Here are some pictures of my citrus trees from before and after this outbreak of global warming!

The misting system appears to be working!



A picture of a seedling satsuma tree and a seedling kumquat.. neither were protected in any way.. 15 F has been our bottom low during this freeze.
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This last picture is the "Before" shot of my satsuma grove.. should have put it first I guess!

'Hope that you come out of this unscathed. Good luck.

Phillip

Ya no kidding! That ice looks very ominous. Hope all good well!

Cheers, Barrie.

Here are pics of two limequat seedlings about one meter apart. One heavily damaged by the cold, the other with no apparent damage. The mother tree in the back yard had horrible cold damage last year but came back ok. The damage to it this year is pretty bad, but I think it will survive

It's hard to tell variety some times, but in driving around Gainesville and the surrounding area this last week or so I haven't seen an undamaged citrus tree yet. Some only had minor damage, some appear to be devastated. Went past the Citrus Shop down to Citra last weekend and it looks like they took some significant damage, but not quite tree killing. He's got mixed varieties in there I think so some fared better than others.

How exposed the tree was seemed to play a large role in how they fared. If there was overhead tree cover it seems to have helped a lot. The trees out in the open are pretty well zapped in most places I've seen. Even the kumquat trees. At least this time we didn't have over a week of warm temperatures before the hard freeze hit. I don't think they could have been any more dormant than they were when the long cold arrived.

This is two tree killing winters in a row now (temps into the teens) so I've decided I'm going to stay with containers until this present trend passes or it becomes plain that we need to readjust our thinking on what can and cannot be successfully planted witout going to heroic measures to keep it alive. Much easier to protect one greenhouse than multiple in-ground trees.

Stan, sure hope you're damage proves to be minimal.

.....Alan.

A great climate to grow citrus is near Homestead, Florida. Cold protection is almost never needed there. I am tired of fighting freezes and may move there. Only citrus greening disease is a problem.

You can also grow Mangos.

My citrus trees appear undamaged from the freeze. I have two owari satsuma, one browns select satsuma, and two meyer lemon trees. I am in south Louisiana and here are the hourly temperatures I measured on 01/09/10 and 01/10/10

7PM 29.5F
8PM 28.6F
9PM 27.7F
10PM 27.3F
11PM 25.7F
12PM 25.0F
1AM 24.8F
2AM 24.1F
3AM 23.9F
4AM 23.5F
5AM 23.5F
6AM 23.1F

The temperatures did not get quite low enough to damage the meyer lemon trees although one is fairly well protected. The temperatures stayed above the critical 23F.

Temperatures here have not fallen below 20F since February 1996.

I just heard from a friend Norway, South Carolina (a town, not a country)
and he has 10 (about 8 ft. tall) citrus in ground on the south-west side of his home (brick) and he said there wasn't so much as a leaf burned!

Two younger trees I had given him last November that he decided to plant are now bare-limbed. I had counseled him to keep them protected inside until spring because they were being housed in the greenhouse and were in no way ready for the cold of winter. He'll be lucky if they live until spring.

I don't think he had any citrus that were considered cold-hardy, and his grove consisted of lemons, mandarins, grapefruit, and kumquats.

My kumquat was totally unprotected and came out completely unaffected. All others were protected, however my Minneola/Mandarin/Ambersweet was uncovered by winds one night it went down to 20--still looks like only minor damage.

My Lisbon lemon seems to be the worst, too big to cover completely, so upper limbs are pretty badly damaged, there will be lots of defoliation.

Ponkan Mandarin was covered with a tarp instead of sheets--it had contact damage and will defoliate where the tarp touched the limbs.

All others ave only minor damage or no damage.

We had a low of 19 with 4 straight nights below 22.

Stan, I'm glad your orchard came out good.