u/Muellerred

Short answer: yes, you can.

Longer answer: well, it depends... 🙄

Pics are taken on the spiderplant I'm going to prune today. As you can see, there is an abundance of "babies", some of which are already quite large. As you can also see, these babies are alright, albeit a bit thirsty.

Which leads to the reason I am going to prune a lot of them off today: I watered the main pot thoroughly three days ago. It's bone dry by now. All these babies drink and evaporate water. So, there are a few options left for me:

• live with watering every 2 days (nah)
• live with a spiderplant that looks limp, greyish and thirsty most of the time (nah)
• do a repot and increase pot size enough to allow for longer water retention (yes)
• prune heavily (also yes)

I will do a repot, because that plant is awfully rootbound, but I'm planning to just increase pot size a bit, because otherwise it won't fit were it is sitting now anymore. I did the last repot less than a year ago. Plus, believe me or not, I did some drastic pruning twice since then.

So: yes, technically you can absolutely leave all babies on your spiderplant. But having a happy spiderplant and a happy multitude of babies will depend on your willingness to provide nutrients and moisture either by upsizing your pots in very short intervalls or by providing an increasingly constant stream of water.

You can allow a spiderplant to get fairly rootbound. The problem is not the rootboundedness in itself, the problem is that such a pot won't retain moisture for very long, if there is an abundance of increasingly large water consumers.

The other problem in a setup like mine, where the plant is not hanging freely, is light: the upper layers of babies are blocking out the light for the lower layers. Some of those don't look too good anymore (leaves getting very long, slim and pale).

Spiderplants require quite a bit of light, and if they have it, they keep multiplying and drink A LOT. So, this is why I am going to prune at least half of those babies away before the repot now (and no, I won't propagate them 😁).

I think I bought new pots a tidbit too small for this one. Well, it would fit into my 23 cm pot, but I'm not sure I can add an adequate ammount of substrate 🤣

But the reason I'm posting: do those roots look off somehow? Like, maybe crumpled? They aren't rotting, but still... I don't remember seeing that kind of bumpyness the last time I did a repot 🤔

And it's just on the roots that were further down in the pot, not on the upper ones.

I don't think I'll ever get used to this spectacle 🤗 Camera doesn't do it full justice: these leaves are actually glistening.

Besides, this is my fastest growing anthurium (by some margin). And it keeps giving offshoots, so now I have 😁

I suspect it's a carnosa. Got it 1,5 years ago as a 2- leaf cutting. It has done 2 vines around 1,8 m since then, both fully leafed, no peduncles yet. I wasn't home last week. When I came back, this... uhm... development was there. Pics only show some of it: there are many, many more points where one of the vines started branching off, and I could swear not much of this was there last weekend 😆

What the hell is she up to? And what prompts such a sudden growth spurt? I'm a bit flabberghasted 😅. And maybe a bit frightened: is this healthy?

Especially, since none of the other 3 hoyas I got along with this one (I suspect, all the same type) are doing anything comparable: those have done a leaf or two, a peduncle or two, you know, just doing normal hoya stuff.

Another one of the bunch of hoya cuttings of dubious ID I got last year is blooming. If I remember correctly, the guy selling this one was almost sure it was publicalix 😁

I'm tempted to go for carnosa, but I'm not sure: the individual flowers on this bud are quite large, maybe between 1,2 and 1,5 cm on average. I don't remember the only carnosa I had (and killed) before producing flowers that large. Plus, I remember that deceased hoya being able to perfume my whole appartement STRONGLY (actually quite insufferably, if I remember correctly 😅). This one here only has a very faint smell.

So, what's your guess: carnosa, publicalix or something else?

Pictures taken over the week: the last one shows the bloom fully open.

Leaf form variety is huge: some have black margins, others don't, some are bullate, others not,, some have their veins in a ditch, others are perfectly smooth. This without mentioning the odd leaf distortions, that appear rather frequently. Leafe size ranges from 6 to 12 cm length on fully grown leaves.

It's a fast grower: went from 2 leaf cutting to that blooming plant with 2 fully leafed vines of around 1,5 m each in around one year (worth mentioning it did absolutely nothing but roots in the first 4 months).

I got that (unrooted) cutting around 1,5 years ago. It was one of two hoya cuttings I came across so far that refused rooting in water.

And it took me too much time to realize waiting would be useless: I only got it, when the leafs yellowed. Which only happened after 3 months. By then, the stem had already swollen up and splitted, with just the tiniest bit of root coming out. Took it out of the water, wrapped some wet moss around it and that did the trick: within just two weeks I had enough roots to pot it up.

And a globulosa seems to be a fighter: leaves greened up again and the root growth is impressive. There was no way to postpone the repot anymore.

But no new leaf. I fear that water drama from the beginning may have compromised the second growth point.

Does anybody know if there is even a chance of it developing a new growth point at this stage and after 1,5 years of waiting?

Still yellow, no smell. Can that "verticillata var. verticillata" ID be confirmed?

https://www.reddit.com/r/hoyas/s/avwJ6BTQV2

I used to think this was a carnosa (at least I bought it as carnosa from a private pre- owner), but I'm not so sure anymore. I thought carnosa flowers were white with pink and smelled strongly? This bloom is yellow, no different colour in the middle and no smell at all 🤔

Not that I'd mind, but are there any suggestions on the ID?

This plant just never doesn't have an issue 😆

But this issue is new to me: never saw anything alike on it (I mean that whitish sprinkling around the center). Leaf is still expanding. Don't know whether it is related, but we are experiencing a summer heatwave here, with temperatures reaching 41°C. And that leaf did a massive leap in size during this week (really unusual rate of expansion).

I had just gotten rid of a spidermite infestation in my bay window area a month ago by giving all my plants there a thorough dish soap wash - or at least I thought so 🫤

Apparently not. And the place where I just noticed the comeback is the newest emergent of my lux x pap FS. Which has 3 offshoots. All with new emergents 😭. I'm afraid they won't appreciate the rough wash they are in for 😖

I really need to stop postponing getting beneficial bugs 😠

I swear, I cleaned that up last month 😅

Saggitatum x luxurians.

Didn't have much of an idea what the plant would look like, because I got it as a sad specimen with just two deformed leaves.

But I have to say: this looks interesting, especially in terms of emergent colouring: there is red, brown, violett, green and blue spread on that leaf, all at the same time 😁

Hard to capture in a pic, though.

I got this balanoanum as a leafless cutting around 7 months ago. There was just a tiny green tip peaking out of the moss in the plastic oontainer I got it in, which had a lid. I left it in that container, and when I came back home a week later, the first leaf had emerged, which had popped the lid open - I admit, I was duly impressed (pic 1) 😆

Potted it up and it grew. I had the stem in the substrate when I potted it. Now look what it has done: one root is lifting the whole plant up above the surface (pic 3 and 4) 🤣

I don't think that's a sustainable growth habit, is it? How do I pot this thing up in a way that will stop it from doing that?

On a Rad x Lux.

For those looking for an easy anthurium that doesn't fuss in ambient. As easy as a clarinervium, but, at least for me: a bit more diligent and ambitious 😁

I just noticed I have a spidermite infestation on one windowsill that runs along 4 windows🙄 It must be quite recent because I haven't seen leaf damage yet, but I found the bugs on all plants on that windowsill (when I went hunting with the zoom on my camera). Except for the hoyas. And I have quite a few young hoya cuttings on that windowsill.

Could it be possible that spidermites don't like hoyas? I have carnosa, wayetti, latifolia, caudata and callistophylla cuttings on that windowsill - well, the carnosas are past cutting stage.

Some pics of the infestation on my philodendron, alocasia (both zebrina and regal shields) and monstera esqueleto: unmistakably spidermites and quite a few of them. But I found nothing on the hoyas sitting in between those plants 🤔

Spiderplant getting conquered from to sides. Need to sort this out, but thought I'd take pics first 😆