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Some plants react to the sun much like humans do, "getting a tan". It's called sun stressing!

For this picture I kept one of Scylla's "mouths" in the shadow (indirect light), so it shows its natural green colour, but I made sure that the other "mouth" enjoyed as much (direct) sun as possible.

The plant is not upset about this experiment at all. It keeps pushing "mouths" like crazy.

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[–] howler@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

They are outdoors 90% of the time! I only bring them indoors when the night is going to be extremely cold.

They are on a south facing balcony, they get light all day. I don't do anything about hibernation, but they don't seem upset. I mean, this is their second or third year with me.