The primary night time freeze was a low of 24 right here, the second night time’s low of 19-20F with wind chill (felt like ‘8 levels’), third day’s excessive was solely 37 and froze once more to a low of 27 at night time.
No mangos, carambola, pineapples, tropical guavas, and no atemoyas or sugar apples survived above floor. Most will most likely get well from stumps or roots although.
Nearly all of the citrus out of 40 varieties or so are going to defoliate. Most citrus branches themselves are okay, besides key lime and ponderosa, which burnt down most likely to trunks. Cetennial variegated and nagami kumquats acquired scorched fairly a bit themselves, which stunned me, in addition to satsumas, a pink lime, hamlins and a few bitter oranges (out of a number of varieties) that undoubtedly acquired surprising leaf scalding. Swingler rootstocks that also had inexperienced leaves even broken their leaves. One minneola defoliated, two are wonderful. Minneola fruit even made it via properly. Clementines did a number of the greatest. I used to be considering the murcott tangerine would undergo however it was not broken in any respect, identical with tango tangerine and ‘mandarin F’. Large inexperienced finger lime appears like in depth injury. I could make a extra complete listing..
I used to be additionally stunned a cattley guava defoliated solely. Ardour vines burst violently. Hap ik, mauritius, sweetheart, Brewster lychees right down to major trunks (they’re all underneath 4 ft although). Out of some hundred lychee seedlings there are a handful that both acquired nipped just a bit bit or have been fully untouched. A few of these have been fairly uncovered too. A giant pot with a couple of of them that survived was frozen strong for these 3 days! A pair longan seedlings have been good, out of a whole lot. One Hass seedling was unfazed, whereas about 50 others burnt right down to the bottom, even 8 footers with 2ft of bark. Joey and Mexicola did good, I believe their rootstocks Lula even did alright (one has a sucker and it wasn’t broken). Doni and Russell burned down. I’ve acquired a couple of jaboticaba sabaras and so they had mild/medium leaf injury, not defoliated although. No stick burn on them both. For dragonfruit, pink and yellow each turning to mush, nevertheless a tray of some seedlings had some survivors that did properly, whereas the others round them acquired mushed. Peruvian apple cactuses actually took successful however I believe their more durable bases did survive. Fairly a couple of small and mid-sized century vegetation with succulent development acquired mushed, which actually stunned me. I did not assume that would even occur right here.
One papaya seedling really made it with some leaf injury, surrounded by 3 small century vegetation that did not make it!
No mangos, carambola, pineapples, tropical guavas, and no atemoyas or sugar apples survived above floor. Most will most likely get well from stumps or roots although.
Nearly all of the citrus out of 40 varieties or so are going to defoliate. Most citrus branches themselves are okay, besides key lime and ponderosa, which burnt down most likely to trunks. Cetennial variegated and nagami kumquats acquired scorched fairly a bit themselves, which stunned me, in addition to satsumas, a pink lime, hamlins and a few bitter oranges (out of a number of varieties) that undoubtedly acquired surprising leaf scalding. Swingler rootstocks that also had inexperienced leaves even broken their leaves. One minneola defoliated, two are wonderful. Minneola fruit even made it via properly. Clementines did a number of the greatest. I used to be considering the murcott tangerine would undergo however it was not broken in any respect, identical with tango tangerine and ‘mandarin F’. Large inexperienced finger lime appears like in depth injury. I could make a extra complete listing..
I used to be additionally stunned a cattley guava defoliated solely. Ardour vines burst violently. Hap ik, mauritius, sweetheart, Brewster lychees right down to major trunks (they’re all underneath 4 ft although). Out of some hundred lychee seedlings there are a handful that both acquired nipped just a bit bit or have been fully untouched. A few of these have been fairly uncovered too. A giant pot with a couple of of them that survived was frozen strong for these 3 days! A pair longan seedlings have been good, out of a whole lot. One Hass seedling was unfazed, whereas about 50 others burnt right down to the bottom, even 8 footers with 2ft of bark. Joey and Mexicola did good, I believe their rootstocks Lula even did alright (one has a sucker and it wasn’t broken). Doni and Russell burned down. I’ve acquired a couple of jaboticaba sabaras and so they had mild/medium leaf injury, not defoliated although. No stick burn on them both. For dragonfruit, pink and yellow each turning to mush, nevertheless a tray of some seedlings had some survivors that did properly, whereas the others round them acquired mushed. Peruvian apple cactuses actually took successful however I believe their more durable bases did survive. Fairly a couple of small and mid-sized century vegetation with succulent development acquired mushed, which actually stunned me. I did not assume that would even occur right here.
One papaya seedling really made it with some leaf injury, surrounded by 3 small century vegetation that did not make it!
Not precisely positive what to make of every thing.. it was a tough sufficient freeze although! Dissatisfied in some varieties however enthusiastic about the actual survivors and now I do know what to focus extra effort on.
If I can take extra photos.
The darkish inexperienced dragonfruit seedlings are literally useless. Discover some mild inexperienced survivors proper on prime of them
