With some, like meliflua, all it takes is just THINKING about a new leaf, and the darn plant will drop it. Most new leaf loss is due to mechanical damage, at least in my experience. They are just so small that even a light bump can damage them.

Great, I actually have a meliflua that is happily growing new leaves. Now I know this it will sense fear and stop! I was actually about to change it's trellis to a taller and stronger one because the new vine has gotten too tall for the old one, maybe I should wait until it slows down first...

I've lose tiny new leaves before but these other plants, it's different. They grow to maybe half to almost full size then turn yellow and drop off. With multiflora, while the last lot of leaves and buds were growing I started misting it more. I thought it was working because they all grew to almost adult size then bam! turned yellow and dropped off. Soft yellow, not dried out and crunchy yellow, if that helps?

Hmm. When was the last time you changed the potting media? It can "sour" and cause issues with nutritional uptake, which in turn, can affect new growth.

I haven't..... they are still in the mix they came in. You may be onto something there, I just realised the variegated kerrii's haven't lost any new leaves (touch wood!) since I repotted them a while back. I might repot them, no harm trying right?

Ack! I went and repotted them in new mix. Deykeae looked ok but multiflora! One of them (the one I asked about a while ago as a mystery hoya) had roots starting to circle the pot so I have potted it up into a slightly larger pot. The other multiflora has been sitting in another cache pot that was too tall for it so I had chocked up the actual plant pot on pieces of styrofoam which also stopped it from sitting in water. Well, the roots had grown down through the pot and into the styrofoam and I had to cut the pot apart just to get the plant out unharmed! It's now in a bigger pot as well. I don't know whether this will make any difference but here goes...

Some of my cuttings would lose their tiny leaves and i figured out that it was either i let them dry out to much or when i water them in the shower, the force of the water(which is not even very strong) can cause them to fall off.

You take your plants into the shower with you?

I do!

lol - I do too just not every watering.

I "hose down" all my plants in the shower. I put a few 3 tiered shelves in the shower last cold spell and hosed them down completely, rack and all. It left a lot of dirt and silt in the tub but the leaves are all clean and fresh looking. They all loved it. I do this about once a year or so.

Marco

I've never showered with a plant before! I wash the dog in the shower but never a plant. Hmmm, I have a shower head for the spa, maybe I should try hosing down some plants sometime?

They love it! I shower mine in warm/tepid water.

Won't it wash out the soil? (sorry if that's a silly question)

I don't think people actually shower WITH their plants. I think they are meaning they set them in the shower stall to water them. That way you can rinse off the leaves and clean the dust off on days when you can't hang them outdoors to wash them off.

I don't use soil, but I haven't had an issue with the media coming out.

We were joking (at least I was, lol) about actually showering WITH the plants. :D

I hope everyone understands that it was indeed a joke. Also, i keep my plants in a room without a sink. So in order to water them all its easy just to put them in the shower. I have been doing it that way for months now.

I thought it was serious, I'm sure some folks do.

I had too many plants to even consider it. The Bldg's plumbing would not be OK w/ mix & bits of pumice going down the drain.

I'm actually disappointed that you don't really shower with your plants!

If I didn't have so many (348 hoyas alone...not counting recent incoming orders, and not counting citrus, orchids, stapeliads, plumeria, carnivorous plants...you get the pictue), I WOULD probably shower with them.

aurorawa, you jinxed me! My meliflua has been happily growing away and putting on vine and leaves but since you mentioned it being fussy it's done .. nothing! It's sitting there with it's last pair of baby leaves it was growing and it's like it's just gone "Nope! I know you were talking about me.