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Can someone help me Identify this plant that I bought from the home depot nursery.

Is the reddish color normal?

Is this too big?

Does this look healthy?

What is it's name?

How old is it?

Nepenthes x ventrata

A few years old, the red colour is good the redder the better. Big is good for a nep, give it three years and it might just be ten times the size. It looks very healthy

Here are more pictures I decided to take during the day.

I mist them 2-3 times a day with distilled water. I water them once in the morning with distilled water. I give them plenty of sunlight.
My plant in sunlight

My biggest pitcher

My pitchers compared to my hand

My Plant compared to a ruler

My plant compared to a ruler

My biggest pitcher compared to a ruler

Another pitcher against a ruler

My two stems

My stems at ground level

My hanging system


THe two stems from the top

My smallest growing pitcher

My venus fly traps- the squirrel's kept uprooting them and eating the bulbs on the bottom so I decided to hang them and I haven't seen the squirrel messing with it. The soil is made of Long fibered sphagnum moss and desert sand.



Thank you for watching

that nepenthes x ventrata is going to do great for you. Just dont be suprised if some of the pitchers start dying. That sometimes may happen due to shock.

Pitchers naturally die off as the plant ages

yup. That does happen. A pitcher may die after around 6+ months, depending on the conditions they are in.