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Dave you crack me up....fashion icon 😂. Great to watch your videos as I am a beginner hoya collector I have learnt so much but to be able to laugh while learning is unique. You are a star.

Dave, you are my new favorite KZfaq host! Your videos are so informative and helpful. Your personality is so refreshing. Keep them coming!

Ooooooo! A really long video! Dreams do come true!😁 great video!

Thank you for teaching your views on repotting a plant when you bring it home! I feel the same way.

I always repot a plant I get the same day I bring it home. I don’t use plastic pots that go into another pot, I pot into ceramic pots directly. I enjoyed the long video.

GREAT video. And I'm very happy that I'm not the only person dancing and singing to their dogs. I also do not care who is watching. Music makes me so happy. and of course, so do plants! Especially hoya.

Oh his fashion style is unique and makes me think of Hawaii also love the hats. My dad wore them a lot. But I'm in my 70s

Hey Dave! Lol, you're such a card! If you are serious about a beauty and skin care channel, hey, why not? You have good skin. Do you have hats for styling or other tips to share? I really like that hoya sp. bogor, kind of reminds me of my hoya India. Yes, the way we rear children, raise pets and grow plants there is no one way. Between 2020 to 2022 there were so many newbies who pretended to be experts during Covid and I tried it all until I came to my own conclusions and concoction. Let me tellya, I was dancing today by myself- salsa, afro pop, and chutney soca ( Indo Caribbean music from Trinidad west indies) and didn't care who saw me ! I need to release stress and loosen my joints after dealing with the high supermarket prices, lol, and having to deal with long covid, loosen my mind. I always loved this quote, "life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, its about learning to dance in the rain"...💚 Dee, NY

returned to give a like and finish watching, fell asleep last time because it was bedtime, and I was exhausted ( not because of the content!)

I wish that when you held up your soil components, that you would also have held up the bag of perlite in your links. I ordered it, and I knew it was going to be big, but it's HUGE! 😳😂 I'll have perlite for many years to come. 😂 I love it

Be careful of getting into orchids, they can be quite addictive! As for recommendation, _Dendrobium nobile_ is a very popular species. You can find a lot of care info here on KZfaq. _Phalaenopsis schilleriana_ is a good one, kind of a more interesting alternative to the regular complex hybrid phalaenopsis. Also paphiopedilums and phragmipediums especially cool growing ones which a lot of them are.

Yes, Dave, you are a Fashion Icon! Keep up the good work and don’t let go of that image! Enjoyed this video very much much. All these Hoya are gorgeous but my favorite out of this group was your lovely and exotic looking Hoya SP Bogar. Talk about perfection. Great job! 👌🪴🥰

I did it! Less expensive than my liquid fertilizer. Awesome. Exited to try something new. I’m stuck in old ways, as usual. So thanks for encouraging me to change up.

At 4AM this morning I did all my watering for the day using cal-mag and spritz all my Anthurium. I like doing that before work so they have a wonderful moist day! ❤

Hi! First time viewer here. I also repot the plant as SOON as I bring it home from the nursery or plant mail. I never trust what is sent to me and I am always more comfortable in my own mix. I don’t like moss poles either and so far have not used one in my collection.

Love the hat !!!❤ super enjoy your forthright advice on Hoyas...please continue ❤

I am not a hoya grower but MAN you have some beautiful plants I never even knew existed. So interesting to watch. Im pretty sure my lowly kerrii is getting ready to do something and i want to be ready. So appreciate you and kudos to your wife on her support! I thoroughly enjoyed your live or die talk with your plants😂😂

Fashion icon.... Well, iconic is as iconic does, maybe? Kind of, right? 😁🇨🇦

Your video is great timing for me since I just purchased 5 small/medium dragons tail for $6.00 from Pikes Nursery in Matthews, NC. I agree with you regarding Moss Poles and keeping things simple. Thank you so very much for sharing. The info will help me tremendously.

I always felt kind of guilty for re potting my plants as soon as I get them home, but now I'm glad that I see you and others do it too. I feel so scared that the plant will not make it mostly because %99 of the time it is in a really bad substrate. the only exception are the ones I got form you. 😉

Your husband is a fashion icon!!!!!!

*OMG!!!* That Rhaphi is indeed a *🤤"SHOWSTOPPER"🤤* ,but I doubt it will ever upstage your Hoya Merrillii😍🤤😍🤤😍🤤😍

Thank you so much for the videos. I've been a plant fanatic since I was a teenager and come from a long line of plant fanatics but just learned about hoya. I love them! My favorite are the fuzzies. My orchid you tube icons introduced me to them. I also live in iowa and am happy to find a fellow iowan to follow your iowan hoya care regime. I have 50ish hoya now. I'm sure there will be more. Thanks for the videos🤍

Love Dragon Tail too❤

The magnifying lens behind you 😂 (I have one myself and use it like 100 times per day! We are crazy people, no doubt about it 😅)

Entertaining and fashionable. Love the plants and appreciate the commentary. LOL😂

Btw - you’re definitely a fashionista !!

I have only 5 Hoya's 😢 but I love them all❤

ooh decursiva, good move getting it on a stake it will produce long runners otherwise. I started mine from a wet stick 4 years ago and have big fenestrated leaves now. As for roots, it will send long aerial roots down the stake like a monstera. Actually just seen your using a bamboo cane, you would be better of with some chunky timber so it can attach and thicken up, sorry, good luck!

My Rhaph. is amazing, grows so fast!!

Hands down Paphiopedilums are my favorite orchid. I love Vanda's but not for Iowa, unless you have a grow tent to keep them in. Good luck!! There are more, but love those lady slippers.

Once I was able to grow store bought phalaenopsis, I bought a true phalaenopsis from Borneo name phalaenopsis Belina. The blooms are nothing like the store bought, and it has a great smell. I have mottled leafed phalaenopsis and then I moved to jewel orchids which you grow more for the foliage than the blooms. I also have several catleyas and oncidiums. On the oncidiums, I have more twinkles, that are miniature oncidium orchids. Most of my hoyas are fragrant and the blooms come in such a wide variety of colors and sizes of blooms. You will enjoy the orchid growing journey. I want to try growing a hoya from seed. I'm intimated by it for some reason. Do you have any cuttings of Jennifer available??? You and your wife have a beautiful Iowa evening.

There are so many types of medium out there and so many recipes! I still have a compiled list with like 3-4 recipes (from the “all knowing” internet) for each type of plant, but I hardly use it anymore. If a plant needs water twice a week, then it needs a bigger pot or more moisture retentive ingredients. If it doesn’t need a drink after 2 weeks, then it needs less moisture retentive ingredients, for me it is now as simple as that. As you say: 3 ingredients are enough! (Still slowly mixing away the rest of the stash though 😂) And for new plants I’ve become even lazier recently…. Propagating everything in moss-perlite mix and then sticking it into pure tree fern fibre. So far only a piper didnt appreciate that, the pipers now go into pon for me. And if I have to water more often than I want to… that plants goes over into a 3 ingredient mix I don’t like propagating in tree fern though, so far it had a much lower success rate than moss-perlite mix for me. I don’t think tree fern is “better” than a good soil mix. But it for sure is easier. While expensive, it doesn’t really need amendments (mixing it with things like cocochips/cocohusk, perlite, bark would make its use cheaper) and when it gets dry-ish the colour becomes lighter, so when checking on the plants it is easy to see which ones needs water. This is good for plant parents who check on their plants often and tend to be on the over watering side like me 😂 It has a property that is nice for underwatering plant parents too…. It doesn’t get hydrophobic. So for someone who underwaters it would be great to put into a regular mix, to rehydrate the hydrophobic substrate quicker/easier. (If not for underwatering it would be a waste to mix it into a soil/peat/etc based mixture) Still on the same repots here, though I did half of my friends repots in between so its ok to be behind on schedule 😊 (KZfaq rarely shows community posts for me) Im glad you have things that still make your day while suffering the effects of long Covid. Losing the ability to do the things you love and enjoy can be devastating. But then sometimes when we find something that we can still do, it brings all the more joy! Do you have a plant limit? I mean like a certain amount that you can manage to take care of If we would all worry about how others would judge us for being stupid, the world would be stiff and/or fake. As for strong opinions………… If they make sense……. 👍 I mean.. the nonsense opinions out there are strong, so they need something to counter that 😂 Looking forward to your experiment with all those different substrates! 😊 And to your styling vid and whatever other planty video you post, though I’m sure you could make the skin care successful (maybe even together with your wife?) Will leave it at that, this comment already got waaaaaaay too long 🫢

I haaaaaaate plugs. Even with bedding plants. I use a box cutter to cut it into strips, it doesn’t damage the roots but frees the plant

Fashion icon for sure lol I love your videos

I repot instantly as well! I'm fussy and want it just right!

As for orchids, I have mostly mini phals, but I think you'd love neofinetia (now vanda) falcata or cattleyas. I dont have a lot of space, so I tend to have smaller plants. My cattleyas are minis or compact. This was a great video. You have gorgeous plants!

What is your opinion on long vines that grow bare? Do you cut them back in hopes to stimulate new productive growth? Or do you just let them keep growing?

I’m not afraid, like you I break that rule ! Love the trellises

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❤🌹Loved it! Have not seen you previously address bottom watering vs top watering or vice versa.

Does that tetrasperma crawl rather than climb and won't that be a problem for the bamboo pole? Love your videos they are inspiring in process of repotting my hoyas so I'm grateful for soil recipe. Thanks again.

Don’t we all do the best we can on each thing we do?

How do I go about ordering your plants? I really love your videos.

I know you'll be looking at comments so I want to know if you deal with mold (not mineral deposits) with your terracotta and greenhouse etc. I'm spraying on hydrogen peroxide for now. I have amended soil and use a moisture meter but where I live things don't dry out quickly. Thanks for any wisdom you cast my way!

Oh your funny Dave, you’re not a dumb, dumb. , just like I tell my husband, man are not multitask people!!!

Real quick- do you mind if I ask you a question, unrelated to the video? Gee, thanks 😊 Do you have any experience with Hoya Sp. Af. Bertoniae or Hoya Cumingiana? I’ve heard Cumingiana blooms smell like cinnamon… sigh. All of my Hoyas are slowly coming back from flat mite infestations. I watched your video about pest treatment and have used your recipe 😊 Thanks so much! I really appreciate your time and enthusiasm. I think we can all tell that you’re really into this! It makes me happy

Hi Dave 👋 when you water your plants, do you first water with tap water to moisten the roots, or do you water the plants right away with fertilizer water? Edit to add... I love your directness! You're not mean but you speak your mind! It's a great quality in a human IMHO 👌 ❤🌿

Hi! Your Merrilli looks beautiful. I like your substrate recipe. How long have you been collecting hoya? I used to think hoya needed to dry out but no longer. They're thirsty plants

Need to link where you get you hoya seeds and plants Pretty pls. 😊

I water my plants about weekly with plastic pots and a chunky aroid mix. How do you keep yours hydrated in clay?

Maybe the person giving a thumbs down thinks it means (/looks like) something different 😄

Hi Dave, love your videos! How can I order plants?

I have two dozen Hoya and I didn’t have problems until recently with flatmites on my Hoya. It appears that a Hoya from Lowes or Home Depot had some and I keep my plants apart and those buggers have spread to almost all my other Hoyas. . I use systemic granulars and spray them weekly and cannot get rid of them. They pop up on the new growth chomping the leaves. I had removed damaged leaves as soon as I saw them. I have tried sulfur, jacks dead bug brew and now I have to clean all the sulfur off before I can order beneficials. Do you have this problem and what do you do?

Also, do you have a Hoya platycaulis? Can you talk about your experience with it?

Hey, Dave!!!! How do I get to your Hoya sales site?

One more question- Do you buffer your coco coir/husk? Or do you use it straight out of the bag? I hear about people buffering it to prevent nutrient lockout but don't really know how to do this or if it's even necessary

By the way, I need a sp Bogar!

So how do I get to buy a plant from you? Hoyas are so addictive and I already have quite a few, but each time I see you introduce a new one, I have to have it. You're getting me in trouble with my son who insists I have way too many already. I thought I was buying a Jennifer but it turned out to be Joy x Jennifer. I'm kind of worried about it as the stems are all woody. Please save me a Jennifer when they are ready.

h How do I find what hoyas you have available A far as you to start on beauty tips......take your own advise and keep to what you do best lol

Crazy plant gal still does not have any plants listed

Where do I go to purchase from you?

If you have a good facial and body care regime I think you could definitely make a go of it. There are a lot of men, all ages, that do appreciate good skin care. We are all becoming more aware of the need for healthy younger looking skin. I say do it you have nothing to lose but your time.

Can I have her email ?

Also, can I be best friends with your wife please? Thanks

I've been watching your channel since your very first video and got a lot inspired from your sharing. May I know how to purchase plants from you? Very much appreciated.