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Stem cutting making uppers?

Last fall i chopped up the vine of my N Ramispina. It had been making uppers for months but it never flowered. The cutting I made from the tip is now putting out pitchers which I think are intermediate/uppers. Is this normal that a cutting would develop upper pitchers right away?

Here is the first pitcher that it opened since taking the cutting (the lower pitcher you see is from a separate growth point). It appears to be an intermediate pitcher, somewhat bent tendril that comes out from the side/back of the pitcher.

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The new pitcher that is developing has a sharply bent tendril that attaches directly at the rear.

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Yeah, if the tip you cut was at the stage where it makes intermediates or uppers, that cutting will just continue that. If a basal forms on that cutting however, it will produce lowers.
 
What nightsky said. Just a reminder, it'll start vining once it has rooted (since it's in the intermediate/upper pitcher stage).
 
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