I value your Hoya advice so much. You give such accurate & honest advice for those of us that live in the northeast & deal with freezing winter temps, drafty windows, dry heat from the furnace & dreary winter days. Thanks so much from a NY state Hoya enthusiast.
That cold tolerance of H. bella is remarkable Doug! Can we start dreaming of growing Hoyas in our gardens year round? I've actually been doing a similar experiment with H. motoskei. Thus far it has survived nights down to 1C (or 34F) and is actually still growing! Thanks for another great video.
I love the new intro with the colorful circles. Wow great hoya bellas. That blonde one is definitely lovely. Congrats. You could have a new clone, cultivar whatever they call it. Yeah you should think of a good name for it for sure. I hope you can propigate it. It's like a seagreen or mint color.
Thanks for noticing the new intro! I have new video processing software from Movavi that I'm still trying to figure out. It is a lot smarter than I am.
Very exciting Doug! This is the benefit of growing seedlings and is a passion of mine (Dischidia) as you end up with a few seedlings with different phenological differences. Good luck with propagating it, it’s special!
This is good to know about this Hoya. In fact, I started my Hoya collections because of you and your videos. I was thinking - you have many collections of Hoya all these years since you started your videos that it must be really fun growing them - with the help of your videos, i got more and more interested. Thank you.
Yes, I have found that these Hoya Bella come in all different shades of green, and just because it is light green, does not mean that it is not healthy. Good luck with your propagation!
That's Interesting Doug, the hoya bella took temperatures down to 30 and it was that cold it hung next to your frozen bird-bath. I'm happy to see you got something unique amongst your seedlings, and so vigorous is a bonus🌟I bought a hoya bella about a month ago. It dropped leaves for weeks until it settled down and leaves are now becoming green and some new growth happening. I keep it 'just' moist but not wet. Anyway thanks so much for your wonderful videos and have a great day
You're welcome Newman. It turns out that the light colored strands that I called Blondie are not that special. I took cuttings and have rooted them to grow out; they are all darkening up to dark green. I believe that the reason that those strands were so light green now was because they were over watered. The leaves still are narrower than the regular Bella, but the pale color is now gone.
Hello Doug! I'm expecting my first Bella in the mail next week, and as always I greatly appreciate your videos and willingness to share your experience with the us. I'm a fellow New Englander (NH!) so it's wonderful to see how well your plants do in our, often challenging, climate :-)
Hi Kelly, nice to hear from a fellow New Englander! Hoyas are not the easiest plant to grow here, but many of them do quite well in the regular house none the less. All the best, Doug
Thanks Lynda! Always great to hear from you too. I hope that all is well and that you are staying safe in the midst of this pandemic. Hopefully by next year we can be a lot more back to normal.
Dear Doug, I am glad that you managed to grow yours from seeds and even get a new kind of Hoya your unique 'Blondie wonder'. 👏🏅please, wait for the flower, take pictures and then propagate. Maybe you can help me, I'm puzzled by my Bella because for nearly a month is losing its beautiful, healthy looking and even thicker green leaves, the humidity is between 50-60. I live in London the temperature is around 65-71F, every day drops around six to ten bigger and stronger leaves, but is still growing from the tips new leaves and trying to grow peduncles which now are failing to mature into flowers. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Hi Silvana! My Blondie Bella was a bust. It turned out that it was only that color because it was chlorotic from too much water. I propagated it, and it turned regular green. As for your Bella, I have found that when a Bella starts to go bad by losing leaves continually, there is no easy way to bring it back to health. I have found the best solution is to start the plant over from cuttings. As to why your plant is losing leaves, I suspect that it either got over watered, or under watered and the roots are damaged in some way. Bella is a very finicky plant, and I can't say that I have ever mastered it. My issue with them is that frequently I get no leaf growth at the ends of the vines, and they get bare looking. Every new leaf fails to develop. I am suspecting some type of mite is causing this and I have just sprayed all of my plants with sulfur. We will see if it makes a difference.
I am just in awe!! I am somewhat new to Hoya But the Bella is my absolute favourite! I currently have the normal Bella, the “White Bella” (I purchased a snip from Julie, so ours share DNA 😂), Lida Buis and Anneke Buis! If you ever decide to sell a snip of your Blondie I would be ever so interested! X As always, loving your content! 🌸🌱
Hi Maria, I absolutely love the Hoya Bella as well! Both my Lida buis and Anneke Buis look especially nice right now. The one that I was calling Blondie it turned out was only that color because it was chlorotic from a soil mix that held too much water. The one interesting thing that came out of those Bella seedlings is that I have one that only produces 3 leaves at every node rather than the usual 2. I am currently trying to propagate it. Do you also have the Bella that goes by the name Hoya paxtonii, it has really long narrow leaves and makes a really nice specimen. I highly recommend it!
@@DougChamberlainVTHoyas oh wow!!! That is an interesting result! Was it similar to vaccinioides? I have a very small one of those and I love the three-leafed nodes! I have been on the lookout for Paxtonii for almost a year and I have yet to find someone selling it in the UK! Most definitely a wish list plant, I am not surprised that you cherish yours so much! X
@@mariakaehne3363 As near as I can figure out Hoya vaccinioides, which I do not have, has much smaller leaves than the normal Bella. My three leaves to a node Bella has regular sized leaves. I wish that you lived in the U.S. as I would be happy to share the paxtonii. It is such a hassle for me to ship overseas now. Have a great rest of the week!
@@DougChamberlainVTHoyas yes you are indeed correct, the leaves on my vaccinioides are at least 3 x smaller than my Bella leaves! 😊 Thank you for your kindness and thoughtfulness! This is what I truly love about the Hoya community. You have a lovely rest of the week too, I am sure I will be able to find the Paxtonii one day 😊 x
Following on from this conversation, I have just realised that my Hoya Bella Anneke Buis has sent out a stem producing 3 leaves per node also, and it made me think of you! 😊
Thank you so much! This was very helpful. I have been struggling with that same hoya (3rd). Cuttings are very easy but the growth rate is puzzling. I enjoy your videos because I'm just south of you in northern NJ. So your weather conditions are similar to mine. Thanks again for sharing all your knowledge!
So interesting, Doug! I have Hoya bella standard (green), variegated, albomarginata, and Luis Bois, in a room in my basement, on the lowest shelf, of a grow cart, under florescent lights, where the temperature is about 55-60dgF-daytime and 45dgF night time, and they continue to grow! I can't help but notice the similarities between the leaves of your hoya bella "Blondie" and my Hoya engleriana. How lucky, your are!
Hi George! You certainly have a wonderful collection of Hoya bella! It truly is incredible that they continue to grow and do well at such low temperatures. I have discovered that they do far better under fluorescent light than under LED lighting for some reason. Do you grow the real Hoya engleriana or Hoya aff. engleriana Vietnam? The real engleriana has smaller leaves, is much harder to grow, and only gets four flowers on a peduncle.
Hi Doug! Thanks! I appreciate it! My first hoya was a H. Bella Green cutting from my mom, a number of years, ago; 150 hoya later, and she is still one of my favorite, hoya. I didn't realize there is real H. Engleriana. and a Hoya aff. engleriana, Vietnam. I goggled them, and I have the later. I am always learning something new, about hoya, from your videos, website, etc. It is always, a pleasure! Thanks!
I love bellas and have an entire collection of them. Just received the paxtonii and trying to root it, not an easy thing in a cold dark UK autumn/winter. Those bella seedlings looked really like vaccinoides from a distance!
Just was wondering how the propagation ventures on Old Blondie went :) if you ever decide to sell a cutting, id love to grow it! Just started watching your videos! I am loving your channel. I want to grow ALLLLLL the hoyas :)
Thank you Tim! Old Blondie it turns out was not really light green, but was just chlorotic from getting too much water. I started a bunch of it from cuttings and guess what; it turned normal Bella green so nothing new there.
❤❤❤OMG i Finally successfully grow bella. My has a ton of flowers. They are absolutely amazing to look at. Doesn’t smell much. A lot of my died. They don’t like my kitchen. I moved them to my bedroom and they have flourished. Yay 😂😂😂 the light colour looks gorgeous. Have you been successfully with the blonde cuttings? I haven’t seen anything like that before. I’ve just got gifted with the outer variegation last week. It is beautiful ❤
I am so happy that you have been successful with your bella. The one of mine that was blonde turned out to only be that way because it was overwatered. I have propagated it and it has reverted to green so that was a wash out. I still love all of my Hoya bella. There is something special about them. I wish you continued success with yours!
I've never wanted to visit a dark, dingy basement more! I'm in awe of your Bellas! I have a variegated Bella (the reverse variegated is the 'Luis Bois') that put out one peduncle that yellowed and fell off. I wanted to cry. If you sold your "Blondie" cuttings on Ebay I bet they'd go for a pretty penny! Hoya prices are only climbing! By the way, Doug, if you ever added an ask and answer section to your website I bet a lot of us here would use it! You are the Hoya guru, after all! As it is, I actually had a question for you if you don't mind. Do you have any idea how to tell Hoya Panchoi and Hoya Carmalae apart? I'm pretty sure I got one or the other as a free, unlabeled cutting, and it's growing fine but I have no idea what it is! It's been pretty hard to compare the pictures of the two plants online; to me they look exactly the same.
Variegated Hoyas are always a notch more difficult than its nonvariegated counterparts. I bet that you will soon see a new set of buds make it to maturity.
Considering _Hoya bella_ came from the south of Burma, it is remarkable that it is so cold-tolerant. It was collected on Kola Mountain which may be Kalwi hill 9 kilometres from Mawlamyine. It is a little hill, not big enough to be really cold.
That is very interesting! There are many plants in this Hoya lanceolata section with only slight variation in flowers and leaves; some of them come from very cool areas.
@@DougChamberlainVTHoyas Good point, many of them are identified as different species by different botanists and lots have been introduced into horticulture under disputed names. _H. weebella_ has to be the best name among that group.
What happened to "Old Blondie"? Did you propagate? I haven't seen a hoya like that in circulation yet. Were/ Are its flowers similar to the regular Hoya Bella's? I happened to find a ripped off piece of Hoya Bella on the ground of a garden center here. I took it home and tried to root it. It is doing very well now, grew quite a bit and I spotted two tiny peduncles a few days ago, so natuarally I'm excited.
Old Blondie doesn't exist as such any longer. It was only that color because it was chlorotic from a waterlogged media. I have propagated all of these cuttings and the flowers are all like the regular Bella to me. The only thing different about the plant is the leaves seem to have a narrower shoulder. I have a new batch of Bella seedlings from a recent seedpod and we will see how they develop.
Hi Mary Ann, Hoya Bella is kind of finicky and takes a while to get going well. I use soil with them mixed with 25% extra perlite to add a little more air to the mix. I am kind of off from Pon at the moment and am moving away from it.
Nice to propagate. But you must keep some green leaves because they need to feed themselves (You know this.) by photosynthesis which needs the green chlorophyll for it to occur. So, how did it go? I am writing a year later than your video. The plant is gorgeous. Please respond, as if you had nothing else to do. 😆
Hi Evlyne! It turns out that those leaves were not something new. They were simply light green because they were chlorotic. After propagating the plant, all leaves reverted to a darker green. The resulting plants do have slightly narrower leaves however and it does not seem as vigorous as the regular Bella.
Hi Doug just discovered you which Im so happy about. Enjoying your informative videos. My Bella is the plain green one. Its out in my patio gets indirect light in a small hanging basket heaps of air flow. But it has what a appears as white fungus on the leaves? Any ideas as to why and how to get prevent it coming back? I cut the the worst of it off. Thank you
The only white fungus that I can think of is powdery mildew. I think you did the right thing in getting rid of the worst of it. I've read that spraying the leaves off regularly with water will help prevent it. The spores must have traveled through the air or were brought to your plant via an insect. That is my best guess.
@@DougChamberlainVTHoyas it's not powdery mildew. It was raised white on the leaves. I have photos but don't know how to upload it here. I did water them with worm casting juice but didn't think that would affect the leaves?
Hi Doug, I noticed that you had a Rotundiflora. I'm new to Hoyas and have just got one. Some of the articles that I have read say not to let the soil dry out. Is that right in your experience? I don't want to rot the roots. Do you have any advice specifically for Rotundiflora? It would be greatly appreciated.
Hi Andrea, I have not kept Rotundiflora in quite some time, but I don't remember it as being especially difficult. It should prosper under typical good growing conditions. I did however always grow mine in a grow tent, which had high humidity, day time warmth, and average light. I watered when almost dry. Good luck with your new plant; I'm sure you will do well by it!
Thank you! It would be funny if it were some sort of cross. It might have been possible; I just can't say for certain. Many of the leaves on these bella sort of look like something between engleriana and bella.
Wow what a cold temperature for that to survive. I guess the plant heard you were just going to let it die and she was going to prove you wrong that she was a tough cookie and deserve to live! And she taught all of us a lesson by surviving that cold temperature and that lesson is that she can survive to at least 30 degrees make sure curious as to how much cold she can survive but no one wants to do that experiment! And thinking that you were going to just let her die outside makes my heart sad. I know it's a lot of work to get packages mailed but at the least she could have been cut back through the soil line and maybe put the cuttings on eBay or have a raffle for them you know giveaway! Take them to the local high school or Elementary School and let the children learn how to take care of them or the students and teachers. As a retired teacher I know I would have been very grateful to anyone who brought my students plant cuttings that we could try to grow into my classroom. We had a guest speaker one time for our countywide school system here in Maryland... Washington County. I think we have almost 30 elementary schools not sure how many middle or High School... Around 10 high schools and a few more than that middle schools. So many of us out here would also have paid you for that plant and paid for the shipping or paid for the cuttings and the shipping so please don't ever check out a plan again if no one else wants the plant I'll take it! Great video thanks again so much for posting
Thank you Kathleen! There is not much of a market for these regular Bella, but I will take your words to heart, and try to find a home for these in the future!
@@DougChamberlainVTHoyas I would buy them from you because I don't have a Bella so there's a market with me so please don't throw them away in the trash or the compost pile throw the my way I would pay for them and the shipping gladly
It turns out that the Blonde Bella wasn't really blonde. It turns out it was simply chlorotic; after I propagated it, the plant reverted to dark green😥
I'm very shock that hoya kanyakumariana groving in my house at winter as well :-) Also like Montana. Even the kenejiana red corona, Obovata growing too. Also we have a real winter in this year (also shock), so we heating, have a dry air and they still growing.
I'm very happy that your plants are growing! I'm thinking that you have more sun to work with than I do. Vermont can seem to go weeks without the sun showing its face. It is depressing for people and shuts down most plant growth as well.
@@DougChamberlainVTHoyas haha Thanks Doug! love your video and learned a lot from your content. btw how can we get a cutting when you propagate it whenever lol
@@givim80 Kind of way too early to say right now, but it would probably be sold on eBay under my eBay moniker: erbtarzan24. I would say we are looking at least a year and a half before that happens.
Oh my gosh you threw seedlings out! But I understand because I grew a whole bunch of tomato plants and other flowering plants and somehow or other priorities took over and somehow they didn't get watered and sadly they all kick the bucket so to speak and I was heartbroken! But once again I pay for the postage for you to just put them in a box and ship them to me teehee. If you ever want to get in touch with me about any of that go to my channel that's just Kathleen Murphy all you have to do is click the blue k and let me know and I get back in touch with you. I put my name and the word Hoya in the search engine and you'll find me. I check my comment section just about daily! I just started with orchids a couple years ago and that led to starting my TH-cam channel at the suggestion of someone who was giving good advice on orchid care on TH-cam. Her name is Carolyn her husband's name Jack and they combined both the names are there channels name and it is j a c o l y n s orchids. I had no way to share my successes or failures with the Orchid so she suggested I start a TH-cam channel and I'd have a history of my interaction with my orchids for myself and then she could help me. I also have hundreds of houseplants and it seems like any more my life revolves around them but I love it. You are one of those special people that has the ability to focus on just one plant family and the knowledge you have of them it's so wonderful that you share that knowledge with all of us! God bless
I'm putting in my vote for "Old Blondie"! What a gem. Hi, Doug! Thank you so much for this video.
You're welcome Lydia, thanks for watching!
Love “Blondie”! So interesting, different and just lovely! Thank you for sharing Doug!!
Thank you Sasha!
I value your Hoya advice so much. You give such accurate & honest advice for those of us that live in the northeast & deal with freezing winter temps, drafty windows, dry heat from the furnace & dreary winter days. Thanks so much from a NY state Hoya enthusiast.
Thank you for the wonderful comment Cathy; it is much appreciated!
Beautiful Bellas! Thanks for the video!
You're welcome; thank you for watching!
That cold tolerance of H. bella is remarkable Doug! Can we start dreaming of growing Hoyas in our gardens year round? I've actually been doing a similar experiment with H. motoskei. Thus far it has survived nights down to 1C (or 34F) and is actually still growing! Thanks for another great video.
Thank you Pieter! Hoya motoskei is a plant that will always be in my collection; that is great information about its cold tolerance as well.
I love the new intro with the colorful circles. Wow great hoya bellas. That blonde one is definitely lovely. Congrats. You could have a new clone, cultivar whatever they call it. Yeah you should think of a good name for it for sure. I hope you can propigate it. It's like a seagreen or mint color.
Thanks for noticing the new intro! I have new video processing software from Movavi that I'm still trying to figure out. It is a lot smarter than I am.
Very exciting Doug! This is the benefit of growing seedlings and is a passion of mine (Dischidia) as you end up with a few seedlings with different phenological differences. Good luck with propagating it, it’s special!
Thank you so much Jordan!
This is good to know about this Hoya. In fact, I started my Hoya collections because of you and your videos. I was thinking - you have many collections of Hoya all these years since you started your videos that it must be really fun growing them - with the help of your videos, i got more and more interested. Thank you.
Thank you so much for the kind words Mae! Comments like yours help keep me in this hobby.
Thank you for this discussion. It actually calms me down as most of my beautiful Hoya bella is light color... just propagated a stem. :)
Yes, I have found that these Hoya Bella come in all different shades of green, and just because it is light green, does not mean that it is not healthy. Good luck with your propagation!
That's Interesting Doug, the hoya bella took temperatures down to 30 and it was that cold it hung next to your frozen bird-bath. I'm happy to see you got something unique amongst your seedlings, and so vigorous is a bonus🌟I bought a hoya bella about a month ago. It dropped leaves for weeks until it settled down and leaves are now becoming green and some new growth happening. I keep it 'just' moist but not wet. Anyway thanks so much for your wonderful videos and have a great day
You're welcome Newman. It turns out that the light colored strands that I called Blondie are not that special. I took cuttings and have rooted them to grow out; they are all darkening up to dark green. I believe that the reason that those strands were so light green now was because they were over watered. The leaves still are narrower than the regular Bella, but the pale color is now gone.
Great video Doug! Been on the look out for Hoya Bella, I want one because the branches don't get too wild.
Yes, this is one of the Hoyas that doesn't get climbing vines, and makes a pretty nice basket.
Wow learned a few new things about bella! Thanks for sharing!
You're welcome!
Hello Doug! I'm expecting my first Bella in the mail next week, and as always I greatly appreciate your videos and willingness to share your experience with the us. I'm a fellow New Englander (NH!) so it's wonderful to see how well your plants do in our, often challenging, climate :-)
Hi Kelly, nice to hear from a fellow New Englander! Hoyas are not the easiest plant to grow here, but many of them do quite well in the regular house none the less. All the best, Doug
Fantastic video Doug! So great to see you! Makes me want another Bella!!
Thanks Lynda! Always great to hear from you too. I hope that all is well and that you are staying safe in the midst of this pandemic. Hopefully by next year we can be a lot more back to normal.
Thanks for sharing 😃 The blond one is so pretty an unique.💚
Thanks Sherry!💚
Dear Doug, I am glad that you managed to grow yours from seeds and even get a new kind of Hoya your unique 'Blondie wonder'. 👏🏅please, wait for the flower, take pictures and then propagate. Maybe you can help me, I'm puzzled by my Bella because for nearly a month is losing its beautiful, healthy looking and even thicker green leaves, the humidity is between 50-60. I live in London the temperature is around 65-71F, every day drops around six to ten bigger and stronger leaves, but is still growing from the tips new leaves and trying to grow peduncles which now are failing to mature into flowers. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Hi Silvana! My Blondie Bella was a bust. It turned out that it was only that color because it was chlorotic from too much water. I propagated it, and it turned regular green. As for your Bella, I have found that when a Bella starts to go bad by losing leaves continually, there is no easy way to bring it back to health. I have found the best solution is to start the plant over from cuttings. As to why your plant is losing leaves, I suspect that it either got over watered, or under watered and the roots are damaged in some way. Bella is a very finicky plant, and I can't say that I have ever mastered it. My issue with them is that frequently I get no leaf growth at the ends of the vines, and they get bare looking. Every new leaf fails to develop. I am suspecting some type of mite is causing this and I have just sprayed all of my plants with sulfur. We will see if it makes a difference.
Always so excited when you upload a new video. Thank you.
You're welcome and thank you for watching Liz!
I am just in awe!! I am somewhat new to Hoya But the Bella is my absolute favourite! I currently have the normal Bella, the “White Bella” (I purchased a snip from Julie, so ours share DNA 😂), Lida Buis and Anneke Buis! If you ever decide to sell a snip of your Blondie I would be ever so interested! X
As always, loving your content! 🌸🌱
Hi Maria, I absolutely love the Hoya Bella as well! Both my Lida buis and Anneke Buis look especially nice right now. The one that I was calling Blondie it turned out was only that color because it was chlorotic from a soil mix that held too much water. The one interesting thing that came out of those Bella seedlings is that I have one that only produces 3 leaves at every node rather than the usual 2. I am currently trying to propagate it. Do you also have the Bella that goes by the name Hoya paxtonii, it has really long narrow leaves and makes a really nice specimen. I highly recommend it!
@@DougChamberlainVTHoyas oh wow!!! That is an interesting result! Was it similar to vaccinioides? I have a very small one of those and I love the three-leafed nodes! I have been on the lookout for Paxtonii for almost a year and I have yet to find someone selling it in the UK! Most definitely a wish list plant, I am not surprised that you cherish yours so much! X
@@mariakaehne3363 As near as I can figure out Hoya vaccinioides, which I do not have, has much smaller leaves than the normal Bella. My three leaves to a node Bella has regular sized leaves. I wish that you lived in the U.S. as I would be happy to share the paxtonii. It is such a hassle for me to ship overseas now. Have a great rest of the week!
@@DougChamberlainVTHoyas yes you are indeed correct, the leaves on my vaccinioides are at least 3 x smaller than my Bella leaves! 😊 Thank you for your kindness and thoughtfulness! This is what I truly love about the Hoya community. You have a lovely rest of the week too, I am sure I will be able to find the Paxtonii one day 😊 x
Following on from this conversation, I have just realised that my Hoya Bella Anneke Buis has sent out a stem producing 3 leaves per node also, and it made me think of you! 😊
Thank you so much! This was very helpful. I have been struggling with that same hoya (3rd). Cuttings are very easy but the growth rate is puzzling. I enjoy your videos because I'm just south of you in northern NJ. So your weather conditions are similar to mine. Thanks again for sharing all your knowledge!
You're welcome!
Thanks so much for your video.
Your very welcome!
So interesting, Doug!
I have Hoya bella standard (green), variegated, albomarginata, and Luis Bois, in a room in my basement, on the lowest shelf, of a grow cart, under florescent lights, where the temperature is about 55-60dgF-daytime and 45dgF night time, and they continue to grow!
I can't help but notice the similarities between the leaves of your hoya bella "Blondie" and my Hoya engleriana.
How lucky, your are!
Hi George! You certainly have a wonderful collection of Hoya bella! It truly is incredible that they continue to grow and do well at such low temperatures. I have discovered that they do far better under fluorescent light than under LED lighting for some reason. Do you grow the real Hoya engleriana or Hoya aff. engleriana Vietnam? The real engleriana has smaller leaves, is much harder to grow, and only gets four flowers on a peduncle.
Hi Doug!
Thanks! I appreciate it!
My first hoya was a H. Bella Green cutting from my mom, a number of years, ago;
150 hoya later, and she is still one of my favorite, hoya.
I didn't realize there is real H. Engleriana. and a Hoya aff. engleriana, Vietnam.
I goggled them, and I have the later.
I am always learning something new, about hoya, from your videos, website, etc.
It is always, a pleasure!
Thanks!
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@@georgemckelvey3830 You're welcome George; Keep up the great growing!
@@DougChamberlainVTHoyas thanks!
Love your informative videos!
You're welcome!
I love bellas and have an entire collection of them. Just received the paxtonii and trying to root it, not an easy thing in a cold dark UK autumn/winter. Those bella seedlings looked really like vaccinoides from a distance!
Good luck with rooting you paxtonii! I had to look up H. vaccinoides as I had never heard of it. There sure are a lot of these near Bellas!
Ty Doug! Hope you'll do well with the "old" gal! Hopefully you'll be able to sell some cuttings one day!🙋♀️😍💜
Thanks Michele! Selling cuttings of it one day would be great, and hopefully it will happen.
You’ve made me see Bella in. A whole new way
There is definitely more there than meets the eye!
Just was wondering how the propagation ventures on Old Blondie went :) if you ever decide to sell a cutting, id love to grow it!
Just started watching your videos! I am loving your channel. I want to grow ALLLLLL the hoyas :)
Thank you Tim! Old Blondie it turns out was not really light green, but was just chlorotic from getting too much water. I started a bunch of it from cuttings and guess what; it turned normal Bella green so nothing new there.
the bella seeding is amazing 😻
I'm glad you liked it Mandy!
My queen! 👸🏻
@@SimplyMsJackie 😘
Thanks Doug!
You're welcome Peggy!
Very cool, great video as always
Thanks so much!
❤❤❤OMG i Finally successfully grow bella. My has a ton of flowers. They are absolutely amazing to look at. Doesn’t smell much. A lot of my died. They don’t like my kitchen. I moved them to my bedroom and they have flourished. Yay 😂😂😂 the light colour looks gorgeous. Have you been successfully with the blonde cuttings? I haven’t seen anything like that before. I’ve just got gifted with the outer variegation last week. It is beautiful ❤
I am so happy that you have been successful with your bella. The one of mine that was blonde turned out to only be that way because it was overwatered. I have propagated it and it has reverted to green so that was a wash out. I still love all of my Hoya bella. There is something special about them. I wish you continued success with yours!
Wow! 30 degrees! Amazing
Yes, that was pretty cold for it. I figured that the leaves would have been mush after that but they weren't.
I've never wanted to visit a dark, dingy basement more! I'm in awe of your Bellas! I have a variegated Bella (the reverse variegated is the 'Luis Bois') that put out one peduncle that yellowed and fell off. I wanted to cry. If you sold your "Blondie" cuttings on Ebay I bet they'd go for a pretty penny! Hoya prices are only climbing!
By the way, Doug, if you ever added an ask and answer section to your website I bet a lot of us here would use it! You are the Hoya guru, after all! As it is, I actually had a question for you if you don't mind. Do you have any idea how to tell Hoya Panchoi and Hoya Carmalae apart? I'm pretty sure I got one or the other as a free, unlabeled cutting, and it's growing fine but I have no idea what it is! It's been pretty hard to compare the pictures of the two plants online; to me they look exactly the same.
Variegated Hoyas are always a notch more difficult than its nonvariegated counterparts. I bet that you will soon see a new set of buds make it to maturity.
Considering _Hoya bella_ came from the south of Burma, it is remarkable that it is so cold-tolerant. It was collected on Kola Mountain which may be Kalwi hill 9 kilometres from Mawlamyine. It is a little hill, not big enough to be really cold.
That is very interesting! There are many plants in this Hoya lanceolata section with only slight variation in flowers and leaves; some of them come from very cool areas.
@@DougChamberlainVTHoyas Good point, many of them are identified as different species by different botanists and lots have been introduced into horticulture under disputed names. _H. weebella_ has to be the best name among that group.
What happened to "Old Blondie"? Did you propagate? I haven't seen a hoya like that in circulation yet. Were/ Are its flowers similar to the regular Hoya Bella's?
I happened to find a ripped off piece of Hoya Bella on the ground of a garden center here. I took it home and tried to root it. It is doing very well now, grew quite a bit and I spotted two tiny peduncles a few days ago, so natuarally I'm excited.
Old Blondie doesn't exist as such any longer. It was only that color because it was chlorotic from a waterlogged media. I have propagated all of these cuttings and the flowers are all like the regular Bella to me. The only thing different about the plant is the leaves seem to have a narrower shoulder. I have a new batch of Bella seedlings from a recent seedpod and we will see how they develop.
What soil mix do you use for Hoya Bella? You mentioned using self watering pots also. Do you use soil in them or Pon? Thanks Doug.
Hi Mary Ann, Hoya Bella is kind of finicky and takes a while to get going well. I use soil with them mixed with 25% extra perlite to add a little more air to the mix. I am kind of off from Pon at the moment and am moving away from it.
Nice to propagate. But you must keep some green leaves because they need to feed themselves (You know this.) by photosynthesis which needs the green chlorophyll for it to occur.
So, how did it go? I am writing a year later than your video.
The plant is gorgeous. Please respond, as if you had nothing else to do. 😆
Hi Evlyne! It turns out that those leaves were not something new. They were simply light green because they were chlorotic. After propagating the plant, all leaves reverted to a darker green. The resulting plants do have slightly narrower leaves however and it does not seem as vigorous as the regular Bella.
Hi Doug just discovered you which Im so happy about. Enjoying your informative videos. My Bella is the plain green one. Its out in my patio gets indirect light in a small hanging basket heaps of air flow. But it has what a appears as white fungus on the leaves? Any ideas as to why and how to get prevent it coming back? I cut the the worst of it off. Thank you
The only white fungus that I can think of is powdery mildew. I think you did the right thing in getting rid of the worst of it. I've read that spraying the leaves off regularly with water will help prevent it. The spores must have traveled through the air or were brought to your plant via an insect. That is my best guess.
@@DougChamberlainVTHoyas it's not powdery mildew. It was raised white on the leaves. I have photos but don't know how to upload it here. I did water them with worm casting juice but didn't think that would affect the leaves?
@@ladyplantenergy Strange! I would not think that the worm casting juice caused the issue either.
Hi! I have what I think, is a hoya bella cutting. The leaves are very hard. It is normal on h. Bella?
Older leaves on a healthy Hoya bella are quite hard.
I love my Bella. Easy to propagate, blooms great. Only problem I have with her is she keeps getting bigger & bigger! 🤣
That is the only problem with Bella, they get so big they have to be restarted every two or three years, or they get out of hand!
That seedling is a real gem! And I thought they were a hybrid cultivar instead of a species, Bella didn't sound like the usual Latin scientific name.
Bella isn't really a scientific name, but the name that most people give to these Hoyas. I believe that it is really called Hoya lanceolata ssp. Bella
Hi Doug, I noticed that you had a Rotundiflora. I'm new to Hoyas and have just got one. Some of the articles that I have read say not to let the soil dry out. Is that right in your experience? I don't want to rot the roots. Do you have any advice specifically for Rotundiflora? It would be greatly appreciated.
Hi Andrea, I have not kept Rotundiflora in quite some time, but I don't remember it as being especially difficult. It should prosper under typical good growing conditions. I did however always grow mine in a grow tent, which had high humidity, day time warmth, and average light. I watered when almost dry. Good luck with your new plant; I'm sure you will do well by it!
The Blondie actually has similar shape to the Hoya Engleriana. Very pretty.
Thank you! It would be funny if it were some sort of cross. It might have been possible; I just can't say for certain. Many of the leaves on these bella sort of look like something between engleriana and bella.
Wow what a cold temperature for that to survive. I guess the plant heard you were just going to let it die and she was going to prove you wrong that she was a tough cookie and deserve to live! And she taught all of us a lesson by surviving that cold temperature and that lesson is that she can survive to at least 30 degrees make sure curious as to how much cold she can survive but no one wants to do that experiment! And thinking that you were going to just let her die outside makes my heart sad. I know it's a lot of work to get packages mailed but at the least she could have been cut back through the soil line and maybe put the cuttings on eBay or have a raffle for them you know giveaway! Take them to the local high school or Elementary School and let the children learn how to take care of them or the students and teachers. As a retired teacher I know I would have been very grateful to anyone who brought my students plant cuttings that we could try to grow into my classroom. We had a guest speaker one time for our countywide school system here in Maryland... Washington County. I think we have almost 30 elementary schools not sure how many middle or High School... Around 10 high schools and a few more than that middle schools. So many of us out here would also have paid you for that plant and paid for the shipping or paid for the cuttings and the shipping so please don't ever check out a plan again if no one else wants the plant I'll take it! Great video thanks again so much for posting
Thank you Kathleen! There is not much of a market for these regular Bella, but I will take your words to heart, and try to find a home for these in the future!
@@DougChamberlainVTHoyas I would buy them from you because I don't have a Bella so there's a market with me so please don't throw them away in the trash or the compost pile throw the my way I would pay for them and the shipping gladly
I would like to be the first one to buy a blondie bella 🤣
Blondie Bella is no more, she turned green and is now very ordinary:~(
I only have the reg one! :(
Nothing wrong with that. It is the easiest to grow of all of them, and there is a lot to be said for easy!
Were you able to successfully propagate the "Blonde Bella"
It turns out that the Blonde Bella wasn't really blonde. It turns out it was simply chlorotic; after I propagated it, the plant reverted to dark green😥
Mine never seem to flower ;((
Strange! I wonder if their flowering cycle is temperature or daylength related?
I'm very shock that hoya kanyakumariana groving in my house at winter as well :-) Also like Montana. Even the kenejiana red corona, Obovata growing too. Also we have a real winter in this year (also shock), so we heating, have a dry air and they still growing.
I'm very happy that your plants are growing! I'm thinking that you have more sun to work with than I do. Vermont can seem to go weeks without the sun showing its face. It is depressing for people and shuts down most plant growth as well.
Hi is Bella hoya fragrant
It is barely fragrant. You can only smell the lightest perfume at night when there are a lot of flowers open.
Let it freeze? 😱
LOL!
Omg a lime bella !!
I really like that description of its color!
@@DougChamberlainVTHoyas haha Thanks Doug! love your video and learned a lot from your content. btw how can we get a cutting when you propagate it whenever lol
@@givim80 Kind of way too early to say right now, but it would probably be sold on eBay under my eBay moniker: erbtarzan24. I would say we are looking at least a year and a half before that happens.
Oh my gosh you threw seedlings out! But I understand because I grew a whole bunch of tomato plants and other flowering plants and somehow or other priorities took over and somehow they didn't get watered and sadly they all kick the bucket so to speak and I was heartbroken! But once again I pay for the postage for you to just put them in a box and ship them to me teehee. If you ever want to get in touch with me about any of that go to my channel that's just Kathleen Murphy all you have to do is click the blue k and let me know and I get back in touch with you. I put my name and the word Hoya in the search engine and you'll find me. I check my comment section just about daily! I just started with orchids a couple years ago and that led to starting my TH-cam channel at the suggestion of someone who was giving good advice on orchid care on TH-cam. Her name is Carolyn her husband's name Jack and they combined both the names are there channels name and it is
j a c o l y n s orchids. I had no way to share my successes or failures with the Orchid so she suggested I start a TH-cam channel and I'd have a history of my interaction with my orchids for myself and then she could help me. I also have hundreds of houseplants and it seems like any more my life revolves around them but I love it. You are one of those special people that has the ability to focus on just one plant family and the knowledge you have of them it's so wonderful that you share that knowledge with all of us! God bless
God bless you Kathleen, and thanks for the very nice and thoughtful comment!
Frosted.
I like the name Hoya bella "Blonde" or "Blondie"!
Thank you Marilyn!
Calll it something like hoya bella "champagne" or something...calling it like Hitler's dog is kinda mean imo.
Wow! I never even knew the name of Hitler's dog. I was thinking Blondie of the comic strip. Learn something new every day!