Those are so pretty! That macrophylla is outstanding! You can really do either trellis or hang. Whichever you prefer or have room for. I will say that pubicalyx is a very fast grower. I have one on a circle trellis. The others that I have in hanging pots send out long runners that tend to want to wrap around things in an upward habit.

I would say no rush either way. They look gorgeous just the way they are!

thanks!

another thing is, should I repot into a chunkier mix? I thought I read that the macrophylla likes it more moist, but I generally don't keep anything in just peat.

Wow!! Beautiful!! 😍 They have grown so much in 5 months. You are doing a great job! I have a baby mac pushing out new leaves. They are so cute 🥰

Wow Elena, they look great! The pubicalyx is doing a good job of retaining a lot of splash. And the mac is growing by leaps and bounds. Whatever you are doing, don't stop!

Hi Elana, not going to lie, I live in Oakville if you ever wanted to do a (no contact) trade of a cutting of your macrophylla albomarginata for a carnosa compacta verigata, please let me know. That is one gorgeous plant! 😍

Sarah, I do have a carnosa already but you can have a cutting of the macrophylla. I'm not sure how to PM on here, can you initiate a private message discussion?

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Thanks Popmama!

Sarah I followed you so you should be able to message me now!

Elena, your messaging is not open to anyone as of yet. And Sarah would have to change her settings to allow "followers" to message her, then you would be able to message her. Hope that helps. For me, it was just easier to change my settings to allow anyone to message me. If I receive an unwanted message, I just ignore it. But so far, that has never happened.

Thanks again, Popmama!

Very very good looking plants!!! It never occurred to me to even use a trellis since I have much more room hanging them all, but wow. I love them both)

Thanks Meyermike! The macrophylla is hanging actually, I ran out of windowsill space and decided to hang it, but I am still training it on the trellis. I have to be careful though because I've caused it to abort some new leaves by tying it to the trellis.. Also, I don't rotate my plants, so their "good side" that you see in the photos is facing the window all the time.

Ha. Time to rotate.
By the way.
Because of your plant I actually bought one. The variegated one of course. Lol
Enjoy

thank you so much everyone! let's see if I can get this figured out...

Hm... I actually don't see a "message" button anywhere, even on popmama's profile.

Sarah are you on FB? Try to find me on there, my profile is a picture of me and my kiddo (you mostly see him in the photo lol).

Elena, what kind of mix do you use? What's in it? You said chunkier because what you are using sure is working)

The two hoyas shown in this post are still in their original nursery mix, which seems to be mostly peat. I am quite careful with watering but I also try not to underwater. I never let them get wrinkley, I just check with a wooden skewer. During the winter that resulted in watering every 12-14 days, and now that there is so much more light, I am watering every 8-12 days depending on how many rainy or sunny days there are

When I do water, I am very careful to remove all perched water... I push a wick up through the drainage holes and let it drain into the sink due to gravity and then I also place the pot on a kitchen towel to absorb even more of the moisture. This sounds like a lengthy process but actually I do this with most of my plants hat are in 6" pots and smaller, and it's not too much work actually.

Maybe I should start a new thread but I guess it's also okay to hijack my own thread, so let's talk about potting mixes...

Any hoyas I have repotted are in a 5-1-1-1 mix of bark-peat-perlite-calcinedDE, and they are generally doing well. I added the calcined DE to Al's 5-1-1 mix in an effort to make it easier to rehydrate.

I love the concept of the 5-1-1 mix and I loved it when I made it so i transferred many (most?) of my plants into it, but unfortunately I found the 5-1-1 mix gets hydrophobic very easily and it takes me forever to water any plants that I've put into it because of this. I actually find the process I describe above with the wick easier and quicker than watering plants in the 5-1-1 mix.

I am now moving towards a 1-1-1 mix of bark-peat-perlite for any hoyas or aroids that I repot, and I now put a wick into every single pot to make watering easier. I know this mix this goes against the logic that Al describes about the air space in a mix, and I really do wish the 5-1-1 worked for me.

Sounds like you know the concept of well draining mixes and what it takes to keep your plants healthy. Good job. I use the mixes you talk about a lot too. 5.1.1 was a foundation for me and now I use it for many plants but change it up a bit to meet the need of my growing areas. I love the feeling of watering as often as I like without worrying about over watering.

Right now I have lot's of smaller rare type Hoya and orchids outside in a very cold rain for days and they love it and are thriving because of using porous mixes. Love it love it. I would be scared to death if they were growing in vey fine peaty mixes that easily rot the roots.3

I guess when you use a very peaty mix at first the mix seems ok, fluffy and such, but quickly compacts in such a short period of time. Fine for growing outside of a greenhouse with lots of sunlight, but once brought inside you can forget about proper drainage.

That's wonderful to hear for me, personally. I am a definite novice but somehow managed to get my soils right. I worried for a bit because it seemed like they were always needing water, but I figured this was better than my tendency to smother my plants with love.....and water. Glad to know I really can't do that with my Hoyas.