Homestead After Near Freeze
Good morning!
Today I’d like to show a few photos of my fruit trees/homestead after we had a low of 33 degrees a couple weeks back. I was afraid we’d lose almost everything because we expected a hard freeze, but we got lucky.
Let’s start with 1 of 3 of our jackfruit trees
All three jackfruit trees lost their leaves, and even the young tips of branches shriveled up. Over the past week I’ve been pruning the dead wood off. I thought I would lose them all, but this morning I saw some green that gave me hope.
Jackfruit #1
One of two Moringa Trees - putting out leaves again
My largest coconut palm - I’m afraid we might lose one out of the four we have
Ahhh, resilient Mulberries
The mulberries and guava tree seem to have been the most resilient (and the cacti), whereas the papayas don’t look great and I lost a young mango sapling.
This pink guava is one of the only larger trees I have that didn’t lose any leaves at all - must be pretty cold hardy!
Soursop tree lost all its leaves
Only to regrow more!
Papayas have suffered a bad fate - I fear these have met their match
Bananas beginning to push out new leaves - after just being stalks last week!
One of our mango saplings is pushing out new leaves
Sugar cane looking healthy again
We have many more plants but just I’d give you guys a rough overview of how things are going here now. I have more papaya seedlings that I just planted into the ground yesterday, so hopefully those take and we don’t get another near frost. I try my best to cover my smallest plants when this happens, but sometimes it’s not enough.
Hope you enjoyed! Thanks a lot and have a great weekend!
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Thank you :)
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!
wow....hear some amazing tree photography....and its very uncommon......i like it.....i hope everybody like your post...thanks for shear it..
I'm glad that your trees survived! Hopefully you'll not hate to experience scares like that again. That's why the life of a person growing things on the land is hard!
Indeed it can be hard! Thank you :D
Your place looks pretty cool. Literally!
:) thank you :)
I bet it's hard to keep up with this crazy winter weather this year! Keeping my fingers crossed for you. Looking forward to seeing how everything fares come spring and summer. :) We are probably going to start planting some seeds inside soon to get ready for our spring garden.
Thank you! I hope all goes well for you too!