Hoya macgillivrayi - update

 

The Hoya macgillivrayi that I bought as compagny for the mac I already had, didn't look good
after a couple of weeks, it got black spots on two leaves and also looked dehydrated, so I was worried
that the roots were bad or some kind of nasty fungus found it's way into the plant.
I know that Hoya's can have all kind of spots on their leaves, but this spots looked wrong to me.
I made a picture but I am not sure if the spots are very visible, the dehydration is.
The one on the right is the mac that I already had.

I didn't hesitate for long,  took the  new mac out of the pot, repotted the old one in a smaller pot- so
he was on his own again- removed the sick looking leaves on the new one and made a cutting.
I put it in sphagnum,  in a separate little glass pot and when I looked at the roots on what was left of the mac, I thought that they looked a bit suspicious, but I liked to give it a try and put that also in a closed glass pot.
I left them there for weeks, and finally the cutting was rooted so I could remove most of the spagnum and put it in bark, and the other half, that was already rooted, looked also healthy.

This is the lower half of the mac,

and this is the now rooted cutting. I leave it in his little glass pot for another while, he likes his womb
a lot:-)

So my first plan- to give the old mac a bit of compagny- had failed.
But that little pigheaded old mac, that hadn't had a single grow since it came here, was soooo
very relieved that he was on his own again, that he started to grow!

You almost need a magnifier to see it, but there is a tiny little green spot in the middle of the pic,
next picture is a little later;

The next picture I took yesterday, he is still going!