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The vast bulk of my neps are under fluorescent lights for about 13 hours a day. I have a couple outside that get about 4 hours of direct sunlight per day. For fluorescents I use four four-foot tubes, or a couple or three "fluorex" compact fluorescent lights.
In the summer mine get bright inderect sunlight. In the winter since the sun is lower and I grow mine in front of a sliding glass door they get direct sunlight most the day. The sun is weaker in the winter time.
ALL my plants are in the same glasshouse so conditions are as noted above for my 4x N. ventricosa's (2x geen, red & inbetween) and 2x N. vent. hybrids (v x maxima & v x rafflesiana).
In these conditions (note that it is almost winter here) I generally get a new picther every 3 weeks and there is generally 3-5 new pitchers forming per plant at a time.
Ventricosa is a great beginners choice. It is a sturdy plant, which happens to have quite unique pitchers and it stays also very compact for a while, which is good when you grow it in limited space.
I have a bunch of small ventricosas outdoors in the Philippine lowlands. The ones standing on the upper (=sunniest) board of the shelf look best. The pitchers are bigger and more colorful.
They get extreme tropical sun from 11am - 3pm, only shaded occasionally by some passionfruit leafs. Even the indirect light should be quite strong, I wouldn't survive that location
Some ventricosaXalata growing close by, are not pitchering as reliably as the ventricosas, even though as hybrids they should supposedly (!) grow better.
In temperate climate I used to grow them in an aquarium in a south facing window (no artificial light) very successfully.
Good luck, Volker
I have mine outdoors where they get very bright light all day,with a little sun in the late afternoon.The new pitchers on my neps are getting a little smaller but they are alot tougher looking\feeling then before.
Here you go. I forgot I had uploaded these 2 shots and they give you and idea of how bright the glasshouse gets with only a bubblewrap lining. It's enough to take the 'punch' out of the winter sun (need 50% shade cloth in summer) yet still lets most light through, as you can see.
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