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How to encourage blooms? 🌼

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  1. Dani

    I was legit googling this last night because mine never has bloomed after 5+ years. My takeaways were a grow light (as it’s in an east facing window) and Miracle-Gro Water Soluble Bloom Booster. Another option was to shock it into emergency blooming by stopping water for a period of time. I don’t know how well these things will work, but if you have it in a specific spot or a very specific length of time, I felt like Google was pretty helpful for me. It said it could take 5 to 7 years to bloom which was crazy.

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    • Gabrielle’s Jardin

      I truly feel like more light and fertilize with every watering did the trick for me! Most of my blooming Hoyas are under grow lights from Amazon. “Barrina T5 grow lights” they were surprisingly affordable and attach to under shelves or cabinets and have a normal yellow light color which I prefer to the colored lights.

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  2. Jonah

    More light (almost) never hurts. And some Hoyas just are not frequent bloomers. My Mathilde and multiflora bloom like crazy, and others have never made a peduncle in the same exact conditions and similar ages / sizes.

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