Thanks again for the added comments and advise.Appreciate the link Jay...its a hobby that takes SO much work in the winter. With Hubby's line of work (sometimes he's not home to help me) and is VERY difficult to do on my own. Most of my neighbor are "seniors' or at work lol...
LarryG, that 'tent' that you're seeing is not winter protection but wind protection for my Lychee tree. When I do cover them I put the covers ALL the way to the ground and put lights on them as well...but as difficult as it was to do it when they were much smaller I can't even begin to imagine how hard it would be now that they have almost doubled in size.
I also cover my trunks with thick insulation from Carpet padding...
Even with using Frost Covers, blankets, lights and heaters my trees still had severe damages...I'm actually surprised that they survived. Imagine if I hadn't used all those things, I wouldn't have a single tree left
Here's a few pictures of what I've used in the past...
Here's some of the types of lights I've used. Below I used the old fashioned C7 Christmas lights and wrapped them around the low branches.
This is the same mango tree as the first mango tree I posted above (the one next to the date palm) damaged by the 2009/2010 Freeze. I thought it was a goner. Every single leaf and branch was toast. The only part that survived was the trunk since I covered it.
This one was mango tree picture #2 (Glenn)
Here's one of the things I've used to cover the graft/trunk... Carpet padding.
Har, are you talking about
Plant Doctor by organocide?