Glad to know that there is a plant that brings back fond memories. While living in Monterey CA decades ago, my friends and I traveled sou...Read Moreth to an inn/restaurant The Nepenthe which we assumed was the Greek word for peace.
I just recently recieved a nepenthes ventricosa for my birthday.It is doing extremely well! I grow it as a houseplant in Reno,Nevada. It...Read More has two larger pitchers,three medium ones, and I can not count all the tiny upper pitchers! It has huge leaves,and new growth everywhere! I highly reccomend this plant to everyone!A great beginner plant.
Among the most interesting of all plants, N.Ventricosa is the easiest nepenthes to grow. I grow mine in hanging baskets planted in pure l...Read Moreive sphagnum moss.
Suitable indoors in select locations; kitchen window, skylight, and the bathroom as they enjoy high humidity (above 60%).
Nepenthes enjoy lots of water and bright-diffused light.
I have grown ventricosa in a tropical greenhouse and outdoors...In a greenhouse it was a vigorous vine with red,red, pitchers in summer t...Read Morehat fade a bit in winter light. Outdoors, it needs very fast drainage,part sun-the most without burning, -grows the most pitchers.Shade gives greenest leaves-but no pitchers,or at least very few. Nights in the low thirtys were no problem. And don't let dry out!
Glad to know that there is a plant that brings back fond memories. While living in Monterey CA decades ago, my friends and I traveled sou...Read More
I just recently recieved a nepenthes ventricosa for my birthday.It is doing extremely well! I grow it as a houseplant in Reno,Nevada. It...Read More
Among the most interesting of all plants, N.Ventricosa is the easiest nepenthes to grow. I grow mine in hanging baskets planted in pure l...Read More
I have grown ventricosa in a tropical greenhouse and outdoors...In a greenhouse it was a vigorous vine with red,red, pitchers in summer t...Read More