Found him way overwatered, of course, in a big box store. It wasn’t one of my local stores, and I had a premonition, a plantmonition if you like, that I should stop. Walked in, saw two of them, grabbed the nicest one, noted how heavy it was, paid the cashier, and was out the door; all in probably less than ten minutes.
Hoya curtisii got moved to bark as soon as I got home. Even though that sopping coco coir was not in his best interest, he was not happy about the transfer. He held on and settled in. We’ve had a couple ups and downs, but things are good now.
There’s always a lot of activity in his pot: new shoots, new leaves, dying leaves, tender vines getting woody. He’s a community of plants, so everybody’s always up to something. He hasn’t bloomed for me yet, but that’s OK. I never expected blooms, so they’d just be a bonus. It was the leaves from the start. I don’t even know how to describe them; fuzzy, cardboardy, splashy, hearty, dimpley… Yeah, all that.
I think he was my first small-leafed Hoya, too; he was the gateway, he got me into this. So I tell the others, “look how well he’s doing, follow his example.” Sometimes they listen.
I’ll keep you posted.
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