Good morning! First, congrats on your hoya! The hoya forum here is awesome and friendly. But watch out: we'll have you lining your windows with new babies in no time! Second, I enjoyed your writing, so I checked out your blog, and then several back pages of your blog, and then subscribed.

Very entertaining post, thank you.

Welcome to the world of hoyas. It's a very diverse species with several types of growth, not all are climbers. Do check out the hoya forum as tigerdawn suggested, great people and info.

Thank you, thank you!

Haven't been here in ages (I've been sooo lazy and have come close to killing off most of my houseplants in the past couple of years :o( ) but I had to share my hoya/houseplant addiction story. It was a toss up to post it here or at the hoya forum. Figured it was more a general houseplant topic...

Will definitely have to visit the hoya forum; honestly, I didn't think I would have this little guy long enough to need more info. Who knew the fiend hiding within those innocent little leaves?! *lol*

Okay, a revised edition of this post--with photos--is on my blog. Now to figure out if I can (and how) link to that web album from here so I can post just the photos to the Hoya forum...

I'm going for classic hoya (carnosa?), but am thinking there may be two varieties in one pot; the plant on one side has one kind of leaf (small, ovoid, edged in cream/pink on some), the growing-out-of-control plant on the other side of the pot has large, all-green, lance-shaped leaves...

It's normal for variegated hoyas to occasionally grow a non-variegated vine, which will grow much faster than the variegated. Though if they're different shapes, you may have two different types in there.

I'm no expert, but I think the hoya folk would tell you to separate them.

I've had pothos do the same--shoot out "wild" strain green from a variegated plant. Guess we deserve it for forcing plants to do things they wouldn't normally do. ;o) I don't mind; the "natural" strains are usually hardier.

On the other hand, convincing these plants that they'd be better off separated... *snort*

BTW, I hope you all are happy--I ran into the Big W this morning before work to pick up some fuschias my mother's store didn't have, and guess what was new on the $5 houseplant rack? Hoyas!

*bwa-ha-ha-ha* Of course I bought one. I killed most of my mother's houseplants this winter. :o( (I forgot that although geraniums love a sunroom in winter, tropical houseplants absolutely do not.) I owe her, if I can part with any of my purchases...

*phhbbbbttt* I'm not going to play with you all any more! *lol* At this rate you'll have me cleaning my house, and setting up a schedule (*gasp*) so I can care for all of the new houseplants I'll undoubtably end up purchasing. I was independently wealthy the years when watering my houseplants took 10 gallons of water a week!!!

Thanks for all of the great responses!

~ Wren

You give me hope! Mine have not bloomed and I've had them yearrrrrs.

That was a total treat to read, I found myself grinning thru most of it. What you lack in self control resisting houseplants, you make up for in writing talents, CM. I bookmarked you and will read your blog with interest very soon. Nice story to end the day with. Night all.

I do not remember how many years - probably 6+ from a tiny cutting and it flowered this year for the first time. Reminds me of bamboo - some flower all in unison (since they are genetic clones of the same plant) across the world after 70 years or more and they all die. The flowers are truly stunning. Here is mine flowering for the first time .

IT'S ALIVE!!! Still. 12 years and 8 months after acquisition. It actually did get its own copper pipe trellis in 2017. lol... Five feet from bottom of pot to top of pipe, with lots of doubling back on itself. (May 2010 photo, when it had doubled its size from the compact little thing it had been in March, for reference.)