I like how you explain that people in different environments can’t advise on exactly what other people should do. There are soOoo many factors!! Thanks for another informative video ❤😊

Another fantastic and valuable video, Miro! Killin it! The content, not the plants ;)

I live in the high desert mountains of Amerika's Southwest at 2134m elevation where it's hot and dry--40 degrees and very arid low humidity; at times less than 10%. My house has a swamp cooler/evaporative cooler that adds water into the air during the summer heat. I typically use a combo of cactus mix-perlite-rice hulls-orchid bark for potting most of my plants, including the hoyas, and they do well only because I am their watering and misting slave. 🤣🤣The winters are also challenging because it's very cold and very dry from the central heat--so I'm a watering-misting slave year round, and have to pay for plant care when I'm away for travel. lols!😭💞😩

Thanks for doing this series. I appreciate it.

So nice to see someone using a book to read from. My kids just bought me a book of plants and just love it

Hello from Germany 🙋‍♀️ I do use Seramis, but I use it as a substitute for Perlite/ Pumice. I mix some into the soil to increase aeration. On the package it says to keep some soil around the root ball of your plant, fill up a pot that has no holes drilled into it half way with Seramis, stick the plant in (some soil still attached to the roots) and cover everything with Seramis again. Now, that sounds hella risky for a Hoya and I haven't dared stick one into a pot set up like that. I did, however, put a Rhipsalis, a Snake Plant, an Aloe Vera and a Spider Plant into that scenario 👀 Mainly because I had run out of pots, had some old Ikea ones lying around (the ones made of metal painted white) and these guys were the "step kids" (as we say in German) I didn't much care about anyways 😬 Well, they're all alive, kicking and thriving and have for about 4 years now. So it seems to work for succulents and/ or step plants you don't care much about to lose 😁

Yes, important to note that there’s no one perfect medium for all hoya! Thank you for this video Miro!

New on Hoya Bus 🚌 thanks!

I love potions! I have access to Orchiata here in Canada but i love stocking my bins with a little bit of everything and experimenting with all my plants mixes :)

❤ you always give me a chuckle

Pine bark, little sphagnum moss, clay pot, filtered sunshine under tree, slow release fertilizer and they will thrive. But I live in their native habitat, so the climate is very suitable for them.

Winter here in New Zealand, I live at the very bottom of the South Island so cold with plenty of frosts. Our home is kept very warm with in built fire which goes day and night, so all my hoya are kept cozy. I use the same mix you use and find self watering pots the best thing ever. I enjoy your videos and have learned a lot from watching, thanks for your effort.

Thank you Miro!!!! Always saving the day for my hoyas ☺️ and me. I love these series!!!!

Love this video 🎉 my humidity is pretty low (30ish%). I use coco peat, perlite, and bark. But I water 2x/wk. I'm a hoverer though 😅

"Summer Camp" is "Winter Camp" here in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada 🇨🇦 1:24 Lots of snow today and yesterday and tomorrow, next week, next month, I think you have the idea. ☃️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️

I use only lechuza pon, but who cares. New video must be watched 😂❤

Oh yes and loved your video today!!

Ps. Love this series! So glad you're doing it!!! ❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🌱🌱🌱

Great video with so much information! I really appreciated the information about low-humidity growing conditions effect substrate compositions and watering styles. That information can be difficult to find. I grow my larger Hoyas in organic mix, but it tends to dry out super fast in my desert environment (Las Vegas, NV, US - will be 117 F here Sunday!) so I liked the suggestions for compensating for this!

Loved this video! I'm still searching for the perfect mix!

Appreciate the simplicity of the mix. As a newbee to hoys i have been skeptical to investigate the mix they came in. I only repotted those that showed decline in my care…root mealies (no surprise there). I put those in leca and they’re rooting nicely. This video came in very timely for me, now i know what to mix. Thank you as usual Miro. 💯🙏🙌

Love your sense of humor!!! Sooo fun💚🎉💚

All my plants (hoya, monstera, syngonium, begonia, philodendron and syngonium) grow in mix from shop with rare plants: compost soil: 30%, perlite: 20%, coconut chips: 20%, gravelite: 20%, washed quartz sand: 10%. They grow really good :)

Soooo much of this information applies to epiphytic cacti and peperomia as well!

I enjoyed it all❤

I have consistent 20% humidity, summer goes to 40… I use pon the most also self watering pots are a life saver! For organic mixes I use peat and perlite at about 2-1 ratio and sometimes a bit of bark depending on the plant. I don’t have a cabinet at all and so far so good🤞🏻 I’m at around 90 plants and they’re all doing really well

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I recommend you today to a friend who is about to get her first Hoya,we live in New Zealand love your knowledge and humour ❤

Thank you Miro😍, New Jersey , USA❤❤❤

Yes!!! Thank you for another awesome video, once again, Miro. This is super helpful. I’ll be adjusting my soil mix and I look forward to lower humidity adaptable Hoya! 😊

I live in 30% humidity in California and I’m still figuring out my soil mixture. Appreciate this video, you are so knowledgeable!

Great video. I grow my Hoyas in 1/3 perlite, 1/3 orchid mix and 1/3 cactus mix. It works very well for me. I do think I’ll try the mix you suggested on some and see how it goes. I love your channel. Keep up the great work. 😊

Hi I’m new seened a few of your videos find them interesting and useful

This was so helpful and helped clear up much of my confusion on potting mixes. Regards. Pam definitely cooler and abit dryer here than many parts of the US midwest.

I grow the majority of my hoyas at 30% ambient humidity. My house sometimes gets above that in summer and regularly gets below it in winter. I use a "nicer" potting mix like espoma or black gold and I add perlite and orchid bark to it. Depending on the thickness of the leaves, I keep some hoyas in terra cotta and some in plastic nursery pots. I keep them in an eastern window that gets a lot of light and water about once a week. I do have a rudsta cabinet for my more demanding hoyas.

Great video. I went to my very first plant swap last weekend & came home with 3 new Hoyas. (2 were no ID’s) Bringing my Hoya collection to 5 now. You do a great job of explaining Hoya’s needs. Thank you!

Loving this series!!! Even though I am not a beginner, i still find the information and different perspectives beneficial. Would love if in addition to a video on the easier Hoya, you could then do the more difficult ones and share your experience on how to make those thrive ie..conditions, medium, etc. 😊 thanks Miro!!

Hello, so you are correct. I live in Florida I could never give substrate advice to you. Many of my hoya are outside. They get drenched daily sometimes so my mix is three sizes of quality orchid bark, number 3 perlite, biochar, humic acid (granular ) worm castings and a soil mix that only makes up about 20 % of my substrate. I root in coco husk/large perlite unless it is. fine rooted hoya like elliptica. then I add coco choir. Because my plants get so much water, I will top them regularly with fresh worm castings. This helps keep nutrition through the very airy mix I must use. I have hoya growing out of the ground up trees and hanging ones that have attached to trees so that might tell you how hard it is to grow anything that actually needs soil. Love watching your videos though as I've just begun growing inside. To be fair though, the humidity INSIDE even with the AC running is rarely below 50% and that would be in our very short winter. A side note, for me a Hoya rooted in sphagnum is a cutting. Because I must cut any roots attached to sphagnum. The amount of rain I get 3/4 of the year would never dry out like the rest of my mix and always ends in root rot. Totally agree with the rock wool thing and any of the fancy rooting media. I can deal with perlite rooted hoya or even in soil as I can rinse that off. How do you get a Hoya out of rock wool anyway?

Thank you for the video! I guess it comes also in term what kind of gardener you are for your plants. My best growing indoor plants are living in some cheapest gravel and I hose them water when I remember, throwing fertilizer too often at summer (as saying it smartly). When I try really hard and make an effort to the potting mix, I find plants suffering - I think my watering routine is not enough for it. That's why I like Hoyas, they are - at least what I have - pretty easy and I have saved them form catastrophies more than once, so for people like me, they are very forgiving companion.

Hi Miro. I have been using for my mix 1/3 perlite, 1/3 coco chips and 1/3 Miracle Grow tropical potting mix. I live in Florida and humidity almost always arond 55% even with my air conditioner and dehumidifier running. I water depending on who is thirsty. Love your new (and regular) videos! 🌱💚🌱

I root my hoya in perlite put into recycled jars, in my greenhouse tent. I look forward to all your videos! Thanks Miro!

I liked this information so much I watched it twice. Also was doing an unboxing and I’m sure you can guess what it was lol

Thank you🥰

Because this is such a valuable and informative video, wouldn’t it be great if we all thought of a friend who grows that we can send this to? If you can, let’s boost Miro’s signal! ❤️

Thank you!!! My grow tent is at 80% and I find most mixes are too dense, but these recipes look great!

Hi Miro 💫 Thanks for another schooling. I live in Florida and only use Orchid potting mix. I won’t use any soil because Miracle Grow here is always infested with gnats and I dumped them long ago. The only one I’m struggling with in this mix is my Compacta’s which I mentioned in another video and I also sent you a pic on Instagram (although I’ve stripped it now and am using neem oil) to see if anything will grow back. My others are Hoya Bella, Krimson Princess, Retusa, Burtoniae, Kerrii and Shepherdii. I look forward to the next video. 🙏🏻💫

I have managed to keep 11 hoyas alive in an average of 25% humidity in winter, in the past 3 years. Some of them still in the soil I got them in for more than a year… most of them in my own potting mix- now I realized it should probably be less airy though so far, only the last one I got left me almost immediately (a small curtisii variegated a small stem of which has rooted in water and I need to pot it somewhere, hoping he’s going to make it 🤞)… I just love the heck out of them all.

I'm glad to hear someone else mention the price of bark. I recently went to get some and walked away when a 4L bag of orchid bark (just bark, not mixed with anything, nothing fertilisey) was £15.

Great video, greetings from Poland 🎉

Just preparing my courage for repotting into my first self watering . I am in a dry apartment year round and the watering is hard for me to keep up with . Some dry in a day , others dry in a week . It is too advanced and complicated for me . I will begin with organic porous mix in self watering and hope for the best 🥰😉

I live in the tropics but it is too scorching outside for those plants so they live inside not in a cabinet but in air conditioner so this was very helpful💚

Thanks for your beginner’s videos, always useful ! Loved too your videos 30 days hoyas. Is there a difference between coco coir and coco peat? Thanks! Doriane, in France

Love ur videos .. learn so much .. fr the prairies of Canada .. find my Hoyas do much better in natural light as apposed to an ikea cabinet ..

See like a week ago I was looking for this type of a video from you! I'd like to move my Hoya to a bigger pot so I won't need to water as often. But I'm also scared of root rot 😅

Thanks for the new series, love it! Do you ever use horticulture charcoal in your potting mixes?

rock wool, wow! I once got my freshly rooted hoya linearis in styrofoam... I kid you not - not perlite, but styrofoam pieces... It's like these people used what ever they had laying around at their house :D

Hi Miro! I love it when you get super technical and specific about stuff like this. It helps! I’ve had to restart my Rotundiflora in water to get fresh roots, what would you suggest for potting it? It was so dried out! The other one that I fret about is Polyneura. It came in moss and that stuff stays wet a long time. Maybe too long. Any advice for these two I would appreciate! Thank you Miro!

Can you make a video on Dischidia care? I’m specifically looking for Dischidia Hirsuta. Struggling to find decent care video. Love your videos.

Enjoying this series very much thank you. So take away from this is coco peat, perlite, and bark mix, equal amounts of each. So me being a new Hoya parent, bought cuttings and used tree fern fibre to root them, was amazed how quickly they rooted, however it does dry out quickly so I have them in a semi hydro set up (sort of). To be honest I’m now terrified to take them out of it to pot them into something different 🫣. Im sure will get the hang of this Hoya thing eventually cause you know what your doing and I’m watching and learning, slowly 💚

I would love to know more about how you fertilize your Hoya. 🌱

You are my go to source as a new Hoya mom….i love your humour, humility, endless Hoya knowledge, and honesty that they are just plants. I have been busy using pon…but now nervous ….. are you now turning away from pon? Should I too?

Très intéressant Miro, pour ma part, je fais le même mélange que vous et rajoute du seramis à ma perlite et du biochar, ce mélange est top pour mes hoyas, elles poussent en terre cuite pour la plupart (sur un lit de chips de coco humide) , j habite dans le sud de la France donc les températures sont douces. Bisous

Thanks for another great summer school video, Miro! I live in New York City, so we have hot humid summers and dry cold winters. With the exception of one hoya Sumatra that I was afraid to move out of coco husk after the first two died when I transitioned it, all of my hoyas are in self watering setups in LECA or PON. I did have a few that died over the winter when the roots stayed too wet, so this coming winter, I will try to keep all of my water reservoirs at a lower level. Also, half of my hoyas are on my windowsills with only sunlight and the others are in Ikea cabinets where they receive 14 hours of light a day. Recently, I started many hoya cuttings in moss and have left them there out of laziness. If they continue to do well in that, I may leave them there, perhaps adding in some perlite or orchiata when they grow out of their rooting vessels. The experience I have gained growing orchids successfully in moss has given me courage. Hope this helps others on their way to hoya growing success!

Hi from Madrid 🔥🔥🔥🥵 Right now 31º and 21% (19% couple of days ago) in my terrace. I use both, pon (lechuza, no reservoir) and organic (coco peat, leca, coco chips, perlite and bark) depending on the Hoya.

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What is the name of the book you have? You’re videos are very informative. I saw the one about flat mites and I’m glad I saw the video because I had them on my Hoyas. Thank you once again.

For the most of my hoyas I use pon without self watering. It works for me. Some hoyas are planted in coco chips mixed with pon, but i dont like it because organic componentsin the mix are attracting fungus gnats, and yes, they go for the roots of the plant too. I dont recommand pure seramis because it holds way too much water and root rot ist just a question of time. Some Hoyas are special. Like Hoya sp burmanica, called Hoya sp "polyneura complex". This one grows fast like seeweed and is also thirsty like seaweed, i have to water every 3 days, even the plant is planted in a big pot.

I am a hoya beginner, and have been using pon to grow hoyas mainly because that’s what they are shipped to me in lol. Also, have tried an aroid mix too, and they seem okay in that too. 😅

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Rock wool? What the heck?! I love RePotMe orchid medium. For people residing in the US, it should be easy to obtain.

This was perfect timing! I usually do a mix of orchid soil that is pretty chunky and then a regular potting mix. But I went out and bought a more expensive soil mix that is supposed to be great for airods and hoyas. Nice mix but now I have a strange issue. For hoyas in my prop boxes that only had that soil I started seeing a lot of fungus gnats. Then they started showing up around anywhere I used that mix. And the last time I went to that soil bag that had been closed up, fungus gnats came flying out as soon as I opened it up. I think the soil was contaminated with fungus gnats! Ugh so now I will go back to making my own mix again. Has anyone else experienced this? I've never seen it in the soil mixes I buy for my greenhouse growing. I will be really reluctant to buy it again! Lol

Hi Miro, so happy I found you ! Do you confirm, I can use this mix in self watering pots with water in the bottom during spring/summer ? New subscriber from France 🌱🪴🌿☘

Another excellent and informative video, thank you! If I were to switch a few plants to pon, like a couple lacunosas and Bella, would taking cuttings be preferable than trying to switch the whole plant? (You mentioned root die back) I’ve done semi hydro with leca and it was easy. I want to try mix my own pon and try semi with it, I’ve seen many people using it with great results and have seen several different recipe ratios with extra things added sometimes. It gets confusing.

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Hi Miro! What are your thoughts on vermiculite? I try to avoid perlite because when I buy that, it always ends up coming out with a lot of dust. I'm hoping vermiculite might be a good substitute. As always, thank you for all your help!

Thanks im humidity goes from 50 to 30 i just just soil bark charcoal but for rootin i use a 'dirty moss mix' with a ziplock over of needed but im a brok b no cabinets i wish lol

Another very good, informative video, but at some points it made me nervous, sounded like a ticking bomb in the background 💣 it’s ok I really love Miro’s Hoya summer camp, thank you 💕🌿🥷🏻💥

Very interesting video. I'm a new Hoya parent and I was thinking of Orchid mix with Cactus soil . Want to be able to purchase this in store not on line. Seeing if I am a indoor plant lover. I garden outdoors but no plants in house except my Mathilde Baby. Thanks

Not from Germany but from Poland and I've tried seramis as a perlite substitute in my organic mix like over a year ago and I honestly do not like it at all lol. The one i got was a bit bigger than regular one and was even dustier and more fragile than perlite. And since unlike perlites dust, seramis dust is composed of clay, it holds lots of water which obviously led to rot on roots of some of my hoyas. Those that surived didn't grow much at all. For whatever reason even tho it suffocated the roots it also made the potting mix dry way too fast for my conditions, and I mind you I have around 50-60% humidity all year round, and temperature of around 28 in summer and 21 degrees celcius in winter. I guess using pure seramis would be a more suitable solution and I do see some people here growing or rooting their cuttings in it but I have little faith in purely inorganic media under my care lol. They just dont work for me and I from what I see not many people have any of their bigger hoyas in seramis anyways. I also only use perlite in very small amounts, that are just enough to provide some areation and instead Im using small leca balls (not those brick colored ones that are usually used for hydropnics) and pumice. The combination of this three different size ingredients together with a lots of bark provides my mix with a lot of air pockets and so far all of my hoyas are doing great. The ratio I use is 25% peat, 50% bark, 25% perlite+pumice+leca. I know cocopeat would be more enviromentally friendly but I hate it with all of my heart. Ive tried it so many times, and every single time roots of my hoyas rotted in the matter of days.

I love your advice. Can you provide info on those clear pots (right side in video) & the white pots (left side in video) in the background please?

As I am waiting for both my hoya serpen and hoya tengchongensis is ok to use this soil for both of them?

Good advice to sink in my big head! Do you ever use zeolite? And if so where or instead of?

30 to 35 % humidity for me. My mix is 30/30/40 perlite, bark and potting mix. I have an repurposed fish tank for most of my Hoyas.

I grow my hoyas in pon or in coco coir mixed with perlite, coco chips and sometimes even pon. I think once you understand the basics of aeration and water retention you can use plenty of things in a mix. So basically I want a o say that I grow my hoyas in whatever I have available at the moment. 😅 so far, they are all doing great. Ok, maybe one or two died… 😜

If i mix cactus and succent and potting mix soil, does the money tree will survive and grow?

Do you soak/buffer your coco coir/peat? I was using some but worry about cal/mag deficiency since I did not prep the coco peat before potting

What size f pumice do you use for that one Hoya?

How can I tell if there are root mealys in the coconut chips? I bought a bag b😂fore seeing this video and already mixed it up.

Hi, Do all your self watering plant pots have wicks? I have one that has a terra cotta insert that you pot up with damp soil. Then you lower it into a ceramic base that the water is stored in . I believe that these are usually called violet pots, but was curious to know if they would work with some of the thin leaf hoyas as well? Thank you and love your content.

What do you use for hoya bella?

that's interesting that i'd just watched your previous soil mix video the day before, and was wandering if these 2 y.o. advices are still actual. i have hoya Krohniana black, which can be probably identified as Lacunosa also(?). and it had root rot twice. both were in the mixes you'd provided in this video (peat+perlite+bark+coco chips - my standard aroid mix). first root roted plant i couldn't safe, cause stems also started to rot. the new plant was looking pretty good and even finaly started to grow, but something happened again( .. i'm even not sure it was because of overwatering, i had a 'first hoya' trauma and probably even underwatered this one. or, most likely it was a fertilising issue.. anyway i'm trying to reroot it in small propagation box with perlite, and wandering which soil mix to use after it will root again (hope so). thinking of trying inorganic mix with bark, or something like that.. not really sure, cause never used it before. i think my humidity is about 50-60, in spring and autumn even 70-80 happens. *i'm a newby in hoyas, this is my first hoya, but i do really like her. and yes, i'm grateful for your videos, they open to me a whole new world of hoyas and understanding of them)

How about coco peat, lava and pumice, would this mix work in 3rds? Thinking about moving to pon, but scared to go all in it just doesn’t seem water retentive enough, I know it should be semi hydro.

Miro, are you drunk? 🤔😅 And yes, I see a stable and growing Miro-Fanbase here in Germany. 🤭