Enjoyable for us too! Thanks for making it possible for us. Now I have to show my husband these pics!

HAHA...DNA lab! Not even time to fold the laundry!!!!

I hear ya...

I am sending a list out of hoya plants I have for sale. Unfortunately it has to go out to individuals in an email. SO....if you are interested in seeing the list (plants and cuttings), please send me your email address in a TreeMail.... List will go out, probably, tomorrow.

Hey now, I *know* you have my email address!!!

Didn't you get the list? You were on my address list.... I'm sure....(off to murder my computer after looking for address list)

Nope, didn't get anything. Can you send it again and I'll make sure it didn't end up in my spam folder?

Just a photo update..2nd tier of buds from the Hoya shooting star has started to bloom as well....more shooting stars!

I accidentally broke the stem of my hoya kerrii variegata trying to loop it around ugh!

Extra plant part to put into new pot or stuff back into original pot?

I have put it for now in its tiny pot...I hope it will try to grow, the cutting has the tip end and there's a lower node where two very small leaves has just started to develop. This is my first time to have a hoya cutting...fingers crossed!

I need to top off some of my Hoya's.What kind of soil should i use? They are all AE plants and most people who have bought them know they use a moisture retaining soil.You have to really be careful in the winter watering any EA plants.So should i use a fast draining so i don't end up with rot.The only EA plant i have topped off before is my prayer plant & they need such a moisture retaining soil i use African Violet soil in it,but it looks to be planted in peat moss & it breaks down very fast.My Hoya's need to be potted up because of birds trying to make a nest in them & now pulling roots to make nest.

H. 'Chelsea' ,i have some worse than this one & this one is worse now.I have managed to stop them from trying to make nest in the plants,i'm hoping covering the roots with soil will stop them from pulling on roots to get them out,they leave a mess, before they kill a plant.I have provided a place for them or 2 of them to nest on my back porch.That's where they so badly want to nest.

Tarev, how wonderfully colorful your new avatar is!

Thanks Bev

Jelinda...any organic matter will be ok...just to maintain the moisture on top of the roots....not too deep.

Carol, Thanks for the advice.I will do just that.

I've got a question about cuttings and blooms... If I take a cutting (for my mom) that has a bloom thingie (peduncle?) on it, will it continue to produce blooms there once it gets rooted and settled in? I've only got one plant that blooms regularly, and Mom thinks it's so beautiful. I'd like to give her a blooming plant without a long wait for it to get to that stage.

Thanks!

Wonderful pictures of the Shooting Star!!

I like the shooting star myself.....

Yes...if there's a peduncle on your cutting...it will bloom quite early.

BTW...NOW until June is an ideal time to root cuttings....