jeffreyp

The good thing about the citrus here in florida is that they had been exposed to cool to cold wheather for a while before the severe cold set in. Citrus can go into a sort of dormancy where they can take quite a bit of cold. I remember years ago seeing some 1 or 3 gallon citrus plants in a nursery up in connecticut, the plants didn't sell and the owner left them in an unheated greenhouse all winter long. I remember going in the greenhouse, it was very cold and I picked up one of the citrus plants and the pot was frozen solid. I thought man what a waste just leaving them out in the cold to die frozen solid in their pots. To my surprise I couldn't believe it but in the spring the plants came out of their apparent dormancy and were thriving full of leaves and flowers!

It's amazing to see which plants survive hard freezes like the avocado. The good thing about the freeze is that it killed off alot of the exotic animals such as iguanas, exotic catfish, cyclids, burmese and rock pythons, nile monitor lizards, etc. Hopefully the cold has killed off alot of the asian citrus psylids that spread citrus greening disease.