Thanks for spurring me on to try it Betsy!!

Tes trop forte de l'avoir convaincu comme quoi finalement on apprend toujours malgré une solide expérience 😁

@@apc7716 Oui, il vaut mieux ne pas être trop déterminé. Il y a toujours plus à apprendre😁

@@apc7716 Thank you. I try to use Google Translate to reply to people in their own languages, but sometime it doesn't get it quite right!

Its kind to respond on their own langage

Thanks for the great comment and good luck with your own water rooting!

Thank you for the information, I'm trying to get up the nerve to try it with Hoya platycaulis, which is supposed to be one of the most difficult of all Hoya to root.

How many times you changed the water? And from water to.soil, what yo do?

@@rinideh6414 Plant the rooted cuttings in perlite.

Great information Ryan!

Yes, I'm looking forward to trying it on other hard to root plants.

Thank you so much for the kind words Bev! Aerogardens work fantastic for rooting Hoyas. I used one once to grow a bunch of Hoya serpens, but forgot all about them. Thanks for bringing them to my attention again! Take care, Doug

Yes, you have to give it a try Lynda. I used to root spider plants in water as a kid, but gave up on that method about 40 years ago. I guess it was time to give it another go.

Yes, that is true, but there are a few that are a bit stubborn and I think that water rooting is definitely the way to go for those!

You're welcome Janie!

You're very welcome! 😄

Judy, I would expect water rooting to work great with Krimson Princess!

Thank you!

Thank you!

Hi Marc, Spring water should work find for you. Let me know how you make out.

You're welcome Charles! Thanks for watching.

Thanks Jordan. Here is hoping that it does change the game!

You're welcome!

There is nothing to lose, and everything to gain Diane.

You're welcome Mary; thank you for watching!

Excellent news, I'm am so happy that the water rooting has worked for you! Thanks so much for reporting back!

Thank you Lucy! Yes, it seems like I learn a little something new most every week.

Good luck to you. I don't think there is a better way to root bella than water!

Very good information Cara! Your findings mirrored my own with some Hoyas loving the moss and others hating it. They all did however root well in moss, but it is after a few months that you really find out the truth. I am still using this water method every week and have yet to have it not work for me. Good luck with your water rooting!

They will root very quickly in water Danielle. Good luck to you!

Hoyas are hard not to love🌞🌞🌞 Thank you for subscribing Leni!

A lot of people love Pon, and it works well for rooting, but I have had no luck at all growing Hoyas in it long-term. I always end up with root rot. I guess that I just don't use it properly, but I have no desire to try it again.

Good advice Frances, I did make sure that the soil that I put them into was fairly wet, because it makes sense that coming from pure water, they are not going to like drying out right away. So far the plants in soil look great.

I think you should see results soon.

@@DougChamberlainVTHoyas I checked them and there’s roots! It worked and I’m so relieved.

@@TheQueensWish Glad it worked!

It should work for you. I have now rooted over a hundred cuttings with a 99% success rate!

Thank you Lola♥️!

You're welcome mate! Not only does it work fast, but it works on otherwise nearly impossible to root Hoyas like H. platycaulis, which is showing small roots after only 10 days.

Wow, 15 years to wait for a bloom that takes more patience that I have! That is what I love about Hoyas; they never cease to surprise! Thanks for the great comment Brenda!

Oh, if only that were true 😅!

Thank you Kyla! These cuttings were extremely fresh, but I'm thinking that it would work just as well with a calloused one. I'm also thinking that curtisii would root very well using water.

Doug my Griffithii was starting to tap out, I cut slips from a weak failing plant, EVERY slip rooted like a beast!! This plant did not transition well from the nursery, I suspected poor roots to begin with. So glad to have it grow again. Love the flowers on griffithii🌿🌿🌿

Thank you Preeyanka! If the two rooted white bella continue to do well, they will be going up on eBay in the spring.

So happy to know that water rooting is your go to method Kristin!

@@DougChamberlainVTHoyas I think it's been just good luck. We have had a family hoya going back 5 generations and propagated multiple cuttings that way so I didn't really know anything about rooting hormone or perlite or any other methods of rooting cuttings until i started accumulating more different types of hoya. I'm up to 11...I've relied quite a bit on your site to find plants that will be a good fit as I also live in the northeast (central CT) and it's been invaluable to read about plants that are more tolerant of our weather conditions and seasonal daylight.

@@kristinlopez3123 I'm so happy that you have found useful information on my website Kristin. 11 Hoyas is a very nice and manageable collection; I wish you happy holidays and the best growing in the upcoming new year!

Great to know Lena!

Nice to hear from you Rianasari!

Thanks for the nice comments Margie! Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours as well💚

Good to know! I find that the quality of the water and a couple drops of fertilizer can make a huge difference in success with water rooting. I just tried an experiment using old rainwater on a bunch of H. bella cuttings and they completely rotted. When I tried the same thing using new Reverse Osmosis water, I had 100% success.

@@DougChamberlainVTHoyas You said one can use distilled water too right? What is reverse osmosis water actually ? Is this water you get filtered form you fridge for instance or? Sorry to sound so dumb....Lol...

@@laurencelhoest9420 The only dumb question is the one not asked. Reverse osmosis water is water that is forced through a filter so fine that it removes all the hardness and impurities. It is a special unit that takes a fair amount of water pressure to push water through this filter. Here is the one that I use: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003UX48KW/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Distilled water would be very close to RO water and would work fine.

@@DougChamberlainVTHoyas Thank you very much!

Glad to hear it Kathleen!

I use the microphone on my cell phone keyboard to make my comments and I can't believe it didn't put Hoya in that first sentence it said whole you !!!! I've seen it try to write so many different words instead of Hoya I think if I say it slow it makes it into two words the microphone that is. And since I'm talking to the microphone and dictating on my cell phone a lot of times I forget to edit before I push the send button

Your're welcome Robert! I had the same concerns about water roots adapting to soil as you did, but so far the plants that I moved over to soil look just as good as they did in water and the peduncle and buds that developed on the white bella is still growing!

That is a great story!

Thanks Amy, It really works and is my go to method now to root almost all Hoyas.

After the results that I just experienced, I would definitely try to save it that way!

You're welcome Kathy!

I was incredibly surprised! It was something that I didn't even want to try, but now it has opened up a world of possibilities.

Most fun I've had in awhile with my Hoyas!

Thank you for that very good information Grzegorz! I will give this method a try!

@@DougChamberlainVTHoyas if you haven't come across it, you may wanna checkout Paul The Plant Parent's ongoing experiment with transferring using acrylic yarn as a medium: kzfaq.info/love/Jy5MfHd7eHOMRRqpCw8jSg

Mine too!

It will work Minerva; I practically guarantee it!

Obrigada!

I use artificial light but I would not put jars in direct sunlight. I would put them in a bright place with no direct sun.

It seems like most of the Swedes have it. I don't think that there are many in the U.S. who have it. Mine came from Torril Nyhuus by way of Julie K. in the UK around 3 years ago. I should have a giant plant by now, but have struggled with it.

Okay i contact her maybe she got a cutting for me

I feel sorry for the people who are still not believers in water rooting!

Hi Nami, I'm glad that you found my channel! There is a good reason why you have not seen a video of hand pollinating Hoyas. It is exceptionally difficult, takes hours, sometimes days of trying, and is done under high magnification with very tiny instruments. It takes unbelievable patience far more than I have. Any Hoya seeds that I have grown out have happened purely by chance after some insect, probably a moth, pollinated a flower.

@@DougChamberlainVTHoyas I see. Thank you so much for your answer. That makes so much sense.

Thank you, I still use this method and it has yet to really fail me. Any Hoya will root faster in water.

Thank you Leon! Since it is so cold and dry in my house with gray skies day after day, I have them in a warm humid grow tent in my basement.

Marlene, I didn't change the water at all.

I have tried without rooting hormone and it works out too. I have discovered though that water rooting now only works well for me if the temperatures are quite warm. I now use a heating mat under the jar in the winter and get much better results.

Good question, these jars of water live in my humid grow tents so the temperatures are 78-85 degrees F during the day and can fall as low as 62 degrees F at night. I have not experimented with windowsill rooting, but many people tell me they are successful with it.

I usually just rinse the sap off the end and put it right into the water.

Hi Kat, It sounds like you have a tremendously healthy Hoya obovata! Generally speaking if you leave a peduncle on a cutting, you will end up with flowers on the new plant much quicker. You do not need to leave the peduncle attached if you do not want to either. It should do fine which ever way you decide to proceed.

@@DougChamberlainVTHoyas Thank You so much! I've been vacillating with this for ages. Seams like it's done blooming for now, so I'll give here a trim...I now have a hoya guru! & thanks for the swift reply, now I can sleep Kat

It should work fine 👍😉!

I use just a couple of tiny drops from a pipette. Good luck, so far I've had nothing that it has not worked with 😊.

I have not heard of this product; do you mix it with water or does it come premixed in a spray bottle? Good luck with you rooting experiment!

I'm a little leery of Epsom salt, after an online Hoya friend of mine said he used it on a number of Hoyas and it killed most of them. I did not actually witness it, and have no idea what kind of dosage he used, but I'm afraid to use it now.

@@DougChamberlainVTHoyas I use about a teaspoon per gallon of water and add it to the nutrient mix my orchid soak in for a half an hour. The leftover nutrient water after the orchids soak I use on all my house plants including my Hoyas never had a problem. And there's a lady who has a nursery and grows all her own succulents and has started to grow Hoyas for her own enjoyment. She has her Nursery in Punta Gorda Florida. And the name of her channel is Maria's Garden. She just sprinkle some of the Epsom salts and her pots or in with her potting mix maybe you could look at some of her videos. And she also has her telephone number listed and some of her videos. She's a native Mexican but speaks very good English. I think she'd rather call you with a question because it's easier been trying to write English but that's just a guess I'm not sure. Not sure she's open right now either because of the fairest but she said last spring and last summer I think that call her on a Friday and show answer the phone or leave her a message and she'll call you back

Good question Samantha.these are not being heated from the bottom, but they are kept with other plants in a warm humid grow tent under a combination of LED and fluorescent light sources. The temps vary from a high of 85 degrees during the day to a low of 62 degrees at night. If these were put on a cold windowsill, it probably would not work nearly so well.

Thank you for the quick, detailed response!

Gotta love that Lake Michigan water!

I have pretty darned good luck with the KLN; make sure that the area you root in is warm as when it is cold, it can take forever to get them to root in water.

Bright indirect light is best for propagating in general.

@@ohkay2240 Thanks

@@ohkay2240 False.

Very interesting comment Anthony, and one I will put to the test!

I root Bella in water all the time with one node. Bella just *wants* to root.

I seem to have a really hard time with that word.

Thanks Dawn for detailing your experiences with rooting. I'm always a little suspect of some of these rooting hormones as well. I really almost never use them, and have noticed no difference.

It could be as I have never tried rooting in water without it. Bella definitely roots well in water as I just barely rooted several strands of one and I got strong water roots in 3-4 weeks. It might be worth trying to find a small bottle of KLN Concentrate. A small bottle will last for years as you only need a couple of drops in a glass of water.

Reverse Osmosis water with a couple of drops of KLN Concentrate in warm humid grow tent with T-5 Fluorescent Lighting.

Ideally you would not want the leaves under water so I usually take them off. If you have enough stem to at least get the bottom of the stem in water and can rig up something to hold your cutting in your jar so it doesn't fall out, you may not need to take any leaves off. Maybe use some wire or an old coat hanger to clip your cutting to. Put the cutting in so that the first set of leaves are just above the water, but not submerged.

@@DougChamberlainVTHoyas that's a great idea. Tying it to a wire or maybe even a bamboo stick but a wire wouldn't add anything to the water that might harm the plant. My grandmother used to grow African violet leaves and baby food jars with aluminum foil covering the baby food jar she poked a hole in the aluminum foil and it held the leaf up. I tried it to root pepperoni mm cuttings in the microphone on my cell phone keyboard doesn't know how to spell the plants name that thinks I'm talking about the meat to put on pizza! Teehee anyhow that might work especially with the wire that could keep it in the middle of the glass instead of sitting on the edge. Great experiment and by the way I heard you on the podcast the ledge talking about the three different Hoyas so great job she should have had you for the whole show and I can't find her other show that she said you were on...

@@kathleenmurphy2379 Hi Kathleen, I use aluminum foil on the glass of water quite often to root thin stemmed Hoyas like linearis that would fall over otherwise. Here is the link to my On The Ledge episode: www.janeperrone.com/on-the-ledge/2019/2/1/episode-82-growing-hoyas-aka-the-wax-plant

@@DougChamberlainVTHoyas thanks for the link Doug!

You can find the ingredient list here: dyna-gro.com/product/k-l-n-concentrate-c/

Hi Mary, I can't seem to find a link to these brackets to give you. I think that they were purchased at Lowes about seven years ago. They really are not anything special the rod that I have attached to them is a heavy painted steel rod bought also at Lowes in their closet shelving department. I wish I had more for you to go on.

@@DougChamberlainVTHoyas Thank you for replying. They were so unusual - black and mounted above the window frame with an unusual shape. Guess I will just have to figure something else out. Will be viewing your other videos in future. Only have two hoyas at this time but will definitely be acquiring more as soon as the weather gets warmer. Thank you again.

Hi Emmy, I think it is also heavily dependent on the conditions under which they are rooted. My plants are being rooted in water, but they are also in 80-85 degrees with very high humidity, which probably greatly sped up the rooting process. I also just found my first Hoya giving me a problem with rooting in water and that is Hoya deykei.

Your guess is probably as good as mine. I’ve never tried full on hydroponics but I would imagine it would be too wet for most Hoyas. Semi-hydro would probably Be the quickest, but I find that most things grow in that way fail within a year.

Hi Dawwnnyy, You have had the plant for over a year and no leaves have died, but do you have much new growth? If you do, I would probably just leave it alone. If the plant has not grown much or at all, I would pull it out of the large pot rinse off the old soil and repot into a smaller pot. As far as soil, I would just use regular peat-based potting soil mixed with about 25% perlite. As far as your Dischidia I would use pure sphagnum as I have a ruscifolia that is over five feet long grown that way, and I've never had a Dischidia that hasn't grown really well in moss.

Grow tents come in all different sizes; here is an example: www.amazon.com/VIVOSUN-Hydroponic-Observation-Window-Growing/dp/B01DXYMQ9M/ref=redir_mobile_desktop?ie=UTF8&aaxitk=DLD85heSkgI-sv4DvTwYOg&hsa_cr_id=1617889370601&ref_=sbx_be_s_sparkle_mcd_asin_0

It has now happened to me 3 times with different Hoyas, so I guess it is does happen once in a while.

Quite frankly I water root very few Hoyas these days. I pretty much only use it on Hoyas that have gone limp because of rotted roots; When they plump up nicely, then I root them in a warm, humid prop box and mostly use moist coconut husk chips as a media. I am successful 95% of the time with this method. I still will water root the All White Bella, and linearis, and a couple of others, but that is about it. I still believe in the method, and think that most Hoyas benefit from a week in the water, but it slows me down a little bit by taking the time.

Thank you Mira; that information is very helpful! I bet the active carbon takes away chlorine and other impurities, and could explain why water rooting works far better for me with reverse osmosis water, or rain water.

I believe that it is not only safe, but it is preferable at this time of year. I just this morning put a jar of cuttings I'm hoping to root in a jar of water on top of a heat mat. I did this because I'm finding that the cold is really slowing down my rooting.

@@DougChamberlainVTHoyas ok makes sense ! I will try this also thank you!

It is a long shot, but if the stem is good and green, you have a shot at it.

I have not used rooting powder in water, and I just have a gut feeling that it might not be the way to go. If you use the water method, which I think would work well, I would use water alone, or with a drop of what I used, K-L-N rooting concentrate which is a liquid.

Thanks! I just ordered some. Latifolia is such an amazing Hoya and hard to find, I need this to work :)

@@nataliearonson5669 Fingers crossed for you. Hoya latifolia is not a hard plant to root, but it will only grow with very good humidity. So after it is rooted get it outside for the summer.

Hi Alyson, it is very unlikely it will root. There is a remote possibility if your stem is really green, but if not it probably won't.

It is probably a fungus of some sort. The only fungus that I have ever had a problem with is sooty mold, which wipes off. I would try to grow your new plant out, and if the new growth is unaffected, then keep the plant, if the new growth under your conditions has the same spots then I would throw out the plant.

Doug Chamberlain thank you sir

Hey it happens to all of us; sometimes we just keep putting things off because life gets in the way. No big deal, it will take some time, but I'm sure that it will root into the soil and you won't lose the plant.

If your Hoya got that dried out, you may have to restart it from cuttings. First see if the leaves plump back up and the plant seems to recover some of its vigor. If not, just take cuttings, root them in water and simply restart it.

@@DougChamberlainVTHoyas ok, thank you. Well I put the whole pot in a bucket of water n it was doing well, after a week, so I put it outside but it didn’t seem to like that so I ha e it back in the water . I guess it’ll take a couple of weeks eh?