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Re: Freezing Temps after Winter Storms in So Cal
« Reply #75 on: April 03, 2019, 09:24:23 PM »



My guamuchil got hit 27 temps..now its coming back nicely

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Re: Freezing Temps after Winter Storms in So Cal
« Reply #76 on: April 04, 2019, 06:13:00 PM »



My guamuchil got hit 27 temps..now its coming back nicely

That's up against a wall. My trees up against structure fared much better than my tree out in the open.


All 11 of my planted guamuchil trees including 2 that were 12-13 feet have not come back and appear dead.


Guamuchil often comes back even after a hard freeze, given enough time and water.

I dont think these are coming back. The biggest guamuchil only has green 6 inches up. The rest of them appear graveyard dead all the way down. There are big guamuchils here everywhere, so I figured they were gtg in this area including a huge tree 200 meters away but even that one looks like it took some damage this winter. Supposedly our low was only 28 degrees. Weird how every guava toughed it out with non losing more than 30% of their limbs but these guamuchils which I thought were tough succumbed. I think it was the week of wet overcast weather we had immediately following our frosts.


The biggest one




The rest look like this all the way down.



I have tons of replacement seedlings from bigger and better fruits but I just wanted them for shade and wind protection. Oh well my project will take a 2 year set back.  :-\

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Re: Freezing Temps after Winter Storms in So Cal
« Reply #77 on: April 04, 2019, 07:33:05 PM »
Here is my neighbor's guamuchil. This was his 1st tree till he planted those palms... out in the open.




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Re: Freezing Temps after Winter Storms in So Cal
« Reply #78 on: April 05, 2019, 01:53:22 PM »
Here is my neighbor's guamuchil. This was his 1st tree till he planted those palms... out in the open.




Nice. Sorry, when I said out in the open I meant like in ranch acreage "out in the open". Tens of meters away from any house, building, wall or large tree. I have some 5-8' guamuchils in containers up against a barn. Looks like they mostly all survived except for their tops. All my mangoes and guavas 15 miles away at my home in the city did just fine, they didn't even defoiliate, the leaves just look a little beat up on top, and purple in the case of the guavas.

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Re: Freezing Temps after Winter Storms in So Cal
« Reply #79 on: April 05, 2019, 03:17:23 PM »
Hi W.F we had the same thing here in Tampa Two Winters ago and last year I dint even get a single Mango, or Anonnas R. this year everything is back with a vengeance.

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« Reply #80 on: April 06, 2019, 11:51:04 AM »
Hi W.F we had the same thing here in Tampa Two Winters ago and last year I dint even get a single Mango, or Anonnas R. this year everything is back with a vengeance.

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Re: Freezing Temps after Winter Storms in So Cal
« Reply #81 on: April 10, 2019, 12:41:33 AM »
After the cold, my trees are getting beaten by the wind, yikes.



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Re: Freezing Temps after Winter Storms in So Cal
« Reply #82 on: April 10, 2019, 01:04:30 AM »


It’s like a baby hurricane without the rain. Had to go tie up one of my young Manila mangos that got loose from its stake and bent all the way to the floor.

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Re: Freezing Temps after Winter Storms in So Cal
« Reply #83 on: April 10, 2019, 01:13:11 AM »
One of my guava was ripped from its stake. We hit 30mph here. Been fairly warm though
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Re: Freezing Temps after Winter Storms in So Cal
« Reply #84 on: April 10, 2019, 01:19:26 AM »
 stable 25mph with occasionally 50mph of gusts.