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New Hardy Citrus Varieties 2024
Wahl:
Looking forward to see how they do. You are in zone 7 if I remember right? I got way colder here in the last 2 years here in zone 7. I would love to try these from you in years to come.
Mulberry0126:
--- Quote from: Wahl on November 28, 2024, 01:11:38 PM ---Looking forward to see how they do. You are in zone 7 if I remember right? I got way colder here in the last 2 years here in zone 7. I would love to try these from you in years to come.
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Yes and no - this area had always been considered zone 7b but in recent time it was updates to zone 8a. The Winters are fairly mild most of the time, but once every 5-10 years it gets cold enough to kill plants that would have survived otherwise.
I would be happy to share these with you. I hope by the time they are fruiting I will have more information about their hardiness. Tai Tri 4N and Tri-clem-yuz #2 seem like the hardiest of the bunch at the moment.
a_Vivaldi:
Yeah it's definitely now zone 8a out in your direction (much like over here we're now zone 8b even though the 1990 map put us in 7b). But NC is weird. Because of the Appalachians blocking some but not all cold fronts, and more importantly because of the gulf stream and the way that NC juts out into the Atlantic ocean compared to SC or GA, the typical winter is pretty mild. But with the latitude being pretty high (large parts of NC are north of Missouri's southern border, and parts of NC's zone 8 are north parts of zone 6 in Kansas and even parts of zone 5 in Colorado), big cold waves do sometimes plunge the temperatures way, way down. Despite seeing several "zone 9a" type winters recently, I have seen single digit temperatures multiple times in the last two decades, to say nothing of the below zero temps we had as recently as the 80s.
It's for sure a climate where you either have to grow only stuff that's hardy to Pennsylvania at least, or stuff that you're willing to replant every ten years or so.
Mulberry0126:
--- Quote from: a_Vivaldi on November 28, 2024, 09:52:19 PM ---Yeah it's definitely now zone 8a out in your direction (much like over here we're now zone 8b even though the 1990 map put us in 7b). But NC is weird. Because of the Appalachians blocking some but not all cold fronts, and more importantly because of the gulf stream and the way that NC juts out into the Atlantic ocean compared to SC or GA, the typical winter is pretty mild. But with the latitude being pretty high (large parts of NC are north of Missouri's southern border, and parts of NC's zone 8 are north parts of zone 6 in Kansas and even parts of zone 5 in Colorado), big cold waves do sometimes plunge the temperatures way, way down. Despite seeing several "zone 9a" type winters recently, I have seen single digit temperatures multiple times in the last two decades, to say nothing of the below zero temps we had as recently as the 80s.
It's for sure a climate where you either have to grow only stuff that's hardy to Pennsylvania at least, or stuff that you're willing to replant every ten years or so.
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Very interesting, that's a good way to put it! Thank you. It is definitely a weird climate, haha.
Wahl:
--- Quote from: a_Vivaldi on November 28, 2024, 09:52:19 PM ---Yeah it's definitely now zone 8a out in your direction (much like over here we're now zone 8b even though the 1990 map put us in 7b). But NC is weird. Because of the Appalachians blocking some but not all cold fronts, and more importantly because of the gulf stream and the way that NC juts out into the Atlantic ocean compared to SC or GA, the typical winter is pretty mild. But with the latitude being pretty high (large parts of NC are north of Missouri's southern border, and parts of NC's zone 8 are north parts of zone 6 in Kansas and even parts of zone 5 in Colorado), big cold waves do sometimes plunge the temperatures way, way down. Despite seeing several "zone 9a" type winters recently, I have seen single digit temperatures multiple times in the last two decades, to say nothing of the below zero temps we had as recently as the 80s.
It's for sure a climate where you either have to grow only stuff that's hardy to Pennsylvania at least, or stuff that you're willing to replant every ten years or so.
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That is the same way here in north AL but we almost also dip down in to the mid teens and got down to 0f the last 2 years.
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