This was an immensely helpful video. Wish all videos were like this, straight to the point showing every step of the process with explanations along the way. Excellent, thank you so much!
Thank you for the very clear instructions. I like to place my cuttings in clear soft drink bottles, (600ml/about 20 fluid ounces). Simply cut the top off the bottle, poke some drainage holes in the base, then use as a pot for your cuttings. The reason for using the plastic bottles instead of the usual pots is that you can see through the clear plastic of the bottle and see when your cuttings are making new roots. The roots being black show up really well against the light colored Sphagnum moss. Then you know you can re-pot the plant in it's own pot. (Smooth sided plastic bottles makes it easier to remove rooted cuttings than those with fancy patterns on them.)
that wood ystem piece actually works for another type of rooting method. Bury it below 1/2 cm of peat moss and long fiber sphagnum mix cover and provide full sun (the goal is high heat and humidity). It takes longer than usual cuttings but if you want a jeuvenile plant/s (same size as seedlings) this is the best route. I use them often to fill out terrariums and glass jars without them growing too large too fast. I also have had great luck with just tossing them in a plastic bag with wet perlite in low light as well for about a month. I have filled my house by rooting every piece I've cut off my nepenthes.
Every time you use that propane blowtorch, my mind screams "NOT NEAR THAT GORGEOUS PLANT!!!" Hard to get an idea of the angle from video, and I flinch. lol. Though clearly you've been doing this for a long time and they are your precious plant successes...
Does the Spagnum ever start growing over time? The reason I ask is that many dried moss will start growing after a while and green Spagnum looks really good below the plants.
When the growth points on the cuttings start sending out new leaves, does it "restart" with new lower pitchers or does it keep growing mid/upper pitchers? I'm especially curious about the very last tip cutting, since it seems you'd have upper pitchers growing straight from the base (which might be confusing for identification?). Wonderful and educational video btw!
Good question. Growth tip cuttings usually continue to produce intermediate/upper pitchers in my experience. Even re-activated nodes will often immediately start to "vine" rather than produce a new basal rosette. If we really want lower pitchers, we often have to wait for the cutting to produce a new basal after it has fully established itself as a vine.
Ive been avoiding propagating my only Nepenthes (they don't grow abundantly in the Arizona desert after all...) because I wasn't sure why or when my propagation methods worked, only that they mostly did lol but your video was super enlightening! Thank you for the quality information! I want more Nepenthes and now I'm finally going to try!
I make use of the woody stems as well for a more juvenile clone. The green stems will yield vigorous mature plants yet the stems will take longer and create more primordial pitchers and leaves. Its great if you want a create smaller more compact specimens that will take time before outgrowing the space you have available. It takes a while but if laid on their side with .5-1 cm of milled sphagnum mixed with peat and a little perlite covering it you can Sometimes get multiple growth tips to form from one woody stem.
If you're still looking for ideas for videos, maybe do one on winter dormancy? I know it's early, but I'm a beginner at growing plants and would appreciate more knowledge. Thanks for these videos though, they're really informative.
what do you do with the discarded sphagnum? Most of it still seems good. Do you reuse it? Compost it? Any specific process? A large nursery like yours will probably have a lot of sphagnum from such repotting.
I have a napenthis about 6” tall but already has two LARGE shoots. Both with quarter sized and dime sized pitchers. Should I follow the same guidelines?
I am in the step where my cuttings created roots and may be ready for their individual pots. After I pot them, do I have to keep them in a bag for humidity? Or can I start adapting it to their new spot?
Thank you for this step by step guide. Loved the explanation as you were going through the process. I have a question. I cannot see nodes on the smaller leaves on the top but see them on the lower and thicker stems. Is that normal?
I've gotten the 1st part right. Almost time to pot them individually. Do they need to be in moss the second time round or can I use a nepenthes mix (bark, moss and perlite)?
great video. this is totally different than another tutorial I saw ... I took cuttings and instead of putting them in moss, put them in water - amazing growth but I don't see roots after two months. Maybe I should transfer them to moss?
The main reason we do our cuttings in moss is that we can leave them there for a long time, since they're basically already planted up. Sometimes it takes a very long time (6+ months) for cuttings to strike, so don't give up hope. If you'd like you can transfer them to moss, but it still might be a wait. Also, sometimes cuttings just fail. Don't be discouraged though, that's why you always leave a basal in place!
Hi ive had my nepenthes for a year and it keeps throwing out a couple of new cups every couple of months so i thought it was healthy BUT I never got a vine! Will I get one soon? I want cuttings 😢
Hey so I tried propagating mine the same way you did but through lack of rooting I inspected the mother plant and noticed there are no nodes. Its large enough but I'm confused on why it has no nodes. Help please!
PredatoryPlants thanks this is my plant channel I ordered a large ventricosa from you guys on Amazon I will be expecting it somewhere around August 24th or the 29th I'm excited to see it
Question, once we have prepared everything how do we care for our pots with the newly planted cuttings? Where do we place them? Do they need some sunlight?
I would treat the cuttings like you would any cutting. Warmth, good humidity, bright light and airflow. Don't let the spagh become soaking wet or dry. Don't bother the cutting. Like checking it once a week hoping for growth. My expirence is within two months with no disturbance, you know when you'll be successful. Cause you get basil growth. If no growth, and things are dying and browning, yup total fail.
The cuttings need enough stored energy (sugar) to produce new roots and a growth-tip before they dehydrate or die. Large plants like Philodendron can be cut into single-node pieces because their stems can hold a lot more sugar/water.
@@PredatoryPlants that makes sense, so why do you clip off the upper vine in the video. I think you said "no growth nodes above this spot so let's cut it off". Should I cut that part off?
There's very little chance of it growing. As the baby pitchers have to go through the dead leaves, and no leaves for processing their last bits of nutrients on their stem.
If you do a cutting from an upper plant like in the video, the new groth cuttings will also be uppers right? Is it possible to get lowers from an upper cutting plant?
really nice video can u tell me when you should transplant a small nepenthes bloody mary because it sits in a 8 cm pot but al its leafs hang over the plant but the pot is really small
We have a couple Nepenthes in very old (5+ year old) soil, generally we like to repot them every year or two. They tend to grow much happier in fresh soil. Also if the plant has gotten very big sometimes the moss can't hold enough water and it dries up too frequently. That's a good time to repot into a larger pot that can hold more moss.
How would you revive a plant. Mines has been growing well for about three years and has tripled in size,but this last little temperature drop has hurt it. I realize from your video that I transplanted it into the wrong media two years ago but that didn’t seem to hurt it. I’ve kept it moist, but again it survived the last three winters outside. We don’t get hardly any frost and only a few days of below 40 degrees, but this last week before spring, no frost but in the 30’s, seemed to hurt it and I want it to thrive again. How do I help my plant please? Thank you in advance.
My Nepenthes never grew such vines. It's starting to sprout new plants at the beginning of the stem. Can i cut those as well? It's already forming pitchers. The bigger plant is doing great also. It would be awesome to multiply this plant. Any tips?
I don't know if it happens every time, and i don't want to spread misinformation, but i took a cutting from my plant about a year ago. I cut about an inch above a leaf. So the node that was right above the leaf was able to activate and grow a new schute. A year later and I am taking a new cutting from that vine because it already grew like 3 feet!
i've noticed that some people placed cutting directly into distilled water, and i did that with a cutting of ventriculata, is that alright? should i move it into LFS?
Lots of people use pure water to strike their cuttings and that can be fine. Part of the reason we use LFS is so that if we get busy in the greenhouse and don't have time to deal with the cuttings they can continue to grow in the LFS just fine, whereas if they were in water we'd have to be much more attentive. It's up to your growing style which one you prefer.
Thanks for this helpful video! Comment(/question): "I've heard" that using a razor blade provides a cleaner cut & doesn't crush the cambium cells as much as scissors, and may result in better results. Comments/thoughts/experiences...? Aloha, -pt
I bought a Nepenthes a few months ago, and purposely picked one without any little cups on it because I thought it would be cool to watch them form... None of the leaves have decided to form into the "cups". Is there anything I can do to help it along? It's a nice healthy plant otherwise... some of the leaves will start to look like they're going to put out a cup, but then... nope. Thanks for any advice :)
I heard a Doctor talking about how the American Indians had used this plant for some medicinal uses. Where would they have found this in nature and what would most likely would have been the varieties? What part did they use if you know. Thanks!!
Send me luck. Have one 15, 20 feet long. Needs repotted, but not possible to repot it as is. Need to chop it before I repot it. Going to try to propagate some, and sell some.
Followed these easy steps about six months ago. My cuttings are now healthy juveniles about a foot and a half tall with four to five pitchers. Thanks!
This was an immensely helpful video. Wish all videos were like this, straight to the point showing every step of the process with explanations along the way. Excellent, thank you so much!
this is the best nepenthes propagation guide i have ever seen. you guys are awesome!!
Great to hear!
I really love the fact that you include the several weeks/months/years examples in your videos! VERY NICE! Thanks! Aloha, -pt
Such underrated video, although is the best video on Nepenthes , I have ever seen ! This guy just showed us everything we need to know!
Thank you for the very clear instructions. I like to place my cuttings in clear soft drink bottles, (600ml/about 20 fluid ounces). Simply cut the top off the bottle, poke some drainage holes in the base, then use as a pot for your cuttings. The reason for using the plastic bottles instead of the usual pots is that you can see through the clear plastic of the bottle and see when your cuttings are making new roots. The roots being black show up really well against the light colored Sphagnum moss. Then you know you can re-pot the plant in it's own pot. (Smooth sided plastic bottles makes it easier to remove rooted cuttings than those with fancy patterns on them.)
Thanks great tip!!! Haven.t thought of that
that wood ystem piece actually works for another type of rooting method. Bury it below 1/2 cm of peat moss and long fiber sphagnum mix cover and provide full sun (the goal is high heat and humidity). It takes longer than usual cuttings but if you want a jeuvenile plant/s (same size as seedlings) this is the best route. I use them often to fill out terrariums and glass jars without them growing too large too fast. I also have had great luck with just tossing them in a plastic bag with wet perlite in low light as well for about a month. I have filled my house by rooting every piece I've cut off my nepenthes.
maddcatone interesting
Very interesting
Best cutting video I've seen on YT yet. Thanks for this!
Wow i learned so many new things from this video and can't wait to use these tricks on my pitcher plant!
Thanks a lot! I just received my first nepenthes (Nepenthes graciliflora). Subbed for more tips! Mabuhay from the Philippines! 🇵🇭
Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!
Great tutorial. Thank you. I will do cuttings like you showed
The hard part would be even snipping off those pitchers 🥴😣. Great video 👌👌
Very thorough with lots of great info in a simple and easy to understand format. Yes!
Very Helpful, filled me with confidence and I took the plunge. Thank you.
Very clear information. Well done ❤ thank you so much 😊
Your teaching is excellent.
Thanks for this. Learned a lot.
Every time you use that propane blowtorch, my mind screams "NOT NEAR THAT GORGEOUS PLANT!!!" Hard to get an idea of the angle from video, and I flinch. lol. Though clearly you've been doing this for a long time and they are your precious plant successes...
this is so so helpful! my Nepenthes just started to grow too tall
Does the Spagnum ever start growing over time? The reason I ask is that many dried moss will start growing after a while and green Spagnum looks really good below the plants.
Thank you again for the videos! Learned so much.
When the growth points on the cuttings start sending out new leaves, does it "restart" with new lower pitchers or does it keep growing mid/upper pitchers? I'm especially curious about the very last tip cutting, since it seems you'd have upper pitchers growing straight from the base (which might be confusing for identification?). Wonderful and educational video btw!
Good question. Growth tip cuttings usually continue to produce intermediate/upper pitchers in my experience. Even re-activated nodes will often immediately start to "vine" rather than produce a new basal rosette. If we really want lower pitchers, we often have to wait for the cutting to produce a new basal after it has fully established itself as a vine.
Ive been avoiding propagating my only Nepenthes (they don't grow abundantly in the Arizona desert after all...) because I wasn't sure why or when my propagation methods worked, only that they mostly did lol but your video was super enlightening! Thank you for the quality information! I want more Nepenthes and now I'm finally going to try!
I live in Tucson and my pitcher accidentally got sunburn
Thank you! Can't wait to try. And sterilization method is a keeper.
I make use of the woody stems as well for a more juvenile clone. The green stems will yield vigorous mature plants yet the stems will take longer and create more primordial pitchers and leaves. Its great if you want a create smaller more compact specimens that will take time before outgrowing the space you have available. It takes a while but if laid on their side with .5-1 cm of milled sphagnum mixed with peat and a little perlite covering it you can
Sometimes get multiple growth tips to form from one woody stem.
Very thorough, nicely done. Great job!
Great video! Thank you for sharing.
Incredibly helpful. Thank you
Thanks so much for this video I recently got a handful of nepenthes and some were getting really leggy on that main vine.
If you're still looking for ideas for videos, maybe do one on winter dormancy? I know it's early, but I'm a beginner at growing plants and would appreciate more knowledge. Thanks for these videos though, they're really informative.
We plan to do many more videos, so keep an eye out! Dormancy is an important topic, hopefully we'll be able to address that this next winter.
Thanks for the info, great clip. Which season is best to propagate them? I'm in Australia. I have a few large and small varieties. :-)
Sorry for my ignorance, how do i know which one is the vine in my nepenthes, thank you
Is there any other medium one can use, instead of spagnum moss?
I literally just cut them and stick them into sphagnum. No special precautions, always works fine😆
what do you do with the discarded sphagnum? Most of it still seems good. Do you reuse it? Compost it? Any specific process? A large nursery like yours will probably have a lot of sphagnum from such repotting.
Good question, I am curious as well.
I have a napenthis about 6” tall but already has two LARGE shoots. Both with quarter sized and dime sized pitchers. Should I follow the same guidelines?
I am in the step where my cuttings created roots and may be ready for their individual pots. After I pot them, do I have to keep them in a bag for humidity? Or can I start adapting it to their new spot?
Thank you for this step by step guide. Loved the explanation as you were going through the process. I have a question. I cannot see nodes on the smaller leaves on the top but see them on the lower and thicker stems. Is that normal?
Hello. Will your Mother Nep start a new vine and flower once you make your cuttings. Thanks
7:00 alleviated my pruning apprehension
Can these be done in a bubble cloner or crack key method?
Very good Video, can you re use the moss?
What do you mean by "less-than-perfect strikes"? Aloha, -pt
Thanks for this!
I've gotten the 1st part right. Almost time to pot them individually. Do they need to be in moss the second time round or can I use a nepenthes mix (bark, moss and perlite)?
great video. this is totally different than another tutorial I saw ... I took cuttings and instead of putting them in moss, put them in water - amazing growth but I don't see roots after two months. Maybe I should transfer them to moss?
The main reason we do our cuttings in moss is that we can leave them there for a long time, since they're basically already planted up. Sometimes it takes a very long time (6+ months) for cuttings to strike, so don't give up hope. If you'd like you can transfer them to moss, but it still might be a wait. Also, sometimes cuttings just fail. Don't be discouraged though, that's why you always leave a basal in place!
Hi ive had my nepenthes for a year and it keeps throwing out a couple of new cups every couple of months so i thought it was healthy BUT I never got a vine! Will I get one soon? I want cuttings 😢
Hey so I tried propagating mine the same way you did but through lack of rooting I inspected the mother plant and noticed there are no nodes. Its large enough but I'm confused on why it has no nodes. Help please!
I have no nodes either - did you ever get a cutting ?
They look great
Can you take a basal cutting off of the parent plant? if so, can I propagate it the same?
Excellent explanation. Thank you!!
Do you ship to Oklahoma I'm planning to save up money for my chores so I can buy from your online store
We ship throughout the United States.
PredatoryPlants thanks this is my plant channel I ordered a large ventricosa from you guys on Amazon I will be expecting it somewhere around August 24th or the 29th I'm excited to see it
FOR FUCK SAKE WHY NOT BRITAIN
Question, once we have prepared everything how do we care for our pots with the newly planted cuttings? Where do we place them? Do they need some sunlight?
I would treat the cuttings like you would any cutting. Warmth, good humidity, bright light and airflow. Don't let the spagh become soaking wet or dry. Don't bother the cutting. Like checking it once a week hoping for growth. My expirence is within two months with no disturbance, you know when you'll be successful. Cause you get basil growth. If no growth, and things are dying and browning, yup total fail.
So I started some cutting and put them in spagnum moss. But the spagnum keeps getting mold. How can I get rid of the mold and keep it from coming back
Air flow
Another great video. Thanks for sharing!
Curious why 3-node sections if only looking to strike the lowest growth point? Can’t I pot up each cutting as one node and one cut leaf?
The cuttings need enough stored energy (sugar) to produce new roots and a growth-tip before they dehydrate or die. Large plants like Philodendron can be cut into single-node pieces because their stems can hold a lot more sugar/water.
@@PredatoryPlants that makes sense, so why do you clip off the upper vine in the video. I think you said "no growth nodes above this spot so let's cut it off". Should I cut that part off?
Where and how much is the scissors ? What’s the actual description of this “snip”? Thanks
Fiskars comfort grip floral snips. Pretty sure this particular style is no longer produced, though.
Very informative! Your videos rock.
Did you discard the lowest part of the vine? because there's little chance of it growing, or NO chance of it growing?
There's very little chance of it growing. As the baby pitchers have to go through the dead leaves, and no leaves for processing their last bits of nutrients on their stem.
If you do a cutting from an upper plant like in the video, the new groth cuttings will also be uppers right? Is it possible to get lowers from an upper cutting plant?
really nice video
can u tell me when you should transplant a small nepenthes bloody mary because it sits in a 8 cm pot but al its leafs hang over the plant but the pot is really small
We have a couple Nepenthes in very old (5+ year old) soil, generally we like to repot them every year or two. They tend to grow much happier in fresh soil. Also if the plant has gotten very big sometimes the moss can't hold enough water and it dries up too frequently. That's a good time to repot into a larger pot that can hold more moss.
Do these plants live all their life in long fiber sphagnum moss? Or do they ever get planted in dirt?
Never planted in dirt or soil unless you just want foliage but no pitchers.
How would you revive a plant. Mines has been growing well for about three years and has tripled in size,but this last little temperature drop has hurt it. I realize from your video that I transplanted it into the wrong media two years ago but that didn’t seem to hurt it. I’ve kept it moist, but again it survived the last three winters outside. We don’t get hardly any frost and only a few days of below 40 degrees, but this last week before spring, no frost but in the 30’s, seemed to hurt it and I want it to thrive again. How do I help my plant please? Thank you in advance.
How often do you water these?
I'll be doing this soon, thanks for another great video :)
Super helpful!
great video much appreciate for your efforts guys!
This is probably my 5th viewing. So helpful!
Omg thank you 😊 Excellent video!💯
thank you for this video. I have a nep that is starting to vine like crazy and its branching out into the hallway.
How long do you microwave the sphagnum and at what power?
what! 😮
Can I do this for Venus fly trap leaf?
no, try searching up one specificly for vfts , venus flytraps don't even produve vines
Thank you!!! Very good video!!!
Will pitchers with lower pitcher morphology ever grow from these cuttings?
Is the moss you are using soaked and let to dry a bit or just dry?
Always use fully hydrated moss when planting Nepenthes.
great informative video
Really helpful video. Thanks mate.
Who much water in the saucer?
My Nepenthes never grew such vines. It's starting to sprout new plants at the beginning of the stem. Can i cut those as well? It's already forming pitchers. The bigger plant is doing great also. It would be awesome to multiply this plant. Any tips?
Please take a look at our video about harvesting Nepenthes basals:
th-cam.com/video/SWrSzGCsMUQ/w-d-xo.html
Hopefully that helps.
Awesome Review bro!.
How and where do I cut off dead pitchers so I don’t harm any future growth?
When it's brown all the way
When you take the cuttings does the donor plant keep growing from the top or is it just done?
I don't know if it happens every time, and i don't want to spread misinformation, but i took a cutting from my plant about a year ago. I cut about an inch above a leaf. So the node that was right above the leaf was able to activate and grow a new schute. A year later and I am taking a new cutting from that vine because it already grew like 3 feet!
this is great! thanks guys
Would this work with potting mix? Specifically Foxfarm Ocean?
No, pure sphagnum or peat moss only
i've noticed that some people placed cutting directly into distilled water, and i did that with a cutting of ventriculata, is that alright? should i move it into LFS?
Lots of people use pure water to strike their cuttings and that can be fine. Part of the reason we use LFS is so that if we get busy in the greenhouse and don't have time to deal with the cuttings they can continue to grow in the LFS just fine, whereas if they were in water we'd have to be much more attentive. It's up to your growing style which one you prefer.
Very informative thank you!
Great video Sue UK
Thanks for this helpful video!
Comment(/question): "I've heard" that using a razor blade provides a cleaner cut & doesn't crush the cambium cells as much as scissors, and may result in better results. Comments/thoughts/experiences...? Aloha, -pt
Eh, I've used cutters before, it's nothing different, from what I've seen atleast.
verry helpfull thx
great video! thanks!
I bought a Nepenthes a few months ago, and purposely picked one without any little cups on it because I thought it would be cool to watch them form... None of the leaves have decided to form into the "cups". Is there anything I can do to help it along? It's a nice healthy plant otherwise... some of the leaves will start to look like they're going to put out a cup, but then... nope. Thanks for any advice :)
Just realized you guys call them pitchers : )
Nepenthes producing only foliage and no pitchers is usually a sign of low light levels or low humidity.
Thanks
thank you so much, I learned a lot. :)
Why My pitcher is small
It takes a long time to get bigger
I heard a Doctor talking about how the American Indians had used this plant for some medicinal uses. Where would they have found this in nature and what would most likely would have been the varieties? What part did they use if you know. Thanks!!
Why my nephenties..arya so...step...my step to the dead....so leaf a broken...and dont grow again....help pleaset
Excellent video. I watched one of your earlier videos to help me pot up my new N. alata that just arrived today. Do you sell/ship to Canada? TFS
We don't currently ship to Canada, sorry! Glad this video was helpful to you though.
thank you for sharing.
Send me luck. Have one 15, 20 feet long. Needs repotted, but not possible to repot it as is. Need to chop it before I repot it. Going to try to propagate some, and sell some.
thanks