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title: "Tragedy! My Hoya Elliptica blasted its flower buds last night!…"
description: "Tragedy! My Hoya Elliptica blasted its flower buds last night! Why????😫 It looked fine yesterday with one bud starting to open. The second peduncle looks like…"
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community: "Hoya Hoarders"
author: "Sunny"
published: "2024-06-23T13:48:04.082355Z"
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# Tragedy! My Hoya Elliptica blasted its flower buds last night!…

_Posted by Sunny on 2024-06-23_

Tragedy! My Hoya Elliptica blasted its flower buds last night! Why????😫  
It looked fine yesterday with one bud starting to open. The second peduncle looks like it will drop flower buds too! Some are turning yellow!😭

I fertilized it 3 days ago. I typically fertilize it every 2 weeks with 50% diluted fertilizer and SuperThrive. There are no watering issues. The soil is almost dry with some light moisture at the very bottom of the pot. No signs of root rot.

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## 6 comments

### Sunny commented on 2024-06-23

No big temperature jumps. I brought it inside at 8am on Friday to check for mites and aphids plus take a picture. Kept it inside less than 20 minutes. Only 5°F degrees difference between outside and inside air temperatures. It’s not getting excess sunlight. I don’t know the cause. 😞

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### Mullein commented on 2024-06-23

😭 I’m too much of a Hoya noob to know why, but it’s always sad to lose a peduncle

### Amy Morgan Grace commented on 2024-06-24

Hi Sunny,

If it’s her first bloom, it’s common for them to blast.  
Don’t be discouraged, you’re doing everything right💚

#### Sunny replied on 2024-06-24

Thanks so much for the info, Amy. I will not stress about it anymore. I was just trying to figure out the cause to avoid repeating an error.

### Whitt commented on 2024-06-29

Hi sunny. I have a sigillatus that blasts when/if I water it too much before flowering. Not sure if that helps. But when reading through your post you said you fertilized three days before flowering/blast. It may been because of that-I’ve read in various places some don’t like wet feet when flowering. 🤷‍♀️ it still remains a mystery to me too. I have a 10 year old Hoya that flowers regardless of water status and rarely blasts.

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#### Sunny replied on 2024-06-29

It could be excess water. We had a sudden thunderstorm that dumped a lot of rain in a short period. It didn’t affect the other blooming hoyas. The elliptica maybe sensitive to overwatering. Thanks for the info.

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