hi everyone it's marianne and today i'll be sharing with you my starter hoya collection
thank you so much for joining me today and i wouldn't consider myself a hoya head and if
you've been watching me for a while i mentioned that quite a few times but looking at the number
of hoyas i currently have it is now actually the third largest in my overall plant collection
but the reason that i still don't consider myself a hoya head is most of the hoyas actually all of
the hoyas that i have in my collection i would consider starter hoyas so if you're
just starting to get into hoyas and you don't know where to start i recommend the hoyas that
i currently have in my collection they're very beginner friendly and a good way to learn and
familiarize yourself with hoyas first before you go buy that single leaf cutting that cost you 200
and while i don't officially consider myself a hoya head i definitely see the appeal of hoyas
a lot of plant parents who make hoyas the main or most of their plant collection but like i said if
you're just starting to get into hoyas i would definitely start with the starter hoyas first
before you get to that hoyas that you saw on instagram that costs a lot of money because
hoya comes in so many different varieties the care for them can be different from one another
even though they're all hoyas so it's good to know the basics and understand the nature of
hoyas first with these starter hoyas that are a little bit more easier to access beginner
friendly when it comes to care and of course they are very budget-friendly so as i share with you my
hoya collection i would start with the easiest and the most beginner friendly to the one that
is a little bit more advanced for beginners but overall still great starter hoya plant
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down below but yeah so let's go ahead and get started so the very first one in my hoya
collection and you can probably guess what it is it is the hoya kerrii and specifically the hoya
kerii that is not variegated i would definitely go for the hoya kerii that is non-variegated first
if it is your first time taking care of hoyas and as you might have heard hoyas are succulent
and succulent-like but that is not true for a lot of hoyas but it's definitely true for the regular
hoya carry eye you can pretty much take care of this like you would any other type of succulents
it doesn't need frequent watering i probably water this once or twice a month depending on the season
and also i give it a lot of light i would shy away though from giving this full sun like i would
succulents but indirect bright light is great for it and what's also great for a lot of the hoyas
that i'm going to mention in this video they can also do well with moderate light but again
moderate light can mean very different to a lot of people some think moderate lighting leans more
towards the low light side some think it cleans more to the bright light side where this one is
definitely leans more to the bright light side so just to be safe indirect bright light for the hoya
carry eye and for a lot of the hoyas if not all of the hoyas that i'm going to be mentioning in this
video and as i've mentioned in previous videos if you've seen me talk about the hoya kerii i do
have a complete care guide on the hoya kerii that i will link up here and also down description that
a lot of hoya kerii being sold are single leaf cuttings that are not going to turn into a plant
and i don't necessarily discourage you from getting that just be aware that the one
that you're getting is a single leaf cutting that is highly unlikely to turn into a plant
but i would still recommend getting it if you like just to get yourself more familiar with the hoya
and see how it is like or different from a regular succulent that you might have in your plant
collection and the second starter hoya that i'll mention which is something people would probably
recommend first is the hoya carnosa and the hoya carnosa comes in many different varieties
you can get the purely green one and you can also get the tri-color ones which are the ones that i
have or the one that has splashes on them and the great thing about the hoya carnosa whether you get
the variegated version or just the regular green version they pretty much have the same level of
care so you just pick and choose which one you like and i can show you the ones that i have
which is the hoya carnosa krimson queen and the way that you could tell that it is a krimson queen
is it produces white leaves like this and also the white variegation on the green leaves is
on the outside and it can also produce pink leaves that eventually would also turn into this white
leaves and i also find that the hoya carnosa krimson queen leaves tend to be a little bit
whiter compared to the krimson princess which i have next so this one is my hoya krimson princess
and i did get this as a large plant from the big box stores and this is the one that you would
commonly find in a lose or a home depot or any big box stores for a really good price and i think
now that six to eight inch pots that you would find in big box stores is around twenty dollars
when i got this it was probably around thirteen or fifteen dollars a couple years ago and what i
love about the hoya krimson princess is it is the opposite of the hoya krimson queen where you can
find the variegation inside of the leaf instead of the outer rim but unlike the hoya krimson queen it
doesn't produce purely white leaves for me at least not for the plant that i have but it can
produce leaves that are completely green which is your standard hoya carnosa and it can also produce
leaves that have like splashes like this which kind of makes it more like your hoya publicalyx
and also makes a great hoya starter plant if you're looking for something that's trails instead
of something that grows up like the hoya kerii and because this is a pretty large plant this is
actually my largest trailing and hanging plant not just for my hoya collection so i only water
this once a month that's what's great about hoya carnosa the tri-colors whether it's the krimson
princess or the krimson queen they make great hanging plants and unlike the pothos i don't have
to water them as frequently my pothos plants that i have hanging on the wall i water them pretty
much once a week and this one i water once a month and usually at the beginning of the month which is
right about now so let me show you how i water and take care of this plant on a monthly basis
since i only water this plant once a month i do take it bring it down from the wall put it in
the bathtub in the bathroom so that i could wash the foliage and not just water it and since i only
water it once a month i know it has gathered a lot of dust on its foliage so i want to make sure
i wash the dust off and any possible pests that might be hiding or working in the leaves but so
far i never had any problems with mealy bugs or anything in my hoya krimson princess and after
that i do water it i normally bottom water but i am top watering with my hoya krimson princess just
because it is a larger plant it is still in the volleyball planters so anything that is getting
drained out is still kind of getting bottom watered up as i do this and i just let it sit
for a few minutes up to an hour and then i'm going to take it out let it dry and then put it back
up in the wall so that's it pretty easy and next one on my starter hoya list is my hoya compacta
and this one i believe is still very much related to the hoya carnosa that i just mentioned but this
one is a little bit trickier when it comes to care because of the shape of the leaves and it
is as the name suggests a little bit more compact so it's kind of harder to tell when it needs water
and the way i determine that it needs water is the leaf itself not just how it curls but the actual
leaf itself has wrinkles on it and that's how i know that this is due for watering but once you
figure that out and you know when to water your hoya compacta this is a pretty much easy care
plant and also in my experience propagates very easily i started out with a very small cutting of
this and now it is like this it is a very slow growing plant compared to other hoyas that are
already slow growing plants but for some people that could be a positive thing for me definitely
it is a positive thing because i get to keep the plant or i also get to add apply to my collection
without it taking much space or being worried that down the road that i have to transplant
this or find a bigger spot for it because it has grown so much and this one i already had for like
almost three years now maybe even more but like i said i only started with probably
this much of a cutting and it has grown this much since okay so once you've got the regular
hoya kerii and the hoya carnosas down then i would definitely go venture onto the variegated versions
of the hoya kerii if you really like them and i do love my hoya kerii so i do try to collect as many
of the varieties it has and this one is the reverse variegata and this one is the albo
marginata with the reverse variegata as you can see it's still very much green so after
the regular hoya kerii if you get their hoya kerii reverse variegata you probably wouldn't have much
difficulty in taking care of this one as this is still a very green plant i mean if you
look at instagram there are hoya kerii reverse varigatas that have a little bit more lighter
variegation on them and with this one i only see the lighter variegation after the leaf comes out
but eventually once the leaf matures it also kind of fades into this very green color with the album
marginata however it does keep that yellow variegation and in some cases it can produce
leaves that are completely yellow which makes it a little bit more tricky plant to take care of
and i honestly actually killed my very first albo marginata and i got this one about late last year
and this is currently a single leaf cutting i was told that this is a single leaf cutting with a
node so it will eventually grow into a plant but i haven't seen evidence of that yet and i also have
it repotted this to actually find out if it has a node and the reason i haven't done that is a lot
of hoyas hates getting repotted and if you repot them too frequently or if you repot them when you
just got them that usually ends your plant dying and i have experience with a couple of hoyas
like the hoya kentiana or hoya wayetii variegata that are repotted way too soon the moment i've
gotten it and it has died out so you have to be careful when you get the album arginata to not do
the same and kind of like the same thing happened with my very first albo marginata that i got from
a thailand import i've also been repotting that way too often i also over watered it and
it died and this can die very easily it will die overnight if you don't take care of it properly
so just be careful with the albo marginata version of the hoya kerii but if you want to venture into
the variegated versions of the kerii i would suggest going with the reverse variegata first
i do have three more starter hoyas that i'm going to talk about and the next one is the hoya
curtisii and the hoya curtisii have been popping up in big box stores so if you're lucky enough to
find one go get it because you are able to get it in a much larger pot when i got this i got this as
part of my thailand import and i only got a few cuttings of it that i had to propagate and grow
myself and the great thing about the hoya curtisii though it is a very resilient hoya and not a lot
of hoyas especially if you import them do well over import but i do find the hoya curtisii even
though it looks like a delicate plant it did survive the importation pretty well but i might
just have gotten lucky so don't take my word for it if you can find this in your local nursery or
in the big box stores it would be better for you to buy them locally instead of importing them the
hoya curtisii makes a great alternative to plants like the string of hearts which i love but i do
think the hoya curtisii is actually an easier care plant than the string of hearts it is a much
slower grower but i think it grows pretty much the same face as the string of hearts variegata
and i have just recently upgraded it to this pot and i did so very carefully knowing that hoyas
hate getting repotted and i immediately placed it in the prop box but as you can see i did have some
yellow leaves at the bottom here and there but so far it has survived the transplant process
but what i love about the hoya curtisii like i said is the shape of the leaves it's not exactly
heart shaped but it is round with a pointed tip and it has speckles on it that actually
reminds me of not just the string of hearts but the peperomia prostrata so if you're looking for
a hoya that has smaller foliage i definitely recommend the hoya curtisii to start with and
we're almost the final stretch and the second to the last starter hoya that i would recommend
is the hoya compacta variegata and again if you're fortunate enough to find this in the
big box stores you can find it in a six or even eight inch pot at the same price as a regular
hoya compacta that you'll also find at a big box store so if you're lucky go grab it if you're able
to snag a big pot of the hoya compacta variegata it actually becomes and a lot easier care plant
because you have a lot more of the plant to play with but when i got my hoy compacta in a
plant shop in chicago it was in a three inch pot it had like maybe three to five cuttings in it
but only one survived the thing about variegated hoya plants especially when you only have
very few cuttings of it they are very sensitive to transport and transplanting which happened to
this one i'm fortunate enough that i actually had a cutting that survived unlike my hoya kentiana
varagata that i bought at the same time as this one it completely died out but that one
i only had about like one or two cuttings of it and they just didn't survive the transport and
transplant process after i've gotten them so again if you're able to get a big pot of this
in your big box store in your local plant shop then you have better chances of keeping this
plant alive so even if you lose like one or two you still have the rest of the plant to play with
but if you're only getting a small pot of this or a cutting of this then this becomes
a tricky plant to take care of so just be careful and pay a little bit more attention to it than you
would your other hoya plants and the last hoya plant in my collection that i would consider a
starter hoya the hoya fishtail and i know this is still uncommon back then this was considered rare
and very hard to find and this can still pack a price even now but it's not as crazy as the prices
that it used to carry just a couple years ago and what makes the hoyo polyneura or hoya fishtail
different from the other plants in my hoya starter collection is the foliage of the hoya
fishtail looks a lot more like a regular green foliage plant then it is a hoya wax plant that
has that thicker more supple leaves so with this one it would require a lot more watering
compared to the other hoyas that i've shown you but also still be careful with its watering
because it is still a hoya and with this one i would consider this a starter plant because
i do think it propagates very easily i got this as a single leaf cutting from a trade so i got this
about late october early november last year and now as of filming this it is the first week of
march and it has grown this much and i never really had any problems with its propagation
process the moment i've gotten it from the person i traded with i just kept it in the container
that she gave me it was wrapped in moss i put it in my ikea greenhouse cabinet and then in a
prop box and then a few months later it is this and like i said it's very easy to propagate it
grows pretty fast compared to my other hoyas and it looks so pretty so if you already have
gone through the hoya carnosas or the typical wax plant and you want to venture into the more
uncommon or rare side of hoyas i would definitely start with the hoya polyneura hoya fishtail
like i said it can still pack quite a price but not as much as it used to and it's also easier
care compared to other uncommon or rare hoyas and that's my entire hoya collection that i consider
great starter hoyas and if you have any other hoyas that you think are great for beginners
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