Hoya fleshy (NYA SRANOSA) is a curly succulent evergreen shrub plant relating to the genus Hoya (NYA) and the family of courtyard (arosynasee). Popular indoor flower prefer to raise many amateur flower flower at home.
Currently, a fairly large number of species and varieties are well known, which differ mainly in the form and staining of foliage. Flowers most often similar in appearance and structure.
Hoya varieties (video)
Hoya Lacunosis (concave)
Perennials with long and thick green branches, on which there is a leathery foliage of oval shape with a pointed tip and red-chestnut or dark green staining. Umbrella inflorescences are most often consisting of twenty flowers, similar to white-pink balls with a pleasant aroma. The best varieties of Long Leaf, Ruby Sue, ROYL FLESH, ESSIMO and SNOWSARS.
Hoya Lacunosis (concave)
Hoya Carnose
Succulent, evergreen decorative shrub plant, forming beautiful small five-floor pubescent flowers, with pinkish or a little creamy petals, as well as a currency of cherry staining. Foliage of large size, fleshy type, with wax characteristic gloss.
Hoya Multiflora
Multi-detective liatoid variety in need of a support. It has decorative foliage and flowers. Linear lancing foliage, with very pronounced housing. Flowers of light straven-yellow staining with yellow bordering, characterized by a pleasant and light citrus aroma.
Hoya Multiflora
Hoya meaty
Evergreen type, with a weak branching of liana, having a brown and smooth meaty stem, shiny, green leaves over time. Flowers small sizes, fragrant, collected in fairly large and dense umbrella inflorescences of white and pale pink, or red and purple staining. With the right leaving the flowering multiple per year.
Gallery: Wax Ivy (25 photos)
Hoya Tricolor.
The divide form of decorative perennial, Characterized by quite high endurance, thick leaves of dark green staining with whitish and pink streaks. Forms medium sizes and scarlet staining flowers collected in floral umbrellas with a bright aroma.
Hoya Tricolor.
Hoya beautiful (lanceal)
A tree or, rather a very branching shrub, with hanging down escapes, which explains the cultivation in suspended caspo or baskets. Little size foliage, ovoid-lanceal form, green or motley. Flowers white colorElegant, collected in umbrella inflorescences forming round year.
Hoya Imperial (Imperialis)
N.imperialis - a liquefied liana with sowing shoots and stiff flowers. Foliage leathery, smooth, oval shape, with pointed tops. Flowers of large sizes, dark red staining, with a slight greenish tint and pleasant and gentle, sweet aroma. Flowering falls on the first half of summer.
Hoya Imperial (Imperialis)
Hoya Lockers
Very attractive and popular in our country, a decorative perennial bush plant. In the conditions of the right and regular care, such a variety is able to delight its owner all year round with numerous snow-white flowers. with a very characteristic pearl tide.
Hoya Kerry
Liananovid perennial with highly elective heart-shaped, fleshy foliage and sufficiently long weaves. Flowers possess different color shades, Starting from gently pink staining, to yellowish and lemon tones.
Hoya Kerry.
Hoya South
A variety is very popular with amateur flower and has decisive long shoots with round, shiny, leathery leaves. Flowers with white, shiny, slightly powdered petals are collected in umbrella inflorescences of raspberry staining with a pleasant aroma.
Hoya Thompson
Oval foliage, with velvety chopping, grayish-green staining and silver spots. Flowers are quite large, snow-white staining, with a reddish-yellow middle and star-pointed petals. Flowers exude a gentle jasmine flavor, bloom in late autumn and winter.
Hoya Thompson
Hoya Linear (Linearis)
Indoor high-elective and relatively unpretentious A perennial plant with light green and sowed leaves, as well as pale pink or white flowers collected into very attractive umbrella inflorescences.
Hoya Compact
Miniature species is represented by many cultivars, but N.S. acquired a special popularity. CVRAGLIS with two-color leaves, N.S. CVLURAI or MaunaLo with a yellow central part of the leaves, as well as N.S. CV MARGINALIS. A variety forms inflorescences in the form of spherical umbrellashaving a characteristic pale pink staining.
Hoya Compact
Hoyay care at home
Lighting, Temperature, Humidity
At the stage of active growth and rapid development, the plant will need to ensure the optimal temperature regime within 17-25OC. IN winter time It is enough to stick to the temperature at the level of 14-15OC.
Wax Ivy needs a rather bright natural light, but it is often very difficult to carry the impact of direct sunlight in the summer. Good growth is observed when growing as an ampel plant on the walls of the south rooms. Indicators of humidity indoors do not matter muchBut culture is responsive to systematic spraying of water temperature.
How to propagate Hoyu (video)
Soil and flower pot
The semi-epiphetic plant needs a fairly loose, water-permeable soil. Simple universal soils purchased in a flower shop are low-taking to growing wax ivy.
It is also allowed to independently prepare the nutritional fitting substrate based on the soil for the cultivation of cacti and succulents, perlite or vermiculite, crushed moss, sfagnum, pine crust and grinding coconut pills, with the addition of a small amount of wood coal.
Flower pot must have good drainage holes. Too large, high or volumetric flower pot for wax ivy does not fit. However, every time you need to acquire a new pot for resetting, to the bottom of which must be mandatory good drainagelayer.
Wax Ivy needs enough bright natural lighting
Flowering wax ivy
To achieve the most fast and very abundant, prolonged flowering, wax ivy is required to plant in a small vase size. Subject to observance temperature mode, optimal humidity And the right care, a decorative perennial plant blooms in the summer and autumn. Also during the year, it is possible to observe repeated, lush flowering.
Watering a room plant
In the spring-summer period, the room Hoyu is required to water quite abundantly, but it is impossible to allow strong overwhelming. When implementing irrigation events during flowering, it is necessary to ensure that the water drops do not fall on the flowers. For irrigation, it is necessary to use only well-defined water and heated to indices water.
Podkord
Starting from early spring and throughout the entire period of active vegetation, wax ivy is recommended to feed a couple of times a month. To this end, it is desirable to use conventional fertilizers intended for feeding any blooming indoor plants. Fertilizers are entered into wet soil, which follows after such an event gently loosen. IN winter Fertilizers are not required.
To achieve the most fast and very abundant, prolonged flowering, wax ivy need to plant in a small rase size
Wax breeding methods
The room wax breeding multiplies in several ways. You can independently grow decorative perennials from seeds or by overlooking. The second option is the most popular in room flower growing.
Reproduction of cuttings
Cuttings should be short enough, no more than 10 cm long. To root the cuttings in water or ground, indoors at an air temperature of at least 22 ° C. The rooted cutlets should be regularly sprayed with sprayed water from the pulverizer.
How to propagate a hauy sheet
Packers in a sheet base, as a rule, contain a number of roots, which is why many amateur flower products prefer precisely such a method of reproduction. Sliced \u200b\u200bleaflets with sweets are placed in a nutrient soil substrate, but it is first recommended to process the cutting place in water with the addition of phythogormones or root formation stimulants.
About reproduction of wax ivy seeds
Fresh seed material can be used to reproduce a room decorative perennial. To this end seeds required to dry a little, then sow to the nutrient soil substrate based on flower soil and moss sfagnum. After about two or three months, seedlings can be searched into separate planting capacity.
Hoya cuttings must be short enough, no more than 10 cm long
About superstition: Is it possible to keep wax ivy at home
Only a few varieties of wax ivy are well adapted to growing in domestic flower growing, and the most famous among them is hauy meat. However, many flowers are very wary of the cultivation of such a beautiful blooming perennial In room conditions, due to the large number of superstitions.
It is believed that wax ivy brings misfortune. According to the flower water, such a flower is able to cast out from the house of men, and also deprives financial well-being. Nevertheless, many owners of such a flower believe that it helps to pacify envy and is a plant that protects family happiness. As the long-term practice shows, the only and most real obstacle to growing wax tree at home, you can consider availability strong allergies on flower pollen.
How to make hauy bloom
If room decorative plant It does not bloom, then, first of all, pay attention to the observance of all cultivation conditions. No flowering can be the result of obtaining sufficient quantity sunlight. You can not install a flower pot away from the window or make any designer fences for room flower On the way of lighting.
Important to remember, What the wax ivy is missing as such a rest period, therefore, a timely increase in the duration of the daylight with the help of special lamps, helps the plant of full-fledged develop and blossom. Also important factors affecting the flowering plants are dimensions flower pot, type and mode of irrigation measures, conditions of wintering, the characteristics of the soil and the frequency of the feeding, as well as the age of the decorative plant.
Features of the cultivation of Hoya (video)
Diseases and pests of wax ivy
As a result of improper care on the foliage of decorative perennial, characteristic spots appear very often. The reason for such a phenomenon most often lies in insufficient or redundant lighting. With excessive irrigation events or incorrect entry, the leaves are often wrinkled in the plant, and the root system is often swinging quickly.
Hoya care at home, the features of breeding and flowering. The plant from India and South China is loved by many for the originality of flowering and growing, since it is the most real room Liana. This evergreen plant can reach up to 6 meters long, has a fragile stem, dense leaves and white colors-umbrellas.
Soil and subordinate
Adults of Hoya can grow in the same pot of quite a long time, so the soil for their cultivation should be loose and perfectly transmitting air. Ideal will be a substrate consisting of:
- Sheet land - 2h.
- Peat - 1h.
- Sand - 0.5 h.
- Derdy earth - 2h.
- Vermikulite - 0.5 h.
From March to August, the plant must be picked up with liquid mineral fertilizers. Periodicity - once every two weeks.
Transfer
The plant transplant every 2-3 years, combining this procedure with circumcision of long, flaming escapes in order for the main growth to be aimed at the formation of buds and colors. Choose for Hoya spacious dishes and prepare special mix For a transplantation consisting of sand, leaf land and peat in equal amounts. Pretty rubbing ready mix And put in the pot, pre-laying the drainage to the bottom of the dishes in the form of large stones or clay.
Watering
In a summer period, blooms to water Hoyu should at least once every three days, because upper layer Soil does not require drying. In winter, when Chloe drops its flowers and buds, watering should be cut to once every 10 days. However, follow the room temperature and do not let the flower dry. Water for watering should be soft and resistant, a little citric acid can be added to improve it.
Lighting
Ideal for Hoya are Western and oriental windows. Since the plant and rich light are needed for flowering and development. However, direct sunlight can quickly weaken the plant and leave burns on it.
On the northern windows, with a lack of sun, the flower can stop their growth and not bloom at all. Therefore, place the hauy in a bright, well-ventilated place without drafts and enjoy it blossom. During this period, the plant is not recommended to disturb, rearrange from place to place, since ripening buds can fall.
Temperature
Temperature regime for Hoya, as for many other indoor plants, is divided into summer and winter periods. In the summer, the optimal temperature will be at 23-25 \u200b\u200b° C, in the winter it can be reduced to 14-16.
The flower does not require active humidity, however, it is possible to periodically spray it from the freshness of the leaves, carefully directing the streams of water only on the stem and leaves, excluding flowers and buds.
Reproduction
Hoya can multiply both by seeds and cuttings.
First method
To reproduce with stalling, you need to choose a shoot containing two sheets. One - too few, more than two - already a lot. It can be rooted both in water and in a specially prepared substrate from peat and sand in equal shares. When maintaining a temperature of 20 from the roots may appear already 10 days later. After that, the plant is planted in a separate pot and take care of both adult individuals.
Second way
After flowering in the pods of the plant, seeds are formed that need to be collected fresh and before planting slightly to dry.
Prepare for seeds well ventilated ground from the leaf and sand, adding a little sfagnum moss. Seedlings will be ready to climb enough short timeBut for their strengthening and rooting them is better not to touch for 3 months, supporting warm, light and wet microclimate. Having gained strength, seedlings will be ready to transplant into a separate primer and dishes.
Observe these uncomplicated rules and be prepared to enjoy the bloom of the most beautiful Lian at home.
Hoya photo
Hoya, Hoya (Hoya), Wax Ivy - evergreen from the family of the Lastune (Asclepiadaceae). Hoya's genus, named after the English gardener Thomas Hoy, has about 200 species. In natural conditions, Hoy is found in South China, Australia, India. In nature, these lianas make up on stony slopes, in the forests on the trunks of trees.
There are hanging and curly among them, some species have a mustache that they cling to support. The leaves are oval and heart-shaped, most species are dark green, but there are two-three-color, with speckles and specks. Hoya Compacta (Hoya Compacta) is swirling leaves.
At home, it is most often found in one species - Hoya meat (Hoya Carnosa). This is an ampel plant with shoots up to 6-7 meters long.
Dark green leathery leaves of Hoya are opposed. The surface of the sheet plate seems to be a glossy, as if grated wax, because of which the plant is called wax ivy.
Hoya is one of the few curly indoor plants blooming at home. Its flowers are elegant, white, pink, yellowish stars collected in umbrella inflorescences. At the hoo, a meaty white bunker with a red middle and is about 24 flowers in inflorescence.
Hoya Carnosa.
Hoya Compacta.
Adult plants with good lighting and proper care are blooming for a very long time and abundantly.
In the apartment for hai fit the eastern or western window, it grows well in winter on the southern window. In the summer heat on the sunny windows can be brightened and filing the leaves, slow down the growth of the plant from overheating.
Wax ivy, as and often used for vertical landscaping Offices and apartments. Also used as a soil sprinkling plant in well-lit places in the winter garden.
Hoya unpretentious plant: If it is not often remembered about it, do not transfer from place to place, water and replant rarely, it will delight you with long and abundant flowering. That is why wax ivy very often can be found in office space, sometimes this liana will braid the whole wall.
Hoya Imperialis.
Much less often meet in houses such as Hoya Majestic (Hoya Imperialis), Hoya Beautiful (Hoya Bellla) and Hoya Long-Rate (Hoya Longifolia), although they are not particularly capricious, and care for them does not require any special knowledge.
Hoya beautiful (Hoya Bellla) - a small evergreen, a branched shrub with small leaves With hanging shoots up to 30-50 cm. This is an epiphetic plant, it will settle on the branches of tropical trees. Requires very moderate lighting, high humidity and uniform temperatures throughout the year.
Hoya Majestic (Hoya Imperialis) has pubescent shooting shoots, its oval leathery leaves up to 15-20 cm long. Flowers are assembled into hanging umbrellas on chopped short flowering, dark red, outside yellow, with a pleasant aroma.
Hoya Longifolia.
Hoya Curtisii.
Hoya Longoliste (Hoya Longifolia) - a fucked liana with fleshy, dense, elongated leaves. Flowers are pubescent, pure white color. Grows in highlands and loves cool content.
General rules for the care of the wax spit.
Hoya is not a capricious plant, does not require high humidity and frequent irrigation, grows well in poor soil, does not need frequent transplants.
Temperature. In the period of active growth optimal temperature 17-25 C. In winter, 15 degrees are quite enough. Hoy can spend the whole winter and at 10 C. Hoya is a wonderful thermal-loving and cold wintering can lose the leaves.
Lighting and location. Wax Ivy prefers bright lighting, but it does not like direct sunlight in the summer. It grows well in the southern room, the wooded walls as an ampel plant.
The location cannot be changed - due to the permutation of Hoya can draw all buds and even reset the leaves. This is a plant permanent placeTherefore, it is not suitable for summer landscaping balconies.
Humidity. Humidity has no significant value. Only Hoya is wonderful than growing in a wet room. In the summer, Hoy is preferably sprayed.
Watering. Watering is moderate, after the soil is dry, in winter is meager. The plant perfectly transfers the lack of moisture. For good blossom Water to water little.
Fertilizer. Fertilizer is brought 2 times a month during the entire growing season, starting from March. In winter they do not feed.
Bloom. Flowers hauy only with good lighting. For successful flowering It is important to properly contain this plant in winter. Wax Ivy should grow in winter in the bright and cool (10-15 s) room, watering it very little.
To stimulate flowering, the pot is immersed in warm water for 2 hours, and all the plant is sprayed with water heated to 30-40 C.
After flowering, the flowers are not cut off - the next year new inflorescences appear on them.
The soil. Hoya is not demanding to the soil, in nature grows on rocky oids or on trees. It grows well in almost any earth, you can prepare a mixture of sheet, delicate earth, humoring, peat and sand in equal amounts or from clay-turf, leaf and greenhouse land (2: 1: 1).
At the bottom, the pot set a good drainage so that the earthen com did not move and not rotted the roots.
Transfer. All Hoya transplant quite rarely, once every 2-3 years, sometimes less often. For stimulation abundant flowering, dishes use close. To achieve good shoots of shoots, it is better to choose a pot more pot.
Be sure to have a hole in the bottom and good drainage.
Reproduction. Hoya multiplies with seeds, letters, but most often with cuttings.
Each cutlets should have at least two pairs of leaves. Cut the cuttings between the nodes. Hoya cuttings are rooted in water or in a mixture of peat and sand. Forens appear after 3-4 weeks at a temperature not lower than 20 C.
Strokes allow you to get flowering plant a year landing. To do this, on the shoot of the old plant, they make a small incision, look with a wet moss and cover polyethylene film. When the roots appear, this part of escapes with roots are cut and planted in a pot. It is possible a part of the stem to decompose on the ground in a new pot and fasten on the surface, covering wet moss. After rooting, separating from the parent plant.
For breeding advised to take parts of only adults, already blooming plants.
Crane formation.
For branchiness, the plant is plugged after the formation of the 4th sheet. Too long shoots are cut off, which contributes to intense flowering. Skes need a support. Often use threads to fix the plant on the window or wall.
You can use a ring of wire, the ends of which are simply placed in the pot. The pot must be heavy enough so that the plant does not turn over.
Diseases and pests. All common types of Hoya are resistant to pests and diseases, but with poor care (very high temperature, too dry air) can affect the shields, red by pawless ticks. It is necessary to process the plant with accomplish or other insecticide.
Hoya are also affected by the root nematode. Earth for transplant must be disappearing.
Feed the leaves - excessive moisturizing or just moved the plant to another window. "Listopad" also happens with strong soil cooling in winter (for example, it is on a cold window or watering in the summer heat with cold water).
Spots on the leaves are lack of light or vice versa, sunburn.
Hoya does not bloom - insufficient lighting or too warm wintering. You can try a warm shower for stimulation.
The leaves are too light, twisted or dried up - too bright sun, better pronouncing the plant.
Fallen flower kidneys and flowers - moving plants or very dry and hot air.
Slow growth, the leaves become pale green - lack of nutrients in the soil. Need to transplant the plant.
Hoya, or wax ivy, is a blooming liana, which is most often grown in room conditions. Evergreen It has thin and long shoots that are attached to supports. Walking star flowers are distinguished by elegance and uniqueness, so Hoyu is grown at home. However, to see the blossom of Liana, it is necessary to care for it.
Best varieties of plants
Wax ivy is often used in decorative gardening, he refers to the family evergreen shrubnikov And Lian. The plant is widespread in India, China, the tropics of South Asia, and it also meets on the coast of Australia. Such a liana is growing in rare forests, where it finds a support for shoots in the form of a tree or stones.
In the wild, Hoya reaches over 8 metersBut at home this plant is characterized by smaller sizes. Flowers are very beautiful, they can be white, yellow, red or even black. Their smell attracts pollinating insects, as well as inflorescences allocate nectar.
Hoya wax or fleshy (Hoya Carnosa) is cultivated by flowers for many years. The leaves of this liana are small, oval shape, have light wax raids.
White flowers, with pink crown inside. The plant is very hardy, it is not afraid of drought and heat, as well as it is unpretentious and survived in the shaded places. The varieties of this type of wax ivy are presented in the table below, as well as other no less beautiful Hoya.
| Name | Features |
| Hoya Meat (Hoya Carnosa) | The species is represented by such varieties as "Crimson Quin", "Compact". The first has dark green leaves, decorated with fine beige border. Especially beautiful small hay, having twisted leaflets and small white-pink flowers |
| Hoya Beautiful (Hoya Bella) | This plant is distinguished by special beauty, its shoots are very branched and dried down. Therefore, such a liana is often in suspended cass or braids. Inflorescences are umbrella, pure-white with a purple crown. It is important to know that this hauy heat-loving and does not tolerate sharp temperature drops |
| Hoya Imperialis (Hoya Imperialis) | The view is characterized by curly endorsal shoots. Flower is large, dark red. He exudes pleasant aroma And attracts attention |
| Hoya Running (Hoya Picta) | Flowers resemble lollipops. They are painted in apricot or orange colors |
| Hoya Wayetii (Hoya Wayetii) | The plant is characterized by small pinkish-burgundy inflorescences, the leaves are narrow and oblong |
| Hoya Kerrii (Hoya Kerrii) | The leaf leaves of the heart-shaped, long leaves need to be taped. Flowers are pubescent, gently pink. But often there are varieties with Canary and cream inflorescences |
| Hoya Longolia (Hoya Longifolia) | The leaves of this type are thin and long, resemble blades of knives. Flowers are light, pubescent, differ in a weak aroma |
| Hoya South (Hoya Australis) | Such hauy has long shoots, which in structure resemble wood. Inflorescences Umbrella, Petals White with raspberry crown |
| Hoya Pale (Hoya Acuta) | Curly liana having yellow flowers with mint or lemon smell. Differs unpretentiousness and often used for decoration of premises |
For successful cultivation Home Lian need to know the most important rulesto help you support exotic plant Healthy.
Wax ivy regardless of the selected view will decorate the room unusual bright flowers. In addition, it is available to all hotel lovers.
Hoya: varieties (video)
How to care for hay
Despite the unpretentiousness of wax ivy, the soil for this plant should be balanced and breathable. You can take the finished soil for orchids or prepare a mixture yourself from the following components:
- sheet land (2 kg);
- run (1 kg);
- humus (800 g);
- river sand (500 g).
The pot for Liana will suit anyone - both clay and plastic. The main thing is that the drainage holes and moisture be done in it were not stored in the soil. For a small liana, there is a sufficient capacity, the volume of which is up to 1 liter. In the future, the plant should be transplanted into a wider pot as it grows.
The optimal temperature for wax ivy varies from 17 to 25 ° C in warm months, in winter it is allowed to decrease to 15 ° C. Liana can be landed in the winter garden or greenhouseSince it is withstanding a short-term decrease in temperature without risk of foliage.
It is known that Hoya does not tolerate the straight sun rays, because it is recommended to grow in the room, the windows of which go to the south side. Growing the plant involves the presence of a permanent place for it, since the movement of the lianas is fraught with the loss of flowers.
Sobs of homemade lianas are often growing very long, therefore it is a mandatory procedure. The choice of the shape of the bush allows you to get a magnificent and beautiful plantThe main thing is to have time to do it after the end of flowering. To form a hauy is best with thin garden scissors.
Wax ivy well feels in wet environmentsTherefore, periodically foliage should be sprayed with warm water from the sprayer. In the spring and summer, hauy watered abundantly as the soil dryingHowever, it is impossible to allow stress fluid in the ground. In addition, droplets of water on flowers and buds contributes to the deterioration of them. external view, so moisturize the plant should be carefully.
In the spring and summer, Lianin feeds with complex fertilizers for indoor plants no more than 1 time per month. In winter, nutrition is not entered, and irrigation stops. If you do not have feeding for plants, it is allowed to irrigate onion husks, thanks to Nastya Hoya will grow intensively and develop.
How to transplant hauy (video)
Technology and transplant periods
Young Lian need to transplant annually, best to do it in the spring. Adult copies should be moved to a new pot not more often than 1 time in 3 years.
In the prepared container, put on the substrate, and also make a plants in advance. Peresagrate Hoyu enough is quite easy, it is important to pour it out and put it in place with a good scattered light. If you have purchased a new plant, then you should not change the transplant immediately. Place Liano in a separate room and watch it. It is necessary to make sure that ivy does not have garden diseases or pests. In addition, the state of peace helps Hoye cope with stress after changing the situation.
Wax breach breeding methods
The easiest thing is multiplied by a homemade liana with the help of cuttings. Under favorable conditions, they are without any problems and grow up.
Carefully cut the twig with a pair of leaves, while the cutting should have at least 2 nodes. They are formed roots and leaves. Next, put a part of the plant in a dark vase and leave in warm bright place. But do not forget to fasten fresh water, as the moisture evaporates quickly. Fastener young plant You can transplant to a pot with a special substrate.
The reproduction of wax ivy cuttings gives an excellent result. But you should know that they should be short, since too long parts of the Hoya are prone to drying. To root the liano will be easier if you maintain an air temperature at least 22 ° C in the room, and you also need to regularly spray with a stalk with a pulverizer with water.
Some flower products are interested in how to propagate a hauy sheet. The fact is that the stuffs at the base of the leaf contain a number of roots. When placed in a nutrient substrate, this part of the plant is rooted in the soil, but the shoots are infrequent. Additionally, it is possible to stretch the sheet by adding to water for watering hormones based on vegetable cells.
At home, you can also grow a hauy of seeds. Fresh sowing material should be slightly dried and placed in a well-permeable substrate. For example, you can prepare a mixture of soil and sphagnum. It is important to know that the grains should be sown quickly, otherwise they will lose their germination.
As a rule, seeds are germinated 1 week after placing them into the nutrient medium. Seedlings in no way should rehabilitate, because they are regularly moistened with warm water. Young plant required sufficient number Light, so it is best to place sprouts in a spacious capacitance on the windowsill. 3 months after the appearance of Lian shoots, you can transplant in individual pots. By this point, Hoya have powerful roots and leaves.
About the features of blossoms Liana
Hoya flowers look like artificial decorations and very beautiful. However, they should not be disrupted, it is fraught with the absence of barriers to next year. As a rule, it is possible to see inflorescences in spring or autumn, when the room is cool, but there are exceptions.
In some cases, the plant is not at all pleaseing the owners of the house with bright flowers. This may be due to the following factors:
- frequent movement of Hoya;
- a lack of fresh air;
- wrong watering.
Why does the liana do not tie the flowers? First of all, you need to remember when the pot with a plant moved for the last time. In some cases, after buying or moving, Hoya does not bloom for 2 years. A room intended for wax ivy must be free, otherwise the flower will experience a shortage of fresh air. Also, we should not water the plant too often.
Signs and beliefs associated with Hoya
Superval people believe that Hoyu can not be treated at home, as it attracts unhappiness and loneliness. In the old days, some flower saws believed that the pronounced flavor of flowers of wax ivy could cause human death. Nevertheless, this judgment is fiction, even in a small place of the smell of Hoya can only cause headaches. The juice of the plant is poisonous, but a seriously harmful homemade liana is unable.
How to make a hauy blossom (video)
Care for Hoya is simple and understood even to beginners, and keep in the room this plant is useful, because it cleans the air from toxins. The main thing is that ivy is unavailable to children and pet. Put and grow liana independently difficult if you explore the rules simple care for her.
Hoya (Lat. Hoya) - tropical Liana, named after the gardener of the English Duke of Northumberchasky, who worked out most of the life in the rope of tropical plants, Thomas Hoy.
It belongs to the family of lastone, growing on the west coast of Australia, in Polynesia, in Southeast and South Asia. In nature, tropical areas prefers, lives on a palpal, clinging to the trees.
Plant species
Hoya beautiful (Hoyabella) - grows in Indonesia and Myanmar. Differs in small sheets, flowers have white whites and crowns, the color of which varies from pink to dark red.
Hoya Zelen Color (Hoyachlorantha) - spectacular plant having elongated sheet plates and velvety flowers of white, brown or greenish shade.
Hoya Imperial (HoyaimPerialis) - It dwells in Malaysia and Indonesia. Leaf plates are long and wide, large flowers, red-pink color.
Hoya fleshy (Hoyacarnosa) - Growing in China, India, Malaysia, Japan, Vietnam. Flowers are collected in a brush, have light pink whites and dark red crowns and anthers. The most popular view in home flower growing.
Hoya Chaphevid (Hoyacalycina) - Motherland is New Guinea. It is characterized by the longest leaf plates reaching in length 20cm.
Hoya concave (Hoyalacunosa) - grows in Malaysia. Little leaf plates, in the form of rhombus. Flowers have a bright fragrance resembling perfume.
Hoyamultiflora (Hoyamultiflora) - Completed in Thailand, Laos, China, Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Malaysia.
What are the types and forms of Hoya, see the video below:
Correct care at home
Room Hoya or waxy Ivy - a wing plant, whose shoots can reach 7-8 meters in length. With proper care, it blooms a very long period - from the beginning of the spring to late autumn. Refers to homemade plants that do not require careful care.
Choosing the right place
Hoya loves good lightingbut the straight rays of the sun in large quantities, especially in summer, can apply burns leaves.
Optimal Moz There will be the eastern and western side of the house.
If the plant does not have enough light, you will not see his colors.
Hoya categorically not like Change places, it can get sick and throw off all sheet plates. Therefore, it is possible to move the plant only in the most extreme case, especially the flowering or stuffed buds.
Optimal temperature
In the summer it is necessary to heat not lower than 18-19 degrees, but Hoya is perfectly winter at a temperature even at 10-15 degrees. The only exception - Hoya is beautiful - it is thermal lodge and does not tolerate low temperatures, dropping because of this leaves.
Watering and humidity
Watering should be abundant, but rare. Moreover, hoya does not like Permanent moisture in a pot and pallet, so it is necessary to water it after driving off the earth com.
From the pallet water must be poured in a timely manner. Some flower products do not use it at all. In winter, watering is produced even less often, waiting 3-4 days after drying the soil.
Watering water is used relaxed, you can defend water, boil it, apply a melt or rain. Water temperature About 18-20 degrees (room).
An important procedure Care is a swimming flower. It is possible to spend it in spring and autumn - before and after flowering.
In the summer, the flowering hauy bathe is undesirable. The pelvis is poured with warm water (40 degrees) and the plant is completely immersed with the pot. Bathing duration 30-40 minutes. This procedure accelerates flowering offensive and temper the hauy.
In summer, the plant spray, especially on hot days.
Podkord
During the growing season (Spring-summer-autumn) flower feed every 2 weeks. For this use mineral fertilizers. And they are guided by the principle - it is better not to inform how to overgrow.
Many knowing flower products use the complex From sodium, magnesium, potassium and phosphorus. Can be applied finished compounds For blooming succulents.
Transfer
Young flowers are transplanted once a year in spring, adults Hoya - every three years. To get plentiful long-lasting flowering, the pot must be close. In order for the shoots to grow better, the container takes the spacious.
In the bottom, the pot must be holes, pebbles, pebbles, clayjit, broken bricks for high-quality drainage are put on the bottom of the tank.
To the composition of the soil of Hoya is not particularly picky, is able to develop in any land. Specialists brought out optimal composition: Soil for plants (2 parts), small clay (1 part), peat or sphagnum (1 part), vermiculite or perlite (1 part). Many flower products use soil for orchids.
The main thing is that it must be remembered - The soy for Hoya should be breathable.
Reproduction
The reproduction is possible with cuttings or glasses.
Reproduction with chains Well, that a new plant can bloom in the year of planting. The twig of the adult flower is a little cut, plated in moistened moss and closed with polyethylene film.
After the appearance of the roots, this branch is cut and transplanted into a separate pot. You can immediately put such a branch in a new container and fasten with moss, then just cut off the escape from the plant after the rooting passes.
Shining - most frequent way reproduction. There should be at least two intercosals on the cutting tree, but Ideal 3-4. Escape is a donor cutlets, should be last year, that is, to have age 1-1.5 years.
The rooting can be carried out in three ways:
- In water. Easy and easy to place a stalk into a tank with water and wait for the appearance of the roots.
- In the substrate. For this, 3 parts of the soil are mixed, 1 part of the perlite, 1 part of the small clay.
- In moss-sfagnum. Mix moss, vermiculitis, small grains or foam, taken equally.
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Features of care
To form new shoots, the branches are pinching After the fourth leaves appear. The shoots that have grown too long are cut to stimulate flowering.
Seamless flowers do not cut offThe feature of Hoya is that new inflorescences will appear in a year.
Possible problems and pests
Often, the following problems may occur with incorrect leaving for the colors of Hoya:
- Redness of leafy plates. The reason may be too strong heat or oversupply of light.
- Pale shade of leaves, twist and drying They talk about the abundance of lighting.
- Yellow spots on the leaves - Solar burn or lack of light.
- "List Fall" May be caused by rejunction.
- Slow growthThe change in coloring on a larger color signals the insufficient number of nutrients. The flower transplant or make feeding.
The main pest of wax ivy is root nematoda. When the pest attack, the plant stops in growth and development, affected areas are formed on the roots - yellow at the beginning, then brown.
For destruction Root nematodes The plant is sprayed with insecticide (phosphamide, mercaptophos, lindane), the roots are washed with warm water (50-55 degrees), transplanted into another pot and soil.
Hoya or waving unpretentious in care and has a number useful properties . Plant helps to remove nervous tension, stress, increases the mood. Hoya leaves are used in the treatment of headaches, boils and purulent acne.