I tried planting CT Shade right next to an 8' wooden fence for shade half the day, and much of it also got a couple hours more shade from the garage and some neighbor's trees. The plants were very weak and spindly, but put out a lot of suckers. I didn't do all that good with those plants. It wasn't a bust, I picked a lot of leaf, but no big beautiful wrappers. The plants like I said were not very stout and they got knocked down a lot, and I had as much stem growing along the ground as growing straight up. Otherwise it did well. I also planted CT Broadleaf, Criollo 98, and something else, I will think of it in a minute. Habano 2000. The two CT varieties looked almost identical. The other two looked different from the CT varieties but looked very similar to each other. All plants bore heavily, but best were the ones with more hours of sunlight.
Stretching out shade cloth wasn't gonna be a thing for me.
I set a few seedlings in big big planters and even one over two feet across wouldn't grow a plant as big as one grown in the ground. Don't get me wrong, it grows, but forget about getting any really big leaves, or a big harvest. Two were set up right next to the garage, on the north side, very shady. Meh. CT Shade, biggest leaves were maybe 15" long. Those planters are onion beds this year, and they are in the sun.
