Ooh, I love australis cv Lisa! Very nice looking plant you have too.

I also successfully rooted my tiny Hoya Bella cutting. I did the tug test and it is rooted. I didn't even have to use rooting hormone. I just kept the soil moist. Now if only I could have better luck with Hoya kerrii and Hoya compacta. I think I might try ordering a mature plant from Flora Exotica. Maybe I'll have better luck with a mature plant lol.

Bella is pretty easy, it likes it moist. I haven't tried rooting kerrii, both of mine came to me as rooted plants.

Compacta I do not know what to do with. I have had a rooted start of the solid green kind for a year, and it does NOTHING. Think I have figured out how to water this one now, but I swear mine never grows. Just sits there, looking like a tentacle. Now I have 2, was given a similar sized piece of the variegated form.

I swear Hoya compacta hates me lol. I have tried it twice so far. I bought young rooted plants and they just seem to get yellow leaves and shrivel up and die. Hoya Kerrii I have a little better luck with somewhat. I ordered a Hoya Kerrii from Thailand and the poor plant was in transit for over a month. The poor plant was so stressed out it died of a fungal infection a week later.

Still figuring out my kerrii, sometimes my green one will start growing a leaf and then just stops and I have these sad wimpy things to deal with. Think I was underwatering that. Oh, and compacta seems to hate water. I barely water mine and put a bunch of hydroton in the soil so have at least gotten that bit squared away, maybe. I might repot those entirely into semi hydro but I need to find some suitable containers for the job.

Congrats, lisa, on your new australis, it's very pretty. If you bought from the Czech vendor on ebay I also ordered from her and got some good cuttings at a good price. They were wrapped nicely but when I picked them up at the Post Office the clerk came out of the back room smirking and plopped the box down on the counter. I looked at it to see what was so funny and it was a fish stix box with foreign writing on it. It was pretty funny.

Good luck with your other hoya plant too. I killed a kerrii last year and just got up the courage to buy another one. I so overwatered it the last time so I'm being very careful with this one.

Sorry I got mixed up. The seller was on eBay and they are from Poland. I didn't need a phytosanitary certificate either. Didn't have any problems with customs either. Apparently they don't need a phytosanitary certificate if it is shipped from countries in the EU.

Here are some new pics of it. The red on the leaves are new leaves.

I still really want to get Hoya heuschkeliana variegata. Definitely on my wish list. I will have one someday. It is so pretty.

Yes, variegates heuschkeliana is too pretty to resist. And I generally do not care for variegated types, but they are growing on me.

A friend gave me a start of Australis Lisa! It grows really fast and it bloomed early!! I didn't think I would like it as well as I did, turned out, it is a great plant!