sunscald

Jean potted up several batches of our anemones this summer and took especial pride in their growth, sadenning when they started to sunscald and rejoicing in their eventual flourishing when moved to the shade house.

Vignettes from the K-State Gardens « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog 2009

Environmental stresses such as wind, drought, sunscald, or damage during weeding and harvesting increase disease incidence.

Chapter 8 1985

Symptoms of sunscald closely mimic the gummosis disease, but are restricted to the side of the trunk facing the sun.

Chapter 8 1985

Acid fumes from smelters, frost, sunscald, dry or extremely wet weather, all limit the growth of trees.

The School Book of Forestry Charles Lathrop Pack

Dr. Richards has found that a heavy wallpaper of a cheap grade, cut in strips and wrapped spirally to cover the tree trunk from the ground up, lasts through the season and eliminates nearly all of the sunscald injury on pecans which he has moved from his farm nursery row to the orchard.

Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report Wooster, Ohio, September 3, 4, 5, 1946

(Several slides were shown illustrating sunscald injury to the Southwest side of high headed Chinese chestnut tree trunks.)

Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953

It is an alternate bearer and is subject to sunscald in our hot dry summers.

Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report Wooster, Ohio, September 3, 4, 5, 1946

I think you will have more loss from sunscald and root rot than you will from blight.

Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting Guelph, Ontario, September 3, 4, 5, 1947

Another serious type of injury, especially to newly planted trees, is sunscald on the exposed sides of the trunks.

Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report Wooster, Ohio, September 3, 4, 5, 1946

Too commonly, transplanted nut trees suffer from sunscald injury on their southwest sides during the first summer in the orchard.

Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report Wooster, Ohio, September 3, 4, 5, 1946

Sunscald is what it sounds like: too much light on developing fruit, which causes pale-colored patches.

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