18 degrees at my house this morning. It was 67 degrees the day before yesterday... Forecasting a low of 19 degrees tonight.

Good luck with your frost protection measures! Hopefully they'll pay off.

Take care,
Igor

Wicked looking trees skinn30a. I hope your trees will be fine. We hit 14 degrees last night, not supposed to get above 22 today and will possibly go down to 13 tonight. I did not do any protection measures on my citrus at all and have my fingers crossed. I'm a little worried about my avocados which I only threw a comforter over for protection.

It is even cold here with temperatures in the 50s F for high and very windy and overcast ! It is blustery and nasty. We had a high temperature of 84F yesterday.

It is amazing that temperatures could decline below 20F at the beach in Florida! That is very rare.

Will ice insulation protect against 18F?

Yes. The thicker the ice the better.

Unbelievable!!! Good luck mate!

My daughter loves icicles. She thinks you are very lucky

Thanks for posting the pictures. Good luck with your trees.

I brought most of my smaller, younger citrus trees indoors due to some unusually cold weather (-11 C and lower) in early Dec.

Anthony

Looks like finaly freezes in hell.
According to the news, it freezes now in Hell, Michigan 48169

hell is no place for citrus.

Found a similar image, Florida oranges...

Just as a follow-up, the ice protection worked very very well. All of my trees escaped the cold weather unscathed though one of them did not escape me... Mark Twain is credited with saying " A man that carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way". So also it goes with a man protecting his citrus tress from the cold with Ice... after the 18 degree night, it appeared to me that my Hamlin had way way too much ice on it - it continued to build for several hours after I took the pictures that I posted here. Knowing that I would have to keep the water running through the next 19 degree night (and until temps exceed 36 degrees), I decided that I should take some of that ice off...starting with the huge stalactites of ice hanging off of the lower limbs.. I mean that's where all the weight is right? Yep - Big boo boo. I took one whack at the biggest one and my tree literally shattered. Unknowingly, I had removed the ice's foundation. All of the ice came crashing down and my tree was torn to pieces with it. As for the others, I let the water just roll on until it was warm enough to turn it off a day and a half later. It took two more days for the ice to melt off but melt it did and my trees are fine. See pics:

Frozen:



Thawed three days later:



Even this tender new growth made it just fine:



Best,

Skinn30a

Amazing, thanks for the pics and info, glad your trees made it ok (shame about the Hamlin)

Off topic but on to your tree, I have been reading lately about using rocks and pea gravel in place of mulch(obviously not right up to the tree trunk). Do you find this more effective or does anyone else have any info on this practice?