hoya care hangout! trellises, repots, life chats & more 😉💚

And with plants, my name is Anastasia, and thank you for joining me for another video. It is going to be all about Hoya, as you can see from the sea of Hoya in front of me. The Hoya in the grow tent have taken over. They have just been growing wild, and I've just been letting all of the tendrils climb and grow, and it's gotten to be way too much. And I think now is the perfect time to tame them all back. So we are going to be assessing the Hoya here on this table, either if they need an upsize, if they just need to be trellised, if I need to add a trellis. We're just going to be diving right into it. I think I have about an hour and a half of footage time on this SD card, so we're just going to fill her up and see how far we can get. Yeah, without further ado, I think the game plan is I'm probably going to move this tray off the table, and then we're just going to take a look at the stand alone Hoya, which are all in front of me here, and we'll go from there. I don't really have too much of a game plan on how this is going to turn out, but just know that this is a long overdue Hoya care video. Let's move it aside. I feel like I'm going to knock something over if I do. To the side. I knew that was going to happen. Since this one knocked over, we're going to probably deal with this one first. First Hoya on the potting mat is the Wilbur Graves. This is the Wilbur Graves Thailand. I think last time you saw it, I did trellis it up, and this is what it looks like. It has since bloomed from this peduncle. I'll go ahead and insert a photo of the bloom. Very, very beautiful. I love Carnosa blooms. It smelled divine in the grow tent for like about a week or so. Anytime I opened the grow tent, I just got hit with like a whiff of jasmine flower. It was a really light, very pleasant floral sense. I loved it so much. It has since grown, basically weaving in and out of one of the shelves, and we have to address it. As you can see, not all of the vines are quite as silver as the original plant was, so I'm gonna have to take a look at each individual vine and kind of decide on if I want to cut it. I will probably honestly be cutting a lot of these back because I want some more silver to come through on the plant, and the parts that hit more light were definitely more silver, but all of these vines kind of grew out of the light, and they are not. This tendril broke, unfortunately. I also need scissors. I think I forgot scissors. Let me grab some. I will also probably give this Hoya an upsize because the trellis is a little bit unsteady, and it's pretty well rooted in there, so I think it would benefit from an upsize. What do I want to do? So I think I'm gonna cut back this vine here. These are what the leaves look like on that vine. Just a little bit splashy, but not too too much. There was a peduncle on it as well, but it's kind of grown a bit leggy and unruly, so I'm just gonna set that aside. This is another vine with a peduncle on it. This one I think I'll just loop around the trellis, so that one will probably be easier to do. Just because I want to keep the peduncle on it, why not? I just kind of wound the tendril around there. Okay, what about this one? This is I think the one that snapped off in this very strange direction it's growing in. Oh, this one's a brand new leaf. Again, lightly splashy. Like, it's not bad, but seeing how highly splashed all the other leaves are, it can do better. So I'm gonna snip it off of here, move this vine aside, and this was basically the last good set of leaves that it gave right here. That one can be trellised maybe around here. Now for the upsize, because this one definitely definitely needs to be upsized. We're probably gonna putter maybe like a four or four and a half inch container, and I had to go through my reserves because it's been a while since I used this mix, but this is my tree fern fiber pond mix. I use like a very chunky DIY pond, and there's also some lecca, like some clay balls, dispersed through it. So I'm just gonna move those to the side, to the bottom of it, and just because if they've been doing well in this mix, I don't want to change it up or anything like that. I just kind of want to keep it the same. So okay, I'm just gonna try to lift this out. Pretty well rooted. It's kind of stuck in there. I also wanted to just kind of catch up, talk about some plant stuff, and also just maybe at the end add in some life chats since it's been a while. Oh god, this is like really rooted. This is why this when it fell over the substrate didn't come out. Do not want to break the stem. That would be tragic. I'm gonna give you guys a story, and I want your guys's opinion on it, just because I don't know. I had a kind of a negative, I wouldn't say like a negative experience with the plant shop, but it was like an iffy, an icky one, you know, where I wasn't really sure just the way that they were going about the whole situation was just a little bit, I don't know, shady, if maybe shady is the right word. So I'll tell you guys the story. Ah, here we go. So I'll tell you guys the story, and then you guys will just have to chime in and tell me if maybe I just didn't interpret it correctly, and this is totally normal plant shop practices, or oh, and I lost a leaf. My bad. Or if maybe it is true, I'm not going to disclose the name of the shop. I kind of went back and forth about it, but I just don't want to out people or shops like that on this channel. There's like so many roots all around there. Let's just move her down in here, and this time I'm going to really try to secure the trellis because it was loosey-goosey in there, and honestly this plant shop makes so much money. They like sell such expensive plants, and they are also not strangers to some controversy in the center of some plant drama. A little bit of background on the shop for you, but anyway, I wanted to get an alocasia longiloba purple, and there are two. Their names are almost alike, so there's the purple one, which is the one that I wanted to get. It's a bit darker, and just the color is more vibrant, and then there's the purple veins, which is not quite the same. The shape is a little bit different, and also that one is cheaper than the purple. Usually for a longiloba purple, it's about like a hundred bucks for a plant, whereas the purple veins is maybe half that price around there-ish, and I wasn't really actively looking. I was maybe just keeping my eye out on one just because I didn't want to spend a hundred dollars on an alocasia, since if you have watched this channel before, you might know that alocasia and I don't really get along quite that well. I tend to kill a lot of them, unfortunately, so I didn't want to really splash out that much, but anyway, I was on Palm Street, you know, cooking dinner, just watching a live, so my attention was half on cooking, half on the live, and they were giving away these rehabby plants, like they were not really perfect, and it was all auction, and so I saw in the auction name it was a longiloba purple. That was the name. There was no other ID on it except that. Honestly, when these two plants are very young, they kind of look a lot alike. I mean, the true purple one is a little bit more thin and pointed, whereas the purple veins kind of tend to be a bit more round. Maybe it was because I was a bit distracted, but I just saw the and was like, oh, okay, I will bid on it because I've had my eye out for one, so why not? I might get one on a good deal, and I ended up winning the auction. I think it was with taxes and the shipping, it was shy of $80, and I thought that was like pretty good considering that they went for $100. We had dinner, etc., etc. Something was telling me to just double check the ID on it because at that point I realized, oh, there are these two plants that the names are very similar. What are the chances that it could be the purple veins, which in case I don't want that one? So I reached out to the shop, and I asked them for the idea of it. Is it the purple or the purple veins? And they did not get back to me that day, and then it went into the next day, and then it was a bit strange just because I had contacted the shop on one other occasion, and they got back to me, you know, in a few hours, so I thought it was weird that they weren't getting back to me, right? I decided, okay, I need to talk to them before the plant ships out, and so I contacted Palm Street Support. So we're just gonna put it in this cash pot. Yeah, this is what it looks like. I'm gonna pop it in here, and just a quick upsize, and then just a slight retrellis, and I chopped off all of the vines. So hopefully the goal is to have the plant push out more vines in the more splashy areas rather than the lower splash areas. Maybe it'll bloom again. That would be lovely. This next one I just kind of wanted to show you guys. I'm not really going to do anything with it. I'm just going to continue to have it grow. This is the Sigillatus, and I believe I got the Borneo version. It's like that extra splashy one. Finally the cuttings started to grow. I threw this one in the grow tent because it kept drying out in the garage, and I really love the Sigillatus. There's just something about like the bluey purple leaves that I love. I'm so happy that this plant is growing again. So that was just a quick update. This will just be a really quick trellis, retrellis. This is the Acha David Neal. I love this one. You don't see this Acha very often. I bought it on Etsy. The seller unfortunately no longer sells on Etsy. This is what it looks like. I love that ribbed texture on there. Really nice. Really pretty. We're just gonna re-situate the plant in here because it's a little bit loosey-goosey too. Oh, and we got a accidental semi-hydro going on. Oh my god. So many of the plants in the grow tent are now growing in semi-hydro by accident. So there's some water in the cash pot and look at that. All the roots growing. So I'm just gonna leave it in this situation since they don't seem to be rotting and they're doing okay. I'm just gonna shove the trellis in just a little bit further. Let's take some plant clips. So back to the story. Contacted Palm Street Support because it was getting to be in the time range where they were going to ship it soon. And this could be a total chance, which is a very real possibility, but literally within a minute of me contacting Palm Street Support saying like, hey, I'm trying to cancel this order. It might be the wrong ID. The shop reached out to me. So again, could be a huge coincidence. Don't know if shops on Palm Street know when a buyer contacts Palm Street about the order. I'm not sure about that. But anyway, finally got back to me and the Purple Veins goes by another name. So I forgot what it's called. I'll go ahead and put it on the screen. And they're like, it's this plant. They didn't pick if it was just the Purple or the Purple Veins. They gave me another name to it. But they said this is the idea of the plant, right? I looked it up and sure enough, it was the Purple Veins. And honestly, this is like the part where I'm not sure if they were intentionally trying to be shady or not. But it's like if two plants and you're a plant shop, so, you know, like the names of all of the plants. So if two plants go by very similar names to lessen the confusion of perhaps a person buying that plant under the wrong ID, you would want to make that name as exact as possible, not just putting a name that could go either way. Unless, I don't know, maybe they were hoping that people would spend more money on it if it was under the more expensive plant's name compared to the real ID, which is the Purple Veins and just to leave it purple, because that's technically not incorrect, but it's also not correct either. You know, it's like this gray area. And when they replied with that, I was like, oh, OK, yeah, so that's Purple Veins. Unfortunately, I thought that was the Purple. My mistake. Can I cancel the order? Because I thought I was purchasing a different plant. And then they go back and they were all like, it's a 10 percent cancellation fee. And I get this part. This is not the part that I'm particularly upset about, because I do understand people buy a lot on Palm Street and maybe they cancel a lot because they realize that they bought so much or things happen and maybe stores on Palm Street are getting tired of all the cancellations. So maybe they put a fee on it or they tell people that they can't cancel or I don't know, something like that. Again, I don't buy that much on Palm Street. So this is just from my experience. So this is the trellis job all done. That was a really simple one. Next one is the Van Viengensis. I think I said that right. Here we go. Really, really pretty. This is more of like a textural Hoya. It's all green, but it's got some really nice texture. It's very waxy and smooth. And I think the blooms are really cute. I can't remember on this one specifically. And this one, I'm just going to read trellis. We also have an accidental passive hydro situation happening here. They said 10 percent cancellation fee. I knew that I didn't want the plant since I bought it as a mistake under the wrong ID. And so I was like, OK, yeah, that's fine. Just cancel it. And how they go about doing the cancellation fee is they basically put a listing that says cancellation and you have to purchase that. And only until after they get the confirmation that you purchased the 10 percent cancellation, then they will refund your order. Palm Street doesn't have that in their options yet. Let's do a bigger trellis. I have a larger hoop trellis. Change my mind. I ended up purchasing the cancellation. They ended up refunding my order. All good. At the end of the day, part of me wonders, given the reputation of this shop, because, again, they are no stranger to controversy. What if they put that listing up for auction, called it the long globe of purple, knowing that it's actually the purple veins, just hoping that people would purchase it for more than what that plant is actually going for? Can't confirm or deny at this point. This is just me talking. I'd like to hear your input on this situation, if maybe I should have just paid more attention and it was obvious. I don't know. I don't know. That was like a very rare experience with a plant shop that I just felt a bit icky coming out of. So much cleaner. Nice. Before we move on to the Hoya tray is my favorite Clemenciorum in my collection. I got this one from UPT. This is the Clemenciorum Northern Sumatra. Let me just show you these leaves. They are magnificent. Oh, I can't. And they're huge. Like this is my hand in comparison. They're so good. This is the back of them. I just love. Love that so, so much. OK, I actually haven't checked out the root situation in a while, so I'm curious to see what it looks like. Actually, not bad. It can hang out in this pot longer. Yeah, there's not there is some rootage, but nothing insane. We'll just retrellis her to the best of our abilities because this one has been growing all over the shelves. Speaking of Palm Street and plant shops and selling in my last Hoya video, I did like a purge of 10 Hoya. And a lot of you guys, I didn't really know this beforehand, but a lot of you guys were interested in buying them. And although I really appreciate that, those Hoyas specifically were just not healthy and couldn't guarantee that I was basically going to give you rotty Hoyas with pests and stuff like that. I don't want, you know, a person getting those types of Hoyas to start off my journey in giving people plants. Thank you for your offers. But if you guys are interested in buying Hoyas from me, then, yeah, I should definitely start to sell at some point. My question is, should I wait and do an official like shop on a website that I would have to build? That route would definitely take me a while to get the shop and build the website. Or should I casually start to sell on, say, Etsy or Palm Street? I've been kind of been going back and forth on what I want to do because I do have a lot of plants that I have duplicates of, that I have offsets of my Anthurium. I have cuttings of Hoya or just Hoya that are actually pretty healthy, but I just don't want to keep anymore that might go to a better home. So I do have plants that I should sell in the future to, you know, downsize my collection. And I'm curious where I should sell, where you guys would be interested in seeing me sell. So right now I'm between Palm Street and Etsy, kind of leaning towards Palm Street because I think the general person purchasing on Palm Street knows what to expect of plants in the mail. I don't think that is the same for people that buy on Etsy. I've seen some really nasty reviews on Etsy and they'll like include a picture and it's just one yellow leaf, which is totally to be expected from a plant shipping and stress. Or they'll show a leaf that kind of got deformed a bit. Alocasia, for example, when they get shipped, their leaves kind of come out bent but not broken and just give it a couple days and they'll be fine. And then people freak out because it's not like the picture. So that's what kind of just scares me of having a shop on Etsy, is like you can basically do everything correctly, give that person a healthy plant, and then they will still leave a negative review. And there's really nothing that you can do about that because unfortunately you just sold to the wrong person. Whereas Palm Street, I feel like the majority of people are more experienced plant buyers, I want to say. But then on the other hand, I don't know if a lot of you guys do shop on Palm Street. So I don't know. I'm kind of going back and forth on that because I do want to sell, but I also want it to be easier on you guys too if if you are not on a plant ban and if you're in the market for new plants. So I never want to pressure you guys ever, ever, ever to buy a plant when you don't want to. Anyway, this is the Clemenciorum Ultralis. The leaves are not going in the right direction, but just give it a week or two and they will turn themselves towards the light source and not look quite as awkward. In no particular order, let's just start addressing the Hoyas on the ground next to me. This was supposed to be an Argentia Princess as you can see, but it turned into a Nova Ghost because it reverted. And we shall keep her as a Nova Ghost because I really love the Nova Ghost. I had a pretty big one back in the day. What shall I do? This one will be actually easy. I'm just going to support, I'm going to support the vine. And then once the tendril gets a little bit longer, I will trellis it up on like a proper trellis. But for now, I think I'm just going to keep it like this and have it grow up a little bit longer. So that was an easy one. Oh, what did I knock over? Oh, I can never do a Hoya video without knocking over at least one Hoya and also losing Hoya leaves. So this is my Lacunosa Mint Coin, and she is about the size of maybe a little bit less of what she was when I rotted her out. Unfortunately, some of the cuttings, however, did revert. And I do want to cut those off because I don't want these all green tendrils. So let's take care of that. So there's one. Oh, I think all of these are reverted. This whole thing, let's just take the top off of this one. So, yeah, all of these were reverted. So now what are we left with? A little bit of a smaller plant. This is a thing that I don't do quite as often, but sometimes when you just want to fill out your pot, but you don't want to take cuttings and all that stuff, you can just loop a tendril around the top of the soil and pin it down with some strawberry forks. And the roots on the tendril will actually start growing down in the soil. And then you can just after the roots grow in the soil, just chop the tendril and it's a plant and that's already rooted. So I think that's what I'm going to do with this one to kind of fill out the top of it. Perfect. I found two nearby, so I'm just going to stick it in the soil. Also, huge thank you to all of you guys that gave me feedback on my plant shelf video. I had so much fun making that. I definitely want to do more of that content down the road on my channel because I just love decor projects. And sometimes when I get a little bit too stressed out with my plant collection or life, I kind of put decor on the back burner. And so I want that to continue on this year. I'm going to leave this one in the tray. I just wanted to adjust the strands, make the top a little bit more fuller, and then cut off all of the reverted strands. So this is the Lacnosa mint coin. This one I'm going to leave be because I want it trailing and I like it as is right now. And I almost purged this one because it took forever to grow. And honestly, sometimes with Hoyas, they will take forever and ever and ever to grow. But then once they get established, they just take off and grow like weeds. And this was the case. This is my Lacnosa Louisa silver. A lot of people that are into Hoyas will say like, oh, those two plants are exactly the same. I see you. People also say that about Anthurium too. So you have to have the eye for that genus to know the difference just off the bat. But you can see the silver leaves are more elongated than the mint coin. Obviously, the coin is more round, whereas these are longer. Also, the backs are a little bit different. They have those really nice painted backs, which the mint coin doesn't. It's just more of a solid color. So this one's really nice. I want it to keep growing. Oh, OK, this is the another Acha. This is the Takagon. I always can't say that name correctly. OK, so the leaves did get a little bit smaller at the top because it was closer to the grow light, I believe. I really liked the leaves down here because they were a bit bigger. And it is called the wavy Acha. And hopefully you can see that in the leaves. I also really love this plant. I'm having such a big Acha kick. Achas are my taste in Hoya to a T. I am more of a foliage gal. I think a lot of us know this. And the Achas are so special in my eyes anyway. I love them so much. This one. Let me cut off this dead tendril. It ain't doing much for us. And it already grew a new growth point down there. So this one can go bye bye. It's not time for a repot. Maybe I'll just stick a little support stake in it. This one's a little bit short, but better than nothing just to support it. And hopefully that'll make the vine push out more leaves. That one was an easy one. This is the oh, I always forget the ID of this one. I think this is a Rick Hoya. This one I wasn't crazy about off the bat, but now it's kind of growing on me. Look at the leaves. These are some of the newer leaves. So it gave me this wonderfully splashy leaf down here. And then these are what those leaves look like. They're not quite as textured as some of the other Hoya I showed you, but they still got a little bit of character there. And I do love the splash and they have really nice veins going through them like the raised veins. This one can probably go on like a little circle trellis just for some support. So a couple of comments about that video about my plant shelves. A lot of you guys said I should have done track lights instead. So I have huge vaulted ceilings. They're super tall, super, super tall. So I do have like a chandelier over the dining table, but that's it. It's just a really long hanging chandelier. So that's why I decided to put the grow lights on the dining table pointing towards the shelves because I don't have a low enough ceiling to do anything with. I did recently switch out the grow lights so they're no longer those blue ones. I got some Berena T5s, the yellow ones. And then I bought this connector on Etsy. I'll go ahead and either put a picture or put a picture of it on Etsy on the screen. And I think it looks way better than it did before. And now I just have the redecorating bug and I like really want to do this plant room next. I think I want to get rid of the Vitstove Ikea shelves. I know they're classic and iconic and everyone has them, but seeing how clean plant shelves on a wall are and how much like space it gives the room, I think because this room is not very big at all. I think it'll give this room so much space because these shelves do take up quite a bit of space. So if everything was just on a wall here, I think it look just so much cleaner. Open up the room a bit before I keep on yapping. This is what that one looks like. Again, I'll have to look up the name, but another really pretty Hoya. What system I want to get? I think I want to go through the container store and somebody linked and I actually also saw this video, I believe Alice from You Don't Even Grow Here. She put out her own plant shelf video and she did adjustable ones that were mounted to the wall and I believe hers were from Ikea and I was intrigued by the idea of adjustable shelves. I think it's really handy, especially as plants grow up and everything. So I was looking around for a couple of other choices to do that and I found one through the container store. It's called the Alpha shelving system and then they have a one called Decor Plus and I think right now during the summer they're on sale. So maybe in August, that's probably the direction I'm going to go in. They are pricey. The Decor Plus line is definitely pricier. They have like a Decor Classic line and it's about half the price. But I really like how the Decor Plus has these covers that cover the notches to make the shelves adjustable. Again, I'm all about more of a clean look. I'm probably going to go in that direction and just get rid of these Ikea shelves and put those container store adjustable shelves on this wall eventually, maybe come August. I want to space out my decor projects because they're not exactly cheap to accomplish either. And then I will definitely do track lights, probably the Soltech track lights in this room since this ceiling is a plain old ceiling and it looks so nice because again, nothing against the Ikea shelves. They're classics for a reason, but this room is just too small. I think those wall shelves will take it to the next level. You know what I'm saying? Those are just my thoughts on the next decor project. So this is actually the newest Hoya that I have. I don't think I showed this one because I acquired it after April. This is the, is this the most expensive Hoya? Yeah, because I generally tend to spend under a hundred bucks on Hoyas and this was over a hundred bucks. This Hoya is fantastic. So this is a Gaia Loose and it's a specific variety of it. It's called the Ribbed Pillow. Can you see that? There we go. That's what it's called. Look at these leaves. I hope the camera is going to do it justice because sometimes it doesn't. If you don't get the textural experience of these, like I've never seen so many dimples on a Hoya leaf before. It is fantastic. And it's coming out with a new one. Okay. You can kind of see it in this light and you see all those dimples. It's fantastic. And again, it's another Acha. It just is wow, wow, wow, wow. I can see why it's also called a pillow. It's very round and the dimples do make it pillowy. I just think it's so good. It's in Coco Husk right now. The roots look really good. I'm not going to touch it. I'm just going to let the vine grow as is. I just wanted to share that with you. We're actually making our way through these Hoya in a good pace. When I had all the Hoya in front of me, I'm like, this is going to take forever, but we're actually over halfway now. So that's fantastic. Okay. I didn't see this one because it was growing in and amongst all the other Hoya, but this is the Sulawesiana. I didn't know that it grew this much. You see this? It's one vine, but it is huge. Look at all those. I love this Hoya so much. So, so much. Those leaves are huge. They're massive. Like this is my hand and this is one of the leaves. It's bigger than my hand. It's going to look fantastic on a hoop trellis. I already know that's what I'm going to do. What size shall we go for? I think this is way too small. I think I'm going to get out the big guns. Oh, this is from Bashma, by the way, your happy plant. Oh, this one actually peeled off easily. I have such a hard time peeling these. You know what I was looking through just the other day? I was looking through my statistics on YouTube. I tried to not do it too much because you can really fall down a hole when you do that. But I saw what devices people watch me on and I was horrified, horrified to see that the majority of people watch me on their TVs. Just the inner shy person in me just like shriveled when I saw that. I think it's 40 percent of the people that watch me watch me on their TVs, which is almost half, which is insane to me. Oh, I just pull. See, I got the chill again. I just I am an introvert at heart. If you also don't know, I stutter. You can't tell in my videos because I edit it out for your viewing convenience. But because in my mind, it brings back like the public speaking fear in me. And I mean, you're on a flat screen TV most likely, and anybody in the household can come in and watch me talk. And that's just horrifying to me. I don't even want to think about more than one person watching that screen at a time. You know, the inner introvert in me is like dying slowly. But, you know, you guys watch me, however you do you. I watch YouTube personally on my computer, usually lay up in bed, get a cue going, and I just watch YouTube basically until I fall asleep. Sometimes actually really helps me to fall asleep. I'm so shocked that most people watch me on TV. I think the second most popular was on their phone, which I don't really watch YouTube videos on my phone unless I'm like on the go somewhere. But yeah, that's interesting. I really didn't think that TV would be number one. Please don't tell me that you watch me on a TV. Just spare me that fact. Putting a trellis in a pot after the fact is one of like the most painful things to do, especially when it's in pond because you're just trying to shove it against rocks essentially. Okay, let me do something cute. I got some cute butterfly clips I want to use. Oh, this was a direct transfer label printer. You know how I know that? Can't even read the name anymore. Oh, well, I'm still going to stick it in. That's what she said. Well, that actually didn't make sense. Never mind. Okay, moving along. Let's do a pup date. I've been showing the pups a bit in the last couple of my upload, so I'm not going to go and track them down. And also they're so knocked out right now. We took him on a walk, pretty long walk, and they're very much asleep. We have decided that we're going to board and train Simba just like we did with Luca when he was around his age, except we're going to do it for four weeks. We decided instead of two weeks. And that kind of hurts my heart a little bit for us to not have him for a month while the dog trainer works with him. But we did two weeks with Luca, and I just don't think it was quite enough. Don't get me wrong. He learned all his commands and all of that. But I think if it were the full month, would have really helped him in a way more. So we're going to put our selfish desires aside and think about what's best for the puppy in the long run. And I think it is just a longer, more immersive board and train. We are also going to go with a new dog trainer compared to our last time, not because anything against her. This guy just seems like he has a lot more experience with reactive dogs and dogs that have behavioral issues, which will help us in two ways, actually. So hold on. This is what the Sua Luciana looks like. Again, leaves are kind of going all which way, but it'll look so nice if it just keeps on pushing out more leaves and we'll get like a wreath that will look cute in the future. Not so much right now. This is my boy. It finally pushed a leaf. I'm shocked that it decided to make this one form because all of them died off at this point. And we do have a new tendril going. This is in the grow tent now, and it seems to be doing fine. So we're just going to leave it be. Let's move on to this is the AH three zeros one. We got more leaves, I think, since the last time. I do really love the foliage and the splash pattern on this one. It's just growing a little bit clustered and wonky because we also have a lot of growth. Oh, that's a new leaf. Yeah, this one's really soft. This one down here that I'm moving, this one's a brand new leaf. It looks fantastic. So definitely needs to go on a trellis. I think we're going to do like a shorter one, though, since it's kind of clumpy. OK, so we're trying out a new dog trainer for boarding care, specifically one that has more experience with behavioral stuff, because, well, Simba is just he's such a sweet dog, super loving, but he's very, very sensitive. He's the complete opposite of Luca. Luca's a tough as nails dog. He's very resilient. Simba, on the other hand, is such a softy. And we love that about him. But also it's like he's scared of everything right now. Our big thing with Simba is he is terrified of car rides, which I think kind of started because we were only taking him to the vet to get his shots initially. And so now every time he's in a car, I think he just assumes we're going to the vet, although he did a good job at the vet. It's not like it was like a traumatizing experience. I just think he connects going into the car with negative, not fun things. I'm going to straight up say that he pees himself whenever he gets in the car, which is really sad. Never had that experience with Luca. We thought it was just puppy car sickness because that is like a common thing. He gets car sick because he's so anxious, like he starts panting a lot and drooling. And then if the car ride is long enough, he will actually throw up in the car on top of peeing himself in the beginning. And it's just a very stressful experience for him. So we're kind of hoping maybe he'll overcome it in the board and train because the dog trainers do take him out and about in cars a lot. Also, if it is persistent, we might have to go to the vet for antiemetics and anything that will help calm him down. So if you guys have had dogs that are really anxious in cars or get car sick, any tips would be appreciated with him. We've just been doing really short car rides and it's still super sad because he still pees himself and he still gets anxious. We kind of feel bad doing it. But at the same time, it's like we're hoping that one of these times it'll click and he'll just realize it's not that scary. And he's scared of everything. That's another thing. Just barks at every everything. Planes, people talking that are walking by, loud cars. And he's a great Pyrenees. We do understand part of it is just the breed. And we're not against him barking. We just kind of want him to not be so scared of everything. So that's just Simba right now. And this is the AH0001. Next plant, I'm on the fence on what I want to do. This is my Madeira Green Edge. Let me show you the prop leaves since that's what it's supposed to look like. And as you can tell, it mostly reverted. You get the barest, the littlest hint of variegation in the leaves. I think this is probably the most variegated leaf I got out of it. Initially, the vine down here, you can see was variegated. You see like all the pink lines in it. But now it's getting, it's getting less and less at the top. So I think I want to chop it back and restart it. I might take a cutting of these two leaves because sometimes they'll push out more variegation. You never know. But aside from these two leaves, yeah, I think I'm just going to cut it back because I don't think this many leaves and it's going to improve. Unfortunately, a lot is just the joy and variegated plants. Now, while I'm doing this, let's let's talk about Luca, our firstborn, our problem, problem child. This is something that I haven't really discussed too much on the channel because I think part of me was a little bit ashamed, to be honest, because it in a way still makes me feel like a bad dog parent. And then there's the other hand of it where I decided that I'm going to talk about it now just because there are so many dogs out there with behavioral problems, with reactivity, with aggression, that I think the more that people talk about it, it will stop kind of being so taboo because just like people do have problems behaving sometimes. And it could be genetics. It could be the environment that they grew up in, because the thing about Luca is here's the cutting. I'll go ahead and pop that. This is the bottom cut. So I'm hoping that leaves will grow out of the bottom prop. But we'll see. The thing about Luca is we got him when he was like about five months old. So that's a little bit of an older puppy. And we knew off the bat that whatever was going on with him before was not good. He one thing in particular, we noticed he was really terrified of men, especially whenever a man would pet him or his arm would go above him, he would flinch. We have a good idea about what happened in that household for him to be so scared of men. There was like a whole life, right? We don't really know what happened, but we can guess like not that many great things happened. And so we were just hoping that with the proper training, he would just kind of grow out of it and become like a perfect dog. And I think the thing that I'm coming around to with the help of my therapist, by the way, is that your dog doesn't have to be perfectly trained and no behavioral problems, completely obedient and calm and able to go into big crowds and be around other dogs and be an angel. Your dog doesn't have to be a perfect dog to have a good life, if that makes sense. Even if you can't take them out to certain places, even if you can't do certain activities because you know that that is going to cause some issues potentially for your dog or for other dogs, that doesn't mean that you're a bad dog parent. That doesn't mean that they're bad dogs, obviously, too. The thought that I'm coming around to is that that is just probably going to be Luca. We got him under adverse circumstances and we gave him all the love and all of the resources to be the best boy that he can be. And he will still have a great life and be loved. He just can't have the freedom that maybe certain other dogs of other breeds or temperament can have. And mind you, he's half husky, so it's very common for a lot of huskies to not be trusted off leash anyway. And we have had instances of off leash occurrences for that to be a thing that is something that we will not do with him into the future. We just can't have him off leash around other dogs. That is a hard rule in this household now. So this last month or two, I've been just growing more comfortable with the idea that this like perfect dog that I had in my head that we can, you know, take him out to restaurants, all that kind of stuff, is just that's just not what Luca is and that we will just have to adjust expectations. And that is okay. Yeah, sorry, I didn't mean to go off on a tangent there, but I would share that with you guys on the off chance that maybe you do have dogs that you can't take out and about too, that it can be somewhat more normalized, that your dog doesn't have to be perfect, you know. But anyway, back to the Hoyas. So this is the last Hoya that I want to tackle. This is my splashy variegated Obobata. It's grown even more since the last time you saw it, because I think it had like these sets of leaves. But then now it has these two. These are less splashy because it grew on the back of the shelves out of the grow light and these were directly under the grow light. And then we also got some really nice round leaves on the variegated portion, although the variegation is a little bit lower, but they're nice and round. I've been keeping this one. Oh, excuse me. I've been keeping this one very well watered and we have some roots growing out the bottom. So we're going to put it in a semi hydro situation since I think that's what's going to be best for the plant. Probably something like this. So give it a little bit of an upsize to these last few months have been very interesting. I've been dealing with some very not fun realizations behind the scenes, but that's just what it is. It is what it is. Aside from that, the dogs are happy and healthy and that's all that matters. That's really all that matters. You can do your best with training. It's kind of like kids in that respect. You can try to be the most perfect parent to your child and you can only control what you do so much. You can't control your child or your dog. They're they're going to have their own mind and they're going to do what they're going to do. And that's really hard. That is a hard pill to swallow. You can only do so much for somebody that you love so much. Okay, let's just maybe adjust it this way. I will say that having dogs has been like the perfect tiny prequel appetizer. I'm sure it's vastly different. You don't have to tell me to having kids down the road definitely taught us a lot of things and just kind of how Cody and I will be what that dynamic will be like. Needless to say, I didn't know that I always wanted kids. I think I've been growing more open to the idea this last year. But if you were to ask me in my late 20s, I was very very on the fence of like having children. And I think most of that stemmed to the fact that I felt so powerless in how the world was going. You know, I just didn't like the way that the world was going. I didn't know where we would be as a people because I saw all of the bad and just the fact that I couldn't guarantee my kids the life that I had. I thought that all of the generations after me were just going to have it a lot harder. So why even put a kid of mine through that? Totally where my mindset was at. Oh wait, I should I should have gone. This should have happened before. Can't talk and do things at the same time. I don't think this will be a permanent trellis situation. I just don't want to go downstairs and grab another hoop trellis. So this will have to do. What was I saying? Part of a lot of my hesitation of wanting to have kids back then was, oh, well, the world is going to be horrible. It already is horrible right now. So, you know, like why add another life to that? Even though I think now if I was being honest with myself, I do want to be a mother. I want to have that experience in my life. And I think by me telling myself that I don't want kids was just a way of me controlling the situation, like trying to control the world, even though that sounds ridiculous. My way thinking if I don't have kids, well, maybe that will help the world in some kind of way, which is very comical seeing how I'm like one puny person in this planet. So that, of course, was not going to change anything. Back in the day, I had a hard time accepting that I can't control a lot of these things. And now this last year, I've kind of slowly come to the realization that the only thing I can control in the matter is like how I would raise my child. And just the fact that if you do the best that you can, that it doesn't matter what the world is going to be. You will have done your job to the best of your ability and give that kid the most. Either way, you know, it is what it is and it will be what it will be. That's just kind of where my head has been at lately. I mean, I think this would have definitely look cuter on a hoop trellis. I'm not a fan that leaves are pointing inwards either, but you can kind of get the feel of it. Again, very temporary as it's pretty much to the top already. I just want to make it a little bit more compact and not as laid out. Let me bring all of the Hoya that I did back on the table and we will wrap up this Just when I think I don't have that many Hoyas, I'm getting better. I see this. Who said that Hoyas don't grow that big? Oh boy. Yeah, these are all the Hoyas that we tackled today. They look much better. Still a Hoya forest, but a little bit more managed, a little bit more tamed, which is the whole goal of today. I just wanted to tame back all of the Unfortunately, I think I will have to move this tray like out onto the floor since it's a little bit too tall for the bottom shelf. Other than that, no biggie. All of these need to be watered for sure. So I'm going to do that after the video ends. So I just wanted to wrap up the video and say that I hope you enjoyed and that you have a wonderful day and I will see you in the next one. Bye.