Hoya kerrii | How to care for this sweet heart houseplant

hi it's jackie from home by faith and today we're going to talk about my favorite plant the hoya carry eye i'm going to cover everything from lighting water potting soil humidity to even propagation so let's get started [Music] a little bit of intro about my hoya carry eye i got this plant about three years ago in september of 2017 where i found it in a garden center right after i brought it home i normally with all the plants that i bring home i will put them in a different room so that they can quarantine for one to two weeks just in case if there are any pests or bugs that are in the soil or under the leaves that i couldn't see first thing first lighting my hoya carry eye sits right by my southwest window where it gets a lot of sunlight from about two o'clock to six o'clock throughout the entire day so most of the time it's actually direct sunlight as well you can see just it's shining and it's glowing and it loves it so i found this out because in the beginning i had my plan in another window also southwest but a meter away from the window and it was not getting a lot of direct light so now that i've moved to right by my window it's a lot happier if your house is not that bright or you don't have a south or south or west window i would encourage you to use a grow light it does the same thing but it just you just have to turn it on for i'd say 12 hours minimum a day for it to grow happy and quicker so number two watering so there are two different ways that i water my high carry eye it depends if i'm free or if i need to go out and just leave a bee so the first way is i actually bring the entire plant up into the shower and sit it in the tub turn on my shower head make sure the water is cool or lukewarm or room temperature just not hot okay because that would damage your plant for sure so i just shower it top to bottom and while i'm showering you can also scrub the leaves a little and just making sure all the dust is off and give it a nice cleaning and i would go back and check on my quiet carry eye in about one hour so when i go back i would do exactly the same thing again showered a little making sure the water is actually going into the pot and not just bouncing everywhere and after a couple times i'd say i do this three times three to four times the entire root ball would be moist would be wet and that's when i know i can take it back out of the shower and put it back next to my window the second way i water my carry eye is through bottom watering so what i do is take my entire plant and dunk it into a container that is just a bit larger and i would pour water into that container so that it fills up maybe more than half of the the height of the pot and let it just sit there so while it's chugging you'll know that the water level will go down slowly and slowly because what happens during that time is that your soil will start getting moist and dry pockets are slowly drinking up the water and if you see that the water is all gone really quickly maybe in like 10 minutes it's good to just keep adding more water as it needs to drink more water up usually i leave it overnight and in the morning when when it's done drinking the water level is no longer going down i would take this plant out making sure that everything drains back out and then i'll put it back into my pretty cash pot and that's the second way of how i water my hoya carry eye and on the same note i also missed my hoya carrier whenever i remember to especially in the summer because in the winter i actually put a giant plastic bag over it and seal it at the bottom so that moisture is actually trapped inside but in the summer since we have our ac on and i don't have the bag on anymore i wouldn't miss it whenever i passed by it missed it until it's dripping because i think the leaves actually like taking in water as well and so it's just like a little spa number three soil hoyas are kind of similar to succulents so they do want to be dried out between watering so here's the soil mix that i use for my carry eye you're going to need 50 regular potting soil that you can find at any garden center the next step is adding 25 perlite into the soil mix pearlite are these little white very fluffy very light material and they do not hold water at all and third i also add another 25 orchid bark into this because i had it on hand and orchid bark as you know it doesn't really hold water either and as well it creates these larger air pockets in the soil so it allows water to drain out quicker so add all three together mix it all up and there you have it that's what i use for my hoya carry eye that's also what i use for all my other hoyas and they seem to love it next up plant pot people ask me if i should put my hoikery in a terracotta pot or a plastic pot or ceramic pot well i don't really have a preference because my high carry eye is in a plastic pot and a lot of my other hoyas are in terracotta pots so any pot works but make sure that your pot does have draining holes at the bottom so in the beginning i made a trellis out of bamboo sticks because i saw something similar on pinterest and i love how it looks and i would just tie the vines onto the trellis with these green rubber wire that i found at dollarama just be careful when you wrap the vines around the trellis because when you bend the vines a little bit too much they're very sensitive a white stack will seep out from the vines they're not really a problem because i find that the sap just kind of drops one or two drops and they dry out overnight and after they're dried you can just kind of peel them off or leave it on the plant doesn't matter so don't be afraid when you see a white sap leaking out of your hoya carrier it's not really a problem i've had this plant for three years and i've had to re-trellis it twice so last year i actually found these bamboo hoops that are very tall and at that time it was way taller than my hoya and i knew that would last two summers i think next summer i'm going to have to re-trellis this or even you know what cut the vines at the top and propagate them [Music] and on that note propagation propagating a hoy carrier is very easy all you need is a little jar and water if you have rooting hormones it would work too two years ago through a plant swab i received a very gated hoya carrier cutting that means it was freshly cut it didn't have any roots and so when i brought it home i let the cut end heal and dry out overnight first the next day i would dip the ends into the rooting hormones and then i put the entire stem into water you will start to see roots coming out along the entire vine not just near the notes and when the roots are about an inch two inches long i transfer the entire cutting into soil i use a clear orchid pot so that i can monitor how well the roots are growing during this time and i found that once it was potted with soil it grew a lot faster and i can see the roots just wrapping around the pot and it was growing very happy however i didn't see any new leaves growing until the next summer now a lot of people ask me how quickly does your hoya carrier grow every summer my carrier grows at least 10 new leaves but there's a catch if it starts blooming then it will stop growing new leaves which i really did not like [Music] i hope that you learned a lot about how to care for your hoya carry eye and if you have any questions at all please feel free to comment below i will try my best to answer and if you want to read more about this i do have a blog on my website where i wrote about my horicin 3 years ago i updated every year as i see new changes in my plant i'll leave the link below so that you can check it out thanks for watching bye [Music] you

Channel: Home by Faith

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Length: 10min 16sec (616 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 01 2020