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Gotta love a Florida weather forecast that calls for a "Falling Lizard Warning" 🦎🦎🦎
dwfl and orkine - Thankyou!Should I cut of the dead blooms or just leave them?
Official low for me this morning was 28.2° and was 32° and below for about 5 hours, I'm sure I will lose the blooms on my tree, the Glenn was full of blooms and my Cogshall had just a few...others haven't started.
Hope everyone’s garden isn’t too affected or can at least recover. Seems like most places didn’t receive as severe of cold as expected. Obviously not the case everywhere. In y’all’s experience if cold kills lychee bloom can they bloom again like you see in mangoes? Seems like that may not the case for other fruits like stone fruit. I used to hear about late freezes ruining peach crops, etc. Thanks for the info and happy gardening y’all.
Today was even colder than yesterday for me.At 7 a.m. 31 degrees and frost on the ground and ice on windshield.
Saw this on the news the other day.Guess I got lower than 31°. I might need to get a thermometer.One section of my yard got hit really hard. I will soon be on the search for cold-hardy fruit trees that can stand occasional flooding (thinking longan and white sapote?).Didn't have enough time/frost cloth to cover Canistel, Barbados Cherries, and Suriname Cherries, and they took it like a champ. The small Peanut Butter Fruits got fried, but the big ones were unphased.
Thanks for the info and recommendation, Galatians522!
Freeze before mature mango tree had made flower shoots. All new leaves had matured. All leaves are completely brown, will die. Central FL, Feb 8.A thought : Would frozen leaf removal in late Feb result in new leaves sooner?If so, then remove all, or just at ends?
Quote from: yuzr on February 08, 2022, 08:45:55 AMFreeze before mature mango tree had made flower shoots. All new leaves had matured. All leaves are completely brown, will die. Central FL, Feb 8.A thought : Would frozen leaf removal in late Feb result in new leaves sooner?If so, then remove all, or just at ends? I would wait patiently for now. The frozen leaves will protect what is below them if we have more cold weather.
Quote from: Galatians522 on February 08, 2022, 07:20:33 PMQuote from: yuzr on February 08, 2022, 08:45:55 AMFreeze before mature mango tree had made flower shoots. All new leaves had matured. All leaves are completely brown, will die. Central FL, Feb 8.A thought : Would frozen leaf removal in late Feb result in new leaves sooner?If so, then remove all, or just at ends? I would wait patiently for now. The frozen leaves will protect what is below them if we have more cold weather.Thanks.I was specific ("late Feb"). Please define "for now", including the word "until" and some calendar-related phrase. The core question remains.