Verdalia

Wax plant

Hoya carnosa

UncommonTrailingModerateSafe

A trailing plant. Prefers bright indirect light. Wants a fast-draining substrate. As a species it wants water about every 10 days. Not known to be toxic.

Wax plant: how often should you water it?

~10days between waterings

That’s the interval our references converge on for this species indoors: roughly every 10 days between waterings, adjusted for your light and your season.

What we do and don’t publish

Why we don’t give you a date.

We publish the interval this species usually wants. We don’t publish a date for your plant — nothing here measures it. The interval is a starting point you adjust from what you actually log.

Start trackingLog a watering, and the interval starts adjusting to your home.
Guidance is curated against general horticultural references including the RHS, the Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Finder, and university extension services. Each field is either published or left empty — never estimated.

Care cadences

WWaterEvery ~10 days
CClean leavesEvery ~45 days
FFertilizeEvery ~21 days
RRepotEvery ~730 days

Not established for this species: mist. We’d rather leave them empty than guess.

What’s known about this species

Light

ExposureBright indirect
Tolerates direct sunNo
Daily light target8 mol/m²/day

Environment

Ideal temperature23 °C
min 16 °Cmax 29 °C
Humidity4060% RH

Soil & pot

Drainagefast

Pot with drainage and a coarse, free-draining mix; likes being pot-bound. Do not remove old flower spurs (rebloom from them). Repot every 2-3 years.

Toxicity

SafePet-safe

Non-toxic to humans and pets per ASPCA.

A short profile, on purpose

2 of the fields we publish aren’t established for this species in the references we trust. Empty means unknown — not zero, and not a guess.

Suggest a correction

The species’ year

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GrowingDormantRepotFeed

A typical year for this species in a temperate northern home. It shifts with your light and your latitude — we don’t track your plant’s season, so treat this as rhythm, not schedule.

Keep this species honest in your own log.

Verdalia holds the interval, your log moves it. Free to start.

Start tracking

Verdalia publishes species guidance curated from horticultural references. It does not measure your plant — you log what you do, and the intervals adjust to what you log. Suggest a correction