Re: Hoya Start

     Hey there.  I had a Hoya vine once.  Nice vine.  It sort of sat there
for about a year not doing too much, then it start growing.  I moved it to
another room, and then forgot to water it for about 6 months.  It failed to
survive.  Hey, it happens.  

    Back in November I think it was, I visited a university greenhouse.
There I was given a cutting of perhaps 12" in lenth of a Hoya vine.  I took
it home and misplaced it for about 3-4 weeks.  When I finally found it, I
cut it into about 3 pieces, with two nodes per section.  I trimmed the
leaves from the lower node, and left the leaves on the upper node.
(Meristematic tissue often found in leaf nodes, promoting generation of new
types of undifferentiated tissue and what not.)  This was placed in moist
vermiculite, one of the finer grades, rather than a coarser grade.  No
particular reason, except that was the sort of vermiculite I had on hand.
Root set occurred within a week or two, then I transferred to soil.  To me
at least hoya vine, like cacti, seem to be doing fine until they just flat
out melt or crumble, but these appear to be advancing satisfactorily.

It did occur to me that misplacing it for so long allowed it to become
calloused, and thus hastened root formation once it was placed in a
suitable enviroment, but of course I have no way of being certain of this.
Other possibilities that spring to mind is that being in straight water
there is insufficient oxygen reaching the roots, your water may be
chlorinated??  I dunno man.  I rarely make use of rooting compounds though,
and I recall using fungicide once.  It didn't help though.  Anyone need a
barely used bottle of fungicide?


At 02:15 AM 1/17/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>a Hoya. I liked it and my wife's eye's sparkled with permission, but just
>for this one thing of course since it was an indoor thing. She broke off a
>20 inch branch and said "just put it in water". Well, here's the deal. That
>was two months ago and the durn branch is still alive just fine, but no
>rootings at all. It lost one of its dozen leaves yesterday. It hasn't got a
>root node one, and I have tried with and without rooting solution. I change
>the vase water every 7-10 days. Any ideas?

>It's a primal gardener thing. Can I join a ten step program? Nevermind, I
>don't wanna be cured. [no insult inttended to those of us who have
>benefitted from one]


Hey, if gardening is a disease, I must be near death.  Then again, if
sloth, apathy, and procrastination are diseases I'm probably already dead
and just not aware of it yet.

Thanks for flying,
Glider

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