What type of Hoya is it?

Brad AKA Moonwolf

I have found that on some of my Hoyas, they get peduncles and no buds for quite some time. Sometimes if it has been awhile you might try changing the growing location. It helps when my seem to stall. Hope this helps.

And some need some sort of nutrient to get them blooming. I have a hybrid that is COVERED in peduncles for 2 yrs now. Never bloomed. Its missing something but what?

I can't get Diversifolia to bloom either.

Mine really enjoy tomato food for fertilizer. Seems to make them push out new growth and peduncles (when they don't get accidentally knocked off or the vines die back from low humidity). Tomato food is geared towards plants flowering and setting fruit/seeds.

Brad AKA Moonwolf

Brad, do you feed year round or just in the summer?

Just during the growing season. Although, they weren't doing too much this spring once I put them outside, so I started giving them a little bit of food when I saw the tiniest bit of growth. I tried it on a couple that weren't growing, but I gave them some as if it were a cup of coffee to help wake them up. It didn't do any harm. It's been raining a lot lately and sometimes the rain blows in to where the Hoyas are sitting/hanging, so I haven't fed them too much. Hoping autumn is a little drier and warmer so I can get a peduncle on Nikki or my pubicalyx "Red Buttons". Limoniaca would be a surprise to see a cutting on since I just got it from Florida, but the vines are quite lush and actively growing.

Would it hurt to give them a pinch of fertilizer year round? Something weaker than what you would give in the spring and summer months?

Brad AKA Moonwolf

I know we like to refer to fertilizers as plant food (I do the same thing), but plants manufacture their own food thru photosynthesis. Fertilizers are good for our plants, or else we wouldn't be using them, but they're not food. They're just plant nutrients that the plants use when they're photosynthesizing their own food. So if you really want to "feed" your plants, then feed them sunlight. If they're not blooming, then gradually increase the amount of sunlight that your plants are getting.

Those of us that grow orchids have a saying in regards to fertilizing our plants: "Weakly, weekly."

What this means is to fertilize our plants once a week, but with a fertilizer that has been diluted down to at least half strength. This is a policy that I've implemented for most of my plants. This gives them the same amount of fertilizers they need, but more frequently, and at a lower dose.

The "weakly, weekly" is the advice I've heard a lot of on this forum. So, they'll be getting doses in the winter, too. I plan on picking up a spray bottle and giving them a misting from time to time in the fall and winter.

Brad AKA Moonwolf