Starting a new post, though it may take me several days to complete since I'm coming up to a busy weekend.  But my plants are feeling spring and there's lots to report...

Took a photo of a most wonderfully beautiful variegated macrophylla leaf on the one that grows in the dining room:

It's not only perfectly variegated, but it's a largish leaf.  This macrophylla has two new growth points, one of which is on the fasciated stem, so I'm anxious to see if that growth is normal...

So this morning, as soon as the sun comes up enough that I can see out there, I'm going to start cleaning stuff up in the GH.  And what I mean by that is I'm going to start arranging and pulling plants off and cleaning them up, making some notes, etc.  I plan to start with the shelf that has my oldest fungii on it.  It has a few of my older plants, like aldrichii.  Fungii is budding up, so that's exciting!  I love the huge flower umbels it gets.  This one was my favorite back in 2007...

In 2009, I had a double...

This one is from one of those multi-leaf nodes, which also had a double peduncle.  Pretty cool.

Soo, here goes.  The fungii seems to be maintaining for the most part.  There are still a few leaves, the oldest ones closest to the soil, that have a hint of the yellow (it was a problem a few years ago that made me whack it back... not a problem of yellowing as in ready to drop off, but maybe an iron deficiency or something?  Never did figure it out as new growth came in just fine...)  Otherwise, it looks great.  It has a humongous leaf and lots of other new growth - one vine took off onto an upper shelf, across the top of the green house toward the back.  And that's the one where I can see a peduncle budding up when I look straight up as I stand in front of that shelf.  Nice!

Let's see, I have the Cambodian pottsii - it's not doing anything yet.  Camphorfolia has maintained over the winter, but it had a long, leafless section of vine that I wrapped and secured in the pot, hoping to get a rooting point.  On top of it sits a rooted cutting of the same that I plan to put into the main pot, probably next month.  H. longifolia looks pretty good, but like camphorfolia, it had a leafless area I secured back into the pot to root.  The oldest foliage is a bit wrinkled (dehydrated) but the newest looks good, and it's hinting at growing. 

H. padagensis doesn't look as good as it once did (as full), but it is making a comeback and even has some new growth.  I think this may be it's year.  It's one of those I got from Thailand (2010), and I've never had a lot of success with anything I got from their, mostly beause (I'm sure) of the long journey.  Some may eventually grow well, but it's just not worth it as it usually takes years before they recover fully.

I have what I'm pretty sure is a rooted cutting of 'Dee's Big One' - not 100% sure, but pretty sure.  It's not tagged, but I did split up my main plant (when was that? last year or the year before?) into two, and it may have been three.  It seems to be doing well and I need to tag it as a sale plant since I have two others that are doing well.  This one has a nice new vine with new little leaves forming, so I shouldn't have any trouble selling it this year.

Then there's that pesky hellwigiana.  I know where the "hell" part comes from!  I've tried this one I-don't-know how many times - my first came from Carol and it did well for some time and even bloomed for me.  The flowers were beautiful!...from bud...

To flower...

So I've been trying ever since and I always end up losing it.  Well, it still has two leaves on it and it's hanging in there (so far).  I put a little piece of australis ssp. tenuipes in with it last fall, hoping the rooting hormones thrown off would help hellwigiana root.  Well, the australis doesn't look too hot, which is unusual - that one is usually a cinch to root!  Phhussh!

I have (the true) tsangii and Ban Ngong Ngoy rooted together.  Tsangii seemed so delicate, I was afraid I'd lose it, but as it turns out, it seems pretty resilient!  Both rooted and are doing well - in fact, tsangii is growing.  I should probably seperate them in April, but we'll see...

Next shelf down are a lot of my itty-bitty ones.  I don't mean young, I mean small species.  Kanyakumariana - I just figured out how to pronounce this one!!  Canny-yakoo-mariana.  I have looked at this name since I got it back in 2010 and I just shake my had and don't even try.  Well, today I said I gotta figure out how to say it because I always feel compelled to know their names.  So I broke it down and realized it's really not that hard!  In fact, I kind of like it now!  (I'll probably be saying it in my head for the rest of the day!  LOL!)  Anyway, it's one that doesn't grow a lot for me.  But it always looks nice.  The tiny wavy leaves are just as tough as can be.  Joni sent me some of the same as a bonus last fall, and they rooted fast.  I will probably take all of it and put it together in a bigger pot this spring.  Maybe it will take off at that point...

That little pot of Dischidia rosea has gone crazy!  I found it wound around and up into another Dischidia, and it's looking absolutely fantastic.  It's such a delicate one, I've always kind of held my breath thinking I would eventually lose it.  Take a look...

I think this one might be the perfect one to grow in one of my little cages.  It would display well, winding around the little bars...

And we have what I will call my favorite small Hoya, krohniana...

I mean, wow, this one is looking awesome!  The leaves are small, only about 1/2" long at most, and just as succulent as can be.  I haven't had this one too long, about a year.  They apparently used to think this was a form of lacunosa, but to me, it's very different.  From what I've seen in photos, the flowers are somewhat similar, though.  I guess we'll see if the fragrance is as strong.  If nothing else, it's a much heartier species than lacunosa!

And one last one before I stop for today (need to get going to go to work...)  A mystery Dischidia...

I got this one from Tom last time I was at the UNO GH.  It's finally started growing and it's vine is so delicate.  It could be related to (or a clone of) Discidiopsis parasitica.  In fact, it's close enough to that species that I think I will plant it in with my parasitica in April.

Now, off to make a living!