Hoya - evergreen perennial vine that grows in Asia, Indonesia and Australia.It is amazingly beautiful plant.For its white like wax flowers with purple-red star inside Hoya is called "porcelain flowers".
Lifetime Hoya - from 2 to 8 years.Adult potted plant reaches up to 2 meters in height.
Lighting
If you decide to grow Hoya at home, then take care to choose her most comfortable place.To do this, you should know that Hoya likes bright light, a shade from the hot sun.
temperature
place for your Hoya choose a warm, well-ventilated but draft-free, well-lit and sunny, but not at the window overlooking the south.After flowering, in autumn, Hoya prefers cool - about 10-15 "C
Soil
as land suitable for Hoya heath land and the substrate for cacti. Hoya needs feeding. This should be done from April to September, 2 timesper month, fertilizer for houseplants, and after flowering fertilize every month.
Watering Watering Hoya need when earthen room dries 2-3 cm is not recommended to use lime water. Before and during the flowering Hoya watered3 times a week. After flowering, watering is reduced to 1 every 10 days. In the summer spray your Hoya 2 times a week, but never wet the flowers.
Watering
Transplant Hoya is best in April, and, to do this every2-3 years. propagated by stem cuttings Hoya in the spring to 10 cm in length, in a warm place in a mixture of sand and peat. a glass jar or plastic film.
Helpful Hints:
1. When the buds do not move Hoya,not to cause shedding of flowers (put a mark on the pot).
2. Cut Hoya after flowering, leaving those branches, which are flowers.They can bloom in the next season.
3. Although Hoya prefers cool it tolerates higher temperatures, but they do not affect flowering and sometimes lead to leaf fall.
4. Hoya blooms only when the branches reach 30 cm in length.
5. Transplanting Hoya usually affects the abundance of flowers, faded flower stalks are not removed as they formed new flowers.
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