I aint got one but I hear they're an easy nep and I do have a ventricosa hybrid.

Just give it bright light, possibly a little sun but not too much. Don't stand it in water but just give it rainwater then wait till it feels slightly dry before watering again. Keep it moderately humid although they can adapt to dryish conditions. The soil I use for all my neps is a 2:1 mix of perlite and peat moss. No fertiliser to the roots but drop the occasional insect into a pitcher and give it a little shake. Oh and temps should be 65-80F during the day and 50-70F during the night. It does need a drop in temperature at night for long term survival.

Do this and you should have a happy and vigorous plant.

Kyle

They do just fine in a hanging basket or planter, at a window sill, too:

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until I can set up a tank for the indoor plants, they reside on a shelf in my closet under 4 ft shop lights. The ventricosa that I got in november is doing beautifully in there and in the closet of my last place. Of the three Neps that arrived at the same time from Sarr NW, it has always been a few steps ahead of the others. I think that my recent repotting into a bigger pot was in soil that was equal parts of peat, perlite, sand and orchid bark. It gets an ocasional misting of heavily diluted fertilizer and a dried bloodworm if it is good.

I'm thinking of moving it to a shelf in my garage next to an east facing window. It'll be hot in there and cooler at night and the cape sundews that I just put in there this week are stuffing themselves on all of the bugs. If I'm not mistaken, it ought to handle the climate here pretty well.

I have found N. ventricosa to be very easy to grow. I have mine sitting right next to a window that gets morning sun but no afternoon sun. As Kyle mentioned, make sure that you don't leave the pot sitting in water.

I have mine in a plastic pot which sits inside an undrained ceramic pot--the plastic pot is elevated off the bottom to keep it out of the water, but the water underneath may give it a little more humidity.

Unlike most carnivores, you can fertilize Nepethes by applying a weak (~1/4 strength) orchid food with a mister directly onto the leaves (foliar feeding). Not that they wouldn't enjoy the bugs more...

ajkimoto

Type n. ventricosa into a Google search. You'll have PLENTY of info to read!

Google is your friend!

These are easy.

Tom

google is my best friend
lol

cheers,
chris