Hi Pepe,

Pls know that when I click on that link, it says the following:

Leaving Facebook

We're just checking that you want to follow a link to this website: https://mihoyacarnosa.blogspot.com/p/transplantarla.html?fbclid=IwAR3ZPRrn0taFCwPcBwcFYoQ5oFXhf_gwj5b1NsmgJPJotNX02aR3

Since I wasn't on Facebook, I didn't follow this any further.

Yo no tengo problemas si pincho en el enlace. No se por que pasa eso.

Pepe now your posts are only in Spanish.

I'm getting pretty sick of this & no one else seems willing to do this. Maybe you've noticed few people are responding to your posts here.

Translated:

I have no problems if I click on the link. I don't know why that happens.

Could someone else in the US pls try Pepe's link to see if they get the same result?

Could someone else take over the translating?

Otherwise I'm going to stop & his posts seem to go otherwise unanswered (except for the all bloom pix).

@User

I publish my writings in English. I do not know why they appear in Spanish. Regarding the links to a specific post, here I leave a link to the blog where by turning the mouse wheel you can see all the posts to the end where "old posts" appear on the lower right margin to continue reading.

I am sorry for the problems I am causing but everything I comment or publish I do with my best intention, far from wanting to harm anyone.

I wish you all a good day.

https://hoyaspepeuve.blogspot.com/

Beautiful flowers, Pepeueve! Which hoya is this?

I enjoy your pictures and posts here.

@User

@popmama (Colorado, USDA z5) This is the Pubicalyx silver pink

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There is also the pubicalys red buttons that I also show you a photo

@popmama (Colorado, USDA z5)

I think today I will surprise you. If you enter my blog and in "search" you write the word "diferenciar" you will find some posts that you are sure to like.

Note: the word differentiate you must write in the Spanish language = diferenciar

Thank you for sharing the differences in the bloom colors between Pink Silver and Red Buttons! That is very helpful.

The leaf color on the photo above is just beautiful.

I'm not able to access your blog Pepeuve, but I love your pictures posted here. So thank you!

@popmama (Colorado, USDA z5)

Dear popmama It is a pity that you have not been able to access the blog. Apparently Karen has been able to do it and she could indicate the steps to follow. However, I put a link that will take you to 4 posts in which each one talks about a different way to differentiate these two hoyas

. Hopefully there are no problems to access: https://hoyaspepeuve.blogspot.com/search?q=differentiate .

I'm glad you liked the photo. They are leaves of the pubicalyx red buttons from birth (later going through different shades of color) since in the pubicalyx silver pink, the leaves never get to have that color.

@User

Dear Karen:
I'm glad you were finally able to access the blog. I made some changes and among them is the option “translate” in which a blind appears where many languages appear. This I comment so that those who read this post know it.
Regarding the consultation you make, I will tell you that the best time to spray the leaves is at sunset and if there are incipient leaves that are forming, do not spray if the ambient temperature is above 26ºC in order not to deform those new leaves a little bit . I really do this with all the cuttings that I have in water or recently planted and that show incipient leaves.
The same "fertilizer water" I use to water the pots is the one I use to spray the leaves but reduced to 25% and I have no predilection for any special fertilizer, only on the condition that it is for flowering plants.
And to those who ask me about cuttings in water, I answer this:
The water is from the tap. Any rooting is good. Mine is liquid. As the water evaporates, I replace it with the same water with fertilizer that I use to water the pots. There is no science or mystery. It is nature that puts more interest.
I hope I have answered your question well.
A hug

Pepe, pls note there are now 2 Karens. I am the KarenS, who knew you from before & who will no longer translate or look at your Blog.

On your fertilizer bottles, can you pls show the bottle so I can see the N-P-K numbers? Means the chemical content, how much of each chemical or mineral in this fertilizer.

There is now another Karen here: she is karen__w z7 NC(z7 Durham, NC).

The person who just posted here to you is ANOTHER Karen, not me. Also, she says she speaks some Spanish, I do not, just Portuguese & French.

karen__w z7 NC(z7 Durham, NC): pls be clear w/him you are another Karen, a NEW, different one, not the one in NYC.

@User

Sorry. I admit that I am a disaster. It will not happen again.

@User

In the photo you can see the chemical composition that is far from the formulas Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potassium. The merit is in a special additive that I add and that, apparently and from what I have read on the internet, is often used by marijuana growers. It is called a bactobloom that comes with a mini spoon and each dose is for one liter of water.
In Spain we usually use the phrase “from the Chinese”, that is to say, I use a fertilizer from the Chinese (very cheap) and that all the pots in my house take a little bit at each watering.
However, I have to say that the hoyas in the apartment (my second home, now rented) have been fed twice with animal manure and have never known bactobloom.
Apart from all this, in the spring I usually add iron chelate to all the pots.
It is all what I do to my hoyas.

Pepeuve, yes, I'm a different Karen than KarenS, NYC. It was a popular name in the U.S. in the 1950-1960's so there are a lot of us out there. I'm in North Carolina, which is in the Southeastern part of the country.

Thanks for the information - I'm going to dilute some of my orchid fertilizer and try a foliar spray on the hoyas. One is mounted on cork so it will be especially good for that one. I try to water/fertilize in the mornings so foliage has a chance to dry, so I'll deviate from you there. My dad has really drilled that into me as a cultural practice to help keep fungal infections out of the greenhouse here in our climate.

Like KarenS, I like to know what's in things so will stick with the fertilizer I know. I add a little Epsom salts to mine for the orchids, which seems like it may not be helpful to Hoyas but shouldn't hurt either, especially at that dilution.

Hi Karen__w,

Pls excuse me for not greeting you & saying welcome aboard. I didn't mean to sound unwelcoming, but I've had quite a tough time lately w/ him, his translations & his Blog.

I am usually a friendlier sort, so I do apologize & say hello belatedly.

Pepe, thanks but what you show for chemical composition of your fertilizer is NOT the N-P-K, pls look around on the bottle to see if it lists anything else like this.

As example, I have some old, powdered fertilizer (mixes w/ water), by Miracle Grow which shows the numbers 15-30-15 (Nitrogen-Phosphoric Acid-Potash). If I remember correctly, the higher middle number was supposed to encourage blooms, but I haven't used this in a long time. I use Foliage Pro (9-3-6), which was offered me by a Hoya / Orchid friend.

Can you pls tell us what adding iron chelate does for the plants?

Also, pls know I do not feel you are a disaster, I just recognize the possibility for confusion, now that we have 2 Karens. Yes, it was a common name in 50-60s as she suggests.

Hello @User

The packaging does not have any letter of the periodic system NPK written anywhere. The attached photo is the part where the composition is in very small print. I return to attached better photo.
I apply the iron chelate every two weeks.
Good weekend

Thanks anyway for trying Pepe, I could read it before, but it's not the info. I want.

For anyone else wondering why one might apply the iron chelate?

from: https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/garden-how-to/soil-fertilizers/using-chelated-iron-in-gardens.htm)

To make iron readily available for plants, a chelator is used to protect the iron from oxidation, prevent it from leaching out of the soil and keep the iron in a form that the plants can use. [bold is mine].

OK

KarenS, NYC, thanks for the welcome. I mostly frequent the Carolina forums although we're most active there in advance of our twice a year get togethers/swaps. Have really missed seeing everyone there this year. I've got a lot of Hoyas and am always interested in learning more from other growers, so have been lurking around here lately.

Pepeuve, I wonder if your experience with iron supplementation reflects differences in our water? I'm on well water which is pretty hard and has a lot of calcium. It's hell on plumbing and appliances but the orchids love it - my dad trucked 400 orchids up here from FL when he moved and said that he'd never seen such good root growth, which he attributed to the increased calcium content in the water. I've never had much problem with chlorosis, but if I find some that doesn't respond to added magnesium, iron deficiency would be the next question.

hola @karen__w z7 NC

The water I use is city water, water that has been treated in the treatment plant and the iron chelate I incorporate it a couple of times throughout the season and I do it as a preventive measure. I do know that Malaga's water is very hard, that is, it is calcareous. It is all I can inform you.

I checked the bag on what I'm using on my orchids now. It's 15-5-15 with macro/micronutrients, including 0.075% chelated iron, so I guess I'm already there.