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eBay can be an iffy venue for buying Nepenthes; prices are often inflated beyond reason. I recently bought a Wistuba-origin N. hamata, 2.5" diameter, fully established plant from a known vendor (NOT eBay) for $80. Not long ago, someone paid over $400 for a rooted cutting of the EP clone of N. x 'Briggsiana' on eBay. I was able to buy two cuttings of that cultivar back in September for $10. Playing the eBay game often results in a person parting with more $ than they ought to, IMO.
I'm not suggesting you shouldn't be pleased to have acquired a (presumably) nice specimen of N. hamata, I'm just saying that you have to be careful how much you bid on something, because the odds of paying an excessive price are significant if you're not careful.
Whimgrider I agree with you 100% about the eBay game and paying way too much. That was my max bid. I was lucky the others stopped or I would have missed it. I know I could have gotten a hamata straight from Wistuba for $60 last time I looked. That plant would have been straight out of TC though. This one has supposedly been greenhouse hardened for 6 months. Ten a month is how I look at it. Because total with shipping came to $120.
This is one of the four clones Wistuba currently has. The seller could not tell me which one.
Steve yes I have been wanting one since I started learning about nepenthes. Which clone is yours? I still want to trade eventually. Can never have too many. Especially if yhey are seeds grown. Supposedly all of wistubas are males.
I'm hoping to trade for a hairy red one day. Have to see how the skills do with this one. Lol
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I'm hoping to be cool like Steve and grow it as a houseplant one day.
Well then Steve it looks like I will be interested in yours once you have a cutting available. Sine mine is a Wistuba the BE clone us bound to be different. I'm a collector anyway. Even if I have to wait till my lil twerp gets large enough to swap hamata cuttings. ;-)
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