Re: trellising at 3:34 - this isn't the greatest example. Ideally you want to loosely loop the vine in a circle so it can start growing up the other side of the trellis. April demonstrates it better in this video ruclips.net/video/tvvlCIpa0vg/видео.htmlsi=OnrklkVkyF0lE-_A around the 14 minute mark. Thanks to the commenters who pointed this out! Update on the spots on my argentea princess: I treated with sulfur powder but it didn't seem to affect the spots. It seems to just be triggered by stress - inconsistent watering, damaging the leaves while they're growing, change in temperature, etc. It's not spreading to other plants so I'm not worrying about it! This would normally be a video I post exclusively for my Sprouts & Plantlets on Patreon, but I want to give you a taste of the content I put in my care guides! I have care guides for anthuriums, pinguiculas, alocasias, and more! www.patreon.com/collection/4164
I totally agree that this is the most thorough hoya video that has been posted. I have a larger collection and you do learn many things trial and error. The only thing I differ with you about is humidity. Hoya are so easy to root when given lots of humidity; easily rooting in a plastic bag with nothing but moisture. I have also found that their speed of growth is many times more when kept warm (over 70F). And some do so much better on a window sill than under any artificial lighting. Love your parrot; and I second that you are very easy to listen to. You make great videos. Please don't stop.
Thanks for sharing your insight and your kind words! I agree that humidity absolutely helps with rooting. The aerial roots on some of mine in my greenhouse cabinet are wild. My temps are usually above 70F so that makes sense. I've never noticed a difference with artificial lighting but then again most of my hoyas get a bit of both!
@DionneRoxanne Interesting I follow April but have never heard of that before. If you have a link I'd love to see it. I find what usually happens is the growing tip reorients itself and tries to keep growing up and when it gets long enough I can wrap it up the other side of the trellis. I haven't noticed them dying back but I'll keep an eye out, maybe I've just never made the connection before.
Such an in formative video, thank you! On the cal-mag supplement, can that be used with my regular fertilizer or should it be used in a separate watering? Love seeing your bird flying around, I also a have flighted parrot, geckos, poison dart frogs, you know what they say…great minds think alike! I have no idea why you don’t have more followers, your videos are so informative and educational, I wish we had them weekly! ❤. Thanks again for such a great video!!! I also joined your Patreon!
Aww you are so sweet! Good question, you can mix your cal-mag in with your fertilizer water as long as it's diluted. It's only the concentrated forms that shouldn't be mixed.
FYI, i had parrots, cockatiels, parakeets for years, please clip the wings, you can't predict when a door will get left open accidentally, wouldn't want you to go through that heartache...
@cindyvan635 River's wings used to be clipped but he's much more confident and independent flighted. The only way he would fly away from the safety of his home is if he got spooked, but that's why we do recall training.
@@cindyvan635 they NEED too be able to fly, that whole flight or fight thing is real, they need the confidence of being able to fly as they were meant to do.
Based on experience, not all splashy and silvery hoyas are the same. Some varieties have stable splash and silver while some are dependent on light plus growing environment (for example are the carnosa varieties and hybrids. The Wilbur Graves and Mathilde splash will give fuller silver/splashing with good light and with cooler environment. It doesn't like humid or hot environment)
My Wilbur Graves was losing silver and I blasted it with light and it's looking nice and silver again. The same happens with coriacea silver. Light definitely changes a lot of things.
I haven't found that to be the case with my Wilbur Graves or coriacea silver which both grow around the 400 foot candle range but I'm glad it worked for you.
I’m fairly new to Hoyas and this video was very informative for me. I look forward to watching the other videos you have. You’re very easy to listen to.
There are several different ways plants get variegation and silver/splash, all variegation I have tested is very light reliant - they will get larger bright areas with more radiation. Silver/splash is different, the structural mutation that you bring up is not dependent on radiation - however many variants of silver/splash is reliant on radiation. You can easily test this by cutting out a small piece of paper and laying it on a part of a developing leaf. For example hoya publicalyx splash/silver is very dependent on radiation - the part of the leaf underneath the paper will develop green with no splash/silver while the rest of the leaf will have plenty of silver/splash in high light.
Wow, so informative! I’m just starting to get into Hoya and this is so helpful. Coincidentally I just got a polyneura and the stem rot section gave me insight to some yellowing I’ve observed. Happy I found your channel!
Wow, i have many hoyas since a year and i learned many thing. Tanks you so much for share your knowledge with us. This vidéo is precious in information for me. Tanks à lot another time😊❤❤
This was a super awesome video. I've been growing hoyas for like nine years now, and I agree with ninety percent of this maybe even ninety five. I'm guessing I might have a few more years under my belt. I was wondering if you'd be open to advice about one subject matter, and that's pests. You would be way better off to obliterate the pests out of your house and never have to deal with them again by spring, a completely natural d.I y spray and preventing these issues from coming back, your life would be so much easier. I have never had root mealies. I have never had mealy bugs ever in my house. A lot of that is because of the alcohol in the spray.I have never had the baby leaves die. It's because there's not enough alcohol in the spray to kill the baby growth. I started doing this about seven years ago and have never had pests since. Because I do the preventative. Now, I am much stricter about the plants that come in getting sprayed, getting treated, checking the soil or other medium.. This prevents new infestations. I put the new plants through a two week process in my bathroom before they enter the plant room. This may sound strict, but I do not deal with bug. Outbreaks ever and it makes being a plant keeper plant mom, much more enjoyable. But in the beginning, it can be a little bit hard for that first two months to get your old bugs situations under control the best way I found to do this was to have some propagation bins, you know, clear plastic bins, or anything, you can have even the To put all your plants under and lay some towels around it. If there were any way that you could leave your plants that in these bins for a few weeks, you could get rid of the problem and never have the problem again. I do not have a youtube.I don't think I even ever wanted one.But part of me thinks I should make a video just about pets to help people out. I've heard versions of this d. I. Y mix getting more well known, i'm one of the o g users. Over the years, i've come up with my own recipe i like to take up spray bottle, fill it three quarters of the way up with water if it's a medium size spray bottle then I would put three tablespoons of doctor bronners two tablespoons of alcohol, two tablespoons of hydrogen paroxide then one of the most important parts is essential oil. You could just use one type of an oil, but I find the best ones are clove, peppermint, tea tree, lavender lemon. I tend to do a mixture cinnamon is a great one too. If you want to just have one oil, a thieves, oil, or what's known as immune strength by some brand like rmo, which stands for rocky mountain oils. They are not m l m you can just buy it on amazon or on their website. A lot of the oils I just mentioned are in that blend.Call immune strength can you put ten drops of oil if you have a bad outbreak or you're doing the first session, you could use up to twenty drops i especially do this when I have a bigger spray bottle. You literally have an eighty percent water situation.All of the treatments are very strong, so you only need a smaller amount. When you are first starting this process, you spray everything tops, bottoms of the leaves, the stems all of that you let it dry, you do this at night so that the oils don't call sunburn. Then in three days, you do the same thing every three days. If you have an outbreak, you can do it every two days. You're only doing it this extreme to get rid of all of the bugs that you currently have on your collection. You can even spray your rocks or whatever your substrate is and water. It through it will help kill everything that's in there. I only do something like this once a year, and then you wanna add nutrients back into your soil. The peroxide literally explodes the eggs.Explodes the bugs. People have been using peroxide with planting for a hundred years at least. And remember it's quite diluted. If you do this for a week every 2to3 days. Then you can put your plants back on the shelves.You want to really clean the shelves down with alcohol. Make sure there's no bugs by cleaning everything all around. This might seem extreme, but you're setting yourself up for life here. Then, after your first week, you do it twice a month for The first two months. If at all possible, the easiest thing to do for yourself is just to leave them in the bins.Unless you have hard floors, where once you did the initial thing, you can just spray them on the shelves, it doesn't cause any issues, but it does have the soap in it, which, if you have glass shelves will leave that residue. Once you've done this, you've gotten every cycle by doing it, for the it first week, and then twice a month for the first two months, you will literally obliterate everything, if there was another cycle of eggs, it will work. I have done this on every type of plant, even the most delicate, and sometimes it bubbles up because it's killing the bugs. After that, once, you have the situation completely under control. In some cases, you need to change out your sub. Strate, and have clean substrate as well. Sometimes just flushing it with the spray. Will be enough to kill anything that was in your substrate. If you have soil, you might need to change your soil, if you had bugs in your soil. If I get new soil plants in, I kind of once they're used to my house, pull them out, shake off that substrate, a little spray, the roots even so, nothing new comes in. I spray the plants completely down every three days and keep them in the bathroom for a week and a half. Once i'm sure things are all good, then they're ready to move in with the other plants, I have literally not had an outbreak of anything sent stewing this four years. Because I treat everything new in and there's alcohol in there. It kills anything so if there were mealy bugs, they never make it. Although i've never seen a mealy bug on any of my plants, the almost ten years that i've been to growing plants indoors. Since I focus on hoya.. This spray has been successful with flat mites, but I check for the symptoms of flat mites. If I think that a new plant in might have them, it will spend more time in my bathroom until i'm sure that they're gone so that they don't enter and with the other plants. This is not hard, it's so worth it. I have not dealt with an outbreak. Since I started doing it at this level. The only time I spray my whole collection again is when I'm entering a new season and there's a chance that some bugs may have gotten in to the house. So I do a spray of the collection, usually in its place, I don't take everything down or out in the spring and in the fall. Doing this has kept me from having to deal with bugs at all. I have hundreds of plants, and if you do that first overhaul? Were you completely obliterate bugs out of your house and then do that 2 month process where you make sure you continue to spray them at least twice a month? If not, every two weeks, you will get rid of all of the cycle of the eggs, and you should be able to have a bug free home. There is a creator right now. That is a Hoya, grower, that does the same thing as me. He is the only other person that does something similar to what I do.And he also says that he has never had a bug out break since he started. He does a similar DIY spray. He may take his stuff outside to spray it in the summer and out in buckets and stuff. I thought that your video was so good. I thought the only improvement would have been a better way of not even dealing with bugs. The creator i'm talking about his name is sober plant guy. Anybody who's read this comment could watch his video on how he treats bugs.The only thing he does different than what I do is he does not add the essential oil. He uses soap with essential oil in it. I personally think that my way is stronger and more effective. What's also amazing about the recipe? Is it also cures fungus and bacteria? So i've also never had fungus or bacteria in eight years. Specifically, clove oil is an anti fungal and anti bacterial and antiviral. That's why I think the essential oils from my recipe make it the most effective spray.. I also change out my oils periodically so that the bugs don't get used to my sprays. I hope this helps anybody who's watched this video. I also hope it helps this creator. I personally found it so stressful when I had bugs. And the spray changed my life and made me enjoy gardening so much more.
I'm glad you found something that works for you. Personally I've found peroxide not to work for root mealies and alcohol too damaging to the roots. I'm content with the way I'm currently treating my plants since it's easy, not time consuming, and the hoyas are happy, even if it's not perfect.
Thank you for this. I watch @soberplantguy. Live his channel. I think I have re your for your pest spray. I need to get the Dr Bronners soaps. Is using his peppermint doao good enough. I don’t know where to get essential oils.
Thanks so much for this comment! This is the sort of old school info my nan used to tell me so I'm saving your comment to my plants tips and info folder! Much appreciated :)
So my friend and I have noticed that hoyas bloom better at her house than at mine. After checking different factors between our houses, we've come up with a theory that my house is just a bit too cold for my hoyas to flower reliably. We're about to set up a controlled experiment with a couple of Hoya khroniana silvers to test if they bloom better for her at her warmer temperature than for me. Same size/condition of plants, same humidity and light level (monitored), and we're going to track the temperature until one of them blooms.
I have several new Hoyas that are tipping over and could use a trellis to give it someplace to climb so they are getting an update from a three inch to a four inch.
I have seen many many hoya videos and intro to hoya videos. This is probably the best hoya and plant care video that I have seen. Well done, very impressed.
Best Hoya care video ever! Hoyas are so eccentric and I think this is why I love them so much. You did an awesome job at breaking down the issues. Really appreciate your help in identifying flat mites. I bought a H. polynera cutting and clearly it had that mites! All the growth points are woody and knobby. There is some new growth happening so we’ll see. I’ll get some mineral oil and hopefully prevent an outbreak.
Gotta ask. My multiflora seems to let its peduncles fall off since it’s done blooming. It turns yellow and falls off. But right now I’ve got four peduncles blooming in all different stages.
I found that florist vials that come with a rubber top that you stick the stem through. Then fill with water and cap it. Then out I a cup or bowl so it’s standing up. Riots quick
Thank you, this was a great video! I'm fairly new to hoyas so this was very useful information. 😊 subscribed & looking forward for more videos from you!
Love my Hoyas! I have a lot that I’ve grown from cuttings and sometimes inconsistent with watering, need to get better 🌱💚 Very helpful and informative thank you!
Thank you so much for this video! I am a new Hoya collector and its really helped reaffirm what I am doing. I water my Hoya’s as every few days as I have airy substrate. They are flourishing with all the water 🎉.
Thank you for this video I’m just starting with Hoyas and you taught me so much. I absolutely love the plants, can’t wait to watch mine grow and now I’m sure I’ll be a bit more successful. Thank you so much. I did subscribe to your site so I could continue to learn more about them.
I am not a Hoya expert, but I have about 20 Hoyas. Luckily, I have never seen mealybugs on my Hoyas. Every time I water my Hoyas (pretty much all of my plants), I spray soapy water all over the plants and then dry the leaves with a fan before putting them back in place. I think the soapy water keeps mealybugs and other pests away.🤔
Love to see these beautiful big waxy leaves! Thank you for the video! I had a very lush Hoya Princess, I loved that thing, but after several months of watering only every 3 weeks, I noticed the soil was still staying too wet for too long. (I think it was staying wet for longer in the summer!) So I got confident in my repotting skills and I tried repotting, removing all the wet soil and adding new more aerated soil. During repotting, all the vines got very squishy, so I couldn't hold them together... The vines and roots were litterally breaking apart in my hands... It all went downhill, I tried taking cuttings to propagate and it didn't work out. It was a heartbreak 😣😭 I wasn't sure of what went wrong, since it was growing well before. Now i am without hoyas :(
I never have problem with Hoyas they have the same treatment than my Calathea 😅 good humidity 50-65%, growth light at 400FC. They life together very well, the only difference is the soil, more draining, more bark. I never go dry at 100% it’s not good for a heathy substrate too , between 75-80% like my calathea.
@@gennasplants I have mainly calathea, and I also want different plants, less dramatic 😆 so I have several Hoya. To my surprise the Hoya seem to love the same type of environment.
I've started switching all of my plants to DIY pon and they've never been so happy!! I have been a chronic under-waterer and now have 200 plants, so the diy pon is a life saver. And I use a liquid food weakly 100% of the time. I may try flushing, but haven't needed to so far.
I'm glad your plants love your DIY pon!. My anthuriums also love it. I don't have any set schedule to flush the substrate either it just ends up happening if I suspect root mealies.
Hello Genna from Puerto Rico!! You have beautiful plants and a very thorough video. First timer on your channel and just subscribed. I just started my English speaking channel and would appreciate your support. 🙋🏼♀️🪴🌿 I believe the Reikius is also called a Spur.
Enjoyed the video, very informative and clear… some of your hoyas made it to my wish list 😁… maybe you could do a video on different types of your Hoya you own - maybe too 10 😁… if you already did one, please share the link… Loved the freely flying parrots 🦜 😊… super cute.
This was an excellent video, definitely worth the hour investment. I will refer to it in the future. Question please, I have a variety of genus' that have random groupings of what looks like open pores, no colour damage or scarring over. I have a magnifying glass with a light and can't see any bugs. Have you heard of that? It's on my heart leaf philo, hoyas, and probably some others I can't remember right now. Please let me know, thanks!
Thank you! They could be extra floral nectaries. They're very common in philodendrons on the leaves and stem. Or they're actually just pores in the leaf which are sometimes visible. Either way it doesn't sound like something to worry about!
❤️❤️❤️…love love loved this video absolutely the best guide especially for a beginner..thank you so much …I just bought 3 Hoya plants 3/12$ @ HDepot …a little damaged … I hope not too bad..I’ll try my best! Thanks again!
My house stays ate around 45-5% humidity. My Hoyas do just fine. I used a humidifier for a bit a year and added a second one by my kitchen plants. Keelung it 65-75% humidity. Then I started seeing mold on the ceiling and wall by the floor boards. Something I’ve never had in the nine years previous. So no more humidors
Agreed to Genna. I have black thumb and killed a lot of indoor plants but I chose easy growing hoyas and none of them died, started with few leaves - u may try Hoya krimson princess and krimson queen, Hoya Matilde and Hoya pubicalyx
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Re: trellising at 3:34 - this isn't the greatest example. Ideally you want to loosely loop the vine in a circle so it can start growing up the other side of the trellis. April demonstrates it better in this video ruclips.net/video/tvvlCIpa0vg/видео.htmlsi=OnrklkVkyF0lE-_A around the 14 minute mark. Thanks to the commenters who pointed this out!
Update on the spots on my argentea princess: I treated with sulfur powder but it didn't seem to affect the spots. It seems to just be triggered by stress - inconsistent watering, damaging the leaves while they're growing, change in temperature, etc. It's not spreading to other plants so I'm not worrying about it!
This would normally be a video I post exclusively for my Sprouts & Plantlets on Patreon, but I want to give you a taste of the content I put in my care guides! I have care guides for anthuriums, pinguiculas, alocasias, and more! www.patreon.com/collection/4164
I totally agree that this is the most thorough hoya video that has been posted. I have a larger collection and you do learn many things trial and error. The only thing I differ with you about is humidity. Hoya are so easy to root when given lots of humidity; easily rooting in a plastic bag with nothing but moisture. I have also found that their speed of growth is many times more when kept warm (over 70F). And some do so much better on a window sill than under any artificial lighting. Love your parrot; and I second that you are very easy to listen to. You make great videos. Please don't stop.
Thanks for sharing your insight and your kind words! I agree that humidity absolutely helps with rooting. The aerial roots on some of mine in my greenhouse cabinet are wild. My temps are usually above 70F so that makes sense. I've never noticed a difference with artificial lighting but then again most of my hoyas get a bit of both!
When you wrapped the tendril downwards, most of the time that vine will die back and stop growing. Try to warp with the direction facing upwards.
That hasn't been my experience
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It’s been my experience as well. They are epiphytic so they want to grow upward.
@@gennasplants
It's a well known suggestion from April at Unsolicited Plant Talks
@DionneRoxanne Interesting I follow April but have never heard of that before. If you have a link I'd love to see it. I find what usually happens is the growing tip reorients itself and tries to keep growing up and when it gets long enough I can wrap it up the other side of the trellis. I haven't noticed them dying back but I'll keep an eye out, maybe I've just never made the connection before.
I’m new here and I love ❤️ Hoyas
I love the colorful painting over your fireplace.
Such an in formative video, thank you! On the cal-mag supplement, can that be used with my regular fertilizer or should it be used in a separate watering? Love seeing your bird flying around, I also a have flighted parrot, geckos, poison dart frogs, you know what they say…great minds think alike! I have no idea why you don’t have more followers, your videos are so informative and educational, I wish we had them weekly! ❤. Thanks again for such a great video!!! I also joined your Patreon!
Aww you are so sweet! Good question, you can mix your cal-mag in with your fertilizer water as long as it's diluted. It's only the concentrated forms that shouldn't be mixed.
@@gennasplants thank you!
FYI, i had parrots, cockatiels, parakeets for years, please clip the wings, you can't predict when a door will get left open accidentally, wouldn't want you to go through that heartache...
@cindyvan635 River's wings used to be clipped but he's much more confident and independent flighted. The only way he would fly away from the safety of his home is if he got spooked, but that's why we do recall training.
@@cindyvan635 they NEED too be able to fly, that whole flight or fight thing is real, they need the confidence of being able to fly as they were meant to do.
Based on experience, not all splashy and silvery hoyas are the same. Some varieties have stable splash and silver while some are dependent on light plus growing environment (for example are the carnosa varieties and hybrids. The Wilbur Graves and Mathilde splash will give fuller silver/splashing with good light and with cooler environment. It doesn't like humid or hot environment)
I've grown both of the hoyas you mentioned for years in a variety of conditions and haven't noticed any correlation with splashiness.
My Wilbur Graves was losing silver and I blasted it with light and it's looking nice and silver again. The same happens with coriacea silver. Light definitely changes a lot of things.
I haven't found that to be the case with my Wilbur Graves or coriacea silver which both grow around the 400 foot candle range but I'm glad it worked for you.
I love your gecko in the background! Adorable! 🥰🦎 Great video too, I’m just getting into hoyas.
Suggestions for the long vines when they brown (die off?) at the tips?
I’m fairly new to Hoyas and this video was very informative for me. I look forward to watching the other videos you have. You’re very easy to listen to.
Glad you enjoyed it 😊
There are several different ways plants get variegation and silver/splash, all variegation I have tested is very light reliant - they will get larger bright areas with more radiation. Silver/splash is different, the structural mutation that you bring up is not dependent on radiation - however many variants of silver/splash is reliant on radiation. You can easily test this by cutting out a small piece of paper and laying it on a part of a developing leaf. For example hoya publicalyx splash/silver is very dependent on radiation - the part of the leaf underneath the paper will develop green with no splash/silver while the rest of the leaf will have plenty of silver/splash in high light.
Interesting, thanks for sharing
Wow, so informative! I’m just starting to get into Hoya and this is so helpful. Coincidentally I just got a polyneura and the stem rot section gave me insight to some yellowing I’ve observed. Happy I found your channel!
Wow, i have many hoyas since a year and i learned many thing. Tanks you so much for share your knowledge with us. This vidéo is precious in information for me. Tanks à lot another time😊❤❤
Very educational being a Hoya mama I'm not new to growing hoya but you can always learn new tricks thank you❤😊
This was a super awesome video. I've been growing hoyas for like nine years now, and I agree with ninety percent of this maybe even ninety five. I'm guessing I might have a few more years under my belt. I was wondering if you'd be open to advice about one subject matter, and that's pests. You would be way better off to obliterate the pests out of your house and never have to deal with them again by spring, a completely natural d.I y spray and preventing these issues from coming back, your life would be so much easier. I have never had root mealies. I have never had mealy bugs ever in my house. A lot of that is because of the alcohol in the spray.I have never had the baby leaves die. It's because there's not enough alcohol in the spray to kill the baby growth. I started doing this about seven years ago and have never had pests since. Because I do the preventative. Now, I am much stricter about the plants that come in getting sprayed, getting treated, checking the soil or other medium.. This prevents new infestations. I put the new plants through a two week process in my bathroom before they enter the plant room. This may sound strict, but I do not deal with bug. Outbreaks ever and it makes being a plant keeper plant mom, much more enjoyable. But in the beginning, it can be a little bit hard for that first two months to get your old bugs situations under control the best way I found to do this was to have some propagation bins, you know, clear plastic bins, or anything, you can have even the To put all your plants under and lay some towels around it. If there were any way that you could leave your plants that in these bins for a few weeks, you could get rid of the problem and never have the problem again. I do not have a youtube.I don't think I even ever wanted one.But part of me thinks I should make a video just about pets to help people out. I've heard versions of this d. I. Y mix getting more well known, i'm one of the o g users. Over the years, i've come up with my own recipe i like to take up spray bottle, fill it three quarters of the way up with water if it's a medium size spray bottle then I would put three tablespoons of doctor bronners two tablespoons of alcohol, two tablespoons of hydrogen paroxide then one of the most important parts is essential oil. You could just use one type of an oil, but I find the best ones are clove, peppermint, tea tree, lavender lemon. I tend to do a mixture cinnamon is a great one too. If you want to just have one oil, a thieves, oil, or what's known as immune strength by some brand like rmo, which stands for rocky mountain oils. They are not m l m you can just buy it on amazon or on their website. A lot of the oils I just mentioned are in that blend.Call immune strength can you put ten drops of oil if you have a bad outbreak or you're doing the first session, you could use up to twenty drops i especially do this when I have a bigger spray bottle. You literally have an eighty percent water situation.All of the treatments are very strong, so you only need a smaller amount. When you are first starting this process, you spray everything tops, bottoms of the leaves, the stems all of that you let it dry, you do this at night so that the oils don't call sunburn. Then in three days, you do the same thing every three days. If you have an outbreak, you can do it every two days. You're only doing it this extreme to get rid of all of the bugs that you currently have on your collection. You can even spray your rocks or whatever your substrate is and water. It through it will help kill everything that's in there. I only do something like this once a year, and then you wanna add nutrients back into your soil. The peroxide literally explodes the eggs.Explodes the bugs. People have been using peroxide with planting for a hundred years at least. And remember it's quite diluted. If you do this for a week every 2to3 days. Then you can put your plants back on the shelves.You want to really clean the shelves down with alcohol. Make sure there's no bugs by cleaning everything all around. This might seem extreme, but you're setting yourself up for life here. Then, after your first week, you do it twice a month for The first two months. If at all possible, the easiest thing to do for yourself is just to leave them in the bins.Unless you have hard floors, where once you did the initial thing, you can just spray them on the shelves, it doesn't cause any issues, but it does have the soap in it, which, if you have glass shelves will leave that residue. Once you've done this, you've gotten every cycle by doing it, for the it first week, and then twice a month for the first two months, you will literally obliterate everything, if there was another cycle of eggs, it will work. I have done this on every type of plant, even the most delicate, and sometimes it bubbles up because it's killing the bugs. After that, once, you have the situation completely under control. In some cases, you need to change out your sub. Strate, and have clean substrate as well. Sometimes just flushing it with the spray. Will be enough to kill anything that was in your substrate. If you have soil, you might need to change your soil, if you had bugs in your soil. If I get new soil plants in, I kind of once they're used to my house, pull them out, shake off that substrate, a little spray, the roots even so, nothing new comes in. I spray the plants completely down every three days and keep them in the bathroom for a week and a half. Once i'm sure things are all good, then they're ready to move in with the other plants, I have literally not had an outbreak of anything sent stewing this four years. Because I treat everything new in and there's alcohol in there. It kills anything so if there were mealy bugs, they never make it. Although i've never seen a mealy bug on any of my plants, the almost ten years that i've been to growing plants indoors. Since I focus on hoya.. This spray has been successful with flat mites, but I check for the symptoms of flat mites. If I think that a new plant in might have them, it will spend more time in my bathroom until i'm sure that they're gone so that they don't enter and with the other plants. This is not hard, it's so worth it. I have not dealt with an outbreak. Since I started doing it at this level. The only time I spray my whole collection again is when I'm entering a new season and there's a chance that some bugs may have gotten in to the house. So I do a spray of the collection, usually in its place, I don't take everything down or out in the spring and in the fall. Doing this has kept me from having to deal with bugs at all. I have hundreds of plants, and if you do that first overhaul? Were you completely obliterate bugs out of your house and then do that 2 month process where you make sure you continue to spray them at least twice a month? If not, every two weeks, you will get rid of all of the cycle of the eggs, and you should be able to have a bug free home. There is a creator right now. That is a Hoya, grower, that does the same thing as me. He is the only other person that does something similar to what I do.And he also says that he has never had a bug out break since he started. He does a similar DIY spray. He may take his stuff outside to spray it in the summer and out in buckets and stuff. I thought that your video was so good. I thought the only improvement would have been a better way of not even dealing with bugs. The creator i'm talking about his name is sober plant guy. Anybody who's read this comment could watch his video on how he treats bugs.The only thing he does different than what I do is he does not add the essential oil. He uses soap with essential oil in it. I personally think that my way is stronger and more effective. What's also amazing about the recipe? Is it also cures fungus and bacteria? So i've also never had fungus or bacteria in eight years. Specifically, clove oil is an anti fungal and anti bacterial and antiviral. That's why I think the essential oils from my recipe make it the most effective spray.. I also change out my oils periodically so that the bugs don't get used to my sprays. I hope this helps anybody who's watched this video. I also hope it helps this creator. I personally found it so stressful when I had bugs. And the spray changed my life and made me enjoy gardening so much more.
I'm glad you found something that works for you. Personally I've found peroxide not to work for root mealies and alcohol too damaging to the roots. I'm content with the way I'm currently treating my plants since it's easy, not time consuming, and the hoyas are happy, even if it's not perfect.
Thank you for this. I watch @soberplantguy. Live his channel. I think I have re your for your pest spray. I need to get the Dr Bronners soaps. Is using his peppermint doao good enough. I don’t know where to get essential oils.
Thanks so much for this comment! This is the sort of old school info my nan used to tell me so I'm saving your comment to my plants tips and info folder! Much appreciated :)
@ thank you. 🙏
So my friend and I have noticed that hoyas bloom better at her house than at mine. After checking different factors between our houses, we've come up with a theory that my house is just a bit too cold for my hoyas to flower reliably. We're about to set up a controlled experiment with a couple of Hoya khroniana silvers to test if they bloom better for her at her warmer temperature than for me. Same size/condition of plants, same humidity and light level (monitored), and we're going to track the temperature until one of them blooms.
I have several new Hoyas that are tipping over and could use a trellis to give it someplace to climb so they are getting an update from a three inch to a four inch.
I have seen many many hoya videos and intro to hoya videos. This is probably the best hoya and plant care video that I have seen. Well done, very impressed.
Thank you, that means a lot! 🙏🏻
I actually tested my Hoya publicalyx and for a fact it got splashier when I put it in lower light 🤷♀️
My multiflora blooms continuously. Does this mean it’s under stress?
Best Hoya care video ever! Hoyas are so eccentric and I think this is why I love them so much. You did an awesome job at breaking down the issues. Really appreciate your help in identifying flat mites. I bought a H. polynera cutting and clearly it had that mites! All the growth points are woody and knobby. There is some new growth happening so we’ll see. I’ll get some mineral oil and hopefully prevent an outbreak.
Gotta ask. My multiflora seems to let its peduncles fall off since it’s done blooming. It turns yellow and falls off. But right now I’ve got four peduncles blooming in all different stages.
I think maybe my Hoya mermaid plant has flat mites. From your description. It outs out new leaves and then they yellow up and fall off.
Think I need to unpot my polyneura and look at the roots. The stem is very woody too. Maybe I’ve got a couple of things going on with it
Why do the ends of the vines just dries up even when i am very consistent with my watering?
Have you checked for flat mites?
I found that florist vials that come with a rubber top that you stick the stem through. Then fill with water and cap it. Then out I a cup or bowl so it’s standing up. Riots quick
Excellent video ❤ So informative! I definitely learned some good hoya bits! And the naughty parrot blooper at the end was perfection 👌 😂❤
Aw thank you! I know you know the feeling 😂
What if you put the cuttings in perlite, can you still use rooting hormone? Or wait until you plant it in your substrate?
I’ve got. Turn spots that appeared in a brown spots with yellow circle. They look like your Hoya Michelle.
Would a castille soap, neem oil, water solution also work to treat potential flat mites?
It should. I prefer horticultural oil because it doesn't leave a sticky residue like neem oil does.
I’ve heard that root mealies only eat at the stem level. Not up in the plants.
This has been a great video. Answered many of the questions I’ve had. Time to hit up Amazon and my supplies.
Thanks for this informative video! Could you tell me the name of the variety in the "before/after" splash pic, and/or in the video thumbnail?
Hoya Mathilde splash/silver
@@gennasplants Thanks :)
Thank you for this video. I just got a Hoya curtisii. U answered every question I had ❤❤❤❤
Love this video! Great job, Genna! 🙌🏽🪴
Thanks Steph! 😁
New to your channel finally someone that gone in deep detail about hoya excellent 👏 👌 🙌 👍
Thank you! This is a very comprehensive care guide
Thank you! That's what I was going for 🥰
Thank you, this was a great video! I'm fairly new to hoyas so this was very useful information. 😊 subscribed & looking forward for more videos from you!
Exceptional information in one video, thank you sharing Genna!
Thank you Charlene!
Fabulous video, excellent information and well presented.
Love my Hoyas! I have a lot that I’ve grown from cuttings and sometimes inconsistent with watering, need to get better 🌱💚 Very helpful and informative thank you!
You're welcome! Growing them from cuttings is extra special 🥰
Thank you so much for this video! I am a new Hoya collector and its really helped reaffirm what I am doing. I water my Hoya’s as every few days as I have airy substrate. They are flourishing with all the water 🎉.
I'm glad yours are thriving! 😄
Excellent job 🎉Thank you
Thank you 🙏🏻
Thank you for this video I’m just starting with Hoyas and you taught me so much. I absolutely love the plants, can’t wait to watch mine grow and now I’m sure I’ll be a bit more successful. Thank you so much. I did subscribe to your site so I could continue to learn more about them.
Ahh thank you, I hope your hoyas grow well 🙂
Try washing the leaves inrice and garlic h20
Thanks for sharing, and for all the work. Hoyas are the best, but they can be annoying when they don't grow the way you want them to lol .
You're welcome! Very true it's a love/hate relationship 😆
I am not a Hoya expert, but I have about 20 Hoyas. Luckily, I have never seen mealybugs on my Hoyas. Every time I water my Hoyas (pretty much all of my plants), I spray soapy water all over the plants and then dry the leaves with a fan before putting them back in place. I think the soapy water keeps mealybugs and other pests away.🤔
Soapy water does help, although sometimes detergents can damage plant leaves so I prefer insecticidal soap.
Love to see these beautiful big waxy leaves! Thank you for the video!
I had a very lush Hoya Princess, I loved that thing, but after several months of watering only every 3 weeks, I noticed the soil was still staying too wet for too long. (I think it was staying wet for longer in the summer!) So I got confident in my repotting skills and I tried repotting, removing all the wet soil and adding new more aerated soil. During repotting, all the vines got very squishy, so I couldn't hold them together... The vines and roots were litterally breaking apart in my hands... It all went downhill, I tried taking cuttings to propagate and it didn't work out. It was a heartbreak 😣😭 I wasn't sure of what went wrong, since it was growing well before. Now i am without hoyas :(
Oh no :( Maybe it wasn't getting enough water if you were only watering every 3 weeks (dry rot). Hopefully you feel confident trying again sometime!
I never have problem with Hoyas they have the same treatment than my Calathea 😅 good humidity 50-65%, growth light at 400FC. They life together very well, the only difference is the soil, more draining, more bark. I never go dry at 100% it’s not good for a heathy substrate too , between 75-80% like my calathea.
I never thought about comparing them to calatheas but I get it 😄
@@gennasplants I have mainly calathea, and I also want different plants, less dramatic 😆 so I have several Hoya. To my surprise the Hoya seem to love the same type of environment.
I've started switching all of my plants to DIY pon and they've never been so happy!! I have been a chronic under-waterer and now have 200 plants, so the diy pon is a life saver. And I use a liquid food weakly 100% of the time. I may try flushing, but haven't needed to so far.
I'm glad your plants love your DIY pon!. My anthuriums also love it. I don't have any set schedule to flush the substrate either it just ends up happening if I suspect root mealies.
I’m finding mealies. They are just popping up in randomly. Don’t you ever use alcohol 70%to clean out the mealies.
Hello Genna from Puerto Rico!! You have beautiful plants and a very thorough video. First timer on your channel and just subscribed. I just started my English speaking channel and would appreciate your support. 🙋🏼♀️🪴🌿 I believe the Reikius is also called a Spur.
I need to get horticultural oil. I’ve heard other people talk about it
Thank you for the video. I learned a lot. Do you buy substrates in bulk? If so where do you get fir bark from?
Fir bark you can get from pet stores that sell reptile supplies
I love the crested gecko plushy. Solid info in this video!
Thank you! My sister made it for me as a gift 😁
Enjoyed the video, very informative and clear… some of your hoyas made it to my wish list 😁… maybe you could do a video on different types of your Hoya you own - maybe too 10 😁… if you already did one, please share the link…
Loved the freely flying parrots 🦜 😊… super cute.
Doing a top hoya video is on my to-do list 🥰
@@gennasplants perfect, can’t wait!! 😍
Very informative video. 😊
I loved this video. I am new to Hoya and I love them. Can you share the items in your soil mix? Thank you, Janet Milone.
When I make my own I use this recipe: ruclips.net/user/shortsN9NUenoy9oY?feature=share
It’s argentea, not Argentinea. It didn’t have a second “N” in it.
correct, just a typo
This was an excellent video, definitely worth the hour investment. I will refer to it in the future. Question please, I have a variety of genus' that have random groupings of what looks like open pores, no colour damage or scarring over. I have a magnifying glass with a light and can't see any bugs. Have you heard of that? It's on my heart leaf philo, hoyas, and probably some others I can't remember right now. Please let me know, thanks!
Thank you! They could be extra floral nectaries. They're very common in philodendrons on the leaves and stem. Or they're actually just pores in the leaf which are sometimes visible. Either way it doesn't sound like something to worry about!
❤️❤️❤️…love love loved this video absolutely the best guide especially for a beginner..thank you so much …I just bought 3 Hoya plants 3/12$ @ HDepot …a little damaged … I hope not too bad..I’ll try my best! Thanks again!
Or use a fungicide. You seem not to want to use chemicals.
My house stays ate around 45-5% humidity. My Hoyas do just fine. I used a humidifier for a bit a year and added a second one by my kitchen plants. Keelung it 65-75% humidity. Then I started seeing mold on the ceiling and wall by the floor boards. Something I’ve never had in the nine years previous. So no more humidors
I’ve heard that azamax is good for flat mites. I might try that.
Hmmm 🤔 now I need to check the riots n another plant. I’ve got a busy week ahead of me.
I bought 2... had them like 2 weeks & they both died!! I dont buy them anymore!
If they died that quickly they probably already had problems when you bought them :(
Agreed to Genna. I have black thumb and killed a lot of indoor plants but I chose easy growing hoyas and none of them died, started with few leaves - u may try Hoya krimson princess and krimson queen, Hoya Matilde and Hoya pubicalyx
I tried getting my callistophylla to grow up a trellis. It said "no! I like the ground!"
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I’m so happy your video popped up in page. I wish I would have found it sooner. Love all the info you give us about Hoyas. Thank you for this. 👏🏻🥰🩵🩵🪴🪴
This has been a great video. Answered many of the questions I’ve had. Time to hit up Amazon and my supplies.
I’m finding mealies. They are just popping up in randomly. Don’t you ever use alcohol 70%to clean out the mealies.