Heatpacks, 100% peat Free, Black Friday Sale & More.

Temperatures have dropped considerably, making shipping tropical plants more complicated. Therefore, online inventory will change. Varieties I know are difficult to ship during the winter will not be in stock. Anything is possible upon request. Temperatures vary greatly within Europe, so sometimes something is possible.

I still have a new box full of heat packs. I'll add them to the webshop for a nominal fee of €0.01. I'm not a huge fan of these things myself. I feel like they sometimes do more harm than good. For shipments longer than 72 hours, they're definitely pointless, unless they're going to one of the warmer regions. If you want to use them, add the product to your shopping cart.

Another important point is how wet the pots are. In colder temperatures, I prefer to ship them as dry as possible. Unfortunately, I don't always have enough of the same type in stock to select the driest, yet also the most beautiful pot. Therefore, it may be necessary to postpone shipping by a week. This gives the pot a chance to dry out sufficiently.

Black Friday is coming up soon. Or has it been going on for a while? I sometimes lose track. Friday, November 28th: ​​50% off, NO CODE NEEDED 24:00 hour sharp the discount will be applied across the entire website.

November 24th to 27th: 30% off (...same story)

I'm going to try to start restocking tomorrow. I'll also be working on it over the weekend. If you're smart, you'll wait to order until Monday or Friday. Although some of the items I don't have much of might run out by then. And if a lot of orders come in, I might not be able to pack everything in time. In that case, shipping might take place on Wednesday, or the following week.

These will be the last few weeks to be able to order. I expect there won't be much left in stock after the sale. This will allow the plants to continue growing well. And I'll have time to take a break.

New soil, 100% peat-free. The first pots have already shipped. I couldn't find it quickly, but I thought I'd already mentioned it in an earlier blog post. Peat is somewhat of a controversial product, but it's still widely used in cultivation. And for good reason. If you want beautiful plants, good soil is crucial. And peat is fantastic for this.

Because I work with a greenhouse that does everything as environmentally responsible as possible. And they've made the switch to a different soil type. This change is the easiest for me to follow. Going back to peat would even be more expensive because it has to be purchased specifically for me.

I'm therefore very curious about your future experiences with the new peat-free soil. My experience so far is that almost all the Hoyas I've taken cuttings grow just as well on it. I feel like they dry out a bit faster. It does absorb water much more easily than peat once it's completely dried out. Which is a big advantage.

Propagating Hoyas with thin, fragile stems is a challenge. Peat was easy to prick. But the new soil is quite coarse. So I often have to pre-prick it with a stick. That makes it take twice as long. For this reason alone, I'd like to go back to peat. Next year I'll reconsider which soil type I want to use.

You might receive the pot with the new soil soon, but it might be a bit difficult to distinguish. There's also a small batch of peat soil that was cut in transparent pots. It's definitely in a transparent planter, not the gray one. I don't have much of that left. Some Hoyas form veritable teepees on the table. When this happens, and I don't have much time, I have to resort to scissors to free a few pots for sale. Even if I try to separate them, there's a good chance they'll still break. Or they'll eventually die during shipping. The young shoots are often the most sensitive.

I hardly ever get questions about it. But if you're wondering, why is the top missing? Then it was probably tangled up in a bunch of other plants. And constantly separating them isn't helpful. The next day they'll just be back together. At least they don't suffer from commitment issues, haha. I'll share a few photos; they're fun to see.