This is scary stuff, I'm glad it worked out. My family used to have an small orchard with apricots and it was going pretty well (most of the production was going to private use) but at some point as the climate was changed, the winter here started to have a strange warm break right in the middle. This meant that the trees would start developing during the warmer weather and when it got cold again, they got frostbitten. We've had years when a hundred trees would yield a total of 20 pieces of fruit altogether. Everytime it gets warmer during the winter and people here are happy, I tell them that this is very bad for the local fruit production.
This warm weather isn't abnormal for Southern Florida during winter, actually the near freeze was a shock. I'm glad we didn't get a hard freeze, because most of my trees wouldn't have made it! Thanks for your comment!
Oh, yes, I'm sure Florida does not get the snowy winters we get in Bulgaria, just wanted to share the personal story that makes me understand how scary temperatures below freezing can be when the plants are not adopted to them or when they are already out of the part of their cycles when they can handle them. I remember we were also losing trees to this, but luckily it was mainly total loss of production for the year in question but with very few trees actually not surviving.
Gotcha :) yeah I would take a year's loss of crop versus losing my trees any time!