Hoya Sigillatis – Carla’s Hoya Haven

H. sigillatis is one of those Hoyas I saw on YouTube and had to have it. I love the splashy leaves that sunstress purple. I purchased H. sigillatis from Land of Alice last summer. I have it right now half under the blue light and half exposed to a Sansi white grow light. The leaves are purple under either light. I had it in the grow tent over winter and it did pretty well.

This is another plant that doesn’t like to be over watered. It definitely prefers to dry completely between waterings. It grew a few leaves and very long stringy vines in the grow tent and they annoyed me so I cut them off and tried to propagate them.

I was tired and this was the last of my propagation for the day. I got my vines turned around and propagated my cuttings upside down. So now the new bits of vine and leaves grow down toward the potting mix. I have to keep pulling them out flat against the coconut husk.

I have a full pot of upside down cuttings. Ooops.

H. sigillatis is native to Borneo (Sabah) and is a climbing epiphyte or lithophyte and grows in the wet tropical biome. In my home it grows well during warm humid weather and is more apt to drop leaves when it’s cool and dry. It did like the warm humid environment of the grow tent but had a habit of growing long stringy vines that got tangled with other plants. I found this annoying.

I don’t recommend chopping off the vines like I did since that was probably where most of the new growth was going to come from this summer. It’s a lovely plant and is worth growing just for it’s lovely foliage.

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