Forgot to mention which conifers I have. Hoopsi and bakeri blue spruce, Norway spruce, black hills spruce, bergman's gem oriental spruce, and blue atlas cedar.

Hose them down several times a day for a cool down.

Dave

The dog days have arrived, sounds like they've been around for you for quite some time.

Good luck...just make sure the water is penetrating the top of the rootball. I found two yesterday that had a crusted layer in which water wasn't penetrating, I used a putty knife to slowing peel away layers so I did't do any root damage.

Emigrate!

Nice comfortable 19ðC here today, just perfect for conifers ;-)

Resin

True Resin, but the stair rod showers were getting me a little worried, my containers were swimming.

As noted in another thread, the heat here IS horrible this year. 80-85 at night and 100-105 days, the trees just can't get a break and the roots of anything planted in the last year or two are still sooooo shallow and they just can't get cooled off.

I know you're a blue spruce guy so I'll just speak to those.....my Bizon Blue, Baby Blue Eyes, The Blues, Blue Mist, one of my Glauca Procumbens, Hoopsi and my baby Rovelli's Monument are still hanging in there - some with a little scattered browing. But during this long heatwave my Bakeri is beginning to lose the fight and I have lost a Glauca Procumbens, Globosa, R H Montgomery and my other baby Rovelli's Monument.

It's an ugly year for us with a lot of summer to go. I have shade cloth up everywhere and have my fingers crossed.

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