Flowering N. sanguinea or it's hybrid.

[NepNut]

Originally Posted by kevyn chan

any tips, Robert?

Sorry to say, I'm still a noob when it comes to rooting cutting/basals...

For those who are interested in doing nep breeding, these are a few points that I would like to share regarding nep flowers

1) I only cross the female nep flower that flower naturally. Meaning the nep grow the full cycle from lower pitchers to upper pitcher (for most neps anyway) and were growing healthily. Flowering process takes a lot of energy out of nep especially female nep.

2) I won't cross the flower that was induced by stress (newly accquired plants, poor growing conditions (including extreme changes in weather pattern), plants that flowers too early and etc) will usually abort it's flower (die or dry immaturely). Waste of pollen and also great waste of energy for a already weak plant. Just better to cut this flower away to save the energy for the plants.

3) I have encountered some male nep that will flower but the pollen bud will stay solid (pollen not release), ie. N. x gentle. I'm not sure if it's weather related or it's an anomoly of TC plant. Some female intermediate species/hybrids flower will be aborted as well after sucessful pollination and I think this is largely due to the inappropiate growing condition or perhaps another TC plant anomoly, ie. N. vietchii "green" from MT.

That's all I can think of for now... pls feel free if you have more points to add... Thanks.