I'm in Tampa at the east edge of Seminole Heights and the forecast low for Tampa in town on Monday morning was 35ºF. I am about 3-1/2 miles NE of downtown Tampa. In my yard it got down to 33ºF, as close as I can determine. I only brought one thing inside, two very small chupa-chupa seedlings in 4-in pots which by 40ºF were showing limp leaves with burnt edges.
Everything else in the yard whether under open sky or under the shade of a tree, or on my open, north-facing front porch (under its ceiling) there showed no damage at all. We had no frost that I could see im my neighborhood that mornong either.
Untouched by the cold includes, my four condo mango cultivars, a six foot tall biribá (with a 1-3/4" diameter trunk) outside in a 7-gal pot with new leaves that were undamaged, a 3-ft tall grumichama in the ground, various Eugenias and Garcinias, three young white sapotes, and several Annona species. There were a few leaves on my several mats of bananas that were 'scorched' a bit by the cold, but nothing serious. The only thing really damaged was a bed of variegated creeping Cuban oregano whose succulent leaves all got burned by the cold, but it will likely come back from its stems after it warms back up.
Possibly one cold-damage mitigating factor involved is that my lot is situated on top of a broad shallow hill which may allow the coldest air to flow around us and downhill. And for any of you who might wonder why I didn't bring in or cover anything, this whole fruit forest was undertaken as an experiment for me to see what will survive here when exposed to the occasional cold or freeze we get in Tampa.
Of course I'll have to wait for a week or so to be certain that there really was no cold damage, but so far so good. . . . .
Hope everyone else had little or minimal cold damage.
Cheers!
Paul M.
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