My Sun-burned Plumeria rubra 'Tricolor'
By Delonix1
17 Sep, 2012
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This is what happens when you have 106ºF (41ºC) temps. We've been having a heatwave for 7 weeks, now. Last Friday and Saturday was the worst. Friday in my neighborhood we had 9 hours (from 11am - 8pm) of 100ºF (38ºC) and higher temps straight. Saturday was almost as bad! It caused a lot of damage to many of my plants. Most will recover; however some will not! :>( Photo taken Sept. 16, 2012
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Toasty, the worse part for the plants was the complete lack of humidity this time. I've got a lot of dried and fried leaves here too.
18 Sep, 2012
Johnjoe:
Thanks! You can have the hot weather. lol! :>)
19 Sep, 2012
Randy,
Yes, the humidity was down to about 8% and I don't remember the temperature ever being above 100ºF for more than 8 or 9 hours (although, I'm, sure it's happened before). It's crazy!!!
I see so many sun-burned plants in our neighborhood.
Your Foxtail palm is looking great, though! I think it loves the heat of this summer.
19 Sep, 2012
What a shame............at least its only this seasons damage.......Better next year Andy......
4 Oct, 2012
Milky:
It's growing a lot of new leaves, now. It's still flowering like crazy because of the very hot weather. This summer has been super hot...almost as hot as summer of 2006.
5 Oct, 2012
Will you put some of that heat in a bag and send it over here to Ireland as we have a whopping 14c and i am freezing. lol,,,,Love your photo,sorry for the damage to your plant.
17 Sep, 2012