I went over to the Nursery the other day, the one I get my fine pine bark from. I happened to mention heat stress to the person at the nursery he told me that he thought one reason heat stress was so bad this year was because we had three weeks of drought, then a few weeks of rain almost every day, now we are back in the drought stage and he thinks the plants try to adapt to the dry weather, then they get used to rain every day, then try to readjust to the drought conditions and it just puts too much stress on them.
That may be true, I was watering this morning when I happened to see this scape on 'Pink Super Dormant, it has actually blasted twice and still had buds and blooms on it. The scape was abnormally large at the base then blasted it looks like, then kept growing but not nearly as thick and blasted again. This just illustrates how our weather has been this year.
