Re: 'Multi growing point', to cut or not to cut
 

Found the air layering technique. With pictures for illustration.

http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/e.../airlayer.html

Re: 'Multi growing point', to cut or not to cut
 

Cutting slit to form roots, tilting plant to form basal, cutting stems to form new shoots, it the nature's way of survival, if you're lucky enough. Otherwise, it just say bye-bye. For your case it's "accidental wound-induced basal formation", I just made it up:laugh:.

Re: 'Multi growing point', to cut or not to cut
 

you can pull them out from the mother plant at that size, i had experienced with a N.sibuyanesis and it did survive even the plant are smaller, only 20sen size

For the group purchase plant, they are in different case, as they were raised up as TC plant, so there have chances that you can see more than one growing point, especially the N.hirsuta x rafflesiana(or vice versa) because when a plantlet is introduce into a in vitro condition, a type of hormone that causing rapid division of plant is introduced to produce more plant, then it will be treat like usually in normal agar until they are independent and have their own rooting system then take out just like normal plant, usually, most of them tends to split and have their own root system before they are take out from the in vitro