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Nepenthes plants are vines in nature. Cuttings are when you cut the top of the vine, leaving a few leaves and a stem, just above a dormant growth node. You can cut a long vine into many different cuttings. For each cutting, you then cut into the base of the stem, where you want roots to grow, and place in damp sphagnum moss. When you make a cutting above the node, a dormant growth point will start growing to continue the vine. You might get multiple nodes to grow to form more than one new growth point.
There is more to it, but this basically covers it. I am giving a seminar on this technique next month at an upcoming carnivorous plant meeting.
What you are describing is called "air layering." This is when you take a woody cuttings and graft (i.e. tie) it to another cut plant with a strong root system. This will result in a type of hybrid between the two plants. The cuttings technique aboved will result in a true clone.
Some people have had the same vine growing for over forty years. My oldest plant is ten years old. I have taken cuttings from it many times.
Are you living in the USA, Jetee?
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