Been ages since I was on this forum last. Just a quick update on a few in-ground citrus I have in zone 8b Vancouver Island.
Last big freeze was Dec 6 where temps dive bombed to 20°F / -6.7°C. Both Yuzu and Changsha where absolutely fine. 10° Tangerine had it's leaves flag, only to pick up again after that bad night.
Hope everyones citrus is doing great. Belated Happy New Year.

Cheers, Barrie.

Welcome back Barrie. Good to hear that your trees are doing well after your freeze event.

Mine on the other hand are looking pretty terrible. We hit 14F degrees on Jan 7th and on the 8th with temperatures remaining well below freezing for many consecutive hours. The first two trees to show the most damage were the Tiachang and Juanita Tangerine. Last night my backyard thermometer recorded 11.5 degrees as my low. It's starting to look like a graveyard out there. This will be a good test to see what will make it back this spring since I did zero protection measures on any of the citrus.

eyeckr,
What amazes me that t your climate is listed as USDA zone 8a. For this zone one expects minimals between 10 and 15 almost every season.

I got same temps as eyeckr and had some interesting results. I put a frost cloth and c9 lights on my satsuma, kumquat and bloomsweet. satsuma and kumquat had some damage but will be fine. The cloth blew off the bloomsweet and it received major damage but will live. I have a 6 month old graft of croxton grapefruit on this tree and it fared much better than the host bloomsweet.
I have several 1 year seedlings that did ok. Calamondin defoliated and juanita took damage on the top half. The only plant to suffer no damage is my sunquat seedling planted in ground, zero protection. It did better than all including 2 year old flying dragon seedling.

We've had the coldest temps here in 10 years recently.

5F last week, the lowest we've had on RARE occasions in the last few years is about 11F. Tonight is supposed to be in the single digits again.

My citrangequat, mandarins, palm trees that are planted out in the open are looking horrible.
At least my two Satsuma trees in the greenhouse have not seen below 16F in there and they still look great.

Tonight I will be wrapping blankets around things and running lots of lights.

Hi guys,

I'm so sorry for you. This winter is the worse for decades in North America.
Unfortunately I already took this temps level in my backyard here in southern France / 5F lowest recorded, and frozen ground during 3 weeks/
My 'hardy' citrus had zero protection !
None emerged totally unscathed (exept PT & citrus ichangensis), but most of them vigorously recovered (yuzu, thomasville, 4475, C35, taiwanica,...). That year (fév 2012) most of my satsuma died on the other hand.

Good luck to U !
Franck

[]Been ages since I was on this forum last. Just a quick update on a few in-ground citrus I have in zone 8b Vancouver Island.
Last big freeze was Dec 6 where temps dive bombed to 20°F / -6.7°C. Both Yuzu and Changsha where absolutely fine. 10° Tangerine had it's leaves flag, only to pick up again after that bad night.
Hope everyones citrus is doing great. Belated Happy New Year.

Cheers, Barrie.[/quote]

Barrie, welcome back! Are you still with BCF? Anyway, when you are on this side of the water - let me know. You can stop by and see my "prized" Meyer Lemon tree! Now standing at about 3 meters tall and loaded with fruit. it is fully protected for the winter. I had no protection on a Swingle planted in my garden when we went down to about -10c (14f) back in early December - it lost some foliage, but otherwise looks like it will bounce back. last year I had my 1st blooms on my Nippon orangequat and Sudachi. I am hoping for fruit to set this year..

Talk to you soon, Greg

Yes Greg ... 33 years now at BCF. Getting close to retiring.

10° Tangerine picked up nicely after the leaf flag back then and has been fine since. Recent wet snow has not fazed any of these either. Mother nature is expected to deliver another blow this weekend with temps down into the low 20's / -5°C on Saturday (Mar.1). :roll:

Cheers, Barrie.