Rather than keep extending other threads, and in an effort to continue to generate traffic for this site (I enjoy interacting with others discussing our plants) I thought I'd post a few pictures of two of my hoyas.

I only have a few, as I just started collecting hoyas about a year or two ago. One that I have is Multiflora. This puppy never fails to impress me. She lives in a south eastern facing window, double pane glass but right on the sill. Apparently even with the dreary PA winters, she's happy. I keep her watered every other day so the soil stays moist. Here she is with several buds and blooms.

The post it notes are to catch the nectar as it is a profuse dripper. You can even see some of the nectar on one of the leaves. BTW - that's about 5" of snow outside, yet here it's springtime in my little plant room. This plant was grown from a cutting almost a year ago. I also feed all my plants once a month in winter with a very dilute solution of Miracle Grow orchid food, or more recently Epiphytes Delight plant food.

Also blooming is my Lacanosa. This plant was also grown from a very small cutting. It sits in a plastic growers pot which I had laying around. It too is only about a year or so old. She had set peduncles many times, but they always blast. The other day I noticed (maybe because I didn't talk to her in a few days) a bloom starting. I expect it to open in a day or so. I'm really anxious to smell the fragrance in the evening. I have a brassavola nodosa that sits in the window sill too, and she blooms reliably every year. When she does the entire house is filled with perfume as she sports at least two dozen flowers! I hang it outside during the summer in virtually full sun. I'm hoping the lacanosa when it opens also fills the house with fragrance as I hear they are very powerful and perfumy. She too is in a little hanging basket on my window sill.

Yes - that's snow outside! I also potted this one up in a growers pot I had laying around, similar to most of my other plants. I also keep this one moist, not soaked but never letting it dry out either. Same regime as all my plants - diluted fertilizer in winter and regular strength in summer. Also, I use rain water I collect for watering. Now that it's all frozen, it's going to be a challenge.

So, how about some of you posting pictures of your plants. Booms or not, let's see some pictures, maybe a small description and care too so newbys like myself can get some training and ideas.

Stay well everyone and best wishes for the holidays.

Bill M....