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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Arctic blast recovery 2026
« on: March 09, 2026, 04:09:36 PM »
Quote from: fliptop on March 08, 2026, 08:36:58 PM
puglvr1, sorry, I didn't see your question till now!

I pugged that Coconut Cream on or around March 1. I did, however, see some buds popping before I made the cuts. I believe I have to cut further back on one of the arms still, though. I gave everything a whitewash yesterday. Hopefully that helps?

The only ones I'm not seeing new growth on are the Orange Sherbet and Tong Dam. Oh well.

No problem Fliptop, thanks for the reply. I'm glad you were getting some signs of new growths even before you pugged it. Great to hear! I'm definitely not holding my breath, mine is going to be a loooong recovery I'm sure. I'll be happy to see something in the next couple of months  :D

Are you guys watering your leafless pugged trees on a weekly basis or more often?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Arctic blast recovery 2026
« on: March 07, 2026, 10:57:14 AM »
Quote from: fliptop on March 05, 2026, 06:00:58 PM
I'll have to get a pic of my Kwai Muk. It's not looking good. All leaves turned brown and are hanging on.

One of my Baptiste seedlings is flowering and holding fruit:


Coconut Cream awakening:




Sweet Tart seedling is pushing a lot of new growth, but has included mixed bloom in one spot:


Trouble in paradise? Here's what I think is a Pine Sawyer Beetle on my Mombin:



Hi Fliptop...How many weeks ago did you prune that mango tree (second and third photo) from the top? Might help me to see how long before I start seeing some glimmer of hope. I just pugged mine about a week ago. Thanks!

Hi Bovine, what about your second picture of your mango tree? How long ago did you pug that? Thanks!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Arctic blast recovery 2026
« on: March 04, 2026, 03:57:10 PM »

Thanks Bovine…I have a neighbor a few streets down with 2 Valencia prides one on each of their side yard appx 15 ft tall less than 10 years old that looked like mine before pugging. So far they haven’t pugged it yet. Keeping an eye to see how it recovers.

Pineflatwoods Good luck with your trees!

Julian glad you’re seeing some recovery in your yard.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Arctic blast recovery 2026
« on: March 03, 2026, 10:21:50 AM »
Quote from Bovine
Wow that's a lot of work. I know I've been working all weekend on this Valencia Pride. Seven or eight pickup truck loads. Worked all day Saturday. Started early Sunday took a break at noon took a after lunch nap. Just got finished before dark. Used the lawn mower to windrow all the leaves up against the fence. Did take down the PVC structures starting to get the yard organized mine and the neighbors.




Bovine, how old is that mango tree and what variety is it? Thanks!


Hi Fliptop, I don't think I will be adding anymore trees to the yard. The youngest tree I have is at least 14 years and the oldest is almost 20. It would be hard for me to start with a young tree at this point Lol...

Good Luck with your and Kapps trees!!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Arctic blast recovery 2026
« on: March 02, 2026, 04:48:43 PM »
Galatians...thanks! I hope you're right but I'm definitely not holding my breath. Some weather Predictions?? says its not going to be a wet summer so I'm really disappointed because I was hoping and looking forward to the rainy season to help us out with getting the trees to recover. I can only hope the "predictions" are wrong!

Bovine, it certainly was a LOT of work and a HUGE mess!! I was very happy to pay  2 great very hard working people to get it all pruned and the huge clean up. I was definitely not up to the task not anymore Lol...Took 2 Full Trailers to the brim of branches and limbs and 20 plus bags of leaves!!  They did a great job. I'm SO glad its done...now its up to Mother Nature to take over  ;)...To quote a Doris Day song "Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)"
We've done all that we can.

Fliptop, please keep us posted, but by the looks of it I think they are going to be just fine. What a great sight to see those wonderful new growth buds emerging, Congrats!  :D

 

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Arctic blast recovery 2026
« on: March 01, 2026, 03:57:02 PM »
 

Good Luck everybody on our Fruit trees recovery…Soooo what do you guys think? Am I looking around June maybe before I see any signs of new growths?

Glenn before


Glenn after 😢😔


Lychee ( Tree on the right)


Pugged 😳


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: 2026 Cold Weather [Megathread]
« on: February 24, 2026, 04:59:27 PM »

Weather.com said it was suppose to be a low of 33° this morning for me But...the lowest temperature last night under my Lychee Tree (that's where my thermometer is located)  :) said it was 29.5 degrees around 6am and it didn't get above 32 till past 8 this morning. I guess how much more damage can my super brown damaged plants get  ::)...tomorrow looks to be a carbon copy, the only difference is the weather seems to be warmer after 9am predicting 51°. High suppose to be in the mid 70's tomorrow. I guess this will be the last cold snap till December, I hope anyways??

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Florida Trip
« on: February 22, 2026, 12:19:52 PM »
Quote from: murahilin on February 21, 2026, 10:52:17 AM
Quote from: MAMOHT on February 21, 2026, 10:42:31 AM
Mounts botanical garden is a very decent place and they have a ton of mangos and other tropical fruit trees. It’s a bit of a drive from Miami though.

https://www.mounts.org/

Being a bit of a drive from Miami is often a positive.

Lol...Murahilin, I agree  ;D

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: 2026 Cold Weather [Megathread]
« on: February 21, 2026, 01:06:31 PM »

Thanks CC! Yes the Cogshall and Maha are planted underneath those Oak trees and have thrived there, fruiting almost every year once they were 4 years old except one year the Maha skipped a year for some reason. On any given "normal" winter frost the Oaks have always protected them so they had very little damage except this year  :'(

I'm hoping for the best they will live and recover, I should know by early to mid  summer ? I'll update, but keeping fingers crossed. We sure can use some Rain though, nothing works like rain to help the trees recovery. You are right, these are pretty established trees for living in Zone 9b. I've been lucky.

I just now checked and I have 2 mornings (lows of 34°)...with Wed morning being worse due to very light winds. Good Luck to all of us and hope these 2 mornings are not going to be anything worse than some Patchy frost  :)

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: 2026 Cold Weather [Megathread]
« on: February 20, 2026, 04:13:09 PM »
Very, very sad to see so much damage in her yard. I truly hope most of her trees recover.  I know there will be losses but Hopefully most of our trees will recover.

Planning on pugging all my trees right after this next cold snap. I will not be able to keep up with ALL the leaves falling all over my yard and my neighbors yard with each passing day. It will take me weeks and weeks to rake up  :'(

Glenn 20 years old this July

14 or 15 year old Mauritius Lychee and 19 year old Cogshall mango

14 year old Maha and 19 year old Cogshall


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: 2026 Cold Weather [Megathread]
« on: February 17, 2026, 05:31:34 PM »

SO sorry CC, I too have severe freeze damage on all my 5 Mango trees and my one and only Lychee, all I can hope for after pugging them is that are still alive?? Best of Luck to you and everyone that has had SO much damage...I hope we see some recovery in the next several weeks. I wish the rainy season would come early we can definitely use some of Mother Nature's natural fertilizer (Rain).

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: 2026 Cold Weather [Megathread]
« on: February 16, 2026, 08:13:53 PM »
Thanks for link Galatians , the grove sounds like a great place to see.

John ohhh I had no idea that it was dead …do you think this artic freeze will have an impact
 ( maybe less than previous years) on the population of iguanas or were they just hibernating during the cold weather? So far we lucky they haven’t made their way up here 😁

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: 2026 Cold Weather [Megathread]
« on: February 16, 2026, 01:56:26 PM »
Galatians, you ha ve some great suggestions there. Some I’ve never been to

John,  I take it the artic cold  event didn’t take care of your iguana problem 🥹🤨

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: 2026 Cold Weather [Megathread]
« on: February 08, 2026, 02:35:14 PM »

Thanks Yoski! My Lychee tree is a Mauritius...You too, hope all your trees survive!
My husband informed me that the back of the tree appx 1/4 or less of the tree have very little damage and the leaves are almost all green...it is the south side of the tree. Not sure why that part of the tree was spared...NO clue! Because directly behind that tree is my Keitt mango and that is completely brown!!

Murahilin appreciate the condolense wishes for my trees. They just remodeled our downtown "Circle" but its not on 27 you'll have to get to Lakeview Dr to get there...might want to check that area out. To be honest not a whole lot going on in our small little town Lol...I can't believe I've lived here for almost 20 years!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: 2026 Cold Weather [Megathread]
« on: February 08, 2026, 11:14:06 AM »
Doc, yes for me this seems worse than the 2010 freeze I had...my trees were much younger back then though. I did lose a Lychee tree and a couple of young mango trees back in 2010. This year ALL my mango and my one Lychee tree are severely damaged. At first it looked like only half the tree but now after looking at them this morning it looks like ALL the branches have been damaged, the leaves are either silvery green or brown..so I will have to cut off ALL the damage branches and see "IF" it survives?? Some of these trees are anywhere from 14 to almost 20 years old. Fingers crossed they are alive just really really damaged. :-\
Doc, I will cut till I see greenish whitish signs on that part of the branch is alive or you can do the "scratch test"...if its brown and brittle it is dead.

Thanks Flipflop...I'm really hoping the trees are alive??

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: February 2026 freeze damage report (Sebring FL)
« on: February 08, 2026, 10:45:25 AM »

I live in Sebring too and you fared much better than I did. My only Lychee tree is fried and looks as bad as ALL my mango trees  :'(...I can't remember if it was Feb 1 or 2nd we hit a low of 23°. Looks like a LOT of pugging for me this Spring. I'm really hoping everything is alive just severely damaged?? Time will tell.

Good luck with your trees, but it looks like all of your trees survived  :)

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: 2026 Cold Weather [Megathread]
« on: February 05, 2026, 11:35:20 AM »
Quote from: fliptop on February 05, 2026, 08:27:24 AM
Damage continues to show up. I thought this was a Croton until I realized it was my seedling Sri Lankan Mango:



Shirley picked the worst time of year to hatch her first egg:



Some stuff other than Mangos actually looks okay (for now).

Cinnamon Apples look okay as do my Pouteria salicifolia seedlings. Here's one:

I left two super small ones completely uncovered and today they are still green.

I neglected to cover the Imbe seedlings a couple cold cold nights, but so far so good.

Mammee Apple got a double wrap of frost cloth. Fingers crossed on this one, as it's a fan favorite here:


More cold tonight 😞

Super CUTE Chick Flipflop  :)

All my mango trees and Lychee Blooms are fried and at least at least several feet of the tree branches are burnt...looks like a LOT of Pugging this Spring  :-\ >:( 
Worst winter here EVER for me!!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: PVC cages for cold protection
« on: January 02, 2026, 10:14:25 AM »
Quote from: kengland on January 01, 2026, 09:39:42 AM
UPDATE:

As a few on here mentioned, the inside temp of the structures were about 4 degrees COOLER than the ambient temp outside. We hit a low of 29.7 where I'm at (I have a weather station). The two start fruit miraculously made it through with a little stress which is really odd given that it must have briefly hit 25 degrees in the tent.

The phenomena is called Radiational Freeze. It's counterintuitive. Hard to believe.

Flowers on mangos are toast. That's fine. The stress though looks on those in the tent look similar to those I wrapped in frost cloth.

I spent around 600 in materials and 6 hrs of labor. Won't be doing that again. Onward

Sorry you lost your mango blooms, its good the tree survived. You've done a lot in trying to protect them, that's all you can do. I've been in your situation when my trees were young and small. Lost a few in the process. Good luck!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: When Does Lychee Tree Flower?
« on: January 01, 2026, 08:47:22 PM »

I am in Florida also and a few of the branches of my Lychee tree are just starting to show some blooms but many more are not. Of course we had some pretty bad frost this morning so not sure how that will affect the blooms and the blooms that haven’t started.

Lycheesonline has some great info on “tips on how to get lychee trees to bloom”. It sounds like the new flush needs a total of  appx 10 weeks from the beginning of a new flush all the to hardening off…before the tree is ready to bloom in winter. For my area they recommend trimming the tree late July and by September I get one last new flush before winter and IF all goes well mine usually blooms around late December/January/ February depending on our weather. That’s been my experience with my tree

Good luck!


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: PVC cages for cold protection
« on: January 01, 2026, 08:22:34 PM »

Thanks Bovine! Sounds like you’re all set and very well equipped for the next frost/ freeze event. Hopefully we won’t have anymore…but not holding my breath. Still have 8 weeks to go before we’re out of the woods 😞

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: PVC cages for cold protection
« on: January 01, 2026, 09:15:02 AM »
That’s pretty awesome Bovine …Nice job! What type of light bulb did you use for heat?

We were 38 to 33 degrees with zero winds starting at midnight so almost 9 hours of Frost before the temps reached 40 degrees this morning.  My Glenn is loaded with blooms and Cogshall has about 1/3 of the tree with blooms. I’m sure I’m going to lose most if not ALL the Flowers 😭😰😡

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: PVC cages for cold protection
« on: December 30, 2025, 12:46:12 PM »

Great Job Kengland!! I remember doing something very similar to your set up when my Mango and lychee tree were young (also in zone 9B).

Best of luck to you but I think you're going to be just fine  :D

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Air Layer Lychee Questions after Potting...
« on: August 13, 2025, 12:09:34 PM »


Thanks guys for all your help and advise. Since I already cut it I might as well see what happens with this one. I'm sure it won't make it but no harm in trying.

There's always next year  :)




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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Air Layer Lychee Questions after Potting...
« on: August 12, 2025, 02:49:25 PM »

Okay thanks for the advise, obviously it's too late now Lol...I might try it again next Spring and this time leave it on there for 6 months. Appreciate your help.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Air Layer Lychee Questions after Potting...
« on: August 10, 2025, 03:21:12 PM »

So its been 11 weeks since I did my second try (first one didn't have any roots at all) on Air layering a lychee branch. This one didn't have a lot of roots but it did have some so I potted it up and watered it well. I have a before and after photos of it before I pugged it. Most of everything I read said to remove a lot of the leaves to put all its energy to the roots...my question is did I remove enough? Should I remove more?? I'm planning on putting this in the shade for probably several weeks. If anyone else has any other suggestions or tips please let me know.

Thanks!







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