The hardest part is done now! Time to watch them grow!

I like the mindorensis combo pot! :) Would love to see the pubicalyxes and carnosa, too! As for tips, just be gentle with them as you can so none of the more tender vines or the peduncles break off. Also, don't clip the growing ends downward. That causes the vine to die back to where it starts to grow downward. Other than that, good job and I hope they fill out for you some more this summer!

Brad AKA Moonwolf

Tip #1: don't worry about breaking older vines on MOST hoya species. They are pretty tough.

Tip #2: If you are going for function over fashion, don't worry about how it looks!

Tip #3: There are three common methods of trellising (poorly illustrated below), but NO WRONG WAY to trellis, aside from making sure new growth tips are pointed either up or sideways:

That being said....

Tip #4: some hoyas do best with limited horizontal training (hoops). They just prefer growing as vertically as possible. Lauterbachii and lambii are two I can think of, off the top of my head. For these ones, I lock tie u-hoops together (I could buy taller hoops, but I have a bazillion of this size lying around, so why waste $?):

As far as your two mindorensis that seem to be growing faster than the others, I noticed that, too! I think they are mindorensis crosses (mindorensis X mindorensis), and if they are, hybrid vigor might explain things!

Thank you for those illustrations! I learned from Doug Chamberlain online about keeping the stems up. Do you see increased vigor in a lot of hybrids aurorawa? I wanted and probably will do bamboo hoops in the future, they're just kind of pricey so I went the galvanised wire fence route. Its at Home Depot for $5, and you get 7 pieces once you unhook sections and clip the excess wire. These are 18" but they also have 36" much thicker ones which is what I'm using for the massive carnosa.

If the growth tips have to be pointed up or sideways,then how do you this one's like curtisii, lacunosa,and wayetii?

No need for those ones! They are not as epiphytic (still will happily grow in trees...usually via seed, but usually don't use aerial roots to climb UP a tree, rather they use aerial roots, as well as their main root system, to affix themselves into crevices of trees, like orchids) as others and actually do better as hanging plants.

Those diagrams are really helpful! Am I right with the first diagram that you have to let the vine grow long enough to make a full circle? I have a kerrii and an obovata with the second "S" bend style diagram. It involves tying stems down with long loops of fabric strips until they have set in that shape enough.

As for downwards danglers. someone needs to tell my pot of tsangi that it needs to hang, NOT climb up the pot hangers and into lacunosa's pot >:(

No...just start training the vine to make a circle, when it is big enough to clip to your trellis:

As for tsangii...it can do whatever it wants, mom! Lol!

In number 4, wouldn't the tip be pointing down? Or does it curl up like in the diagram? I have one at that length but I don't want to kill it by fixing it pointing down

Leave about two inches of slack, between the tip of the vine and the clip, and it should curl itself. If not, just let it grow a bit longer.

Ah, so pointing down is ok if it has enough room to curl upright. Awesome, thank you!

Whew! Just got done trellising my senior carnosa. It was a bit frustrating at first, this plant has been growing across window seals it's whole life and never gone up. But I did it, and only broke off 2 old leaves that were yellowing anyway, managed to protect all 7 peduncles. What do you think?

Beautiful!

It's going to look amazing in flower! I like your compacta in the corner too :D

Thank you! That's Miss Carnosa Lura Lei <3

Omg! That is one beautiful Hoya!!

It's even more beautiful than it looked! Did it grow very slowly? All compactas seem to grow slow but I noticed my variegated ones are even slooooower.

Thank you, and YES. That thing is so very slow growing. It is putting out new growth and leaves, but at a rate 5 times slower than any of my other hoyas. Takes a solid month or more for one complete adult leaf to emerge. I love it and I always wanted one, never cared for the other variegated varieties but the inner varie looks so much more attractive to me.

Was not able to find Compacta Lura Lei available in the U.S. so I went to ebay.pl (Poland's eBay) and found a seller there that readily ships plants to America. :)

There is one on eBay right now. I'd buy it if it was bigger.

Is it the same variety as this one of mine? (The plant on the far left.) Because of the angle and extreme folds in the leaf it's hard to see the white centre but you can see it near the top of the plant. The far right plant has the white edges.

Yep! That's a Lura Lei!

I love the compacta's but if mealy bugs are a problems for you, you pretty much just have to toss the plant, pot and all, as you will never get rid of the mealy bugs with all of those folded, curled leaves. :o(

I don't have any issues with pests on my compactas because I use a systemic spray (Bayer Rose and Flower Insect Killer). The plant absorbs the spray through its leaves, vines, and roots. When the bugs go to feed they ingest the poison and x_x

Klnco444 I tried to find it but I could not.so if you or anyone that sees this, happens to come across a laura lei Hindu rope or krinkle 8 please let me know. Oh one more.if any knows where I can buy a cutting of krinkles tinkles please let me know! Thanks you guys

I've had my eyes peeled for a krinkles tinkles for a while! I will be watching for you. My Lura Lei is not quite big enough to cut yet but I will come back to this thread when it is and let you know :]

Went ahead and trellised my Pothos "Marble Queen". This girl is so splashy from base to tip, she gives the most splashiest of my Hoyas a run for their money :)

Ok, I think I just bought lura lei and regalis mixed in pot....Its small so I'm thinking that it will probably take around ten years for it to look like yours Klnco444 :-P

Nice score!

Yep, nice little combo pot there. Before you know it that plant with become a big ole beauty :)

It may looks lopsided for a bit, my regalia grows much much faster than my Lura Lei.