1. Your lighting seems sufficient for a pubicalyx. Additional artificial light won't hurt, so long as it is 6 - 12 inches away fromthe plant. Pubicalyx can take up to 5 years to bloom.

2. Normal. Pubicalyx grows like a weed year round for me, too.

3. The leaves on pubicalyx can take months to grow to maturity. The offshoot, unless damaged, will continue to grow. And, you should allow it to do so, for a nice, full plant. The other tiny offshoot will eventually grow, as well. Offshoots don't really take turns growing; they grow when they want, lol.

Be sure to feed weakly (1/4-1/2 strength water soluble fertilizer, 1/4 strength if you water weekly, 1/2 strength for bi-weekly) during each watering, unless you are using a time release feeding. I like MiracleGro water soluble tomato food. It is cheap and provides all the micro- and macro-nutrients. Also, be sure your plant is in an airy, fast-draining mix, such as 50% orchid bark and 50% perlite, for long term plant health.

Thanks alot :) Yeah i brought out my grow lamp, not a very expensive one but ive got it on a timer to give it a couple extra hours of light. Yeah i use time release, made for my bonsai haha but only use 1/2 the dose it reccomends hoping to not over do it. Didnt know tomato fertilizer would work, good to know because ive got lots of it haha.

btw, i live in washington too :) snohomish area

Sounds like your pubicalyx (or whatever species it might be) is perfectly happy. Just keep doing what you're doing!

Denise in Omaha

Ahhhhhh! Oh my God! i was trying to tie down my hoya with a little hair clip and the tip somehow got cut! what do I do? did i just ruin my chances of getting flowers from that off shoot? could I root the part that got cut? it was like two inces off the end of the off shoot, so i snipped the actively growing end. My heart literaly dropped and now im freaking out. help

also should i cut it back to the closest leaf node?

Do you have pics?

I coated the exposed wounds with cinnamon and geantly placed the cut portion into the soil hoping for rooting, there is a single undeveloped leaf node about a half inch from the cut so hopefully since it is such an active growing shoot it will take, if not, oh well i tried, but my main concern is how will this effect flowering in the future?

i really am over reacting i realize this now that the shock of what i had just done wore off, especially since i have two other off shoots waiting to get growing, but still wouldn't mind advise on what to do at this point, whether i should cut back to the node in the pictures above or just leave it how it is.

Here are pictures of the new off shoots i was mentioning.

i thought i should include this picture too. this is an example of my light's positioning and the color/type of light it is providing. they are red and blue led lights that i have about 6-7 inches from the closest leaf. I have a time on it to come on at 8 in the morning and go off at 7 at night. Its not the best light, i mean it was only $20 but im hoping it does its job haha.

The flowering will mostly come on the older growth.

alright cool. do you think i should cut back to closest leaf node?

Almost (not even) a year later... the Hoya is going nuts. I've had to loop vines around eachother multiple times just to keep the plant compact enough to fit in my room. The last picture is hard to see but I think the little nub is the start of a flower spike!!! I'm so excited to see what color it's blooms are. At this point the plant is about 2 and a half years old and if I unwound all the vines it would be probably over 6 ft long and still actively growing. So exciting :)