Ok, so I got hammered like most of us, and the blankets and protection I tried using didn't work for the tropicals I had in the ground.
No big loss since most of my plants were from seed and experimental at best, but now what do I do with my bananas, papayas and seedling mangos?
One of my bananas was about 5ft tall, the rest were about 3ft tall. Do I remove the dead leaves, chop down the stalk or just let it be to provide protection, though it would be limited, to any pups that start coming out, or will the 5ft plant start to push new growth out?
As for the papaya, do I strip off the dead leaves and keep the main stalk in hopes of it coming back? I had about 8 papayas that were about 2 feet tall and just starting to flower.
The mangos that I lost were all about 1.5 years old and less than 2ft tall (mainly altaufo). They were small but bushy and leafy. Do I just leave them in the grounds in hope they'll pop back up or just dig em out.
Lastly I had 3 seedling grapefruit. 1 looks to be completely fried but the other 2 only lost the new growth flush. I assume I trim that back and those should bounce back, or is there something else.
One more - since its been so dry out lately, should I water now that we're back into the '70s or try to keep them in a bit of a hibernated state in fear of another frost/freeze happening.
Thanks