Hoya kerrii | 4 Year Review | Sometimes known as Sweetheart Plant or Valentine Hoya

In this video I continue the plant review series, with the Hoya kerrii sometimes called Sweetheart Plant or Valentine Hoya.

As with all of these reviews, the review is biased to my experience with the Hoya kerrii in my conditions.

As always I encourage you, if you have this plant too, to add your own review in the comments.

The format is the usual format for these videos:

Some background on my experiences with the Hoya kerrii
Speed of Growth that I have experienced with the Hoya kerrii
Ease of Propagation of Hoya kerrii
Common Pests for Hoya kerrii
Availability
Accessories and Growing tips for the Hoya kerrii
My final thoughts and score on the Hoya kerrii

Chapters

00:00 Intro
02:17 Background
11:06 Speed of Growth
14:05 Ease of Propagation
16:59 Availability
19:45 Pests
21:57 Accessories
28:47 Final Thoughts
34:25 B-Roll

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[blackswandominiscis]

In my experience this plant grows when the temperature is above 20 celcius. I grow this hoya in an aroïd mix in a plastic pot (in fact I recycled a plastic milk bottle into a pot).

My plant comes from a one leaf cutting that grew into a full plant, it flowers very early in it's development. In fact the peduncle appears with the first set of new leaves. Very surprisingly I manage to grow a full plant from a single leaf cutting twice in a row. Everything was really easier after I understood that keeping the plant above 20°celcius is the key to have it grow (at least for me). The first time the cutting did nothing during 3 years, the second time it grew after less than a year!

Because it's a very succulent hoya I water it only when the soil is dry. Sometimes I forget and let it in a dry soil during more than a week. It slows down the growth but that's all. I killed my first plant because of over watering so I definitely take care of it as if it was a succulent. As many hoyas It tends to grow a long naked stem on which the leaf appears later so sometime the plant is not so beautiful 🙂 To workaround that I propagated the plant during summer (I'm in France) and put 1 propagation with the mother plant. During summer my 3 cutting rooted in one week. I provide the maximum of light that I can. I'm at the north of Paris and here it takes direct light without any problem. Regarding pest, meally bugs sometimes but nothing to difficult to handle.

[vanessagj]

I got last year that one leaf hoya kerii in hopes that it would grow from it (because in my country we don’t get the fully established plant 😑) and just few days ago I noticed a small stem poking out of the soil 😍 I guess I got lucky 🤘🏼🤣
Amazing video btw! Always very helpful 🤍

[coffee]

I love Kerri hoyas yours look so cute and lush
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Hoyas are so satisfying to see them grow from small leaf cuttings to big plants

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[janacmilnakova]

Hi. I just wanted to say that I love your personality. I've seen several videos about plant care, and you always make me smile or laugh. I recently purchased Hoya Splash and Variegated. Thank you for your video and advice.

[vannee]

This guy definitely needs more likes ❤❤❤

[janebrewer]

This Hoya is so cute! I have the green one. It is a slower grower for me than my other more succulent Hoya like pachyclada or obovata. I do not find most Hoya to be slow in fact pretty close to as fast as pothos. I think foliar feeding, humidity and dappled direct light helps. I just put my regular liquid fertilizer in a spray bottle and mist it. Hoya kerii does not forgive overwatering and seems to prefer neglect. Hard for my over fussing plant parent style! If I get mealies I use systemic but rarely. I get a lot of wild lace wing eggs from my patio which is nice part of being in a sub tropical climate. In my experience it handles cooler temps just fine but goes dormant. The variegated ones are more common than the green around me. I would love to get the super silver full splash variety some day. Thank you for sharing everyone!

[RayvennlY]

Hey! I love these reviews you're making, after all this time you got them. It's really cool seeing how they grew and matured, keep it up!

[pilitathomason]

I love Hoya Kerri, I have 4 types inner, outer, splash and green. Your Kerri is so cute, I like how white they are. In Auckland NZ it’s still very expensive and you don’t see them often, I bought mine as 2 leaf cutting and gave me 3 leaves in 9 months. Like you said slow.😅Thank you for your videos I really enjoy them and very informative.

[dawnlynema]

I was very lucky in that I bought a single leaf, had it for 2 years and was about to throw it out when I noticed there was a vine starting and now it’s getting huge. I love the variegated variety and will have to look for one in the USA.

[barbie_t]

I love your kerrii albos, I still haven't found one. I do have the h. kerrii reversed variegated & kerrii splash. Both hated me 😂 so I chopped them up, the cuttings are doing great.
I did water & soil props.
My kerrii splash sun stressed to a purplish tint under t8 grow lights.

[siameselady]

Still no vining Kerrii in Michigan. Lots of the leaf cuttings of which I was fortunate to get one with more of a node and it has vined.

[alinarymacka]

In Norway this one is almost impossible to get. I have albo and splash and as albo grows like crazy (5 leafs in 6 months) splash did not moved a thing in 1 year 🤣 finally i get my first leaf 😆🙈 do you have variegated compacta? Mine thrilled and growed like a charm to die in 1 week. Very strange.

[HayJudes]

Thank you very much for all the time and effort you put into keeping us informed on your plant journey! I am in Wisconsin, USA so all my tropical plants are indoors 24/7. I'm curious if you have using Keiki Paste on the tiny nodes of the long sparse vines that are only producing peduncles and small aerial roots? I have been having really good leaf growth, without going overboard on slathering the whole vine, of course. Just curious if I might just be lucky.

[renealee]

I've had mine almost 6 months. I brought a bigger green one since I don't have patience. I keep it under a grow light in the living room. Recently, it has thrown 3 new vines. I staked two but the third isn't long enough to stake yet. No peduncles. I am thinking of moving it to a window to see if more light can help with peduncle development.

[emilymajeski]

I think the bumpy scar areas on the back are a sign of microscopic Hoya mites. Sulfur mite and fungal spray can get rid of them. The mites arrack new growth and cause leaves to come out wonky and stunted.

[SanskritBlue]

I love this plant. I have a single leaf that has some sentimental value (NOT Valentine’s Day 😂) and I don’t mind letting it be to see if it ever stems. I just water it along with my other Hoyas. The slow growth doesn’t bother me a bit with Hoyas— they’re good company in my meditation space & at our office. They’re a lovely change from the pothos & philodendrons somehow. We have an 8 year old Hoya at the office that flowers year round for us & we are practically devoted to it! When it got thrips we dropped everything to take care of it! There was a patient in the room so we had to explain…👀😂❤️🙏

[pinkyysk]

Orchid myst does seem to be bloody expensive water and not really much else. The spray feed that I got from poundland was so so good and my orchids and hoya did really well with it. But not been able to find it. But I will be getting some liquid gold leaf and they can make foliage spray so gonna try that
I was hunting for a kerrii for a while and did see them go for 80ish for the standard one it was an ok sized plant but some cuttings where 30 odd for 2 leaves. Did get one way cheaper. Only really see the single leaves about sadly
Great video

[steelerbear]

I'm one of those 1/10 people who got a single leaf that sprouted another one! I think the stem started to show up about 3 months after I got the heart, and the second heart was at its full size after about another 3 months. It's still not as firm as the first leaf though.
How long does it typically take for one leaf to form? I'm wondering if/how long it'll take for mine to keep growing.

[erinboyes]

I’m in Canada. Single leaf come out on valentines. Only once have I seen a larger plant at a greenhouse. You can find it on Facebook marketplace once in a while from private sellers.

[emmanuellecordier]

I got a hoya Kerrii six month ago and he just have a pédoncule. Now he has two balls that have grown directly under the leaf! I hope it will turn into a vine