#hoya retusa

[clover-seeds]

my first ever hoya bloom!!!

hoya retusa

[litfeathers]

Just postin' some of the hoyas that have flowered for me in the past few years

In order: hoya retusa, obovata, pachyclada, multiflora, shepherdii, bella, sunrise, and krohniana.

The neat thing about hoya flowers is that they all smell different! krohniana smells like cinnamon. Bella smells like sunscreen. Pachyclada smells lemony. It's such a cool genus of plants!

[cutiecatsub]

If you think my tits are impressive wait til you see my Hoya retusa 😏

[fraener]

1/23/24

christmas came and went. i made a quiche with broccoli and bacon and shallots and h and i made latkes and sausages to go with. i got covid for the first time over break, two days after christmas, essentially unvaccinated since i hadn't gotten this year's shot yet. i was very sick for about 2 weeks and have been coughing since then. luckily im back to my usual level of fatigue. school started quietly and strangely, the days before my night classes erased by my anxiety about needing to conserve energy for school. im riding to the pellar's with a new person who i've decided i like. i have a classmate i want to get to know better. im feeling overwhelmed in so many ways recently and im having such a hard time concentrating and motivating. ive been cooking so much, made sukiyaki and so much miso soup and rice balls. somehow the short grain rice doesnt hurt as much as any other rice, i get a stomach ache from eating gluten free bread and stuff but not from eating japanese short grain rice. the main gallery on campus is already booked through the end of the year so if i want my stuff in there i have to apply and have my work juried by other students and then they decide if i get to be in the group show or not which is pissing me off to no end. im so tired of other people deciding what i deserve/what my worth is when it comes to art. the weather has been very cold, then very dark and wet, and now today there is a weak light shining on everything and the air is warm. i want to go to an east facing beach or somewhere else beautiful like that. im doing ceramics again but i feel divided and distracted from my work in there, disconnected from the clay. im also working in the metals studio on a little copper hoya retusa charm. i switched my work hours to just wednesdays for now, i hope it helps a little. still nothing has gone through the kiln! i think thats part of why i feel a bit stuck. i wish it was easy to let go and let things evolve the way they naturally need to. thinking a lot about my relationship to g this month, i think ill be lonely if we grow apart but i also dont think we should be physically involved anymore, even if that makes me a little lonely. i dont like that things are already so bad with his wife and will only get worse if we continue. its just not really worth it and its not really worth the way h treats me about it. the war goes on, people get sick, i sit in front of the heater in the dark.

ive been thinking a lot about shame the last couple of days. i think this town and the people here have taught me a lot about shame again, and the pandemic has taught me a lot about shame, and being more sexually active has taught me a lot about shame. ive had a mounting sensation of social anxiety that has crawled its way back like it was with me before the pandemic. i feel like ive been taught to be ashamed of myself over and over...like i somehow forget and then each new chapter of my life i walk in shamelessly and someone teaches me that i should be ashamed again. its weird to be taught that by a town full of people who know my name but dont know me personally, and weird to be taught that by the people who do know me personally. its shameful to make something for fun and play, but its good to do something new and everyone is just playing, but you can only be taken seriously if what youre doing is serious under its coat of play. everything has to be right and digestible and good. every interaction i have ive got to make sure i dont say something blunt or personal or unpleasant to think about, but mentioning the weather is boring. if i express dislike for the artistic and social hierarchy of the town it eventually trickles back to the people at the top and another round of stares and whispers surrounds me when i go out. im afraid to connect with the people i have met, im afraid to try and get to know anyone better. often when i try im shot down anyways. no one takes me seriously enough to want to make anything with me because i dont already know exactly what im doing. i cant believe i was ever part of a popular group...i think everyone in town hated them. i feel like it was damaging to my reputation. i dont want to just slink around in corners where no one will see me. i dont want to sit around and try to get the attention of people who have already decided im not worth their time without ever having spoken with me either. im so tired of my shame! im tired of being ashamed of myself. shame was erased for so many people by the pandemic but now we're all pretending like it didn't happen and no one is allowed to put their foot in their mouth anymore and no one is allowed to be honest and no one is allowed to see their fellow community members as accessible equals anymore. and wearing a mask out is shameful and obnoxious and cringy. somehow its considered really embarrassing to talk to people in this town while youre out even if you know them. no matter what theyre up to its a weird intrusion of their privacy because they didnt specifically approach you though some distant means of communication and ask you if you wanted to have an awkward and unfulfilling social interaction. everything is stiff and opaque again. but in the end it requires other people to meet you on the other end if youve given everything you have to connect with them. very little privacy or peace in my life currently and at the same time an enormous sensation of being overlooked or looked down on by everyone in town. people know who i am and are talking about me but it doesnt feel like theyve got anything good to say or anything to say to me at all. lots to think about and work against here.

[deziderium]

My Hoya Retusa has 3 peduncles!

This will be the first Hoya to bloom in my care 🥺

Edit: looks like there’s another 3-4 coming in!

[poop-me-a-flower]

Ooooh I have recommendations for this!! Because honestly, same.

Good hoya species that stand a chance of not being gangly obnoxious monsters (when trellised) are mostly the small leafed varieties. Small leafed hoya tend to have flexible stems that trellis easily regardless of whether or not they are climbers. I’ll put some recommendations under the cut. Keep in mind that these are limited to species/varieties I’ve kept myself unless otherwise noted:

‘Mathilde’

‘Chuoke’ (most likely- mine is still small)

curtisii

heushkeliana

engleriana ‘Vietnam’ (I’m letting mine grow pendant, but it could be trellised well)

memoria/gracilis

Any khroniana cultivar

Serpens, if you can keep it happy

Retusa- underrated imo.

Rosita - I don’t have this one yet but I think it would work

Rotundiflora - my job has these and they have flexible stems

Wayetii

Endauensis - this one I’ve heard is finicky

Kanyakumariana

If you have very limited space, I would AVOID:

Generally, anything with big leaves. Big leaves mean rigid stems and long runners. You can keep these small with effort but the plant will fight you. For example:

Any latifolia, Sarawak, or macrophylla cultivars

Publicalyx. It has flexible stems, but will want to get huge eventually and all of my varieties are constantly shooting out 3ft runners. It could be trimmed and trellised but I would pick something else unless you’ll have space in the future to let it do what it wants.

Imperialis (not as woody but wants to be huge)

Any carnosa cultivars with the possible exception of ‘compacta’ varieties (which are typically relatively slow growing but will eventually need space as they’re difficult to trellis). Note that I think at least one carnosa cultivar would be great for anyone who likes hoya because they tend to bloom readily and are very rewarding to grow. The sacrifice of space and ease of growing is worth it imo.

Callistophylla

Obovata

Tanggamus - work got these and they are woody af.

There’s more, but you get the idea. I’m also sure there’s exceptions, but this should be a start!

Hoya Mathilde “splash” is a delightful little plant. I strongly recommend it for growers with limited space. It can easily be trellised to grow relatively compactly - for a hoya at least. My bigger, less splashy plant has bloomed for me quite well, probably thanks to the carnosa parentage.

I recently got Hoya ‘Chouke’, a sibling from the cross that produced ‘Mathilde’. I’m very excited to grow it out. I’ll post a comparison between the two later.

[daftpatience]

still thinking abt the next tarot i wanna make

[spadix-66]

Hoya pals

Marie Tussaud the Krimson Princess

Tortelli the Compacta/Rope Hoya

Blondie the Krimson Queen (argh enough of the white leaves)

Currently unnamed variegated wayetti

Twiggy the hoya retusa

Ace the hoya curtisii

[clover-seeds]

some shots from watering day 🥰

1. piccolo phalaenopsis no id

2. phalaenopsis no id

3. oncidium ‘tsiku marguerite’ (smelling heavenly)

4. hoya retusa (its first peduncle!)

[savannahs-succulent-garden]

08.25.20

Decided to let my retusa's hair down.

[clairebee335]

When I did a photo shoot with my Hoyas

[greylady14]

Mystery box from etsy.$12

[voxelpushing]

Procured a hoya retusa from an online vendor. Did a complete disinfect/repot on it, and threw away the pot and media it arrived in.

I have received a plant with parasites from them before, but many others that were okay, so I figured while I couldn't see anything wrong with the four cuttings, better safe than sorry. Washed the cuttings and their roots, getting as much of the organic medium out as possible, sprayed the whole plants down with hydrogen peroxide, disinfected the semi-hydro pot and the decorative ceramic cover, too. Used new perlite, and voila!

I've been converting my entire collection to semi-hydro whenever repotting a plant, so might as well get it over with right at the start.

[aroid]

Hoya Retusa and String of Hearts intertwined might be my favorite moment in my plant collection. They look so pretty 🌱✨

[thewindowsill]

Hoya retusa, not in the best shape but yeah you know. I saw a lovely picture of a massive one so I hope I can manage that. I hope it picks up and looks better soon. Thinking of splitting it into two and have it in water culture... maybe I’ll just put the whole thing in water as I have all my hoyas in water culture. It’s supposed to like cooler climates like h. serpens so I will place it with the serpens and hope for the best.

[poop-me-a-flower]

Hoya retusa bloomed unexpectedly! And there’s more buds on the way!