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Adelaide reached 45 degrees at 4pm today, with more hot weather to come next week. I'm just glad I'm on holidays from work so I can keep a closer eye on my trees.

How is everyone else fairing in this heat?

Reddragon wrote:Adelaide reached 45 degrees at 4pm today, with more hot weather to come next week. I'm just glad I'm on holidays from work so I can keep a closer eye on my trees.

How is everyone else fairing in this heat?

Just a lazy 34.5 here, being in the mountains it will get down to below 20 tonight which is perfect weather for sitting in the pool and drinking an Asahi or 3 and getting a comfortable night's sleep

Cheers,
Mojo

I'm in Adelaide too and it's crazy hot.. 4th highest temp every recorded in the city

Just a lazy 34.5 here, being in the mountains it will get down to below 20 tonight which is perfect weather for sitting in the pool and drinking an Asahi or 3 and getting a comfortable night's sleep

Cheers,
Mojo

I could handle that right about now, I'll take a cold Asahi any day.

We've had that for about a week straight now Only just cooled down today, but its back to the 40's again for the weekend apparently... the best part is my air con blew yesterday

40 + in the North of Melbourne !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lucky its my day off so I watered 3 times a day

Away with work so hoping my wife and daughter understand the importance of watering.

Josh

Don D says it is 47 degrees in Hay and second day in a row over 40 degrees.

Got to 39 in Canberra today.

Grant

Hi Guys close to 43 here and over 41 yesterday , Radiant heats a lot higher , going to have a big water bill cooling things off constantly . Dreading the thought of 48 we had a few years ago . Actually hit 44.2 degrees at 5.25 pm

Cheers Alpine

Pleasant 29 here today in west Melbourne
Much nicer than 42 yesterday

Seems a lot of the country is receiving a good dose of summer at the moment. We've back up to 41 here on Monday.

I hope no one has lost any trees this summer.

Just a mild 43 here today I decided to get rid of the garage door and add a wall, The trees need to toughen up like me

It's even hot up here though not quite Adelaide or Perth temps. I'm keeping a sharper watch on the trees to pick the early signs of dehydration. The root over rock tridents all got a bit dry yesterday- some just wilted, a few with dead tips on the new shoots but no real harm. As well as the tree sucking moisture out and evaporation from the mix, rocks also acts like a wick, sucking moisture out of the mix and giveing a greater surface for the moisture to evaporate from so any rock planting -root over rock, root confined to rock, slab plantings, saikei, etc- will dry out faster than those without.

I still haven't put up the shadecloth and the trees in full sun still seem to be healthy but this weather will be a real test of how much sun is good for bonsai and how good my watering is.

Bretts wrote:Just a mild 43 here today I decided to get rid of the garage door and add a wall, The trees need to toughen up like me

Perhaps, we should dose them up with cement and normal fertilizers to harden them up

Had a little thermometer I bought down in Tassie about 20 years ago, out on my back deck and it popped the top off in Sydney`s North yesterday and it goes up to 50c , I guess it is buggered now as all this red stuff came out, and they reckon it is going to be hotter on Tuesday, Phew