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hi platt friends it's wax plant wednesday and today's featured plant is the hoya elliptica
i've got the hoya elliptica in a south-facing window it's getting a lot of
morning sun about four hours of direct sunlight
this way is a very vigorous growing hoya it's winter
normally my hoyas would stop growing pretty much sleep over the winter but this hoya
keeps growing and it's getting quite tangled in between all the plants
i find a zoya to be quite thirsty i water my plants every saturday once a week but on
wednesdays i do a double check and i check all the plants to make sure they're not
limp or looking kind of thirsty or the soil's too dry since it's winter the
heat's on and the plants do dry out quickly so on wednesday i like to top the plants off
and sure enough this is one of those plants that i almost have to water every wednesday as well
about once a month i've got to untangle her from the plants
i like to give her a little bit of leeway grow a little bit and get tangled and let lengthen
her tendrils i find sometimes when you touch the grow tips of hoyas they'll die back a little bit
but with this hoya 90 of the time her grow tips haven't died back she's quite a vigorous grower
i also noticed that this whole is not affected by cool temperatures
she's by this window at nighttime it's about 18 degrees celsius
and the daytime it can get quite warm with it being a sunny spot most of my hoyas that are in
this spot that are getting cool temperatures will stop growing this one she hasn't stopped at all
for feed i'm using the fox farm tiger bloom and it's the one that's 2-8-4
and it does come with a lot of micronutrients and it's a very weak solution i do weekly just a
tip in a liter of water i like to do the week weekly method for all my plants
do
the leaves on the soya are quite thin i think that's one of the reasons why it requires so
much water so whenever i see the leaves are limp or droopy i know that this plant needs a little
bit more water and if i don't water this plant as often as as it needs it tends to drop leaves
i've had this hawaii in my collection for about six months when i purchased
it it had a peduncle the padauka is still on the plant but it hasn't produced any flowers
i find sometimes when you bring home a hoya it needs a full year to get comfortable in
the environment or for you to see the growing cycle she might not be a winter bloomer maybe
it's a summer bloomer so we'll see if our peduncle produces any flowers over the spring or summer
this hoya elliptica keeps me busy i've got to constantly train around the trellis
which is quite enjoyable it's nice to have a hoya that's actively growing at all seasons
because sometimes when they're sleeping you tend to worry about them and wonder what is this hoya
doing is it happy or not with the hoya elliptica she's always happy thanks for watching plant
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