Nepenthes basal shoots cuttings question

[power270lb]

Took 5 basals off the mother and put in long fibered sphagnum moss. Covered in a humidity bag and also applied rooting hormone. Should leave the bag on? Since that the mother plants pitchers are dying and the leaves are crisping up along the edges but the main stem is growing. Should I cover that as well to help it? I have a humidifier pumping all the time and my plants grow pretty vigorously. Also apologize but no idea what any of my species are.

Question #3

This nepenthes is 2 years old with a 7-8 foot vine and two other vines growing as well with another 3 that just sprouted. Plenty of basal shoots with 5-6" pitchers. The main vine is pretty out of control lol should I cut it? If I did what has the most success I've seen put in distilled water while others put in lfsm and cover. Thank you so much for the advice. I can cut the main vine and there's another almost 3 feet.

 

[Grey Moss]

Sounds like your method is fine for the basals. They should be treated exactly the same as any other type of cutting from a nep. I'd cut the vine if you can't manage it easily in your current growspace. I find once vines get long and start reaching above the growlights they almost never pitcher because conditions are not suitable up there. It'll also give you a lot of practice in rooting stem cuttings if you're interested in that.

 

[power270lb]

Sounds like your method is fine for the basals. They should be treated exactly the same as any other type of cutting from a nep. I'd cut the vine if you can't manage it easily in your current growspace. I find once vines get long and start reaching above the growlights they almost never pitcher because conditions are not suitable up there. It'll also give you a lot of practice in rooting stem cuttings if you're interested in that.

Thank you for the reply. I have the basic understanding but I've never cut a vine so any advice? 1 node 2 nodes for example? Attached pictures of the mother I was referring to. Ever since I cut the basals this has happened. Long time ago began flowering and was mail. Another forum people suggest cutting it because it was useless and it'd stink. When I did that the main stem stopped and all the energy went into the basals. Then right before cutting the stem began growing. Is this just shock? These pitchers were around for months and months I was surprised they hadn't decayed yet but as soon as I cut they began to. Anything I can do to help this plant? Also these pitchers opened well above the lights not arguing just saying lol.

 

[Grey Moss]

Every cutting needs at least one node for the growth point and a section of stem for the roots to emerge from. Portions from closer to the growth point seem to strike more readily while the bottom sections might need multiple nodes to guarentee strikes. Species with really densely packed internodes might end up being cut into cuttings containing several nodes just due it being impractical to made a single node cutting.

 

[power270lb]

Every cutting needs at least one node for the growth point and a section of stem for the roots to emerge from. Portions from closer to the growth point seem to strike more readily while the bottom sections might need multiple nodes to guarentee strikes. Species with really densely packed internodes might end up being cut into cuttings containing several nodes just due it being impractical to made a single node cutting.

These are turning black, anything I can do?

 

[moon-ring-1983]

I'm not sure what's happened to them as I rarely fail with cutting (as long its fresh stem cutting and quickly processed). But I remembered that long time ago (when I was new in this hoby) whenever I put nepenthes stem cutting in the bag I have lot of failures (turned black). I don't know if it's because accumulation of heat or lack airflow or molds or other factors.

I have high success rates with just put my cutting at outdoors with filtered sunshine (under white poly sheets) or indoors with good lights and good ventilation. These two are at outdoor with day humidity 40-70% and night humidity +90%.