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Citrus => Cold Hardy Citrus => Topic started by: Unicyclemike on April 15, 2023, 05:06:43 PM

Title: best material for tree protection
Post by: Unicyclemike on April 15, 2023, 05:06:43 PM

What is the best material to use to protect trees from cold temps?

Mike Adams

Title: Re: best material for tree protection
Post by: tedburn on April 15, 2023, 06:17:28 PM

I don' t know what the best material is, but I can show, how I protect my frosthardier citrus.

(https://i.postimg.cc/dZJpgftW/IMG-20230130-155543909.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/dZJpgftW)

For younger plants, or plants with new grafts, I take
a double layer protection with inner layer oc cocos mat and
a second layer with frost protection fleece.
For good wrapping and space around the plants, that not so much leafes touch the protection layer, I put some bricks around the plant and put sticks of bambus in the holes of the bricks. Around bricks and sticks I wrap the layers and fix them with clamps. In the inner I still lay some water bottles.

(https://i.postimg.cc/KkSdDjXh/Zitrus-Prag-Winterschutz-IMG-20230305-110738835.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/KkSdDjXh)

For the Prag chimera, which grows slow and is hardy but still small, I used only one layer of frost protection fleece.

Title: Re: best material for tree protection
Post by: Unicyclemike on April 15, 2023, 07:53:33 PM

Thank you.  Why the brick? 

Mike Adams

Title: Re: best material for tree protection
Post by: tedburn on April 16, 2023, 02:31:07 AM

The brick is a quick and easy way for posting the bamboo sticks and perhaps he also brings a little bit of protection to the lower part of the plant.