Hoya talk forum: A Hoya serpens Rhapsody in Two Parts
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| Here is the link to my newest time-lapse video: A Hoya serpens Rhapsody in Two Parts. It is around a minute and a half long and contains, what I think is some of my best footage of blooms opening to date. Hoya serpens this year is a plant that just keeps giving and giving. Besides having a seedpod; its final peduncle of blooms for the year opened yesterday. The link: http://youtu.be/R7HeGY9hbYs The bloom photo:  |
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| Beautiful, Doug!!!! Leap. The net will appear. |
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Yeah, who is that little guy in the beginning??  And have although watched the video of your stupendous lobbii, hope mine will look like that sometimes. Daniel Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein |
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Thank you Carol, and Daniel! Daniel, I'm sure when your lobbii is five years old like mine, it will be every bit as large  |
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| oh stunning footage Doug - your new camera really is suberb! I love the chipmonk and the cows.....but missing the humiliated cats just a little   |
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| Thanks Julie, I've just got to find a way to humiliate those cats a little bit more |
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That is a great video Doug. Nice music too. And the cows with that 'tube top'  I have lots of chipmunks and they damage my Mango fruits. Even gnaw on the tree trunks. I enjoy your videos. Thanks. |
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That is a great line Alka "Cows with a tube top"  I looked them up and the breed is the Belted Galloway, but I like your name better. Those darned chipmunks are kind of like rats, but they are so cute, I just let them do their thing even though they planted sunflowers in almost all of my greenhouse Hoyas. I'm glad you like my videos; I try to make them fun for people who don't even like plants.Doug |
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| Doug, I always enjoy your videos and today took some time to watch the one on your experiment with H. praetorii I just got a cutting of this one from Thailand day before yesterday and have it rooting my my normal method (fish tank filled with 50/50 perlite & vermiculite) but I'm leaning toward putting in the semi-hydro method now that I see how well yours did. Even though it wasn't in transit long, the leaves are wilted though the stem is turgid. I grow 4 of my 5 H. kerrii varieties in the semi hydro method and they go crazy. The one in soil looks about the same as it did 2 years ago!! It has one new leaf. Of course the cuttings Iris sent of H. kerrii were very generous in size but even still the semi-hydro seems to agree with them. In my recent shipment from Thailand I also picked up H. campanulata which 'feels' similar though I have never tried to grow either of these. So my question is, do you think H. campanulata will appreciate growing in the SH also? My other question is - do you tip prune your praetorii to encourage a fuller plant? Thanks again for taking the time to upload the great videos. Perception is Unique! |
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| Lali, I don't have praetorii, but I do have a small campanulata (from Doug - thank you ) which I rooted semi hydro. It flowered within 7 weeks of receiving it and is putting out a lovely new shoot already. I was waiting until it had finished flowering before moving it to a larger pot! Will upload a photo as soon as my camera battery has charged I'm not sure if Doug grows his SH - but I'm sure he'll tell us! Good point about pinching out the tips of praetorii....I have a wonderfully straggly plant of H bella. Should I pinch that out too? |
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| Lali, You absolutely must grow your new praetorii in semi-hydro! It so out performs its soil grown counterparts that it is no longer a competition. Right now I have four huge peduncles of developing buds on the one in s-h. It grows like a weed; I am currently watering it twice a day, morning and night always with plant food in the water. It is for sure not a plant grown for its looks! Chopping it back won't really produce a bushier plant, but will give you additional cuttings. When I decide to chop mine back again, I will probably put three cuttings in one pot, and that might just yield a fuller plant. As for campanulata, I grow mine almost wet in potting mix and for some reason the roots don't rot; I would not want to try it if it were cool. After seeing Julie's results in S-H, I think if I were you, I would try to grow it that way as well. At some point if my plant starts to fail, I will try one that way as well. Doug |
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| Thanks for the tips Julie & Doug. I think I'll repot the cuttings into SH today and bag them until they are rooted. For the 4 H. kerrii varieties that are grown SH, I put them in normal plastic pots, some are in 6" some are 4" and then placed the hydronton in the pot and placed the pot into a normal type of plastic dish (the kind you can buy for super cheap thatis designed to just catch water) I just keep them full all of the time and so far no problems. Only the bottom inch or so of the pot is ever in water, and I am assuming it just wicks up as needed. I also keep food in the water, alternating sea kelp or MaxSea triple 16 or bloom booster. I spent some time yesterday looking at semi hydro pots online from orchid supply vendors and I think Doug that you have the best solution with the inexpensive paint buckets like you show in your SH Youtube video. There is a woman in Europe (Sweden I think) on one of the Facebook hoya groups who always posts the most amazing looking hoya and they are all in SH. She uses a particular brand of SH pot that has a water level indicator and they look 'prettier' for use in my living room but aren't easy to find in the US. I found one vendor who has the pots for sale and a few more that sell only the water level ind. I don't think I can keep up with twice a day watering so I'll likely go with the same method I use with H. kerrii, I water once a week when I have them inside (so far no problems with stinky or stale water) and now that they are outside for the summer, I hose them off every other day and feed once a week. They've doubled in size since spring. Thanks again Doug for the videos! Sorry to hijack your serpens thread. I can start another on SH if you like. Perception is Unique! |
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| Hi Lali, I do it meanwhile quiet similar like You. I use some boxes for washing detergent with normal plastic pots and they are standing always in the water. And there are two advantages, first, I can stack the boxes so I´ll have mor space to root cuttings and second, I can open and close the lid, depending on the outside temperature. And it works great for me.... Here´s an example   Daniel Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein |
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| brilliant idea Daniel! I hope some of those cuttings are for trading |
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| No worry about hijacking the serpens thread! All very good information Lali and Daniel |
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 Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein |
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Nice work Doug with the video.   |
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| Thank you Cindy! I trust you had a fantastic time on your nearly around the world trip! |
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