Hoya imperialis:
This plant was directly under my lights for several months. It seems that the light was far too intense; the old leaves all fell off and the new leaves were stunted and chlorotic. In october I lowered the plant about 2 feet further away from my light which seems to have remedied the problem.

January

February

Today

Hoya onychoides

November

February

Today

Hoya macgillivrayi

November

February

Today

Hoya ariadna

December

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Hoya cv. optimistic

February

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Kelly

@banannas
The trellises are just from a dollar store. I cut them to size with wire cutters and stick them in a pot with the plant.

I only use these for larger hoyas like imperialis or macgillivrayi. The smaller ones get wire hoops I make out of dollar store wire fencing.

@kellyknits
Thanks, it's taken a while to figure out where each of my plants likes to be with respect to my grow light, but I'm just starting to get the hang of it now.

Kelly

Thanks for tips on some of your trellises. I will have to check my dollar stores.

I've noticed something about H. imperialis from several of your pics though. It seems like there's a lot of variation in leaf morphology among clones of imperialis. I'm not entirely sure which clone mine is; it's from Aleya Garden listed as "Imperialis, Red", but the leaves seem much longer and thinner than those on yours.

It's really evident in this picture of yours:

Compared to this picture of mine:

I've also seen the same variation among pictures of imperialis online. There seem to be two types of leaf shape; an ovate form, and a long form.

A few months after that picture was taken I re-wrapped those vines as they were so Top heavy I was afraid it would fall over on a windy day,lol...Now its much more balanced.

BTW, what is the name of the Dollar store that sells those trellises? I've looked at a couple of them and haven't found them...There's so many different ones,lol...

I don't think I am quite ready to put up mylar, (given where I grow my plants), so I'll have to enjoy this fast-forward style growing vicariously, for now! ^_~

I've been reading up on some differences in H. imperialis morphology and it seems Ted Green's website lists a bunch of them, although I'm still not really sure which one mine is. There really doesn't seem to be any authoritative classification though, it's likely that the differences are just natural variation between collected samples.

imperialis, Lindley
3", violet-red, thick flowers; 8-l0 on a heavy, drooping umbel; leaves to 12", light green with smooth edge, on a robust, heavy vine.

var. alba
Flower as the type except that it is white with a slight greenish tint.

var. Palawan
Flowers and growth as type but flowers may be golden yellow with some pink blush or sometimes reddish - quite variable. Palawan, Philippines In Sweden this is erroneously called var rauschii.

var. Dark Form
Plant and flowers like the type, except the color is much darker violet-red.

var. Mary's Pink
Plant and flowers like type except the color is a handsome pink.

var. rauschii
Flowers much as type except color is maroon with paler corolla than type and corolla lobes narrower than type.

@greedyghost
Thanks, I really hope these plants keep up their pace. The imperialis and the macgillivrayii have both started forming peduncles, although I don't see any flower buds just yet.
With any luck, I might get one or two flowers out of them sometime this year. I'm mostly hoping to see some flowers from macgillivrayi though; every photo I see online looks spectacular.

@banannas
No problem, there's always lots of stuff in dollar stores that you can repurpose for growing stuff. Just yesterday I picked up some rubber coated wire, I'll be using it to help train growing vines that are too delicate or too short to tie to the trellis.