Jim,
I broke a sweated through a shirt sitting in the shade this morning. LOL
All of my trees froze to the ground last winter. They got a little growth on them before the onset of heat. On top of the heat we are in an "exceptional drought". In the past two months, we've had .14" of rain. Only .04" of that was in the past six weeks. I've extended the watering intervals for my fig trees to once every three weeks for water conservation reasons. Ta'cenc is the first one to show signs of stress so I use that as a barometer for the other trees. The other fruit trees can only go about 1.5 weeks without water. I'm still hopeful there will be a long spell of "not so hot" weather before winter comes this year and my trees will grown and maybe even put out some figs. I suppose we'll see.