Rooting 'Predator'

[Pyro]

Anyone have experience rooting a 'Predator' cutting? Just curius how easy/difficult it may be.

And before anyone asks the answer is "No"

 

[Dave S.]

I was given a small basal cutting of N. 'Predator' a couple of months ago, and there is no sign it has rooted yet. It is still green, but there has been no leaf growth. I would have expected at least some growth by now, so I would not classify it as easy just yet.

I have it in a cool terrarium with 80%+ humidity under 4 tubes of cool white T8 bulbs. I am attempting to root it using LFS.

 

[Jefforever]

Wow! You got one?

 

[seedjar]

I don't know about x. 'Predator' in particular, but if it's anything like hamata, it could take a long time - I've heard of hamata cuttings returning to normal growth and pitchering before putting down any roots at all. Hopefully the truncata will speed things along, but I don't know much about propagating truncata.
~Joe

 

[rattler]

ive been told hamata is fairly easy to root and truncata is difficult............maybe 'Predator' splits the difference

 

[elarwhis]

I should think that the whole "hybrid vigour" thing would help somewhat.

 

[JMurphy97]

Wow! You got one?

Um like yeah. who does not have a Predator?

 

[ChronoKiento]

Umm.. me... lol..

I don't think that many people have them.

 

[elgecko]

I have not rooted many nep cuttings as space keeps me growing very few.

N. ventrata - Super easy. Maybe 1 loss per 30 cuttings, quick rooting.
N. hamata - I'd say intermediate rooting. More losses, maybe something like 3 or 4 per 10 and very slow to root.

For N. ventrata I always did 2 node cuttings. I was also trying to get more cuttings of the N hamata and only made 1 node cuttings. I have not had to cut the N. hamata again, maybe another year and a half or so, but I will try some 2 node cuttings to see if that makes any difference.

 

[JMurphy97]

Umm.. me... lol..

I don't think that many people have them.

Yea I was joking. There are no places that have them. I got mine from the auction. I dropped like 105 but what's the chances of getting one here anytime soon?

 

[Jefforever]

Where do you get them?

 

[ChronoKiento]

Don't bug him about where he got them. I'm thinking that's the sort of thing he meant by the "Before anyone asks, the answer is "No."" comment.

 

[dlybrand]

Nah, he meant 'No' to 'Can I have one of your cuttings?'

Predator isn't available from anybody except Exotica now, although I'm sure it will come back in stock in the US eventually.

 

[ChronoKiento]

"the sort of thing"

That counts under that category.

 

[Pyro]

Nah, he meant 'No' to 'Can I have one of your cuttings?'

Just so