#hoya peduncles

[plantshaped]

I have many hoyas getting ready to bloom! Very exciting! The rangsan has 8 peduncles forming so far and it'll be it's first flowers ever so I'm really looking forward to them

In order: krimson queen, bella, DS-70, rangsan

#plantblr #houseplant #hoya flowers #hoya peduncles #hoya krimson queen #hoya bella #hoya ds-70 #hoya rangsan #i know the tag in ds-70 says bilobata but the plant farm relabeled after seeing blooms... ive just never bothered to replace tag

[snarp]

Have successfully bullied @thegeekgene 's single sweetheart plant (hoya kerrii) leaf into the beginning of the vine stage, which apparently involves growing a hand and reaching for the catnip.

#thegeekgene #is this plant a kind of cat #hoya kerrii #edit several weeks later: these are #peduncle #s #it was getting ready to flower

[rosemarysea]

MY HOYA LACUNOSA IS GOING TO BLOOM LETS GOOOO

#no one asked no one cares but im literally crying and chewing through a wall right now #i have so many hoyas and none have ever bloomed for me im sobbing and throwing up #the little peduncle is so cute #today sucked so much and seeing it literally cured me

[grimark]

ooh this person is my nemesis i am SICK right now

#even my most mature hoya will not fucking flower for love or money #and yet this person's SINGLE BABY LEAF is putting out a flower peduncle??? how? why???? #wtf do you need to flower for you are a LEAF #ok i do want a hoya kerrii though. they r cute... #i saw some nice ones at a plant show earlier this year and restrained myself but now i wish i hadn't

[shikitsuka]

Hybrid making time!!! It looks like the black haworthia springkbokvlakensis decided to join in on the flower craze. So I already have some pups of it with my pygmaea (probably) growing, some pollinated growing seedpods between picturata and pygmaea again.. and in a day or two I'll have my first try for picturata x springkbokvlakensis

Plus some just pretty photos because I can

Boże za rok albo dwa będę musiała zobaczyć jak się dostaje paszporty roślinne żeby pozbyć się większości tych maluchów XD

#haworthia #haworthia hybrids #houseplants #hoya is also growing what is now definitely a peduncle

[cherylmurphywrites]

So I didn't put a camera on this one for a timelapse because I never expected it to bloom. The vine got too heavy for itself and snapped, so it's been rerooting (you can see the wrinkly leaves waiting for new roots to show up), and I thought for sure the umbel would drop before it bloomed. But lo and behold, it made it! I'll turn some pics into a video tomorrow though. 😍♥️🌱🪄 #hoyabella #hoyaheads #hoya #houseplants #peduncles #bloom https://www.instagram.com/p/Cig77ewOchX/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#hoyabella #hoyaheads #hoya #houseplants #peduncles #bloom

[pallanophblargh]

When you’re not supposed to pick favorites, but…

I’ve had this Hoya callistophylla for 1 year and 4 months and she’s come so far. Dare I say, beyond my wildest dreams? (Ha!) I’m gonna need a bigger trellis, and eventually a bigger pot. In the meantime, determined blooming! (More peduncles incoming it looks like)

Found a baby photo for those interested in glow ups!

#Hoya callistophylla #Hoya plant #wax plant #plantblr #houseplant #tropical plants #foliage #flowers #trypophobia warning #someone mentioned the flowers looked like teeth and now I can’t unsee it! #thankfully that somehow makes me like it more? #I hear that these usually grow slowly for people but I’ve found her to grow quite steadily #likes to stay just moist #regular watering and bright light help a lot #otherwise not a picky plant by my metrics #those leaves are to die for

[milkconfetti]

my first hoya peduncles and they’re on the one i thought was least likely to flower any time soon. screaming crying throwing up etc

#legit thought this one wasn’t doing too well overall #but APPARENTLY I WAS WRONG

[poop-me-a-flower]

My hoya ‘mathilde’ is growing a pp! (It’s a peduncle, for flowering.) There’s another one starting higher up the plant. I’m stoked to see the flowers!!

#plantblr #houseplant #houseplants #hoya #hoya mathilde #wax plant

[plantidoozy]

Hoya Carnosa, jade variety, after and before.

So this is my favorite plant, if you can't tell (it's the one in my avatar).

2 years ago, while I was walking through a houseplant store in Austin (that's sadly now closed), I saw this guy in the "needs TLC" section. I had no idea why -- it looked like an extremely healthy, large plant. It was around $35, and I figured I'd take it home. I didn't really have a plant this large and wanted to figure out whatever was wrong with it.

To this day I don't know why it was discounted, and it's not like I can ask them anymore. The current theory is that this plant was once a krimson princess/tricolor variety that had lost its variegation due to a lack of light. The only reason I suspect that is because it actually grew out a tricolor stem (shown in the last image) despite the rest of it being entirely jade. Normally plants don't re-variegate after losing their white, but apparently this type of carnosa can.

(Side note: this means don't buy monstera albos that have lost their variegation for ridiculously high prices. They're probably not going to grow their variegation back, and you've likely just been scammed).

Back when I lived in Austin, the plant never really loomed. Since moving to Massachusetts? I don't know if it's the water or what, but this plant has started blooming like crazy. It almost always has some kind of bloom. Last I counted it's grown about 10 peduncles since moving here (in the span of about 8 months). The blooms don't really smell at all but hey, they look nice.

Care below.

Hoya carnosas are one of the most common varieties of hoyas. They often have a lot of variety just within the plant type itself -- there's hindu ropes/compacta, krimson queens/rubras, krimson princesses/tricolor, argentea picta, argentea princess, krinkle, freckles, nova ghost, wilbur graves... The list goes on.

Generally the difference between them is how variegated they are, whether the variegation is on the edges of the leaves or in the middle, how scrunky their leaves are, and the amount of splash on them. And the rarer ones can get expensive. Jades, rubras, tricolors and compactas are all pretty cheap and common, but argentea princesses and wilbur graves can get EXPENSIVE.

Care for the plant is moderate compared to your standard houseplants. They require indirect light, but high filtered light or an artificial light encourages splash -- little white dots that form on the leaves. Do not put them in direct sunlight. They will burn.

For soil, you want something light and airy. Hoyas traditionally grow in trees, and so they do NOT like having their roots remain continuously wet. While you can grow it in your basic bitch traditional soil from any gardening store, you want to be extremely careful with watering, leaving the soil dry until the plant's thick leaves become thin and pliable before watering again. I heard it referred to as the 'taco test' -- when you can bend the leaves closer to the base like a taco, that generally means they're ready to water.

What's better for them is orchid potting mixes. Orchids are similar -- they also grow in trees, and since orchids are a little more common than hoyas their potting mixes are more common in gardening stores. What I personally do is plant mine in either long-fibered sphagnum moss or lechuza pon. Leca balls (i.e. clay balls) also apparently work. Just remember to fertilize them every now and again, and water them when the material gets dry. Really, if you just treat them like orchids, you'll probably be okay. Except don't use the ice cube method (for hoyas OR orchids).

Watering is mentioned above -- they like their roots to get air and dry out. You can water them more frequently if you plant them in airy material like sphagnum moss or pon, but err on the side of leaving the material dry. They'll live.

Hoyas don't really need a lot in the way of repotting, and you can leave them in their pots for years. Their root system is not that big. I've heard advice that hoyas won't really grow until their roots fill out the pot, but I've also heard this is bullshit. I've had mixed experiences.

Hoyas like higher humidity (around 70-80) but they can grow at standard household humidity. Lower humidity takes longer for them to grow, and chances are they won't form as many blooms, if any. They grow very nice in a greenhouse.

Speaking of blooms -- these plants grow blooms from peduncles, little nodes that grow off of the plant. Do NOT remove these. The hoya will bloom repeatedly from the same peduncle. So leave them on.

They are propagated extremely easily, with just your standard "throw it in a cup of water, done" method. That said, they do take MUCH longer to root than standard houseplants, and their roots are very fragile. I have knocked their roots off while moving them in the cup, requiring them to restart.

Overall, hoyas are a very slow-growing and yet rewarding plant. They can take months to grow, and years to get anywhere to fullness. If you can't tell, they are my favorite type of plant.

#houseplants #house plants #plantblr #plant blog #hoya #hoya carnosa

[litfeathers]

My Hoya Mathilde just decided to give me the absolute perfect bunch of flowers. She’s absolutely covered in peduncles, so she might put on an even more spectacular show in the future!

#hoya #plantblr #additional note: she smells like a mix between lilacs and carnations #we gonna rock this queue

[ukenceto]

my Hoya Pubicalyx has 3 budding peduncles... or so I thought! This 4th one had sneaked up on me, hiding away and the fragrance is what gave it off tonight, until I investigated and found it blooming 🖤❤️

#plants #plantblr #hoya #hoya pubicalyx #she blooms again and is spectacular

[plantshaped]

Can't remember if I posted about this guy blooming again or not. But, I purchased it in bloom and the stress of shipping+change in environment killed it off quickly. Sadly. Buuuut the other peduncle basically immediately got to work making its own flowers. I watered it yesterday and was tickled to see the excess water coming out of the buds this evening. In other exciting news, the original peduncle is going to bloom again! I bought this as a true hoya burtoniae, not an sp aff, so this time I'll see if I can find some reliable pictures of blooms to compare to

#i hope its a true one. i have a strange fixation on the bilobata vs burtoniae vs sp aff burtoniae and i want one of each #even though the problem with them is that theyre nearly identical #oh and DS70... another look alike #i have DS70 i bought as bilobata. i have so aff burtoniae. i maybe have burtoniae... #tbh it looks very similar to my sp aff burtoniae. but that one hasn't bloomed yet for me #and the confusion is in the similarities so i suppose its fair that im doubting it because of how similar they look... #whatever whatever no one cares about this anyways. like i said. i think about it weirdly often #plantblr #houseplants #hoya #hoya burtoniae

[3dsmall]

my Hoya pubicalyx is budding!!! My first ever Hoya, my biggest Hoya, is going to produce its first flowers and reveal to me its true species/cultivar, and I’ve been caring for it for 4+ years.

I fucking gasped when I saw its peduncle

meanwhile my carnosa hasn’t stopped busting out flowers since like February

[clover-seeds]

some shots from watering day 🥰

1. piccolo phalaenopsis no id

2. phalaenopsis no id

3. oncidium ‘tsiku marguerite’ (smelling heavenly)

4. hoya retusa (its first peduncle!)

#clover's plants #orchid #oncidium #phalaenopsis #hoya #hoya retusa

[cherylmurphywrites]

My #hoyakrimsonqueen is about a year old and has its first #peduncle ... #sizedoesntmatter #hoyaheads #hoyas #houseplants https://www.instagram.com/p/CgR6ZiKJmak/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#hoyakrimsonqueen #peduncle #sizedoesntmatter #hoyaheads #hoyas #houseplants