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reducing plant collection // multiple genera hi hoya lovers! i’ve seen a lot of posts from “plant influencers” recently about reducing their personal collections, so it’s inspired me to reflect on which plants bring me the most joy, & which i could potentially remove from my collection. recently (last year or so) i’ve really enjoyed growing hoyas, they’ve become my favourite genus, & approximately half of my collection. i am contemplating changing the direction of my collection to be primarily hoya, & i am wondering if you enjoy keeping multiple genera, or if you’re happy with just hoyas! thanks!

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  1. Tara 🪴👶🏻

    If I had to downsize I would lose my alocasias and calatheas…they’re drama queens and it drives me nuts when I get a blemish on a leaf. I would keep my tiny dancer alocasia maybe…lol…she’s alright!

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    • Mullein

      Yeah, it’s nice to be free of the drama queens. When I moved, I let go of a lot of long-time sufferers that I had been trying in vain to bring back to health. It was hard and I felt guilty, but it really really helped the moving process, settling into my new space, and feeling like my collection as a whole was healthy. I had an alocasia flying squid for a very brief window of time lol. Very cool plant, but being one of the smallest alocasia (possibly THE smallest), it really needed more care than anyone can realistically provide 😂

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    • ashten

      alocasias and calatheas? never heard of them! lol just kidding, but they’re too fussy for me. plus i tend to lean towards underwatering, so not a great combination.

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  2. Women are Water

    I love my Hoya. I have 160+ plants and 1/3 are Hoya. Which is a good chunk of my collection. However I don’t think I would be able to give up my monsteras, philodendrons, dieffenbachia or calathea. Many of which I’ve been growing since before Hoya came back in fashion. I’d probably cry. 😂

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    • ashten

      haha when i think of my collection, i’m holding out for about 10 cacti/euphorbia/succulents, around 5 philodendron & a couple of monsteras (plus a few stragglers i can’t think of). differnbachia and calathea don’t bring me any joy unfortunately, especially calathea 🫣…

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  3. ToPlantHarmony

    About half of my plants are snake plants which I love because they’re easy and fun to look at without needing much from me. So although I have 60-70 plants, I am only spending time on less than half of them. The rest of my collection are primarily philodendrons, peperomias or marantas/calatheas, which are about easy-medium difficulty for me. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with reducing your collection to plants that you love, and that love you back 😂. I definitely wouldn’t want to have a large collection of challenging plants, but the type of plants that are easy vs. challenging will differ from person to person.

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    • Mullein

      Snake plants are underrated! There’s some really cool ones and they’re still so undemanding

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    • ashten

      i only have a sanseveria sayuri, forgive me if it’s now reclassified, i’m not a snake plant girl. & i do love how laid back it is, plus since they’re large very quickly, they’re nice for decor and taking up bigger spaces!

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  4. Mullein

    Hoyas are my side piece 😂 Most of my collection is philodendrons. I also like other fast and/or showy growers like monstera, epipremnum, and tradescantia. But I also dabble in succulents and semi-succulents. I have been strongly requesting to not get into cactus by my partner 😅 But yeah, I’m fascinated with Hoya, I love their shapes and textures. But I feel like I haven’t been successful enough with the ones I have to spend on the uncommon Hoyas that have caught my eye. If I can’t make a mature plant happy, dropping $25+ on a cutting doesn’t seem wise at all lol. I hope to get into them more some day. And also mini orchids. One local green house has the COOLEST tiny orchids with flowers smaller than your pinky nail. But I don’t want to spend ~$60 on one just to watch it die 🥲

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    • ashten

      i’ve found hoya are a nice transition plant from succulents/cacti to leafy tropicals, or vice versa. i started with succulents/cacti, and that’s all i knew. i tried some pothos/philodendron, but i ended up falling in love with the hoya mathilde, which got me into hoyas. if you’re not confident about hoya watering, which is probably the primary cause of hoya death, i’d recommend checking out some videos on different hoya substrates. get a carnosa variety, maybe krimson queen/princess, or even mathilde, and grow it in a substrate that you’re comfortable with. drainage is key, but if you’re known to overwater, you could use a terracotta pot. i grew in leca for the first time with one of my hoya mathildes, and it ended up turning out fine, just a small learning curve at first!

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