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so let's dive into today's topic which you might be able to see a bit of a hint in front of me this
is my hoya crinkle eight and i'll bring it in a bit closer and hopefully you'll be able to see
why it's called a crinkle eight and you can see those little dimples they're like inverse abs
i call them on each one of the leaves and there's eight of them generally speaking
there's not always going to be eight there might be six there might be seven there might be four
it depends on the leaf and depends on how juvenile the plant is but the one thing that i the topic
that i want to talk about today a bit more isn't specifically about this hoya and i've got a errant
little um dining stem there but i don't want to talk about this specific for you i want to talk
about blooming in hoyas and what i've found has worked well in my situation in terms of promoting
kind of heavy blooming on some of my foyers and what i always say about this one is it's
very much like a mullet so it is business in the front and party in the back so you
might be able to see if i bring it in a bit closer again there you might be able to see
at the moment it's got one peduncle that's in bloom there's a few more that are coming in
and i don't know whether or not you'll be able to see some of the other ones but
if i just quickly count the peduncles that are on this plant there is one two 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
12 i think in total and what i might do is i'll see if it will kind of come across if i bring this
a bit closer this is the jackiest video ever that i've made but you might be able to see there some
of the peduncles and you can see one right there as well the point i'm trying to make with this is
if you've got a growing vining stem and you think it looks a bit too much or if you don't like the
look of it don't cut it off because that's a where there's the new foliage is going to come from and
if you cut it off it's going to mean that the plant's going to have to work that much harder
to bring out a new vining stem to grow more leaves and as you know most toys are quite slow growing
so don't do that but also you'll get some vining stems with absolutely no leaves growing peduncles
and actually this produced a lot of blooms from the same stems that even last year did not have
foliage on it but it produced quite a bit of um it's called flowers so or peduncles essentially
so umbles of flowers i think that's what they're called i might be wrong but i think that's what it
is and talking about blooming and hoya and you've never had a hoya balloon for you previously um you
might not know this you might do already but they they do some of them have got sense some
of them have got stronger scents than others this one is a bit grandma-esque so it's a very strong
floral aroma but with most hoyas they their scent comes out in the evening time or in the morning
time and that is i think at least if it's anything like some garden plants so for instance i'm
thinking of the honeysuckle now the honeysuckle is a plant that you have in the garden and it tends
to be fragrant at nighttime or in the morning and if i remember correctly when i was reading
the reason for that is because it's pollinators what pollinates the honeysuckle and potentially
the same kind of pollinators might be for hoyas are moths so because a moth is more active
in the morning hours or in the evening hours these types of plants will be more fragrant during those
times a day to get those pollinators interested in their flowers so they can pollinate as well so
this is entirely what i think it might be i haven't done any research but it
if it aligns with why other plants do it i would assume that's pretty much the reason now let me
bring up another foyer so you can see another hoya that has got quite a few peduncles on it and i'll
talk about what i've done in my care in order to promote such um a huge amount of peduncles on what
is relatively small plants basically this plant up for instance i've only had for about two and a
half years i only started producing peduncles last year and it went from one or two peduncles in the
beginning and i think half of the peduncles that i've got on now i've had since last year so that's
another thing do not cut out the kind of peduncles where the little humbles of flowers pop out from
because that's where future flowers will also be coming from so just bear that in mind
so let me pick up the next one i'll show you the other one as well so in front of me
you might be able to see the second hoya that i've got that is in heavy bloom at the moment
this is my hoya abavata variagatus of the very gated hoya overvata hopefully that is focusing
on the plant and not on me and then you might be able to see some of the peduncles that are very
very very sorry about all the shaking i'm trying to hold it steady but you can see some of the
peduncles that are very heavily laid in and they're about to come out so you can may be
able to see some of the other peduncles here as well let's give a quick count so we've got one two
three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen and there's a
tiny one at the very top sixteen seventeen so very much a prolific bloomer this is slightly different
than the crinkle eight the crinkle eights flowers will stick around for i'd say about
a week or two this one will usually each flower blossom essentially or each one of the humbles
will probably only be around for about four or five days and they will drop their
their blooms after that point now i think with this one it's not one that has a very strong
scent i've not been able to smell anything from it or if it is it's very very delicate the crinkle 8
is much more strong smelling if that makes sense but this is definitely one that will flower quite
readily essentially now let's talk about what i do in my care and what might be contributing to
their abundance in blooming as with most of my hoya i've got them in my aroid soil mix so
the the ingredients to that or how i mix it is on my channel as well so if you want to know a bit
more check that out and with all of my hoyas bar none they will always be as close as i possibly
can get them to a south-facing window what this does mean is that the foliage does get a bit
washed out it does get a bit bleached out because it's quite quite strong light but it also means
that they will bloom in abundance the other thing that you might be able to see is my janky kind of
support sticks i grow all my hoyas upright with the exception of literally the polyneura
and the hoya linearis which i'm looking at the front of me because they are very much
if you see them in nature they are ones that will hang down uh and that's what they do in
nature with a lot of the other hoyas generally speaking even though they are vining they vine
up trees rather than being trailing so what i find is if i give them that support upwards
they will grow more foliage and they will also have uh be very giving essentially
with peduncles obviously don't cut the peduncles like we talked about earlier on
and um as soon as i start seeing the peduncles coming up and kind of like kind of swelling up
or getting those little flower blossoms starting to kind of emerge from the peduncle itself um
what i will then start doing is fertilizing a bit more frequently so maybe every second watering
with a liquid fertilizer my preferred one is liquid gold leaf but if you don't have that
in your region or if you if you haven't tried it and you've got something else try something
with a high phosphorus if i'm not mistaken i think phosphorus that you need if not i'll
kind of put a comment somewhere here uh which is it kind of encourages blooms essentially
within most uh plants so i think that's everything i wanted to say about these hoyas none of which
are actually by the way in my conservatory slash hothouse there's not really high humidity they're
in regular household humidities as i said getting baked by the sun most of the time most of them
are over radiated as well but they seem to be doing really really well so i've got a couple
of hoyas again the linearis and the fishtail hoya the polyneura i'm looking at them in front of me
they're in the conservatory because they generally are slightly more delicate the leaves are thinner
these are quite succulents the same way as a crinkle eight so i just have them outside out
and about in the house no problem at all so yeah i think that's everything i wanted to say about
these uh hoyas and about what i have done that might be what's causing
this many peduncles to grow on um essentially my hoyas if you've got any questions comments drop
them down below i'd love to have a conversation with you guys uh hopefully you've enjoyed uh
hopefully i shall see you here soon and hopefully you have a great rest of your day thanks bye