Carnivorous Plants - Nepenthes Stem Cutting Propagation
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- I thought I would share my technique for taking Nepenthes stem cuttings. Its not rocket science and is mostly based on methods adapted from other videos. The main difference is the use of perlite as the rooting medium.
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excellent tutorial and i'll remember the technique in about 10 years when my tiny baby beginner Neps are big enough to offer cuttings. 😂
Can’t wait to try this
I put mine in perlite in small propagated box with light and it worked very good and very fast to grow
Do you heat the propagator? During the summer I put my cutting in perlite in pots in a propagator in indirect sun in the greenhouse. In winter sometimes I just have them in a tray on a windowsill, not even bagged for additional humidity. Our house is not the warmest so I have wondered whether bottom heating would help speed up rooting. They do still mostly root but it can take a while. I potted up only yesterday some cutting taken in June this year, some had masses of roots others not so many, all had good strong growths though.
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Awesome, thank you!
Perlite is cheaper. I use 2 parts spaghnum 1 part perlite and it works as a medium so I never need to untangle roots ❤
That will probably work as well. I don't have a ready supply of spaghnum but I have plenty of perlite for general potting mix. I buy it by the 100 litre bag I get through so much.
@@davidb5255 it's all inert so it shouldn't be a big matter. I was just saying if you mix sphag w perlite it's easier to untangle roots and stretched the spahg. You can dry out your sphagnum and keep it to reuse. To expesive to keep buying it imo
Do upper cuttings form lower pitchers?
As far as I can tell yes, albeit the Nepenthes I tend to do this on don't have a massive difference in lower and upper pitcher characteristics other than the lower ones are usually a bit smaller. I've seen comments that suggest the lower vs upper pitcher difference is to do with the prey they might attract, the lower ones maybe taking more crawling insects than upper. If that's true then I would guess the biology which triggers the change is controlled by chemicals which vary with the distance from the roots. Therefore once rooted a cutting taken from the top will produce the same pitchers as one from the bottom of a vine.
Your potting mix has me intrigued! I'm going to try it myself. Have you tried transplanting an established plant into it? If so, how did it take to the new medium? I'm about to attempt my first cutting propagation. I've removed and rooted basals before. My unknown to me nepenthes is getting too big for its space, so I'm trying propagation
The 4:4:4:2 bark:moss:perlite:peat mix is what I use for all my Nepenthes and so far its been successful. I think I might have one Nepenthes still in pure sphagnum moss but that's only because that is what I used to use at the start and I've not got around to repotting it. IIRC I either found the mix on a forum or adapted several other suggestions. I like it because its nice and open and well draining but also does retain a reasonable amount of moisture. Compared to pure sphagnum it does not seem to turn into a wet and soggy sludge at the bottom of the pot. Nepenthes don't like to be too wet unlike Sarracenias.
I've mostly used it for potting on rooted cutting from the pure perlite but I have also used it to repot several well established plants and they seem to do very well in it. I've not had to repot any plants due to the compost going stale.
I potted up a bassal cutting I took from mothers Bloody Mary into it today which I first root in the pure perlite. Oh and the cuttings I took in the video are just starting to show signs of bud growth from the leaf joint, althought from my experience they will have few to no actual roots at this stage.
Good luck with your cuttings, give them plenty of time to initially root before repotting, I wait until the new growth from the bud is a decent size otherwise the roots tend to be very fine and easily damaged.
@@davidb5255 thank you for all the info!! I'm definitely going to be mixing some up
@@davidb5255 what about mother plant? Does it give some new steams between the leaves?
@@hanabimankai6381 from my experience the parent plant trends to shoot out new growth from low down, either from buds between the leaf nodes of previously cut down stems or from below the compost. Long stems which I have shortened will shoot out higher but only if the stem is green, when the stem becomes woody and brown it is less likely to reshoot. The 30cm stem left after that cutting in the video was taken had not as yet sent out new shoots as it's old and woody but ones I've taken which were green and fresh did. I'll probably cut that old stem right back now.
To be honest I only cut off the vining stems to propagate when the parent has sent out a new fresh growth. Sort of resets the growing height of my plant as otherwise they can vine stems well over 1 or 2 metres which can get a bit out of hand on a windowsill.