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Ok, back from Nepal and I checked the cuttings rooting in water. The growth looks good! These were cut on March 10th and have been continuously soaking in rainwater with just the styrofoam lid blocking out the sunlight from the roots.

PS I added the photos but they don't appear in the post, only as attachments...what can I do differently direct from this site (without having to upload to photobucket?)

~Shawn

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Shawn, think you are one of the first Nep Hydroponics authority now. When are you planning to remove them from the foam or are you gonna leave them there and introduce some nutrient into the water.

From the first picture, no pitcher yet. Wonder if it will produce pitcher. Interesting, very interesting. Might go try later on.

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yep, upper growth has been great! Remember that only 2-3 of those were 'tip' cuttings - everything else was just 1/2 of one leaf or else no leaf just 4 months ago. I'll transplant as soon as I get time. Figure that I'll have to break up the styroam so I might as well give the unrooted cuttings a little more time! I have been experimenting with growing neps in Hydro-culture (as opposed to rooting them) for a while now - results seem to vary with species.
~S

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Hi Shawn......They don't even look like cuttings at the 1st pic...Looks like a normal healthy plant...Anyways how often do you change the water???? Do you change the water???

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It's terrible to admit but... I just let the rain overflow it and always topped it up with hose during dry spells! These in the photos are almost all N. trichocarpa with possibly a few N. tricho x kuchinensis

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I am now a convert to rooting Nep cuttings in water -- at least until I try it. Thanks for documenting your experiment in photos, Shawn.

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Hi JK, well I used to do all my cuttings in sphagnum in plastic cups with domed lids...but I usually only got about 50% to root and they took up a lot of space and required regular checking up on. This was the easiest, most successful and compact batch of rooting cuttings I've done - there are about 40-50 separate plants in that one Styrofoam cooler! It did take a little longer but I think that will be made up for by not disturbing the roots when I transplant them. Good luck!
~Shawn

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Well i cut off a little vine from my ventrata today and atempting to root it in water.....I just place normal drinking water in a transparent cup and place the cutting in..I've tried rooting my ventrata in pure peat/perlite and its now pitchering..

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Ken, would like to comment on your rooting experiment in transparent cup. I recon roots are photophobic (dont' like light). So I would suggest you put it in a "Non-transparent" cup. 2 cents worth.

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Ow......Okay thanks for the info BA....Sooo....okays i shall figure out something..