adrift

You are too kind. After all these years I am lucky to remember the name of the schools that I attended, let alone whatever they tried to put into my (now gray) head. However, I am somewhat aware of that phenomena since the wifey and I both teach high school science.

Be that as it may, it is still amazing to see such distinct microclimates in one back yard. I have 6" tall orinoco & namwah in 6" tall pots which were forgotten on the deck and were virtually untouched by the cold. The 12" basjoo in the ground 30' away lost all leaves.

The good news is that my big Ice Cream's main pstem and biggest pup is sending up green leaves so there may be nannas yet to come. But, as others have mentioned we have another wave of cold coming soon.

Wave after wave of cold fronts is a bit annoying, but they are bringing much needed rain.

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kitnor

Did you wrap any of the bananas in towels?

I've wrapped mine in towels but I don't know if it will work.

JCDerrick

Good luck you guys. I saw the freeze warnings down to almost Miami this morning and could hardly believe it. I didn't even know Zone 10 could freeze.

I'm just about ready for THIS winter to be over with. It's done a number on my plants. Ugh

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MediaHound

#@$%^&*!

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I have finally bought a house down here. The first thing I did was go out and buy a lime tree. The frost a couple of weeks ago wiped that out and took all of the leavers off of my fig. My fig just started growing small leaves again and I bought 2 new lime trees to replace the other one and it is supposed to freeze again. The only bright side is I haven't bought any bananas yet.

Storm

Greenie

just finished wrapping the "Ae Ae" with a tarp,Hopefully she will be ok.I think if its a 2 day only under 40 temps she will make it.Anything longer and she's a gonner for sure.

bananimal

Just did a walk around at 2AM. It's cold. Luckily I didn't miss anything that could come inside. The big potted pups are in the garage with a space heater. The dog doesn't want to go out with me - that's cold!

damaclese

its so weird hearing that zone 10 is having freeze on the other hand the desert south west is having an unseasonably warm winter were running 10 to 15 deg warmer its been in the high 60s here for the last 3 weeks and this on the heals of a winter just two years ago were we saw temps in the teens for over a month defiantly something to ponder a could this be the 2012 thing LOL

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TomK

Brought in all of the potted plants last night save for a couple of citrus which I will bring in tonight.

I have a couple of watermelon fruit and several eggplant fruit that I'm worried about in my veggie garden. Will probably end up throwing a sheet over the veggie garden tonight.

Too dark this AM when I left for work to see if there is any "current" damage.

Steve L

My numerous Ae Ae planted in the ground regularly survive lows of 24 each winter. I fruited one last year. I do wrap the pseudostem with old blankets. It's worked for me for the 5 years I've been growing them. I think yours will be fine.

Steve

Greenie

...Thanks Steve L.,we shall soon find out

Bch Grl

I finished wrapping all my 'nana's, citrus, Mangos and other stuff and noted the rain water in a big saucer was looking funny...10:30 at night in Jacksonville and the water in pots and saucers was already 1/4" thick with ice! Yikes!

I wrap with frost cloth, cover with 6 mil plastic and put X-mas lights and small space heaters under for warmth. Have had good luck so far, but tonight is going to be much colder for many more hours.
Ahhh, Mother Nature!

Margie

enigma99a

Your signature says it all: Clermont Lakes KSCLEXIN5 18° F. That sucks... 18 is like MAJOR damage

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TomK

Dammit it's cold this morning!

Caloosamusa

My thermometer read 34 degrees F, from 5AM to 6:30 when it dropped to 33F.
It feels colder. Local weather says 31F. I wrapped some pseudostems and roll leaves last night. Now we can only hope and pray for the best.

Adrift, could not send you a message, which sciences are you certified to teach?

Best wishes to all!

Bch Grl

The low in my J'ville backyard last night was 19, now with the sun up and light breezes, at 9am, it's still 26 degrees!!!!!

Tonight is supposed to be the same!

Margie

sultry_jasmine_nights

I think it was around 19 here this morning too. I have kept some of my nanas in pots and now I am glad I did. I left a few larger ones in the ground. We put cardboard boxes around it. Taped into long triangle shapes to cover the stems. The bottoms still look good but the top leaves are all fried. I think it will be okay. Supposed to be cold tonight too -maybe colder even grrrr!

stormrider...Welcome to sunny florida lol! Too bad the your first lime got froze. Was it a key lime? If so it might come back true from the roots -if it wasn't grafted to a different citrus rootstock. Key limes are sometimes grown on their own rootstock. I have a lot of citrus in pots and I'm gonna keep them that way until after it is done freezing lol.
~SJN

JCDerrick

Yeah we hit 17 at the house last night, 18F the night before (which was 10F lower than forecast) and 18F tonight. Still not as bad as the 12F a few weeks ago.

It's done a number on the bananas, I've had several just flop over about 6"-1' from the top of the stem, which the week prior was growing a new leaf. That was hard to watch. It seems the frost blankets and Christmas lights have kept the largest ones alive, plus I just by chance brought a bunch indoors this year (not planning to next year though, they stretch too bad). So as long as this winter is a freak event, I can probably recover alright.

After deciding not to move to HI, I've been wanting to move to Florida for years now hoping to escape the colder temps. But events like this make me realize that even there it's not completely safe.

Cold weather sucks. And now it's already getting colder by the second. I don't think we hit 40F today. And yet it's calling for almost 70F again by Sunday. WTH is up with the weather?

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tophersmith

It was 22 degrees last night and 21 tonight here in Raleight NC

Caloosamusa

It dropped to 31F this morning between 7:05 and 7:48, for my area that is bad. It was worse than 22 Jan '09, and 3 Jan '08. I saved some roll leaves by covering some of the plants earlier the prior evening.

But this is still not so bad.

Best wishes to all!