Carefully monitor soil moisture levels both around and in the rootballs. If the soil in the rootballs is different than the soil at the new planting site, that may be causing some drainage problems.

Here is a link that might be useful: Planting a Tree or Shrub

it is a conifer .. there is a conifer forum ... should you wish to be enabled.. or learn more.. it does not matter to me where you post ...

see link for what i typed a few minutes ago.. regarding interior browning ...

all that said.. i simply dont see anything wrong with your plants .. other than a little interior browning..

you know what root mass you dug a hole for.. dig just outside such..AND FIND OUT ABOUT SOIL MOISTURE at depth ... why are you guessing???? .. and then water deeply and thoroughly and let them near dry before another deep watering..

no one can tell you how to water.. in the soil in your garden.. ergo ipso presto.. dig holes and find out ...

good luck

ken

Here is a link that might be useful: link

i missed the part where you moved large conifers in late july ...

even if you water perfectly..

EXPECT interior browning this fall.. and/or next spring ...

ken