It’s hard for fire blight or any fungal diseases to live when its 113F and 8% humidity. All those fire blight blossom strikes from June gloom are now dry, brown, and crispy; not a trace of goo. They snap off easily and won’t contaminate anything in the process. That’s the last we’ll see of it for the year.
We go around after a heat wave like this pretty much like you folks do when a late frost hits, assessing the damage to blossoms and leaf tips.
Yup, and any mildew hanging around my grapes and roses got fried, today. It was 104 here. 6 miles from the ocean. I thought I was going to melt, even with the air conditioning on. And, we are VERY lucky we didn’t experience any rolling blackouts here. I am afraid to go out and check my trees and my poor hydrangeas. Will be inspecting in 2 days, when I can go out without turning into a puddle.
We have been 118-120 the last two days…You kinda learn to stay wet (we get in the pool clothes and all every 45 mins or so) or stay inside. All in all the fruit trees shrug it off without much fuss. Vegetables are pretty pissed about it tho.
Holy Mother of God. 
Hahaa it really isnt as bad as it sounds. Its not far off normal for this time of year. Ill take a nice dry June 115 over a muggy August 105 anyday. Our monsoon season starts about 4th of July and then its miserable. The plants like the moisture better than I do.
Hot here too but it is supposed to be. Its awsome to me to see the affects of the sun on plant life. Some good and bad. Difficult to explain if you don’t see it first hand. I remember in 2011( the worst summer ever in Texas) my Satsumas were exploding on the tree. Something I had never seen before!
Amazing weather!
Wrong side of the separation!
Spend a year in Bangkok, Thailand. They get dew points of 80F in January! Avg temp there is from low 80Fs in the “cool” months to upper 80Fs in the warm months…
Perfect conditions for rot and fungus!!
Oh… you now have me thinking of all the curbside food and took took rides. One of my favorite places.
The heat is not so bad here… but, we did get 2" of rain in 25 minutes today, flooding our basement.
This time of year is also usually a time to assess damage for me: the curculio is done, and its awhile before the moth, stinkbug, and Japanese beetle damage starts to hit. I finally put down milky spore last year so am hoping the latter is not so bad this year.
Damn…what do you do then? Run pumps all night?
Hope you get it dried out… flooded basements are no fun.
My son found a Japanese Beetle here today and of course he brought it home and its in the house. Probably is a female full of eggs and it will fly to the grass and lay 10,000 eggs.
No big worries, it was just one window that had a waterfall coming in which fortunately my wife and son dealt with quickly. We lost about half a shelf of books, only minor flooding on the floor. The dehumidifier is cranking now and it will be better in a day or so. The window well has a drain which is fast enough 99% of the time; the last flooding from that window was ten years ago.
Make note to self: Don’t store forum server in basement.