Hello, I'm new here!

7 years ago

Hi there! I've been reading this forum for a year or so but only just joined. I'm down here in Tasmania, Australia :D

I love Hoyas, My mum had one when I was growing up in Darwin and I had one for a few years here in Tas. Both were Carnosas. But I haven't had any for a few years so for the last years I've started to get back into growing them.

So, my Hoyas. Eventually I'll nag my partner into taking some photos.. He is slack! But until then, I'll start with the first.

I have had a scraggly Crimson Queen for the last 4 years... It's suffered. Been starved and sunburnt but still struggling on. It's leaves are permanently creased and wrinkled. No matter how much water I gave it, they still look like an old leather handbag. Plant seems happy enough, growing new leaves, not dying.. ect :D The new leaves are fine. however most of the leaves it grew were white shoots/leaves and based on this forum I decided to chop most of them off. The poor dear is struggling already, lets not add to it?

I have many others, some are doomed to die, others I hope will be ok. Most are bought from Bunnings, a local hardware/chainstore... (big box store for you peeps in the USA?) The little Bunnings pots suffer from over watering before I buy them and can rot within a week of bringing them home. :( Still, I keep buying some just to see if they will live here in Tas. Some of my Hoyas seem to like the cold and are growing like weeds!

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Marcy
7 years ago
Hi there! Nice to meet you! I'm new here too, and share a love of Hoyas! Sounds like you Bunnings treats their plants like Walmart treats them here. Whan I snatch a lonely hoy from their rack it's always dripping and soggy You'll find a wealth of information with these people. Enjoy, and welcome to you!
triffidmoss
Original Author
7 years ago
I have to admit, I have bought several Hoyas, not because I wanted them but because they were flooded and dying. I just bought my third variegated Hoya heuschkeliana. I know they dont grow well down here, the last one I bought melted into a pile of rot within a week. But I just bought 2 more. I'm an idiot, they will die! Still, I hope to give them a fighting chance! They looked so unhappy! lol
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Bridgett Gooden
7 years ago
Hi! I'm a newbie here also. I have learned so much from everyone one here. I love hoyas also but here in Indiana, for some reason our bigbox stores (Lowe's and Walmart) only carry Hindu rope and Rubra! Its so frustrating to see all the pretty hoyas that the other States have in the same stores and all I can get is carnosa.

Anyway the people on this forum are great! You will love it! Welcome!
triffidmoss
Original Author
7 years ago
I am lucky in a way, they have little pots of lots of species here but they are often sick and over watered. They some times get bigger pots with a bigger stronger plant or two but they aren't labelled and it's a guess as to what they are. I have several of these ones and they are growing really well. I think I have found out what they are.
Bridgett Gooden
7 years ago
That's what I want small pots of many different species and then I have the pleasure of seeing them mature then hopefully bloom! And one day get my very own seed pod!