A Houston Cold Tolerance Report- Couple hour freeze uncovered

[elouicious]

Hey All-

So I mentioned I would do a cold tolerance listing of a lot of species but ended up deciding that a picture is worth a thousand words so just snapped some of all the species we left outside in pots or in the ground.

First the weather it endured-


I think most people will know that a single temperature that a species can survive is a bit of a myth- good examples in here are the Dovyalis hebecarpa and Garcinia brasiliensis

Another point worth noting is that by building a basically cube of wind blocks, with the tallest trees on the north side I was able to build an area of the back yard that did not experience any frost- these are the "protected" pictures below



Agaptes serpens-



Annona montana-



Annona muricata-



dead bud



new bud



Artocarpus heterophyllus-



protected:


Azadirachta indica-



Brugmansia spp.-



new growth



Casimiroa edulis-



Dovyalis caffra-



Dovyalis hebecarpa-


the only plant of ~5 that was affected


Euterpe oleracea-



Garcinia brasiliensis-


protected:


Garcinia humilis-


Inga spp. -

unprotected:


protected:




Magnifera spp. -



Manilkara zapota-



Mimusops zeyheri-



Musa spp. "Java Ice Cream" -



Plinia spp. "Red" -



Pouteria caimito-



Syzygium malaccense-




Syzygium oleosum-






Ugni molinae-




cheers,

[nullzero]

Sorry for your losses. Looks like you going to have a 1/3 survive at least.

[elouicious]

Thanks Nullzero!

Call me a sadist- but these were all extra plants that I have laying around that I was doing experiments with

Nothing looks completely dead to me but time will tell and winter is not over

hopefully this will encourage more people to try to zone push- young Garcinia surviving a frost is hopeful for me

[Triphal]

Worried and feel sorry for our TFF members experiencing this unusual days of freezing in deep South Texas.