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I guess I just became a hoya collector


I found these four poor plants on the clearance shelf at Home Depot for $2.50 apiece so I brought them home. They’re probably pest-ridden, so right now they’re sealed in a brown paper bag in my garage lol.

First, can I get some help with IDs? I figure Proven Winners made up these names because the accurate botanical names probably aren’t cutesy enough, nor do they fit into an ocean theme.

I’m not really a hoya person yet (I have one “pink” variegated carnosa that’s doing okay) but I would like to rehab this scraggly foursome. Obviously they’ll be quarantined. Should I repot them right away to get rid of pesty soil? I’m also going to hose them down with Deadbug.

What kind of soil would they like? I have lots of substrates on hand to mix up something specific. Would they benefit from growlight time during quarantine? All my naturally sunny spots are already occupied.

Any other advice?

by Poutiest_Penguin

13 Comments

  1. languidriver

    i just bought one of these too! but i’m so far down the road now…

  2. OtherManufacturer390

    Congrats! I believe the sea stones are H. aff. burtoniae, and the adrift is H. rosita. The teacup might be fitchii.

  3. Pennylee2000

    How interesting that they all have a word in their type that has to do with the ocean! 🌊

  4. languidriver

    oh i didn’t realize there were four pics! my home depot only had the sea stones and the adrift, and the adrift looked like one i already had so i didn’t get it. will keep an eye out for the other two. would love to find the teacup one.

  5. Flimsy_Promise3996

    Welcome! This is where it started for me 6 months ago. Now have over 50 and I’m buying 2 leaf cuttings for $350.

  6. Fantastic-Choice2576

    This is how I started this year! My favorite of the PW I got, was the carnosa splash.

  7. abcdefghazale

    I started in June/July 2025, now I have 13. Oh 1 cutting died. So I had 14 at one point. I will stop buying starting…tomorrow. 🫣

  8. ShinyUnicornPoo

    Congrats!!!  The carnosa ‘freckles splash’ is a splashy carnosa, and the ‘adrift’ is a rosita.  I have both of these, also rescued from the Home Depot clearance!  I believe the ‘sea stones’ is a burtoniae, I don’t have one but it’s on my want list. 

    The soil they come in usually holds way too much water (mine were very soggy when I brought them home, all my HD plants usually are.)  For all my hoyas I use a mix of about 50% orchid bark mix, 40% indoor potting mix, and 10% perlite, give or take.  They all seem to like it.  

    They prefer a bright light, and I water when the soil is mostly but not completely. 

  10. makobebu

    That’s awesome! I was surprised but my fav from all of those (having been growing them since Feb-ish of this year) is my Rosita and the Carnosa ‘Freckled Spalsh’! Both grow so well and vigorously for me—and take my north-west window exposure very well—that they’re my best growers! But I enjoy all of them! My “teacup” (Hoya fitchii) is a good grower too even though I struggled in the beginning 🫣
    But where did you pick these up? Like what state and store?? I find them since the summer, hard to find!

  12. Exotic_Assignment570

    Ive been wanting the sea stones forever! Such a cute plant

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