Today I would like to share my houseplant collection with you. This video is the first part, featuring my hoyas.
I really enjoy watching houseplant home tours and so I thought it would be fun to make one of my own.
I grew almost all of my hoyas from one or two node cuttings.
Hoya plants can be expensive. Small unrooted cuttings are the most affordable way to build a collection.
I really enjoy growing a plant from a tiny cutting. It's really satisfying to watch each new leaf develop.
I grew my "polyneura" from a single node last winter.
It took a long time to root and I didn't think it would survive, but since the spring it has grown really well.
Some of the leaves are a bit small or misshapen, but I think that it gives the plant character.
My "lacunosa" and my "mathilde" were small rooted cuttings with 3 or 4 leaves when I got them in January.
I have taken cuttings from both of these plants so that I can make the plants bigger with multiple vines.
I love plants but I live in an apartment, and so I often put similar species together in a single pot to save space.
This is my "carnosa" pot, it has three different varieties of "carnosa" including two variegated cuttings.
I grow all of my plants in plain terracotta pots because they are cheap, pretty, and help me prevent root rot.
I'm much more confident with plants now than I used to be, but I used to overwater plants and kill them with kindness.
These are my "wayetii" cuttings. They weren't growing very fast, so I have put them in LECA (clay balls).
Most of my hoyas are growing in a homemade mixture of pine bark, perlite or vermiculite, and coco coir.
LECA is really helpful as it takes the guess work out of watering. Some of my plants seem to really like LECA.
These two plants are both under the umbrella of "verticillata" but they also have other Latin names.
Hoya names can be confusing sometimes, and some species appear to have more than one Latin name.
I'm not an expert when it comes to names, and I'm still quite new to the world of houseplants and hoya.
These two species share a pot, because they are very similar to one another. The "rosita" is a hybrid.
Hoya "sp. aff. burtoniae" is often mislabeled as "burtoniae" or "tsangii". The "sp. aff." has slightly fuzzy leaves.
The "rosita" is a hybrid of the "sp. aff. burtoniae" and "wayetii", and its leaves are smaller and not fuzzy.
This "carnosa" has its own pot. I really like the textured leaves. It is similar to the carnosa "compacta".
These two are both hybrids of "lacunosa" and "obscura". They are in LECA because they have taken me a long time to root.
Sometimes I find that plants other people find easy are hard for me to grow, and viceversa. These two are challenging.
Just like my "polyneura" cutting, I know that they will eventually grow roots and develop into healthy plants.
This one also took quite a long time to grow roots, but it is growing new leaves now. It can "sun stress" and turn red.
"Sun stress" isn't something I have to think about in November in Northern Europe though!
My "fungii" has grown a very long vine, I am hoping that eventually it will grow some leaves on the new vine!
For now I have wrapped the vine around this homemade copper trellis to try to keep the plant under control!
"Obovata" was on my wish list for quite a long time. It is not very common or easy to find in the UK at the moment.
I bought this as a single leaf cutting for a few pounds, and the two new leaves it has grown for me are misshapen.
It might be that the plant's roots aren't mature yet, or perhaps it is that the plant wants more light.
This plant is still a tiny cutting. It has grown roots, and I hope that soon it will grow new leaves too.
I root most of my cuttings in moss. This bowl is usually covered with a glass lid, so the humidity is very high.
These last few plants aren't hoya, but close cousins in the genus "dischidia" and genus "aeschynanthus".
They look very similar to hoya plants. They are tropical and vining plants with small flowers.