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I know that for best results and long-term growth, all Sarracenia need full sun. However, I only have a balcony that gets partial shade. For reference, my Neps and Pings don't develop any reddish coloration in this amount of sunlight (but they will under indoor lights). This is one of the reasons I stopped growing Sarrs, but I've heard that some are more amenable to less-than-full sun than others. Specifically, psittacina, minor, and purpurea. Is there any truth to this hearsay? Would it be possible to grow any Sarrs in partial shade that wouldn't be completely green and actually thrive?

Do you get any hours of full sun at all?

How do you define your partial shade? To me partial shade would indicate full sun for some period, what is the sun to shade ratio?
All Sarracenia’s need sun to flourish lack of it creates green leggy growth, he more sun the better the colour.
Cheers
Steve

There's a large tree right next to my balcony, so I'd say I never have any full sun.

I define partial shade as not getting full sun, aka slightly dappled due to the location and the aforementioned large tree in the way. I have no idea of the sun to shade ratio unfortunately; I've never used a luxmeter or anything closely resembling a scientific way to measure light. I had some VFTs growing there a few years back and they stayed green; I don't think they thrived.

I find the light required for adequate VFT growth to be slightly less than that for most Sarracenia. If VFTs did not do well in your location, then I suspect Sarracenia would not either.

Pupurea died a slow death in full sun for me, and thrives in bright shade. Then again, I’m in south Florida - I tan in bright shade here!


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Bluemoon wrote: Would it be possible to grow any Sarrs in partial shade that wouldn't be completely green and actually thrive?

No

Thanks to all for your responses. I figured all Sarrs needed full sun but wanted to ask the experts to be sure, as some of them look very nice and I'd like to grow them again one day.