[kevyn chan]

[QUOTE=alpiner;53157]

Originally Posted by kevyn chan

for me, the lanky vine and growth from the cutting poses the risk of breaking and not only from the natural elements ie water filled pitchers and strong winds but from pests such as monkeys and mischievious kids.


monkeys and mischievous kids = pests Fortunately I'm too high in the air for monkeys. But strong wind in the landed property translate to very strong wind in this altitude. I've raff's newly formed leaf snapped close to the stem, so all the wide leaf neps need to place in 'wind shelter'.

wide leaves neps are prone to snap during strong wind...those that has matured pitchers at the end will actually sag and the plant looks unsightly eg miranda, hookeriana...the long tendrils with pitchers hanging in the air will snapped too...and what i did was to rest the pitchers on the neighbouring pots...
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so now i have some weak cuttings (with its original growing young leaves as i did not cut off the leaves)...and the growths from the original pot are supported with bamboos. new basal shoots are forming too.

Does the basal shoots form from the original cutting part?

basals are from the ground shoots and of course the severed part also grows multiple shoots on each internodes....the plant used to be strong and healthy therefore it produce at least 6 shoots down the broken point...and when the 2nd incident happened (the whole huge branch broke) the plant when into shock and now only produce leaves without pitcher...
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usually if i receive rooted cuttings from sender, i will bend and peg the long vine into the media and i will have a nice rossette plant sitting in the centre of the pot

Can't imagine the 'bend and peg'. Did u hold the bending with just media, or with additional peg or wire? Trying to keep the roots facing gravity and rosette sitting in the center, makes the in-between very tricky. Snap... and the rooted cutting becomes cutting again.

of course with additional steel wire bent and buried in the moss...you can imagine the clips on the train railtrack...also to hope that basals and roots will be formed...yes, it is very tricky but this works on the vining neps with ventricosa and gracilis parentage however if it is too long, it will be peg onto the pot hanger...and also to avoid the "coconut tree effect", the whole plant will be buried deeper into the media...

this is based on my personal experience and what i have done so far...not written in any journal or pop up from imagination...