take a few cuttings and root them in your mix and see whats happens.When rooting in winter,bottom heat,12 or more hours of supplemental light and humidity works best.

I too struggled with the EPC-966 Hoya sp. Perak but my story ended sadly...I lost it :0(. But now that I see the photo of the blooms...it appears very similar to my H. sp. Lata Iskandar which I've grown for quite some time now. No red corona spotted but this could just be a sport of the same species?

Hi Joni!You are prob right.I believe both plants were collected in Perak.I'm glad the one I got from Epiphytica is the one I wanted!I saw the flowers on his home page and had to order it.I'm always up for a trade when the weather gets warmer!I have a few the are on your retired page.I may place one more order with them in the spring,but it will prob be my last..no more room!lol Here is a nice close up pic of the flowers.

H elliptical just opened its buds this evening!First time blooming inside with 35%humidity.I thought this hoya needed more humidity to set buds,but I guess not.I have it in a self watering planter under 12 hours of just led lights.

Jimmy, your plants are just gorgeous! Thanks for posting those pictures.

H. sp. SR-2009-003 and elliptica are both at the top of my want list. Does sp. SR-2009-003 have any special requirement for growing?

Also, which elliptica is this one (accession/catalog #)?

Thanks!I ordered this one from SRQ a few years ago.It is either clone a or b...prob the easier one to grow since I lost the other one last summer.I let H. sp. SR-2009-003dry out between watering and have it in a net pot with another pot around it so the edges of the net pot don't get too dry.The hardest part was reviving it after the trip from Thailand.With elliptica ,I have it in a fast draining mix in a self watering pot.You don't want this one to get bone dry because the roots will die fast.That's what happened to the other one i had.Some of the roods died from lack of water,and when i watered it again the dead roots rotted and eventually spread through the whole plant pretty quickly.My remaining one is doing great,but I'm gonna take a few cutting to root soon just in case.I can give you one in the spring time if you want.I'm letting H. sp. SR-2009-003 grow in some more before i take any cutting from it.It's somewhat rare in the US for now!

Thanks for the info, Jimmy. OMG, I would love to have a rooted elliptica. It is my *heart* Hoya. I have already killed one cutting. I am getting one rooted cutting soon, and I am also thinking about ordering a few cuttings from Epiphytica. I would like to have different varieties. I heard they travel very poorly, so it would be so nice to get a rooted cutting from within the US. I don't have anything interesting to trade with, but please let me know whenever you're ready, so we can discuss what I can do. I thought about growing them in Hydroton semi-hydro, but now I'm going to look for self-watering pots.

So sp. SR-2009-003 likes to be dry. Somehow, I imagined it to be like caudata which I hear likes to be more on the moist side. I just love the Jurassic leaves with the baby chick cupcake flowers.

Thanks!I'm not sure what family of hoya it belongs too,but i find that this one likes to dry out between waterings.I water this one once a week in the winter months.caudata loves water! I find that it will abort its buds it not kept almost wet during bud formation.I water it twice a week when in bud making sure to get all of the soil wet.I now have started to add small amounts of molasses and or kelp and Great White mycorrhizae to help the buds develop to maturity.still experimenting but i,m seeing results!!

H.caudata blooming under led lights.

Dang, look at those fuzzy blooms. Be My Valentine, Jimmy! ;)

Haha...you single Tawny..lol.Here is one just for you!Hoya danumensis bloomed last month and just now posting the pics!Another hoya that loves the pinkish hue of the led lights!

God, you can make anything flower, Jimmy. It's so nice to see so many different flowers. Moar please!

H subcalva is flowering again!This one would keep blasting it's buds,and I though it was a watering problem.It could of been a ph problem with my hard water.This time I added molasses and Great White (good microbes) to the water and the buds took off almost doubling in size overnight!I need to do more testing to come to a theory, but it appears that the microbes help the buds to set,either by lowering ph,or maybe by decreasing the nutrient lockout by the high ph of my water.there could also be a spike in microbial activity with all the molasses for them to eat.There byproducts are food for the plant,that can be used instantly which could explain the doubling in the size of the buds oveenight...More testing needs to be done to see of there are any patterns. ..maybe I just got lucky this time...lol

AAAMAZING!! I'm super interested in this mycorrhizal fungi stuff you mentioned. I think it'll help organic fertilizer work better in the gritty mix. I'm going to try it. Thanks for mentioning it!

Thanks! Great White is my go to brand,although i just ordered another kind that is cheaper.It has less types of the microbes though,but higher concentrations of the ones that are in it compared to Great White.The main reason i use it is because of root rot issues.It really helps strengthen the plant root and immune system.You may still get a yellow leaf here and there,but no major issues where the plant dies in a matter of days.It works best with organics,but will also work with reg fertilizers.It will eat away all the salt buildup with reg fertilizers.Here Is the link to my new products will be trying this spring.http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J1CAEIG?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o09_s00  and a new fert. for acid loving plants http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00938IWLE?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o08_s00

That's so cool, Jimmy. I wish we could smell the blooms! Have you ever read Mycelium Running, by Paul Stamets? It's really interesting and discusses how plants communicate via mycelia and vice versa.

Looks interesting..ill see if they have it on Amazon prime...thanks!

Thanks, Jimmy, the new one (Recharge) sounds even better.

Tawny, the book does sound interesting. Fungi rock! (most of them)

Jimmy, FYI, if you haven't ordered the "Recharge" yet, if you get it from the manufacturer's website, the shipping is free, and there's a 25% coupon code ("capn") here: http://dudegrows.com/captain-uses-recharge/

Thanks for the link!I'll bookmark if for future reference.I already bought if off Amazon.I really think these types of products help regulate the pH and help combat the effects of using hard tap water.

I just got a plant with several blooms. It came from FL. Should I fertilize as long as there are flowers?

I wouldn't...wait till it's done flowering.Too much fertilizer will cause it to start growing leaves and may not form new buds from the peduncles.

OK Jimmy. Thanks.

Jimmy, I just found out the coupon is now only for 15% off.

H. dennisii has two flowers this time.It's been flowering on and off for a while now,but it needs extra humidity to flower, so it stays in the grow tent!

H elliptica will be blooming again soon!Maybe first day of spring?We will see..looks like two peduncle will open at the same time...here is one of them.

Wow, I've never seen dennisii before. So cute! Is the corolla fuzzy? They kinda look both fuzzy and shiny in the picture. And AWWW, always and forever lovely elliptica.... *sigh* Thanks for posting these, Jimmy. I enjoy your pictures so much.

Gah, so darling Jimmy!

Super nice plants and blooms, Jimmy. I agree with you mockturtle ! those elliptica leaves are just ... wow.

I, too, just learned about the benefits of microbes around the roots and got Great White and Hi-Brix Molasses for plants and in less than 10 days, they all look perkier and the leaves have more stiffness in them. Funny after thought, that concoction smelled exactly like Superthrive.

Marco

Thanks guys! Dennisii's flowers are slightly fuzzy...the corolla is not...no smell and the size of a nickle.I bought this one from Thailand a few years back.i think microbes are the way to go if you use tap water and grow in a mostly inorganic medium like most hoya growers do.Most of the ingredients take years to break down and are not soil like...but that's what we want for more oxygen to the roots.without the microbes..over time,i believe the lime and calcium deposits will build up in the medium...leading to nutrient lockout because the whole medium just becomes to alkaline for the plant to take in nutrients.Soil acts as a pH buffer,but being most hoyas like to be root-bound in small pots with a minimum of soil...there is not much buffering effect.With the microbes and organic additives like fish,seaweed,molasses,humic acid...the medium becomes more active with the microbes bringing down the pH naturally,by eating the organics,lime,salts and giving the hoya instant food,I've noticed lots of new green growth and small peduncles since I've been adding the microbes twice a month instead of every other month.I bought one of those 15$ pH pens and have been testing my water and runoff water from the bottom of my containers and the water that comes out is lower then what i put in which is a good thing! My water right out of the tap is a whopping 8.6 pH it goes down to 7.5 in 24 hours...which is still quite high.With the molasses and great white...it's in the high sixes,which is ok.I now use a natural pH down(citric acid granules) when I use reg water between feedings.It literally only takes a pinch(1/16 of a teaspoon per gallon) to bring the water down to 6. I'm gonna be trying this pH down for a while to see of there is any improvement in the long run.I've been talking to Doug about pH issues and nutrient lockout,continual bud blast etc....he is doing his own comparison on some of his hoyas with microbes as well.

I want to gradually switch to using tap water to water my Hoyas. My city has hard water too. I don't want to buy a RO filtering system. I was going to just let the water sit for a day or two to let the chlorine dissipate. It's good to know adding microbes help.

Adding a tablespoon of vinegar to a gallon of water lowers the ph too.