My Best and Worst Houseplants of 2022 | Plus My Overall Favorite Plant of The Year | Lots of Hoya

[@JCAnimus]

I understand feeling guilty tossing clippings. That's exactly how I've gotten so many zz plants and pothos. Now I just try to gift them to people I think will appreciate them

[@JCAnimus]

So my sister's and mother

[@ThePinkTrellis]

Yep! This morning I had to trim my cebu blue again and I once again couldn’t just throw them away so I made a new pot of cebu blue 😊. You made me smile when you mentioned your sisters and mother. I’m imagining a very happy plant family. You are so lucky 😊.

[@JCAnimus]

@@ThePinkTrellis one of my sisters sells kokedamas with her friend so she always propagating plants to give to him.

[@ThePinkTrellis]

@@JCAnimus I love kokedamas! I’ve made them before and they are super messy but look so fabulous in the end 😊.

[@NicoleDeanna]

I like that you started with the worst first and went to the best for last, ending on a high note lol. I've never grown Lithops, they look so prehistoric. I am still relatively new to Hoyas and I find that they can be easy but they are all so different and some can have drastically different care requirements. Some of mine like leca and some hate it 🤷‍♀️ Your pink lady is so beautiful 🤩

[@ThePinkTrellis]

Yeah some can be super easy and others will up and rot on me with no warning lol. Thank you so much. The pink lady has really brought me so much joy 😊.

[@sylviawood6089]

HAPPY NEW YEAR Gena. Enjoyed your video. I look forward to your 2023 videos. Have a great week. Btw, loved your top ❤

[@ThePinkTrellis]

Happy New Year Sylvia!!!!!! Thank you so much…you have a great week as well ❤️❤️❤️.

[@humbleservant9313]

Lovely! Global Green reverts to dark green sometimes. Small and compact leaves, I have two. Yours looks like an Emerald Green and it's gorgeous! I hope my Emerald gets as big as yours.

[@ThePinkTrellis]

I’ve been debating if I want to actually add a global green to my collection. Every now and then I see them at the grocery store or big box stores. But I’ve yet to buy one because it’s so similar to my emerald. Thank you 💚💚💚.

[@suepowell5008]

My favorite plant this year is my night blooming cereus, which had two huge blooms in one spectacular night!

[@ThePinkTrellis]

Oh wow! Just looked up that plant, it’s fabulous 💚💚💚.

[@mollys1584]

Happy New Year Gena! I have 6 Hoyas and one I've had about 15 years. Never had root rot. I use a mix of half succulent/ cacti mix and half orchid bark which seems to give the roots good aeration. Don't know if this helps. We all have struggle plants, right? I can't keep a violet alive no matter how many times I try. XO

[@ThePinkTrellis]

Happy New Year Molly❤️❤️❤️. I use a pretty chunky soil, similar to what you are using. I think some Hoya just hate me lol. But you’re right, we all have a struggle plant or two or three 😊.

[@mollys1584]

@@ThePinkTrellis HI Gena! I am so jealous of your Hoya Keraii! Mine was a small cutting two years ago...and still is! It's in a South facing window but it s o slow growing! It will get a leaf but then sometimes it drops it before it matures. Arghhh!

[@ThePinkTrellis]

@@mollys1584 for me moving it into bright light made a big difference. A south window certainly gives you bright light so I’m not sure why yours isn’t growing for you yet. Perhaps it just needs more time to settle in. I think sometimes for some plants, that can take years. Hopefully yours starts growing soon 😊.

[@M-I-T]

Loved this! I also have a Hoya Obovata that looks just like yours! It’s also 2-3 years old but has never flowered for me either. I love my Krohniani super silver and noticed a few days ago it has FOUR peduncles - it’ll be flowering for the first time! I’m so excited. I had to move it to an area with indirect light when I first got it.

[@ThePinkTrellis]

We’ll have to compare notes this year on our similar Obovatas!!! I hope they bloom for us 🤞🤞🤞. That’s so awesome that your super silver has 4 peduncles!!! That’s another one that hasn’t bloomed for me. I think you may be on to something. I moved my super silver into my ikea cabinet and it got super high light under the grow lights. Maybe that’s why it crashed on me???? Certainly another possibility. I definitely won’t put it back in there when I repot it. You may have solved my mystery with that one 😊.

[@M-I-T]

@@ThePinkTrellis Yes! Let’s do a check in on our Obovatas! I sure hope your Krohniana has a hood comeback, it is such a beautiful plant. I think my local nursery mispriced the pot - $37 for a huge full super silver. Was crushed when it started declining so I repotted it into a chunkier soil and a ceramic pot, and moved it back to indirect lighting. Within a week I could see a difference - much perkier.

[@ThePinkTrellis]

@@M-I-T that sounds like a great price to me! Mine was a very small cutting when I first got it and I probably paid $20 or so for it. They grow really fast.

[@marcelagarnica7076]

That peperomia pink lady is so pretty! I've purchased plants from you before and they're always sooo lush and beautiful!

[@ThePinkTrellis]

That makes me so happy to hear!!!!! Thank you so much Marcela ❤️❤️❤️.

[@idiosyncraticgirl1]

Lovely plants. My best plant for 2022 is my Xerosicyos danguyi ( silver dollar vine). I bought it as a tiny cutting a few years ago and it is now in an 8 inch pot. I put outside this summer and it was attacked by pests. It is now inside, pest free and finally growing again. My worst plant is my Alocasia flying squid. It is now in a ziplock bag and I am hopping for the best…I love the way you style your plants.

[@ThePinkTrellis]

I love the silver dollar vine too!!!! They are the perfect little round plant and a must have if you love round leaves, which I do 😊. I have found them to be very slow to start growing in my care but then they just take off. I bet your 8 incher is a real beauty!!!! I don’t have a single Alocasia in my collection….so I understand lol. I hope yours pulls through 🤞. Thank you so much!!!!❤❤❤

[@lauriebrown9714]

I love Hoya but I can’t get a baby in a tiny pot or really even get a cutting to adult hood. I kill them all. I killed a pep too but honestly I just got sick of it. I root rot them too, for the same reason you do. I think I underwater and so begins the destruction. 😂. I just scored an ikea cabinet on marketplace so I’m hoping it gives me a central place for cuttings and special needs plants that I can hover over and nurse to adult hood. We shall see! Happy New Year Gena!

[@ThePinkTrellis]

Oh awesome!!!! You are going to love your new Ikea cabinet, and I think it's going to really help you out with growing those baby hoyas to adulthood :). I've only ever grown new propagations in a prop box/humid environment, and it really does make a difference with success, for me anyways. I'm so excited for you!!!! I'm always checking marketplace for another ikea cabinet...even though I don't really have room for another LOL. Thank you sooo much...Happy New Year!!!!!

[@nyschoonnc]

Love the Hoya props in the water jars❤

[@ThePinkTrellis]

@@nyschoonnc hi Michele! I do too…they are so no fuss that way 😊.

[@peggymalabuyoc9150]

Loved this video! Thank you, Gena. Your Obovata is pure “Goals.” It’s the most gorgeous Obovata I have ever seen. 🥰. Mine was given to me as a gift. It was a two leaf cutting and I can’t wait to see her grow. Love your channel! Happy growing! 👌🪴🥰

[@ThePinkTrellis]

Hi Peggy!!!!! Thank you soooo much. I’m really proud of my Obovata, she’s been a great plant for me. I feel really lucky with that one. I know you will have fun watching yours grow too 😊. Thank you so much again ❤️❤️❤️.

[@asianangie7209]

Happy new year! My favorite this yr is Micans and burl Marx. Worst is most pepperomias. Looking forward to your new videos in 2023!

[@ThePinkTrellis]

Thank you so much!!!! Happy new year 🎉🎉🎉. Micans are amazing, I see why it’s your favorite. Burle Marx are awesome too. I used to have one about 3 years ago and sold it before I moved. I loved it when I had it. Peperomia can be little stinkers for sure. Thanks for your support of my channel….it means so much to me ❤❤❤.

[@Aquamarine.Aubrey]

I have the same trouble with hoya. I find doing semihydro helps with proper watering with hoya.

[@ThePinkTrellis]

I have just a few in semi hydro and they are definitely doing great with that.

[@seragonally]

Happy new year!! 2022 was my first year successfully keeping houseplants. You have inspired my love for syngonium and hoya (and maybe some rhipsalis in 2023). Beautiful obovata. Can't wait for more planty videos in '23, Gena❤️

[@ThePinkTrellis]

Happy New Year!!!!!! Awwww….I’m honored to have inspired you ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️. Thank you for being here ☺️.

[@emylucille240]

They are all so beautiful Gena!! That Obovata is so stunning 😍 It's so hard to pick but I think my favorite plants this year is my philodendron Brasil or maybe my hoya serpens. Worst plant of the year is my philodendron Brandy, she's in water right now but I really don't think I care anymore 🥲

[@ThePinkTrellis]

Thank you!!!! I don’t have a Brasil any longer. I sold mine a few years ago. But I recently picked up the silver stripe, very similar, and I’m in love ❤️❤️❤️. All of those Brasil lookalikes and the Brasil itself are just gorgeous!!!! Hoya Serpens is just too cute. Sorry about your brandy. I have one and it lives in my ikea cabinet. It’s doing well but I’m always feeling on pins and needles with it because I’ve read they can be difficult. I’m just resigned to the fact that one day it will most likely give up on living life with me lol.

[@karenb136]

What a great start to the new year getting to see a video from you. Your Obovata is breathtaking! I have one that is no where near that big but it is my favorite Hoya that I have too. I love the leaves! May you and your family have a blessed year.💚🌱💚

[@ThePinkTrellis]

You are so sweet Karen….thank you!!! I love that we both have the same favorite plant ☺️. Big hugs and blessings to you in this new year ❤️❤️❤️.

[@Ginger_Odie]

Happy New Year!🎉💚 I love your beautiful plants 🪴 it’s so difficult to choose my favorites 💚😍They all have unique beauty and bring me so much joy🙌💯💚🪴 my burtoniae Hoya is one that pooped out on me.. I’m propagating what I can and hope it thrives ❣️

[@ThePinkTrellis]

Thank you!!!! Happy New Year!!!! What a coincidence…. I went to water plants this week and my Burtoniae was looking so bad!!!! I must’ve forgot to water it last time. Or maybe it’s just pooping out on me too lol. We are in the same boat with that plant ugh. Just another one of my “easy” Hoya showing me some love 😂. Thanks again LeaAnne ❤️❤️❤️.

[@pattituringan6745]

Happy new year Gena. Your pink lady is so pretty, mine is just doing okay.

[@ThePinkTrellis]

Thank you!!!! Happy New Year Patti!!!! I’ve struggled with these plants before. The mother plant (this was a cutting from her) died on me. But it was when I lived in a different house. I think environment makes a big difference with these and I think I finally found a house that peperomia will survive in. I think they are very picky plants.

[@pamgustaveson3735]

I enjoyed your video and Obovata is one of my favorites. Happy 2023.

[@ThePinkTrellis]

Hi Pam! Thank you 😊.

[@shadesofidaho]

Ohhh can't wait for spring when you list the hoya quinquinervia!! I would love to get one from you. The hoya Elipicia is also a great looking hoya.

[@ThePinkTrellis]

I think I have 3 propagations of quinquenervia. Just waiting for new growth on them and warmer weather before I list them. I'm glad you are interested :). Yeah, the elliptica is such a neat hoya. It is definitely different from any of my others...so unique.

[@shadesofidaho]

@@ThePinkTrellis Well please give me a heads upon both. Way too coldnow to ship.

[@naegwut]

I like that little corner

[@ThePinkTrellis]

Thank you!

[@sheilanorth1993]

Happy New Year Gena!! You always impress & inspire me!! Thank you so much!! Sheila

[@ThePinkTrellis]

Thank you Sheila!!!! That is so sweet of you to say. Happy New Year to you 😊.

[@nancyboswell2691]

Really enjoyed 👍🏻😁

[@ThePinkTrellis]

Thanks Nancy 😊.

[@ladyd7412]

Happy New Year! Beautiful Hoya's

[@ThePinkTrellis]

Thank you so much!!! Happy New Year!!!!

[@moonmadn3ss123]

Your Hoya obovata Is beautiful 😍💚

[@ThePinkTrellis]

Thank you!!!💚💚💚

[@virginiamartinez391]

💚🌴💚

[@melissaemert3685]

I don't know how you feel about semi hydro but you should try it on your Hoyas. That is the only way I can keep Hoya alive.

[@ThePinkTrellis]

I actually have a Sigillatis and a Rotundiflora in pon. Never tried Leca. I just prefer soil over semi hydro right now 😊.

[@sezensera_]

🙋🌸🍀

[@ThePinkTrellis]

🥰

[@kaciestarz]

The only Hoya I have actually killed is the compacta. It hates me

[@ThePinkTrellis]

Oh no! I feel like some of my plants hate me too. But I won't let them give up on me. I'm persistent LOL. With the compacta I've noticed, in my early days of owning one, they can very easily be overwatered. I always use a moisture meter on them before I water just to be extra safe. I feel like I have them figured out now as far as when to water. In the past, I'd let them get too dry (out of fear of overwatering), and they would get the wrinkled leaves. I've managed to not have that happen anymore. It's a balancing act for me for sure :).

[@chomama1628]

Those of us that want to be attentive plant parents are notorious for overwatering.

[@ThePinkTrellis]

Yes, so very true.

[@staryzepsuty9705]

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[@ThePinkTrellis]

Hi! I don't know how to add a specific language in captions but I do believe youtube will automatically add the captions in some languages. I believe Polish might be one of those languages, but it will take time for those to generate. Check back in, in a few days, to see if it's working. Thanks :).