Nepenthes cuttings

Ctcreel@top.cis.syr.edu
Mon, 25 Oct 93 16:23:39 EDT

I have a question for y'all. I need to start wacking back
some of my Nepenthes plants 'cause they're getting unruly
and I would like some more basal growth. I would like to
try and root the cuttings (it just seems like a waist
otherwise)
I have a few book telling me how to air-layer, ground layer,
cut 'em and stick 'em in sphagnum etc... But for every
other plant I have ever had that I wanted to propogate,
I just snip off enough material for a viable cutting and
simply drop it in water. All those other techniques just
seem cumbersome and bothersome.
I have already done this with my N.gracilis and it is still
alive, but I don't know if it'll root. I wanted to get some
opinions before I try this with my finer specimans.

Christopher Creel
Computational Neuroscience
Computer & Information Science
Syracuse University