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This is my 3rd Hoya. It’s funny, over the past 18 months I’ve really narrowed down what plants bring me joy and fit my natural care routine. I have 2 pothos because everyone starts with pothos but mine are both kinda meh. And I have a big heart leaf philodendron that I love. But really, it’s becoming Hoyas for me. This one shall live with her sisters Rosita and Heuschkeliana.

One year ago today, this 310 gram nugget was found stumbling through the yard out in the open. No sign of litter mates or mama appeared, so of course I accepted the CDS gift. A pet store run and some YouTubing later, I had a bottle baby. Halloween was coming, thus her name was born. The tabby in a couple of the pictures was only 6 months old, as the CDS hit me up twice last year. Thankfully he immediately adored her and they’re often found playing together, sleeping together, and grooming each other. I never imagined I’d raise an infant kitten but this past year has been so rewarding and I wouldn’t change a thing. First and last pics are exactly a year apart.

Excuse the water droplet, it was watering day and I dripped lol. This was sold to me as a pistachio, which is neither here nor there, I don’t care if it is or isn’t. But every time I look up pistachios, they’re clearly green with white stripes. To me this reads as mostly white leaves with green stripes. I’m simply curious!

All of these looked noticeably smaller than the fatty (fatties?) I found yesterday. I’m now confident there’s multiple caterpillars in there in various stages. The last pic is how I’ve kinda guided this rogue vine into a wreath around my corner deck support over the spring & summer. I didn’t realize when I did it that I was creating layers of leaves and a ton of hiding places. Given how much bigger yesterday’s discovery looked compared to these guys I looked for a chrysalis too but I didn’t look very hard between the layers because I didn’t want to disturb one, and also they’re crawling with aphids. ick.

Y’all, I’m 36 hours into finding out I’m accidentally raising monarchs on my front deck and I am more excited about an insect than I’ve ever been.

New here. A honeyvine milkweed has sprouted and done its thing & taken over of the west side of my ground level deck railing. I’m not thrilled about this particular milkweed, but I have trimmed it back as needed and left it because I have several monarch caterpillars on it these days. Unfortunately I also have thousands of orange aphids all over it(which I’m keen to just leave alone) and also hundreds of Japanese beetles thriving on it.

I’m not a fan of the invasive asshole beetles. There’s so many of them I can’t imagine managing to pick all of them off & into a bucket of soapy water. I have no other option right now unless I go nuclear on the whole vine, right? And I’m not eradicating the vine with the caterpillars. I’ve never really been aware of my local monarch population until now. Happy to support it though. I’ve never intentionally grown any kind of milkweed but I can’t imagine this is the kind I’d want to grow.

She knows I caught her shredding the toilet paper again.

This started as 3 individual rooted stems with 1-2 leaves each, about 2 months ago. The leaves start off pink & then fade. She’s currently sharing a shelf with my only other Hoya. This is the tiniest plant I’ve ever started with but I was also unwilling to pay for a bigger one 😆

Recently acquired this var. silver streak pothos from a local on the marketplace. I’m not in love with the substrate - it appears to be standard houseplant soil with possibly more perlite mixed in. It has several smaller roots at the top of the pot that are above soil. The medium is dense. She watered it right before I picked it up - it’s been a week and it is still pretty wet in there. She also treated it with systemic granules and pest spray. It didn’t have any suspicion for pests but she wanted to make sure & I appreciate that. I worry about how long it’s staying so wet. The size of the pot seems adequate and I can see parts of white roots towards the bottom of it.

It appears mostly healthy, & for all I know it’s lived in this the whole time. A few cut stalks I assume were damaged but nothing major. Would you leave it in this soil? I have all my tropicals in chunkier aroid mixes. Are silver streaks more tolerant of wet feet? How long should I let it sit in this?

I live in an old part of town. A couple blocks up the street is an 1880s home. That’s a 5’ chain link fence and a 6’ privacy fence in the picture.

I’ve never been on this sub & know very little about trees - all I really want someday is a big willow tree - but I can appreciate a good one when I see one.

She’s gotten a bit chaotic. I’m a chronic underwaterer, which usually suits my succulent/epiphyte plants but today I noticed she was wrinkly & bendy. I keep thinking the stretching of vines means she’s reaching for more light? Idk how, it’s directly under a bright grow light. She’s wild though, I love her.

Found this beast hiding on a bottom shelf at HD yesterday when I wasn’t even looking for plants. $6! It’s quite humid where I live so I’m unsure about putting it outside & I have poor natural lighting inside, so right now it’s parked under my brightest grow light.

I found this gal at Walmart and she had the prettiest variegation and was in the best shape of the handful they had. I wanted to rescue them all because they’re going to die in the pots they’re set up in but I had to pick. She was in a self watering plastic pot in absolutely saturated soil. Like could nearly pour standing water out of it.

I got rid of all the soil down to the roots, which makes me nervous, but I didn’t see anything obviously rotted. Put her in an aroid blend with orchid bark for faster drainage. The odd shadows are from the vertical standing grow light she sits in front of. I hope that one leaf eventually turns towards it. This is my first go at this so I hope I’ve set her up in good conditions. I’m aware I’ll need better support quickly but this is all I had sitting around lol. I hear they’re slower growers so I’ll try to be patient.

This is in a wide east facing windowsill in the break room at work and gets several hours of morning sunshine. I want to say zebrina but my zebrina isn’t as purple as this and it also has textured leaves that almost look silvery glittery. This one has smooth leaves with no sparkle at all. The very last picture is my plant. Are there zebrina varieties too or is one of these not like the other?

I’m not new to plants, but so far my “succulents” consist of a variegated string of hearts, a peperomia orba and peppera string of coins, and a kalanchoe. Thought y’all might like my tiny jade of unknown variety.

Rosie turned 14 in March. She’s so sweet and very opinionated. She’s always been a nervous little lady and darts off if visitors come around. Very chatty if you get on her good side.