My Top 8 Difficult Hoyas

[@TheC3.]

It is hard not to jump and buy the third, but your hardship teaches me not to buy it! It is so beautiful!

[@planthappens]

So difficult to hold back when I see a pretty new hoya... glad my video helps!

[@blackstar8620]

I’m in southern Ontario and successfully growing a deykeae in my kitchen east facing window. No humidifier, chunky Hoya soil mix and terracotta pot. I let it dry out and water it once a week. The Hoya I’ve killed twice is Acuta yellow variegated. I find it fussy in my care

[@planthappens]

Deykeae is so cute but I am afraid to grow it again. There are hoyas that I choose not to grow and there are hoyas that won't let me grow lol

[@alvaferjoe2117]

I got an unrooted 2 leaf-1 node cutting of Hoya deykeae from Dakota’s Plants. Sent to me from Toronto to here in Vancouver last August as part of a plant swap we did. I put the deykeae straight to pod (added with lots of chunky perlite) and placed it by the kitchen window and it now sa lots of roots and grew two leaves and 2 more coming. Give it another try.

[@planthappens]

Maybe it didn't like humidity I gave it. I will try again if I see one available locally!

[@vanessacarroll2940]

I have a Hoya Deykeae and I find it easy to grow. I purchased mine from Gabriella Plants. I live in the US in the New England area and I keep it indoors. I keep all my Hoya in a mixture of half soil, and half orchid bark mix that includes perlite and horticultural charcoal. I fertilize them with fish fertilizer and when I water them, I spray them down with Miracle-Gro Orchid spray. As for lighting, I provide high light and keep it in a south-facing window about 1 ft away from the window.

[@planthappens]

Thanks for sharing your tips! maybe it just needs soul and doesn't like inorganic substrate... If I ever find one again, I will try soil!

[@ttschrock7126]

May I ask the fish fertilizer you use and do you do all notes with it? I use the orchids spray too!! Good stuff!

[@vanessacarroll2940]

@@ttschrock7126 I use Alaska Fish Fertilizer. I just follow the recommended dosage.

[@martimikosz6637]

That is secondhand knowledge from me but I learned from a fellow Hoya collector that many hoyas will rot in Lechuza pon and what helps is changing to DIY pon with bigger particle size. I received several hoyas in this medium from him and they're doing fine so far (knock on wood 😉)

[@planthappens]

Yup yup, I prefer home made pon because of this exact reason. Lechuza pon is good for small cuttings but way too dense for most of my plants!

[@riritful]

I found Hoya spatioides to be pretty easy for me, and I'm not a hoya expert. I think you are right, they don't need high humidity or temperature or light (in my experience). Mine successfully survived Toronto winter in room conditions (30% humidity, ~70 F temp, and light only from the east facing window), and now it is blooming! This video is so interesting! I did have similar experience with clemensiorum vs undulata

[@planthappens]

Thanks for the info! Next time I'll just grow it on my shelf 👍 I wish undulata grew as easy as clemensiorum

[@bigtomatoplantslover6205]

Lovely plants 🪴 Like 130 My friend, thank you for good sharing 😊

[@planthappens]

Thanks for visiting

[@WillWilkplants]

I live in Florida so its 80 persistent humidity almost every day, so Hoyas are quite easy for me

[@WillWilkplants]

And I enjoy your content.

[@planthappens]

I am jealous of your growing environment... Florida is so good for growing plants!

[@Mandi_Hui]

I find all Hoya’s do need alot of light for them to grow. Is the only time when mine starts to grow. I grow all mine outside conditions in natural sunlight. I don’t use any greenhouse and cabinets store my plants. The cold seasons they tend to go dormant. Also some Hoyas are slower in growing

[@planthappens]

I'm jealous you have a well lit home! My house is way too dark to grow any plants with natural light... If only I knew I'd be growing plants when I moved lol

[@lisaanglim9588]

The last one looks like something I could try. I like the description and the look of the leaves. I’d need a rooted cutting.

[@planthappens]

Love sulawesiana! Hope you find one 🌿

[@rafalz9275]

Hi :) a question abot other thing - have you tried to film with lights on in those cabinets? Would be a nice background with illuminated plants 😍

[@planthappens]

Funny you ask because my husband suggested the same thing haha. I thought the light will backlit my face and make it dark... but I will try it next time!

[@rafalz9275]

Possibly camera will work it out for you:)

[@lisaanglim9588]

I enjoyed this whole video. All the Hoyas were quite new to me. Some quite attractive and I could see why they attracted you.

[@thegazetteyt]

I can't get Hoya spatioides to grow for me either. Ive imported it and Ive bought it from a US seller, all have died. Ive seen it grown in pon, perlite, but never mounted. I may try that next.

[@planthappens]

Seems like a hit or miss for spartioides. Some people tell me they grow like weed 😂

[@nikki28ish]

I haven’t been able to grow an Undulata either. I’ve had 2 imported and managed to keep alive for 6 months max with no growth and then they un-alive themselves. Then I managed to get one from Joanne also but it recently died 😢

[@planthappens]

Yeah I've tried it 3 times and they all died... At this point, I'm just admiring them from afar 😍 I wish I could grow them though, their blooms are so beautiful ❤️

[@hoyahaven]

Thanks for sharing. I agree with the Deykeae

[@planthappens]

Thanks for watching!

[@PetraEmmy]

I LOVE my spartiodes.. It has been so easy for me to grow and it bloomed right away.. Looks like fireworks. I have mine just in my kitchen, in pon.. No special treatment.

[@planthappens]

I am really starting to think I gave it too much humidity. I need to try again in room condition!

[@ritalewis5231]

Hello just now viewing on top 10 challenges Hoyas. Allow me to help a bit. Iv started during the pandemic. 1st. The Meredithii needs / can stand high light, in pond , water only when substrate is dry. Place her in a glass no drainage vessel, so your view her progress. Simply set her up on shelf near bright semi good lighting and leave the sulfur on her leaves , will not harm anything. She will take off for you , she loves humidity, what the others get is amble. Now the Big boy they all say; Undulata , no fear, I have allowed others to intimidate me also with she’s fussy, only if you don’t know what she’s likes yes, so that’s why help is here as it was for me. Put her in a south facing window , keep moist , not wet. Hit her with the sulfur as well , believe me will not harm these babies. Window is key for the undulata She will take off in no time leave her there. Our send you my pics if possible, I have 2 one is the seed type from a seller, other is the big boy that reddish color pre historic, just got my new first leaf in my care. Go to Etsy and order not from abroad buy local seller this seller has one for 70.00 it’s as mine. May I suggest ; not to cut the roots on this one ok . Sometimes that aggravates them. Your business and all yet , there still new and infants you know😔any way give these two a try again and try my tips that have truly given me success. I hate failures, no matter what it is. 😊

[@planthappens]

Thanks for all the tips! I would love to grow undulata again and I will keep in mid not to let the substrate dry out!

[@mommayanna]

Thank you so much for this video!

[@planthappens]

Hope you lived it!

[@kcototheyoyoyo]

Sigetalis is so hard to take care of. I killed it instantly 😢

[@planthappens]

They have pretty thin stems... I'm afraid to propagate them!

[@lisaanglim9588]

I’m going to be buying my third Curtisii. I can’t Lee them alive.

[@Kim-ts8nq]

Mine is rooting in water

[@lisaanglim9588]

@@Kim-ts8nq mine is in fluval stratum to hopefully reroot. Crossing my fingers 🤞🏻

[@TheC3.]

Try giving the curtisii more light. Mine was stunted until I put it under a grow light, and then it grew fast and even bloomed!

[@lisaanglim9588]

@@TheC3. I have got mine yo grow. It’s in fluval but it’s putting out new leaves and the old leaves are plump (well as plump as a Curtisii can get).

[@Marlur]

I can't seem to grow any silver hoyas, not sure why :T.

[@planthappens]

That's interesting because I haven't found them to be more difficult than green hoyas. Well, except for the unstable silveryness... The only one that didn't grow well for me is Silver Dollar!

[@beeng77]

I only have meredithii from your list but I found that my meredithii prefers room humidity and its more indirect or ambient light from my grow light. Loves the setting clearly because I haven’t had any issue yet knock on wood. For me its Ko chang island- I get red spots on the leaves and no new leaf still and I broke the tendril whilst I was trying to trellis 🫠🫠

[@planthappens]

Good to hear that meredithii is doing well because it's such a pretty hoya. But yeah... Breaking the tendrils sucks 😞