I got this hoya in a trade I made in May 2006. The person who sent me a cutting had this hoya in bloom and the flowers were so wonderful dark red that I just had to have this hoya. The cutting that came was rooted and started growing soon after it arrived. It turned out to be a bit boring during the winter, but always perked up when the spring came...

It took less than two years before it was a nice fairly large plant and it bloomed for the first time in April 2008. After that it bloomed a few more times before I moved from the house to an apartment and the whole plant moved with me, but after the first summer I cut it down and kept only a cutting for myself. I wanted to keep as many hoyas as I could and a cutting didn't need much space... in the beginning! Perhaps I knew (indirectly) that I would move to a hoya friendly house again and I did in November 2009. The cutting I kept and have recently rerooted have grown quite a lot, but so far no new flowers.

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