My beloved Hoya carnosa has been in my home for 25 years. It’s mother plant was a cutting bought over from Poland by my friend in 1986… I think that’s pretty cool 😎🌱
I LOVE to hear that!!!! Keeping something alive, passing it on and knowing that process will repeat. There's just something about having a plant that came from a very old plant that's still around.
I love my Green Carnosa, it's huge, about 15 yrs old. I think I only repotted 3 times. Given so many cuttings away and started 2 more last year. Such a easy plant.
Oh... I got mine 3 years ago. I put it in a new pot last year. The new dirt seemed to make it take off and grow. I fixed a cross stick for it to wind up on. I took two cuttings. They both have really grown this summer. I keep them outside in summer under a patio cover. They love it there. The green is so lovely
My grandmother grew many plants, including hoya. My mom got one from grandma before 1950. I've had mine cut from mom's plant sometime after that. These are highly adaptable, highly forgiving, extremely easy care plants. Mine all bloom like mad several times a year - which releases the scent at night - because night moths would normally be their outdoor (in the wild) pollinators. The scent is exceptionally POTENT. Took me a few years to go from being overwhelmed by the perfume to now being able to sleep under about 5 flower sections over my bed. HINT: Never cut off the flowering section, even after the current crop of flowers drop off ... it re-blooms from the same spot every time. (Well, you can cut it if you want to - the waxy flowers do drip an occasional clear liquid - but I don't want to cut mine off.) :-) Oh - and too much sun will make the leaves really really pale - you'll know if it is too much easily. Mine do well as hanging plants - they will try to grab onto something or poke through a hole somewhere to hold their branches up - so to avoid their unwanted grabbing I use yarn (soft) (no fishing line - fish line might cut into the branch - but would otherwise be nice for invisibility) to loop around a stem and hold it up instead. They seems content with that. Enjoy!
There has been a carnosa in my house for at least 15 years. I had to cut her back hard last fall because she had grown EVERYWHERE. Now I am working on getting her to bloom again because the last time was over a decade ago. Definitely appreciate this video!
I have one in direct light and one pulled back 2 ft, and the direct light one has a lighter green leaf and the white speckles are pink! It doesn't get very quick leaf growth, but it's constantly flowering. The one pulled back is constantly growing vines and doesn't flower as often.
So HAPPY to see someone make a video about these Hoyas!! I have 2 Hoya that are pretty large and each started as a cutting from a 30 yr old mother plant. She's in a 2 1/2 deep pot that is about 6-8" in diameter. That is the mother plant! I am propagating now after 3 years.
@@rdred8693 It's usually pebbles in a tray covered in water. All of my high humidity plants that aren't in a cabinet are sitting on top of humidity trays. Most important thing is that the plant should have a little pot tray under it between the plant and the rocks & water. Otherwise your plant will bottom water itself to death LOL. I live in desert climate and I've been able to keep all my Calatheas and other high humidity plants looking great with this method. I get trays and pebbles from a dollar store so it doesn't cost much at all. Good luck!
Perfect video! Love my Hoya Carnosa. She grows quickly and is chunky and full. She has not bloomed in the two years I’ve had her but I know she will eventually. I love her even without a bloom! Many thanks for this video! 👌🪴🥰
My carnosa is my favourite hoya. I love it. And top 3 favourite plant in my home. I love it. When it puts out a new leaf I dont take my eyes off them hehe Great video
Have over 100 plants but have just bought my first Hoya. What do I do for info? Turn to one of my favourite planty person Nick for advice. Thanks Nick. Love from Australia 🇦🇺 💖
Just got 2 of my Boy's to bloom this year. My biggest surprise was my Compacta "rope" which is 3 years old... and we've had a love hate relationship! Thanks for great tips!
I love my Hoya carnosa. Took a cutting (2 leaf) that someone was keeping in a corridor of an apartment building. Took forever to root but I was patientl since the leaves looked fine and was rewarded with a beautiful plant. Is it still a carnosa if it has silvery spots (like paint spatters) on the leaves? Beautiful succulent leaves, it loves the east window spot and grows like crazy come summer time. Hope it flowers some day!
Nick, do you have Cissus Amazonica? Here on YT it's not much info about it. If you have it, can you please make a video about the care. I think I deserves more popularity
Does this plant ever boom, or is it strictly non blooming? I found my beauty at the 99 cent store, of all places!, and I was thrilled! It was a potful of plants and very healthy. I quickly grabbed it up because I had been looking for one for a long time. It is still beautiful and long tailg vines! Should I cut it back or just let it grow?
I have the Hoya my mother got as a cutting from a plant in our dental office (about 1965). As far as I can remember it has only bloomed twice. She had taken a picture of the bloom, and for YEARS she had that photo stuck in the plant! I have had it near a west facing window since November 2023. I have seen just a few new leaves, and still no blooms. I am impatiently waiting!
@@zuck9090 It is about 18" from a west facing window. It's been there for 10 months now. It gets bright indirect light. I've started spraying it with orchid fertilizer once a week, as other videos have recommended. We'll see!
I am here now a few minutes after placing an order for my first hoya. Do I need more plants in my home right now? No, definitely no. Did I purchase it on impulse because it's variegated? Maybe.
I bought a healthy cutting about a year ago, and I'm dying to get some new leaves! It seems happy, but it's just not growing. I'll try a chunkier mix. I love it so much!
I recently bought 2 pots off of offer up (last spring). She left the soil in them and had put what she called a wax plant cutting in it. There were two leaves just above the soil. It was a large pot, about 6in long and 3in wide. No holes in the bottom. I had contacted her several days before I would be in her area. I think she may have set it aside in the mean time. I brought it home and watered if lightly and set it to acclimate. One of the leaves turned yellow. I was pretty upset because the pots without drainage I was disappointed in but excited to have the hoya cutting. Within two weeks I decided to pot it into a more appropriate smaller pot and while doing that I would see how the root system was doing or if I was going to lose it. The good news was it had a nice healthy root system starting. So I potted it into better soil and a smaller pot (probably should have gone smaller. I kept watching and waiting for it to sprout the new growth. Nothing for a long time but at least it had not lost its other leaf. Just last week I found a half inch sprout has started. It dawned on me it had been continuing to make roots. I had been watering it with root and bloom fertilizer. It is low on nitrogen so it could be watered with it each watering. Be patient. You want a good set of roots for a healthy plant.
@@dw3403 thank you so much! I repotted it into a slightly smaller pot, and it gave me a few new leaves! It's one of those hoyas with the thick, forest green, waxy leaves. So I guess it's a slow grower? I don't care though, I love her! (And my krohniana & diversifolia are going absolutely bonkers - my div loves shooting out several inches of vine a week!) 💚💚💚
@@Desaki65 It gave you leaves? Since I first replied to you another vine shot out of the soil and is growing faster than the first one that stopped. I have yet to see any leaves.
@@dw3403 it totally did! But honestly? The vine was meh - mine popped up at the bottom of the plant, as well as at the bases of other leaves. (I thought two of them were nodes or vine buds, but nope. Two leaves! They like pairs. 🤣)
@@dw3403 now, to get growth on my variegated hoya carnosa compacta... But I've only had her for two months, and with the carnosa I've been talking about over a year to decide if it wanted to leaf, I guess I'll wait! 🤷🏾♀️💚
Omg… I just repotted my hoya not knowing it needed to be root bound… I just did 4 root balls in an 8” pot, but the roots look so sad. 😢 It’s in soil with perlite & orchid mix. Should I put it back in a smaller pot?
My hoya (which flowers a LOT-has maroon-coloured flowers, and has already flowered three times this year since January) has one stem with all yellow leaves. I think it was a variegated hoya when I got it ...I've had it for years, and can't remember its origin story. However, all the other leaves are now pure green. That one yellow-leaved stem is very weird. While the leaves are solid and filled-out, just like the green ones, the yellow ones do occasionally drop off the plant-while the green ones don't. I don't know if there is something wrong with that stem or not. (There are no visible pests on the plant.) I keep the plant hung in a south-facing window, but the window is blocked in shade for most of the day by a building next door, so it only gets full light for an hour or so every day. (I live in Scotland, by the way.) Any ideas?
I have a giant carnosa loving life in my bathroom. My australis and publicalyx are doing well in other rooms. I have the hardest time with compacta (rope), though. Are those more finicky than the standard carnosa? The leaves are wrinkling and dying off despite my regular hoya mix and my small pot. What am I doing wrong?
I picked up a cutting someone left in the laudryroom in our apartmentcomplex. I didnt know what it was, but Iam preatty sure its a carnosa. But it looks more compact than yours, I have had it for a year, and it has come new leafes but all in one place, so its getteing wheary compact. I tryed to make it climbe, but its not getting any longer. Iam confused...
I have read no. They say not to even move them when blooming. Sometimes if a plant gets too dried out the soil wont hold water and will run off. Put the plant in a sink with the stopper in place and let the plant soak in water for a few minutes. Then let it drain.
O,o. Take some cuttings just in case your going to lose it. You either let the soil dry out too long at one point and the water isnt staying in the soil. Or it has become so root bound there are more roots than soil. Lightly tip it out of its pot and look at those roots.
I adore my carnosa, I took a sneaky cutting from a several decades old office plant a few years ago and it just keeps getting bigger! It's such a vigorous grower and blooms all the time too, no matter how much I neglect it. Honestly my biggest problem with it is that I'm not sure what to do if it gets even bigger, it already takes away so much sun from my other plants... it just won't stop! (Edit: grammar)
I ordered a Hoya Carnosa from Amazon and it died within a week. I potted it in a mix of orchid and regular mix. That was recommended and it was chunky. I think it was a Princess. Why did it die?
It might have been sick already when you got it, or reporting it along with the change in environment stressed it out. I'd advise not to report right after getting a plant unless they have issues like root rot or something else.
Was it a plant that was already rooted? If so, do not mess with them by potting them into new pots for a few weeks. Let it get used to its new environment because they have already gone through a lot of stress.
My beloved Hoya carnosa has been in my home for 25 years. It’s mother plant was a cutting bought over from Poland by my friend in 1986… I think that’s pretty cool 😎🌱
Very cool story and it makes the plant extra special! 🥰
hi miss sarah
if you want a hoya plant
I have some very beautiful hoya plants
Everytime I read story of plants being in people's home for 20 plus years I just feel so behind.
My parents had bought theirs over 50 yrs ago, and, happily, it is still alive today 😀
Wow!
Both for the hoya and your parents' lifespan.
I LOVE to hear that!!!! Keeping something alive, passing it on and knowing that process will repeat. There's just something about having a plant that came from a very old plant that's still around.
My favorite from my hoya collection, mine flowers twice a year.
I went from not liking them, to loving them.
Hoya's make me happy!
My Hoya carnosa is 45 years old. It was given to me by a customer. I love this plant!
I love my Green Carnosa, it's huge, about 15 yrs old. I think I only repotted 3 times. Given so many cuttings away and started 2 more last year. Such a easy plant.
Oh... I got mine 3 years ago. I put it in a new pot last year. The new dirt seemed to make it take off and grow. I fixed a cross stick for it to wind up on. I took two cuttings. They both have really grown this summer. I keep them outside in summer under a patio cover. They love it there. The green is so lovely
Thank you! I could not agree more, common yet lovely! Mines got splash, but was a gift and I love it 💚😁💚
Love it! Mine finally has its first bloom. I am beyond excited.
hi lori
if you want a hoya plant
I have some very beautiful hoya plants
I have one of these that I grew from a cutting at work. Its grown substantially pretty quick and is grabbing onto everything
hi mis amy
if you want a hoya plant
I have some very beautiful hoya plants
I finally got a cutting from my in-laws huge Hoya. So excited!
I've just brought my first hoya I don't think they're as common here in Australia but I finally found one and absolutely had to buy it
My grandmother grew many plants, including hoya. My mom got one from grandma before 1950. I've had mine cut from mom's plant sometime after that. These are highly adaptable, highly forgiving, extremely easy care plants. Mine all bloom like mad several times a year - which releases the scent at night - because night moths would normally be their outdoor (in the wild) pollinators. The scent is exceptionally POTENT. Took me a few years to go from being overwhelmed by the perfume to now being able to sleep under about 5 flower sections over my bed. HINT: Never cut off the flowering section, even after the current crop of flowers drop off ... it re-blooms from the same spot every time. (Well, you can cut it if you want to - the waxy flowers do drip an occasional clear liquid - but I don't want to cut mine off.) :-) Oh - and too much sun will make the leaves really really pale - you'll know if it is too much easily. Mine do well as hanging plants - they will try to grab onto something or poke through a hole somewhere to hold their branches up - so to avoid their unwanted grabbing I use yarn (soft) (no fishing line - fish line might cut into the branch - but would otherwise be nice for invisibility) to loop around a stem and hold it up instead. They seems content with that. Enjoy!
This is my favourite Hoya. Have had a plant since I was 12 years old and it’s still beautiful.
There has been a carnosa in my house for at least 15 years. I had to cut her back hard last fall because she had grown EVERYWHERE. Now I am working on getting her to bloom again because the last time was over a decade ago. Definitely appreciate this video!
I have one in direct light and one pulled back 2 ft, and the direct light one has a lighter green leaf and the white speckles are pink! It doesn't get very quick leaf growth, but it's constantly flowering. The one pulled back is constantly growing vines and doesn't flower as often.
So HAPPY to see someone make a video about these Hoyas!! I have 2 Hoya that are pretty large and each started as a cutting from a 30 yr old mother plant. She's in a 2 1/2 deep pot that is about 6-8" in diameter. That is the mother plant! I am propagating now after 3 years.
hi kelly
if you want a hoya plant
I have some very beautiful hoya plants
I have had such terrible luck with hoyas. Thanks for this info! Going to do some repotting (into a chunkier mix and with less room) tonight!
I almost gave up on mine 3 months ago and it was heading for the trash can, but I put it outside on a humidity tray and it has doubled in size.
Can you tell me about the tray?
@@rdred8693 It's usually pebbles in a tray covered in water. All of my high humidity plants that aren't in a cabinet are sitting on top of humidity trays. Most important thing is that the plant should have a little pot tray under it between the plant and the rocks & water. Otherwise your plant will bottom water itself to death LOL. I live in desert climate and I've been able to keep all my Calatheas and other high humidity plants looking great with this method. I get trays and pebbles from a dollar store so it doesn't cost much at all. Good luck!
hi gina
if you want a hoya plant
I have some very beautiful hoya plants
@@darulanwar2916 You sound like a man in a white van offering candy to a kid, lol.
No offense it just sounds funny
Thanks. Enjoyed your video. I even plop cuttings in water to root. Too easy.
She is beautiful and I love her, and I have one, too!!
I love Hoyas, stunning plants!🥰🪴
I recently got one and it’s one of my favourite. I love the dark green foliage
I have the regular Carnosa. Direct sunlight through the window makes it get more splash. Never noticed any sun stressing 🤷♀️
Perfect video! Love my Hoya Carnosa. She grows quickly and is chunky and full. She has not bloomed in the two years I’ve had her but I know she will eventually. I love her even without a bloom! Many thanks for this video! 👌🪴🥰
Nick fiercely loves this plant 😄
I use a brush that came with my ladyshaver to clean off in the cracks. I find these tiny brushes ideal for this and also for my cacti.
Great video with great plant🙂
My carnosa is my favourite hoya. I love it. And top 3 favourite plant in my home. I love it. When it puts out a new leaf I dont take my eyes off them hehe
Great video
Have over 100 plants but have just bought my first Hoya.
What do I do for info? Turn to one of my favourite planty person Nick for advice. Thanks Nick. Love from Australia 🇦🇺 💖
I just found out that there is a hoya carnosa in the garden that no-one has cared for in the last 5 years. I'm not taking cuttings. Not at all xD
Just got one of these, found your video helpful 😊 thank you
Just got 2 of my Boy's to bloom this year. My biggest surprise was my Compacta "rope" which is 3 years old... and we've had a love hate relationship! Thanks for great tips!
hi
if you want a hoya plant
I have some very beautiful hoya plants
I love my Hoya carnosa. Took a cutting (2 leaf) that someone was keeping in a corridor of an apartment building. Took forever to root but I was patientl since the leaves looked fine and was rewarded with a beautiful plant. Is it still a carnosa if it has silvery spots (like paint spatters) on the leaves?
Beautiful succulent leaves, it loves the east window spot and grows like crazy come summer time. Hope it flowers some day!
I just bought my first one on Saturday!
hi
if you want a hoya plant
I have some very beautiful hoya plants
Hi Nick! I really like Hoya Carnosa. I think I have one, but not sure. Thank you so much for the info and sharing!
Nick, do you have Cissus Amazonica? Here on YT it's not much info about it. If you have it, can you please make a video about the care. I think I deserves more popularity
Does this plant ever boom, or is it strictly non blooming? I found my beauty at the 99 cent store, of all places!, and I was thrilled! It was a potful of plants and very healthy. I quickly grabbed it up because I had been looking for one for a long time. It is still beautiful and long tailg vines! Should I cut it back or just let it grow?
Gorgeous ❤🌱❤🤗🌱
Y💚UR H💚YA L💚💚KS G💚💚D!!!
I have the Hoya my mother got as a cutting from a plant in our dental office (about 1965). As far as I can remember it has only bloomed twice. She had taken a picture of the bloom, and for YEARS she had that photo stuck in the plant! I have had it near a west facing window since November 2023. I have seen just a few new leaves, and still no blooms. I am impatiently waiting!
Needs more sun, direct in window
@@zuck9090 It is about 18" from a west facing window. It's been there for 10 months now. It gets bright indirect light. I've started spraying it with orchid fertilizer once a week, as other videos have recommended. We'll see!
I am here now a few minutes after placing an order for my first hoya. Do I need more plants in my home right now? No, definitely no. Did I purchase it on impulse because it's variegated? Maybe.
very informative!
over nick's left shoulder, is that a begonia luxurians? or an umbrella plant? enquiring minds would like to know!
I bought a healthy cutting about a year ago, and I'm dying to get some new leaves! It seems happy, but it's just not growing. I'll try a chunkier mix. I love it so much!
I recently bought 2 pots off of offer up (last spring). She left the soil in them and had put what she called a wax plant cutting in it. There were two leaves just above the soil. It was a large pot, about 6in long and 3in wide. No holes in the bottom. I had contacted her several days before I would be in her area. I think she may have set it aside in the mean time.
I brought it home and watered if lightly and set it to acclimate. One of the leaves turned yellow. I was pretty upset because the pots without drainage I was disappointed in but excited to have the hoya cutting. Within two weeks I decided to pot it into a more appropriate smaller pot and while doing that I would see how the root system was doing or if I was going to lose it. The good news was it had a nice healthy root system starting. So I potted it into better soil and a smaller pot (probably should have gone smaller. I kept watching and waiting for it to sprout the new growth. Nothing for a long time but at least it had not lost its other leaf. Just last week I found a half inch sprout has started. It dawned on me it had been continuing to make roots. I had been watering it with root and bloom fertilizer. It is low on nitrogen so it could be watered with it each watering. Be patient. You want a good set of roots for a healthy plant.
@@dw3403 thank you so much! I repotted it into a slightly smaller pot, and it gave me a few new leaves! It's one of those hoyas with the thick, forest green, waxy leaves. So I guess it's a slow grower? I don't care though, I love her! (And my krohniana & diversifolia are going absolutely bonkers - my div loves shooting out several inches of vine a week!) 💚💚💚
@@Desaki65 It gave you leaves? Since I first replied to you another vine shot out of the soil and is growing faster than the first one that stopped. I have yet to see any leaves.
@@dw3403 it totally did! But honestly? The vine was meh - mine popped up at the bottom of the plant, as well as at the bases of other leaves. (I thought two of them were nodes or vine buds, but nope. Two leaves! They like pairs. 🤣)
@@dw3403 now, to get growth on my variegated hoya carnosa compacta... But I've only had her for two months, and with the carnosa I've been talking about over a year to decide if it wanted to leaf, I guess I'll wait! 🤷🏾♀️💚
I potted up a cutting a year ago in a small pot. It has not done anything...just maintains...looks healthy but why isnt it growing?
i have every other Carnosa xDD Krimson Princess and Queen and a krinkle 8 maybe i should finish the set
hi
if you want a hoya plant
I have some very beautiful hoya plants
i have mine 1ft from a west facing window & it grows fast & very long
My hoya is one long vine! How do I get it to grow more bushy!?
Omg… I just repotted my hoya not knowing it needed to be root bound… I just did 4 root balls in an 8” pot, but the roots look so sad. 😢 It’s in soil with perlite & orchid mix. Should I put it back in a smaller pot?
No, leave it alone now.
My mother's Hoya has a white powdery on it. Can it be saved?
My hoya (which flowers a LOT-has maroon-coloured flowers, and has already flowered three times this year since January) has one stem with all yellow leaves. I think it was a variegated hoya when I got it ...I've had it for years, and can't remember its origin story. However, all the other leaves are now pure green. That one yellow-leaved stem is very weird. While the leaves are solid and filled-out, just like the green ones, the yellow ones do occasionally drop off the plant-while the green ones don't. I don't know if there is something wrong with that stem or not. (There are no visible pests on the plant.) I keep the plant hung in a south-facing window, but the window is blocked in shade for most of the day by a building next door, so it only gets full light for an hour or so every day. (I live in Scotland, by the way.) Any ideas?
If a Hoya began showing spots from over watering, will it take years to recover? They grow so slow!
I have a giant carnosa loving life in my bathroom. My australis and publicalyx are doing well in other rooms. I have the hardest time with compacta (rope), though. Are those more finicky than the standard carnosa? The leaves are wrinkling and dying off despite my regular hoya mix and my small pot. What am I doing wrong?
I picked up a cutting someone left in the laudryroom in our apartmentcomplex. I didnt know what it was, but Iam preatty sure its a carnosa. But it looks more compact than yours, I have had it for a year, and it has come new leafes but all in one place, so its getteing wheary compact. I tryed to make it climbe, but its not getting any longer. Iam confused...
Can a Hoya lacunosa be repotted during flowering? The water runs right through the pot when I water it so I think it might be. Really root bound?
I have read no. They say not to even move them when blooming. Sometimes if a plant gets too dried out the soil wont hold water and will run off. Put the plant in a sink with the stopper in place and let the plant soak in water for a few minutes. Then let it drain.
I own one and it’s not growing, I always have problem with it. The leave dry out. 😩🤔
O,o. Take some cuttings just in case your going to lose it.
You either let the soil dry out too long at one point and the water isnt staying in the soil. Or it has become so root bound there are more roots than soil. Lightly tip it out of its pot and look at those roots.
I adore my carnosa, I took a sneaky cutting from a several decades old office plant a few years ago and it just keeps getting bigger! It's such a vigorous grower and blooms all the time too, no matter how much I neglect it. Honestly my biggest problem with it is that I'm not sure what to do if it gets even bigger, it already takes away so much sun from my other plants... it just won't stop!
(Edit: grammar)
You take cuttings and send them to us.
I ordered a Hoya Carnosa from Amazon and it died within a week. I potted it in a mix of orchid and regular mix. That was recommended and it was chunky. I think it was a Princess. Why did it die?
hi
if you want a hoya plant
I have some very beautiful hoya plants
It might have been sick already when you got it, or reporting it along with the change in environment stressed it out. I'd advise not to report right after getting a plant unless they have issues like root rot or something else.
Was it a plant that was already rooted? If so, do not mess with them by potting them into new pots for a few weeks. Let it get used to its new environment because they have already gone through a lot of stress.
Slow down so we can understand please…😳😂