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Cuttings Progression

  • Thread starter Millipede
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i took cuttings from my (girlfriends) nepenthe and thought id share the progress with the rest of you. im interested in seeing pictures of other peoples cuttings and progression pics too. i will be posting more as mine come along. right now they are about three weeks old.

mother plant
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the cuttings setup
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close-ups
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so far all of the cuttings have at least two nodes each like the two above. including the mother plant. :-D
 
awesome plants. I am glad that those cuttings are doing well for you. If you ever have any extra, let me know.
 
Very nice. I don't see a picture of the mother plant, though. I'll glady share a picture of my N. bongso cutting when I take pictures later.

Edit: That's a nice ventricosa/ventrata.
 
Here's my current batch of cuttings and seedlings. Hopefully, these will be ready soon.
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Its began to grow after I left.
 
ahh.. the mother plant is the very first pic at the top. i couldnt find a pic of it before i cut it (i know i have one somewhere) but you can see the old stem and the two basals it made. (its a ventricosa btw) it was about two feet long when i chopped it down. my girlfriend is still mad at me :blush: ??? oh well. it should look back to normal in about a year... and she might not be mad at me anymore. women... :crazy:

those are all very nice plants btw... how can i get my seedlings to grow faster?
 
How interesting... So you just dice up the Neps and shove them in a nice growing media? And the mother plant will split off a new stem kinda... sideways?

I picked up some "Olivia's Cloning Gel" recently to give it a try, but I just feel so bad about chopchoping my Nep, heh.
 
so heres what they look like 1 month later:
these are pics of the third one down on my OP
(do they normally take this long to grow?)

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Here is my current propagation tray. I think I started it about 7 months ago, and probably 10 plants have been plucked from it already for trades and such.
Andrew

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edit: here is a picture from back close to when I started it. I added some more after that photo though.


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  • #10
thats cool. is that just moss and perlite? whats the really big leaf in the top photo?
 
  • #11
im going to guess thats a miranda cutting Millipede
I have currently, as far as cuttings that ive rooted in the past few months,
N. xPredator
N. ventricosa x angasanensis
N. copelandii
and ive rooted a few others like ventricosa or ventrata.....
 
  • #12
Yes, LFS and perlite, the cuttings are dipped in rooting hormone as well. That cutting is a N. rafflensiana.

Andrew
 
  • #13
oh wow my eyes are failing me....
looked like a miranda for some reason **shrug**
 
  • #14
Out of curiousity Andy, I was wondering why the moss on top of the perlite?

I have a similar tub using just perlite...

just curious :)

-Chris
 
  • #15
It's not moss on perlite... It's a 50:50 mix of perlite/LFS just like I use for most of my Neps :)

Andrew
 
  • #16
i wish i could look at the roots and see how they are progressing.. could anyone describe this to me or post pics? i dont want to disturb mine but i really want to know
 
  • #17
When the roots 1st start to emerge, they look like this:
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Then when they're ready to transplant they look like this:
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and if you forget to transplant them, they look like this:
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Is that what you wanted?
 
  • #18
exactly! thanks srduggins! :) how long did that take?
 
  • #19
I'm guessing it was something like 1 month, 3 months, 1 year.
 
  • #20
here are the same cuttings one year later! :-D

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