The El Choco abuse is real. 🙈

I actually never jumped on the leca bandwagon. Adjusting ph and roots growing outside the pot just didn't attract me. It was always organic mix with store bought soil and perlite, but now that I live in hot and humid environment, where I control the water, my mix has moss, bark, coco chunks, perlite and very little coco peat.

No one but you imparts so much information while keeping me stitches lol I love your channel!!!

Can you talk more about how to recognize scaring on a node and when to chop it off to promote more growth? Love ur videos

Thank you for your realness about watering on a schedule! 🎉🎉🎉

Top two things(there are several) that have deterred me from semi hydro: the mixing and balancing of nutrients and the flushing/algae growth

I love hearing everyones’ ideas and filtering out what I think might work for me. Right now most of mine are in homemade PON in self watering pots. They are drying out pretty rapidly in this very hot summer, but during cooler weather I find they are very easy to keep up with.

Love you. Love the channel. Love LECA. You’ll have to pry it out of my cold, dead hands! LECA has made my watering so much easier, and allows me to travel without stressing about my plants. I’m glad you found an approach that works for you!

Usually make my own with orchid bark potting soil and perlite. Now using stratum for rooting cuttings

Thank you for making me laugh and learn at the same time!

Thanks Miro, was just about to jump on Leca band wagon. Excellent point on water temps during winter.,💚

I love the wild look!!

Hello Mero from Puerto Rico!! 95% of my 45 Hoyas are in a reservoir of lecca and then Pon. My plants are truly enjoying the mix except for very few that don’t. I will suggest the pots with the indicators to make your life easier with watering.

I moved my whole hoya collection to diy pon this spring and my plants and I have both been loving it! I had a horrible time with soil mealybugs and with pon I can keep a close eye on those roots 👀☺️

Ermergerd I had to jump in here because I agree - vehemently - that semi-hydro is a LOT of work to set-up and maintain. I use a "chunky" mix for my hoyas now and they love it. I still have some plants in leca/pon and they're doing well, but nowadays I stay away from semi-hydro if I can.

I keep all my Hoyas in terracotta pots and use a mix of coco coir, coco husk, pine bark, perlite, worm castings, a little leca and charcoal.

I grow all my plants in cocopeat with pumice. (Some plants including bark) I stop using perlite in my mix, because it’s much lighter then soil. After a few months a lot of perlite is on top of the pot. And pumice stays nicely mixed in the soil mix.

I learned from you to use cocopeat, perlite and orchid bark. I have had nothing but success🙂

Thank you for your constant uploads, I love your videos!

I'm moving my hoya to pon substitute with self watering because I just can't keep on top of watering no matter the season because my house is so bloody dry. So far so good. My strategy has been to root cuttings in pon with a stratum middle layer with a view to selling the bottom cuts that are in a soil mix. The standing water has worked to raise the surrounding humidity by 10% which is a bonus.