Skinneriana from Gardinos. Don't know why but I'm really excited about this one. I think because it reminds me of a pubicalyx.

My pubicalyx pink silver splash and beastlyflower2012 pubicalyx splash. Hers Had a darker stem and purple on the leaves. They are both growing right next to each other in semi shade mid shelf.

This particular pink silver is extra splashy. 2nd photo damage from that pesky rat I had a couple weeks ago...

Where did you get that pink silver? I also snagged up a gray ghost from ric!

At a nursery a couple towns over. Bought it because it had a long splashy vine on it. Made cuttings out of it and this is one of them.

This is the mom plant

This is the new pink silver from the same place. They are in full sun. This one was there when I bought my first one.

Yay about the gray ghost! :-D

How much was the 2nd pink silver? Did you get it on clearance since it had the yellowed leaves? At least it has a lot of peduncles!

No, all their hoyas are like that. My first one was a little like that when I first bought it but I grow it in shade. I paid $19.98 for each.

Well, I paid 40 bucks for my little gray ghost. I better not kill that thing!

I bought a couple. For me and my sisters...I better not kill it either!! Ha!

I bought a few hoyas from aurora too but I'll post a pic of those once they are established here with me under my conditions.

Oh my!!! Your plants are GORGEOUS! I've been looking for a Rebecca FOR-EV-ER!!!

Lydia, your Hoyas are gorgeous. And completely insane that the huge Pink Silver was only $20.!!

You could sell them on EBay for double that-lol

Can you imaging the shipping for that monster!!

Surprisingly it's not as bad as you think. I've purchased several monsters from Susan. They all arrived within 3 days in perfect condition :-)

But I could barely lift this one! I was lifting it up by my shoulders and it was still dragging. I was afraid to step on peduncles. I've purchased large plants off of ebay too but for some reason they are generally light in weight.

Yeah, shipping that plant might be a hefty penny!

Yes, I'm sure it's much bigger in person :-)

Who knows, maybe there are rocks in the pot too lol it's heavy

The Oh so beautiful varie kerrii. This one is in bright shade. Leaves grow larger and brighter. This one is under a table. No direct sun.

Wow, those leaves are huge. Beautiful Hoya.

Still dreaming of a Kerrii Splash

:x one day I'll find one!

I have one but it is slow growing for some reason. Time to pull it out to see what's going on with it....I bought mine on ebay forgot from whom....Here are my other kerriis. The slow growing ones.

My new huge pink silver is blooming :)

Are they fragrant?

Yes, like a soft rose scent. Its nice.

Jakk still did not respond! ugh maybe the mail got lost.

Did you place an order? Or is that what you wanted to do?

No, not yet. I only sent him an email asking if he had a few hoyas in stock that i could not get from AH or anywere else. If he does have them, they maybe/hopefully aurora will do a group order for epiphytica and i can get them. I only want 3. Polyneura Silver, Deakei Splash, and Diptera Splash.

Looks like someone likes them splashy hoyas ;-P

Yop :) I cant help it!

My 'Pink Silver' is almost overpowering in its fragrance. If I walk in the back door of my house after dark, when the plant is in bloom, I'm hit in the face with its very strong and wonderful fragrance.

I purchased my plant for 79 cents, in a 3" pot, back in the late 70's. Unfortunately, the garden center is no longer around and that place had a huge number of different Hoyas and many other unusual plants as well. :o(

You still have the same plant from the 70's?

Wow since the 70s! Does yours bloom with multiple flowers at the same time? Only one has opened on mine so far...I'm going to use a bloom booster on this one.

The short answer is it is a cutting from the original plant.

Thought I'd throw in a picture of my Pub Splash. The square blue ceramic pot really goes well with the intense splash. I just love it so much

Wow! Looks gorgeous and what a lovely pot!

Yes, it does have multiple peduncles blooming at the same time when it blooms.

Here is the long story...

Well,
it's a cutting from that original plant.

I
moved a few times before buying my current house and I was hit by a huge
mealy bug explosion in my living room (where almost all of the Hoyas were kept)
and that forced me to take drastic action. (the Silver Pink was not in the living room).

I
ended up taking the plants, pots and saucers of all of the Hoyas in the
living room outside in the middle of January to let them all freeze. The
frozen Hoyas were put into the yard waste container and the pots and
saucers were thrown in the trash.

I
did take cuttings from a couple of the plants that were near and dear to my heart
so I could propagate those plants.

I sprayed each cutting with a mixture of 16 oz. of 70% rubbing alcohol and 16 oz. of water mixed together with about a teaspoon of Ivory dish soap mixed in. I put this in a plant mister and use it to spray any plant that I see bugs on. This mixture will kill anything that it comes in contact with and I keep a bottle of this prepared at all times). I also used the spray hose at the kitchen sink to spray the cuttings pretty hard with very warm, bordering on hot, water to ensure that anything that was killed was dislodged and washed down the sink.

(Knock
on wood) I no longer have any bugs in my plant collection for the first time in
my entire life, but that is due to not buying any new plants for quite a while and because I've tossed any plant that had any sort of bug on it.

I'm
starting to get the bug (no pun intended) to add to my collection again and I'm
really terrified of buying any Hoya cuttings due to the chance of
bringing bugs into my plant collection again.

I
just took a couple of cuttings from my Silver Pink a week or
so ago to start the plant again. The original plant has grown up
and into the window and is a tangled mess going in and out of the old aluminum 2" Venetian
blinds that are currently in that window (in the plant/bird room; I think the blinds may be original to the house; it was built
in 1956).

I am
replacing all of the window blinds and have been procrastinating on dealing
with the window with the Silver Pink because I will need to remove the
plant along with the old blind all at once. After I get the new blinds installed, I
want to start fresh with a newly rooted cutting of Silver Pink in a new pot with
new soil. The original plant is in a 6" plastic pot and needs repotting
(it has been growing in the pot it is in since 1993-the year I bought the house). It is definitely time to start with a newly rooted cutting!

Mike

Will you still be repotting your old pink silver? I'm sure she would appreciate that and reward you :) I'm with you on a newly rooted cutting that you can move around if you like.

Mathilde...

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Carnosa with a Pubicalyx in there? Gorgeous! Ugh, I so long to live in a place where my passion can grow outdoors </3

Yes, I was surprised when the second flower opened up and it was a soft pink :)

Have you ever gotten any seed pods off of those? Any critters cross pollinating?

This huge plant is new to me. Bought it a little over a week ago. It was sun bleached but covered in peduncles .. I just started collecting again last summer so all of my hoyas a youngsters without peduncles...lots of little critters around here. Fingers crossed for seedpods!

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