All of my hibiscus seem to be suffering from the current heat wave that is supposed to only get worse.

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The above flower is a "fresh" one.

So it shouldn't look like this. However, the extreme heat has accelerated its decay from 2 days to merely hours after opening." If they haven't totally dropped their new buds from the heat, all my hibiscus plants are also suddenly having this same problem with their flowers now that the weather has gone to miserably hot and sunny. In all my years of growing hibiscus, I've never seen this happen before.

But then, a lot has been happening in 2020 that is "not normal".

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