Creepers

I am not sure if my hoya plant is happy or unhappy.  Either way, something is going on.  In the last three weeks, the plant has set forth six creepers—each of them reaching out for the walls or ceiling of my house.  Two of the creepers have twined into a single strand reaching nearly straight up.

Is the hoya attempting to escape?   Why this sudden growth at this time?  What has triggered the plant to grow so dramatically?  The only thing I have done of note in the last few weeks is switch from listening to Sirius XM to listening to my iPod throughout the day if I am home. Could that spur the hoya to grow?

Consider, this plant is no debutante.

I have had this slow-growing plant since the mid-1980s.  My hoya came from a start I took from a hoya my grandmother started growing in her house in East Helena in the 1940s.

Sometimes called a wax plant or wax flower, hoyas are native to the warm and tropical climates of Asia.  If my plant is reaching out for new ground, it will need to grasp at the planter for my Christmas cactus or cat palm.

For now, I am simply going to monitor the plant and hope it doesn’t come after me.

—Mitchell Hegman