Root Rot?

[rockm]

Trees do not drown as quick as human beings or other mammals. Think of trees growing alongside rivers where floods inundate the roots for days, if not weeks, most years. Overwatering takes weeks to start killing small roots. Then we see fungal infection which makes the problems worse and kills more roots. Above ground we see slow and gradual decline, one or 2 branches at a time.
Dehydration affects the tree much more quickly. It's usually visible at the outer ends of branches and the top of the tree as the tree tries to save inner and lower parts for when the drought ends.


This may sound reasonable but does not seem to be reality. I do not have to contend with very cold weather like much of the USA, but we do have plenty of hot during our Summer. Initially I was reluctant to ship trees in hot weather but we have found that the trees cope well, even during heat waves. Trees that require watering twice a day in the nursery can go a week without additional water when packed in a dark box. I assume they stop transpiring because of no sun? Whatever the cause, all reports from my customers indicate trees travel well through hot weather.

Um, It IS a thing in the U.S. Temperatures here are hotter, distances greater. Water is not the problem. Its the heat that does the damage.

It's sitting in an un-airconditioned metal cargo container for five hours on a runway in LA or wherever when its 110 air temp and 150 inside the container down on the blacktop (some air lines refuse to ship dogs as cargo here in the summer months because of this kind of danger). A definition of a heat wave in your country is not what it can be here. It was 100 F for three days here last week. We're averaging in the mid 90s this week --and we're not the hottest part of the country. A bonsai traveling 2,000 miles in an un-airconditioned trailer across areas of country that are deserts or tropical can be subject to prolonged extremely high temperatures. A hot day here can be 115 on a road than runs 1,000 miles.

 

[leatherback]

A definition of a heat wave in your country is not what it can be here.

hm... Having lived in multiple cities in Australia I can tell you it gets bloody hot there. 35+ with 100% humidity in Darwin is no joke. And 45C days in Alice spring are not cold either.

During a Heat Wave

A heat wave is a period of abnormally hot weather generally lasting more than two days. Heat waves can occur with or without high humidity. They have potential to cover a large area, exposing a high number of people to hazardous heat.

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A heatwave occurs when the maximum and the minimum temperatures are unusually hot over a three-day period in a specific location. This is considered in relation to the local climate and past weather at that place.

Seems pretty similar to me?
And yes, peak temperatures in inland Australia also go into the 110-120F range in regular summers. Did a roadtrip through WA 2 years ago, and had 10 consecutive days of 110F.
Saying the USA is hotter than Australia is a bit of an odd statement. Both the continent of Australia as well as USA can get locally bloody hot. I would doubt it is substantially different.

 

[rockm]

hm... Having lived in multiple cities in Australia I can tell you it gets bloody hot there. 35+ with 100% humidity in Darwin is no joke. And 45C days in Alice spring are not cold either.





Seems pretty similar to me?
And yes, peak temperatures in inland Australia also go into the 110-120F range in regular summers. Did a roadtrip through WA 2 years ago, and had 10 consecutive days of 110F.
Saying the USA is hotter than Australia is a bit of an odd statement. Both the continent of Australia as well as USA can get locally bloody hot. I would doubt it is substantially different.

Sorry I was comparing temps in europe. My mistake. Yeah it’s hot in Oz. It hot in the U.S. shipping in that heat is a problem annd a crap shoot for living cargo

All you have to do is look at the damage to those junipers. They’re uniformly brown and crispy. That indicates shock damage not a watering/root issue to me. The entire plant was exposed to some kind of immediate stress.

What kind of stress might that be in the summer in the US during a period of record heat? Hmm

 

[Betula1]

Why not contact the vendor and ask for a refund?

 

[leatherback]

Why would the seller refund? Just as likely a care issue by the recipient. I really dislike this blame the vendor game many seem to play nowadays.

 

[Attmos]

Why would the seller refund? Just as likely a care issue by the recipient. I really dislike this blame the vendor game many seem to play nowadays.

Pretty much blame anyone but yourself, is what I'm seeing from my perspective.