Yeah I know, another question about my leaves. What causes the new leaves to grow in curled or distorted? Some times having almost a wrinkled or scrunched appearance, sometimes with darker reddish marks that usually fade later. Some of these leaves grow up and straighten out and look fine but others are always a bit distorted. It's like the outer edge of the leaf is too tight, causing problems when the leaf grows.

It's only some of my plants, and then it's not always happening although there are a couple that have always been that way. I have checked for pests and sprayed just as a precaution. I once had aphids on one of my plants and they caused distortion to the new leaves but it looked different and the plant had obvious scarring. This has only been happening for the last few months. The only changes in that time is that it's now Summer here and it's a very dry heat with hardly any humidity. Because of that I've been misting them quite a bit and also watering more as the plants dry out quicker. There is often traces or weak doses of fertiliser in the watering can which some of the plants seem to love! But maybe others dont?

It's frustrating. On one hand at least the leaves aren't dropping off! On the other hand, they then have weird looking leaves. Once again, it's only some species of them, others are fine!

Oh yes, I wanted to say a big thank you to everyone here!. I've been lurking for ages and learnt so much! I only started getting back into hoyas again in the last two years and now I have... way too many! Some of them are a challenge and others are a delight! I don't know where I read about using cinnamon but it's fantastic! I haven't lost a single plant since I started using it. I had a merrillii, australis, heuschkeliana and two kerriis that I have saved by cutting off the dying parts of stems and leaves and dusting with it. The one plant I thought was for sure a goner was the pachyclada. It had rotted several times, and I was losing more and more of the stem even after using cinnamon. Eventually it had rotted down to the soil line and I unpotted it, chopped out all the rot I could then dusted what was left and started writing it's obituary. I only noticed today there is a small green nub of life starting to grow on it's mangled stump. Early days but it's alive!!