{"id":1536,"date":"2020-01-31T08:43:49","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T13:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/pecan\/?p=1536"},"modified":"2020-04-09T16:02:29","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T20:02:29","slug":"bark-shedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/pecan\/2020\/01\/bark-shedding\/","title":{"rendered":"Bark Shedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year I receive calls regarding trees in which the bark sheds for no apparent reason. This understandably creates great alarm among growers. I see it most often on Desirable but it can occur on other cultivars as well. Usually the outer bark layer sloughs off\u00a0 exposing the inner bark layer, which has a brown or cinammon color. As long as you don&#8217;t see the light yellowish\/white wood underneath the bark and the tree is showing no other signs of problems, the tree is fine.\u00a0 Here are a few photos I have received this year of this problem:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/pecan\/files\/2020\/01\/IMG_4345.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1538\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/pecan\/files\/2020\/01\/IMG_4345-226x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/pecan\/files\/2020\/01\/IMG_4345-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/pecan\/files\/2020\/01\/IMG_4345-768x1020.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/pecan\/files\/2020\/01\/IMG_4345.jpg 771w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/pecan\/files\/2020\/01\/IMG_4346.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1539\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/pecan\/files\/2020\/01\/IMG_4346-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/pecan\/files\/2020\/01\/IMG_4346-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/pecan\/files\/2020\/01\/IMG_4346.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/pecan\/files\/2020\/01\/IMG_4347.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1540\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/pecan\/files\/2020\/01\/IMG_4347-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/pecan\/files\/2020\/01\/IMG_4347-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/pecan\/files\/2020\/01\/IMG_4347.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>See<a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/pecan\/2015\/05\/desirable-bark-flaking-off\/\"> this 2015 post<\/a> covering the same topic for more info<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line here is don&#8217;t panic, the tree is just doing its thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year I receive calls regarding trees in which the bark sheds for no apparent reason. This understandably creates great alarm among growers. I see it most often on Desirable but it can occur on other cultivars as well. Usually the outer bark layer sloughs off\u00a0 exposing the inner bark layer, which has a brown [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horticulture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/pecan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/pecan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/pecan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/pecan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/pecan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1536"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/pecan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1541,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/pecan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions\/1541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/pecan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/pecan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/pecan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}