Maybe I'm wrong, but I would suspect that in a hot dry climate, summer
pruning would aleviate stress on the tree rather than create more. You're
taking away leaf surface area that is otherwise respirating and causing water
loss in the plant. If it stimulates new growth that hasn't hardened off I
could see how that might be less than ideal, but I don't think the tree is
going to put much energy into that if water is an issue.
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