The primary evening freeze was a low of 24 right here, the second evening’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 evening.
No mangos, carambola, pineapples, tropical guavas, and no atemoyas or sugar apples survived above floor. Most will most likely recuperate 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 bought scorched fairly a bit themselves, which shocked me, in addition to satsumas, a pink lime, hamlins and a few bitter oranges (out of a number of varieties) that positively bought sudden leaf scalding. Swingler rootstocks that also had inexperienced leaves even broken their leaves. One minneola defoliated, two are advantageous. Minneola fruit even made it by means of nicely. Clementines did a few of the finest. I used to be considering the murcott tangerine would undergo nevertheless it was not broken in any respect, identical with tango tangerine and ‘mandarin F’. Big inexperienced finger lime appears like intensive harm. I could make a extra complete record..
I used to be additionally shocked a cattley guava defoliated solely. Ardour vines burst violently. Hap ik, mauritius, sweetheart, Brewster lychees all the way down to principal trunks (they’re all underneath 4 ft although). Out of some hundred lychee seedlings there are a handful that both bought nipped just a bit bit or had been fully untouched. A few of these had been fairly uncovered too. A giant pot with a number of of them that survived was frozen stable for these 3 days! A pair longan seedlings had been good, out of lots of. One Hass seedling was unfazed, whereas about 50 others burnt all the way 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 bought a number of jaboticaba sabaras they usually had gentle/medium leaf harm, not defoliated although. No stick burn on them both. For dragonfruit, pink and yellow each turning to mush, nonetheless a tray of some seedlings had some survivors that did nicely, whereas the others round them bought mushed. Peruvian apple cactuses actually took a success however I believe their more durable bases did survive. Fairly a number of small and mid-sized century crops with succulent progress bought mushed, which actually shocked me. I did not suppose that would even occur right here.
One papaya seedling truly made it with some leaf harm, surrounded by 3 small century crops that did not make it!
No mangos, carambola, pineapples, tropical guavas, and no atemoyas or sugar apples survived above floor. Most will most likely recuperate 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 bought scorched fairly a bit themselves, which shocked me, in addition to satsumas, a pink lime, hamlins and a few bitter oranges (out of a number of varieties) that positively bought sudden leaf scalding. Swingler rootstocks that also had inexperienced leaves even broken their leaves. One minneola defoliated, two are advantageous. Minneola fruit even made it by means of nicely. Clementines did a few of the finest. I used to be considering the murcott tangerine would undergo nevertheless it was not broken in any respect, identical with tango tangerine and ‘mandarin F’. Big inexperienced finger lime appears like intensive harm. I could make a extra complete record..
I used to be additionally shocked a cattley guava defoliated solely. Ardour vines burst violently. Hap ik, mauritius, sweetheart, Brewster lychees all the way down to principal trunks (they’re all underneath 4 ft although). Out of some hundred lychee seedlings there are a handful that both bought nipped just a bit bit or had been fully untouched. A few of these had been fairly uncovered too. A giant pot with a number of of them that survived was frozen stable for these 3 days! A pair longan seedlings had been good, out of lots of. One Hass seedling was unfazed, whereas about 50 others burnt all the way 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 bought a number of jaboticaba sabaras they usually had gentle/medium leaf harm, not defoliated although. No stick burn on them both. For dragonfruit, pink and yellow each turning to mush, nonetheless a tray of some seedlings had some survivors that did nicely, whereas the others round them bought mushed. Peruvian apple cactuses actually took a success however I believe their more durable bases did survive. Fairly a number of small and mid-sized century crops with succulent progress bought mushed, which actually shocked me. I did not suppose that would even occur right here.
One papaya seedling truly made it with some leaf harm, surrounded by 3 small century crops that did not make it!
Not precisely certain what to make of all the things.. it was a tough sufficient freeze although! Dissatisfied in some varieties however enthusiastic about the true 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 lifeless. Discover some gentle inexperienced survivors proper on prime of them
