Pug, great news about the citrus! The recovery is amazing. Here's a little tidbit that might make you feel a little bit more comfortable in the future. Your little tree had plenty of time to establish itself in the ground, in your climate. The smaller the tree, the faster the process is...and the warm climate means that your plants can keep on establishing far into the winter. By 'establishing', I mean the tree's process of sending new roots out into its new native soil to the point where the root system can support the new plant in every way. For larger trees, we want the roots to have grown 3 X the distance from the trunk to the drip line before we consider it 'established'. This can take anywhere from 3 months to well over a year PER CALIPER inch of trunk, depending upon several factors...climate being extremely important. So your little citrus was more than ready to face the freezing temperatures!

Hi Dianne, my Satsuma is doing great so far. I picked satsuma for the sole purpose of it being able to take very cold winters...so I won't have to protect them every winter. Of course it has to be mature first. I will protect it for the first couple of years and hopefully after that it will be fine on its on. Here's what I read on one of the websites. "The satsuma tangerine tree is the most cold- tolerant cultivar of commercial importance. Mature dormant trees have survived minimum temperatures of 15ðF to 18ðF in northern Florida, northern California and southern Alabama without serious injury."color> I have two grape size fruits on the tree, not sure if it will mature? I plan on keeping this one on the small side at least until its mature enough so its easier to cover in winter. I took this a couple of months ago. Good luck getting yours! Here is a link that might be useful: Growing Satsuma Tangerine (IFAS)

Wow, loads of great tips. Owbist, I always forget about CCleaner having that tool. I do use WinPatrol and found it odd that it didn't pop up to warn me when I installed Quicken. I took a look there and it was not listed in their Start-up menu. I looked around and found it listed under 'tasks'. I clicked, 'end task' and that worked. Then, I went to CC and found it listed in Start-up but it was greyed out so Win Patrol took care of that. Strangely, it was not listed in my Start-up folder. I knew I could use msconfig but prefer not to use that unless I have to. I have a lot of space and memory on this computer, yet Quicken really slowed down my start-up. I'm glad to finally be rid of it. Thanks so much for the great tips. I hope it will help others who find things running without their permission. You folks are the best. This forum is the best on Garden Web. If any of you have problems growing Orchids, just let me know...I'll personally take care of them for you :-)) Jane

Work had us reboot every computer last Friday. That must've been it!