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Caren, I would be concerned too if I were
you. Your biggest danger at this point is that your trees will not go
fully dormant, and the jet stream will take a sudden notion to bring you some
extremely cold air. Given the rare sunshine you have been having, you need
to either paint the trunks white or maybe better yet wrap them so that the sun
can't warm the bark. I figure you normally don't have to worry about
"southwest damage" to tree trunks like down here where the sun is more intense,
but this year you probably should. Watering in the warm temps may not be
good, but on the other hand as you saw this spring, without clouds and rain
to moderate temps, they can rise immoderately. We went through a
freakishly dry winter and spring here in Tennessee in '07, much
too warm, followed by abnormally cold temps in early
April. It was the worst spring freeze since the same thing happened
exactly 100 years earlier. Donna
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