I wish you all lots of luck. If it gets to 33* here, it will be like a heat wave! I'm sick of this crap. Wind chills are below zero & will be next couple days. At least I don't have to worry about my trees like you are... they're in sunroom.
It's hard to imagine Florida being that cold. Been telling ppl I need some Florida sunshine & warm weather to knock out this 3 month cold I have LOL. Stay warm

Came in at an even 20 degrees this morning. But tonight's prediction has sunk to 16 just like last night's so I suppose we'll have to do it all over again.

.....Alan.

The lowest I saw was 27 here,(I guess weather channel was right over our local news) but I saw that Tallahassee was 14 this mornning!

I got most of my blueberries from Finch Bluberry nursery in NC--The One I got named Arlen was suppose to be a late variety--I don't know if I got a mis-labled plant or if the description was wrong, but it is the earliest plant I have. I will have to check out some of the new ones you mentioned.

22F here this morning. Everything looks fine.

All my trees seem to be fine but I have a cara cara that was loaded with blooms/fruitlets which are all toast now. I am hoping a few of the more inner blooms may make it, but most seem to have a slight brown tinge that I am expecting will only get worse with time. Is it possible to get another set of blooms on the tree this year or am I out of luck until next season? I am starting to think I may have made a poor decision for my area with the naval but i was really hoping for an early season crop. They are calling for 25 for me tonight so that's not too bad. I really like a bit of cold weather in the winter down here just for a change from the 90's of the summer, but this year the lows have gotten a little crazy.

I have regular Washington navel & variegated & regular Cara cara navels here in Charleston that produce excellent crops each year. Are you fertilizing all year, or do you stop in late summer ? I stop fertilizing in late July to allow the tree to go dormant. If you continue to fertilize the tree will not go dormant. That may be your problem.

You may get another bloom when the weather warms.

I actually just purchased this one in the late summer/early fall. I have not fertilized at all, but I'm sure it probably was before I bought it. It's a pretty good sized tree. I bought it in a 15 gallon pot. I was only going to let it hold a few fruit this season anyway, so maybe a few of the blooms will make it and I won't have to do any thinning. I actually very rarely fertilize any of my inground citrus. I get more fruit than my family and friends can eat from the trees and they all look healthy so I generally just let them be. I actually have about 200 meyer lemons left that are dropping from the tree now. I just have no idea what to do with 3 or 4 hundred lemons a year. I think I am going to graft different oranges to all but a few of the meyers branches in the spring so I won't be so overloaded with lemons next year.

Columbia bottomed out at 18 degs. It has been one cold day here and it is forecast to be 18 degs. again tonight.

Skeeter,

You sound like me, I love lemon anything...lemonade, pie, cake, candy & cookies...right down to slicing a lemon into two pieces and sprinkling on a little salt and eating away. Lemon pie...it's just the greatest!!

Alan did you see on the weather news how far down the jetstream is dipping? It is rare to have it bow and dip as far south as it is at this time. It is dragging all this Arctic chill right along with it. I really feel for all you folks down there. My outside flower pots stayed frozen solid all day today. The poor pansies have been frozen for 2 days now, and I am afraid to water them, fearing it will crack my nice ceramic pots. By this time next week, we are to be near 70 degrees....go figure!!