I don't know about the other zones, but here in Belgium the temperatures are way to high to be normal. Spring started a bit earlier and summer too but in august, the summer kinda dissappeared and it become rainy and colder making my warmthneeding plants like citrus and chilli stop growing. In september the weather turned warmer again and until now it still is warm.
This week we reached about 18°C when a normal temp would be about 8°C perhaps?

Anyway, when august became colder I cut off all the flowerbuds to prepare for winters to come and today I cut off more than a hundred buds off my Calamondin. The Latifoalia (that lost some leaves after repotting) has a lot of new leafgrowth and flowerbuds.
The C. Limon also produced one flowerbud though no new leaves and my sinensis seems as if in a coma with no new leaves or buds what so ever.

I was wondering if this new longlasting burst of warmth will harm the plants? Since at first they were preparing for 'hibernation' and then they revived(except for the sinensis).

I've already opened my greenhouse door to lower the temperature smoothly just to prepare for a possible major temperature drop in december.

I was also wondering why the Calamondin and Latifolia seem full of life whilst the Limon and Sinensis are in some sort of growthstop.
Perhaps these 2 latter ones have higher needs for growth?

Maybe something interesting to share about the sinensis: it restored with a lot of new leaves, actually its foliage has recovered very nicely after being completely bald but I has never produced a lot of buds and has been mesmerized these last 3 months.

What are your opinions on this?

Greetz!

Same here... I took the plants inside somewhere at the beginning of October when night temperatures approached freezing. But now with these high temperatures I'm starting to see new growth and flower buds on several plants. Nothing much you can do about it... the climate is really becoming a mess it seems...

I'm not going to put the plants back outside, but if I had known I could have left them outside for an extra couple of weeks!

The greenhouse still reaches 18°C during the day here. It is an advantage because the cold winter period be shorter than usual. The citrus will have it easier than last year with all those months of freezing.

never say never again, you don't really know what the weather could bring. the extra warmth in november and december, usually ends up causing the prolonged winter in march and april... which might hurt much more... like everything's been messed up lately.

They already predicted a hard winter but last year we had a hard and long winter because it was already very cold during fall and it lasted pretty long. I hope spring comes it at a regular time which would mean a cold but not to long winter.

I wouldn't rely too much on those long term predictions. "They" also predicted a long hot summer. I haven't seen much of it...

I guess we had the first part of summer at the end of spring and the second part...well...september and october I guess.

Though I am a huge fan off ice and snow, it always makes me nervous when thinking of my citrus.
This year I will be worrying a bit more since my sinensis looks as if it's in a dorming state and it already had kind off a hard time last winter-spring.

I was actually hoping my trees would be simultaneously producing buds and leaves. Now I've got 2 producing buds and leaves, a lemon that produced buds in the first 'summer part' and now just 1 and a sinensis that doesn't seem to be doing anything. If I had only known the things I know now...I think my sinensis would be a lot happier at the moment.

All my citrus are still outside,and doing very well

I also see new growth and bud,s.
If i must believe some German wheatherman,than a very cold winter is coming
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Tja Sven,

zone 8 is a very wide zone. F.e. my parents live in the south of France (region Toulouse) and that is also zone 8. Well I think you understand that you can not compare the climat over there with the climat in the polders in Holland. Last week my father had 22 degrees celsius and 12 in the night, here we had -2 in the night and only 1 degree in the daytime!
You understand that (very quickly) I had to put my citrusses in the greenhouse.

You don't even have to go that much to the south to feel a difference. This week I was in a place called "Le Lude", a bit to the south of Le Mans in France. Night temperatures over there were around 10°C while at home near Antwerp we had a -2°C.