OMG! My bonsai are all going to die! Droplets & sun, certain leaf burn!

[Clicio]

But of course this is a bonsai myth.
Where I live it rains almost every afternoon in the summer, many times while the sun is also shining.
I am 66, and I have never seen burnt leaves from the sun on rain drops, not even ferns. That is one of the reasons why I don't mind watering my bonsai when they need it, even at noon.
Right now it's raining a lot, and the sun is shining, as the picture below is showing.
I am quite sure my trees love it!

 

[MrWunderful]

Leaf burn from water is fake news

 

[Lutonian]

Every time there is a rainbow all the forest's defoiliate and burn here

 

[Paradox]

Title is clickbait

 

[Kanorin]

Just to be extra conservative, I’ve eliminated all exposures of my trees to both sun and water.

 

[Clicio]

Title is clickbait

Did you fall for it?

 

[hinmo24t]

they love rain (lots of it) because of all the added/pulled in oxygen/aeration (per Nigel Saunders theory)

 

[amcoffeegirl]

On my hydrangea groups they often tell people this.
There are fungal problems that can occur from overhead watering- I believe- but leaf burn from water spots is not a thing. My ficus don’t mind hot sun on wet leaves at all.

 

[Cajunrider]

Did you fall for it?

Dang it! I did.
Fool me once etc..

 

[Srt8madness]

2 years late too

 

[Cajunrider]

2 years late too

I knew! Saw the date and still decided to join in the fun.

 

[jradics]

On my hydrangea groups they often tell people this.
There are fungal problems that can occur from overhead watering- I believe- but leaf burn from water spots is not a thing. My ficus don’t mind hot sun on wet leaves at all.

IT NEVER RAINS IN THE AFTERNOON ON WILD FICUS TREES IN THE TROPICS

 

[Clicio]

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IT NEVER RAINS IN THE AFTERNOON ON WILD FICUS TREES IN THE TROPICS

Never.
Ever.

 

[WNC Bonsai]

I wonder how plants ever managed to survive without humans around the protect them from mother nature?

 

[Cajunrider]

I wonder how plants ever managed to survive without humans around the protect them from mother nature?

They live except for those that have been chopped, wired, bent, placed in shallow pots with hardly any soil, and tortured within a quarter inch of their lives.

 

[rockm]

I wonder how plants ever managed to survive without humans around the protect them from mother nature?

The short answer is sometimes (and that is A LOT) plants don't survive in nature. They die from all kinds of "natural" shit, from flooding, drought, lightning, fungus, beetles/aphids/borers/nameyourinsect, to too much sun (extremely high UV in alpine environments kills trees, which is why there's a tree line) and four legged animals eating them, the list is VERY VERY long.