I hope that your VFT makes a full recovery nightsky! Keep us posted.
What you write above as not being possible is almost exactly what I'm seeing on many of them, isn't it? I think that the center of the leaf is less likely to burn because the tissue is thicker there. And I'm not sure why you say that both sides of the leaf can't burn?
More photos of them here:
http://www.flytrapcare.com/carnivorous-plant-community/photos/album.html?userid=62&albumid=369
Took some photos of my sunburned Cupped Trap plants for you today Scot. I took a few hundred of them out of tissue culture vessels back in winter. I grew them under lights until about a month ago, where they grew well, and then moved them outside to watch them burn up. When I saw nightsky's photo it immediately made me think of my poor sunburned Cupped Traps:Just looking at the photos, its very obvious it cant possibly be sunburn..
absolutely no question..
there is no way the sun can burn both sides of a leaf, but leave the center of the leaf unburned..(top most leaf in the first photo)
that alone proves its not sunburn..
What you write above as not being possible is almost exactly what I'm seeing on many of them, isn't it? I think that the center of the leaf is less likely to burn because the tissue is thicker there. And I'm not sure why you say that both sides of the leaf can't burn?
More photos of them here:
http://www.flytrapcare.com/carnivorous-plant-community/photos/album.html?userid=62&albumid=369