James, I have no issues with the heat because they grow inside my house. I never put them outside, even for a couple of minutes. I grow them in a spare room that has a large window that gets early morning sun. I also have them under cheap grow lights that clip onto something that's near the plants. The grow lights take an ordinary grow bulb or you can use those long square grow light bulbs. Either type will work and the total cost is really cheap. Ever since I found out about the water my plants are growing fast. I use only organic fert. since the other types of fert. can burn the roots. The organic can not burn the roots. A guy that I purchase miltoniopsis plants from told me that since most tap water is purified to get rid of bacteria and other things most tap water contains chlorine and chorline burns the delicate roots. I never thought about this before and since I found out about chlorine being in most tap water, this makes sense plus you can smell the faint odor of chlorine in the tap water. I can't tolerate the heat so I stay inside and I set my thermostat at 70 degrees. If I'm happy with the temps. the plants are probably happy too. I almost forgot one important issue. I have a humidifier working 24 hours. It's a real cheap humidifier that I purchased off of Etsy. The humidifier looks like a fat white stick. I stick it in an old plastic water jug and you can see the mist coming out. Apparently it works real well. I can't tell you the brand because it came in a company box and everything is in Chinese including the instructions. I think that the humidifier cost me around five bucks. My set up is cheap but I haven't killed any plants. I currently have about seven plants putting out spikes. I have about twenty plants and I don't want anymore. I'll probably get another one only if the flower color appeals to me or if it's a cross that I don't have.

It's unlikely they're all dead. I know that many places in California were hit with unusually cold weather. Their survival depends on whether it was cold enough to have frozen their roots in the pots. The good news is that Fuchias have amazing regenerative capacity. I have had them come back from a few surviving buds on badly split wood--that is usually fatal to most plants. They don't need much--just a few surviving buds and some roots. I suggest keeping them cool but protected from frost for the rest of the winter (with the understanding that your "winter" is probably over pretty promptly early in the year). Their pots should remain moist enough so the roots don't dry out. You could try trenching them in to protect the roots. With warmer temperatures, it will eventually become obvious which ones survived and which ones didn't. If you only let them out a day, it's possible most of them will survive. Have a look at their wood. Dead wood dries out. I suggest not clipping it back until its obvious what is dead and what isn't. They should start regrowing again quickly in mild weather. In the future, you might want to try trenching their pots. You dig a trench, put the pots in the trench, and bury them. Then mulch the tops. This is just to protect the roots and some buds. Most but not all Fuchsias can stand some frost, and whatever is exposed might get nipped back a bit but in a Sunset zone 14 I would normally expect minimal dieback. Good luck.

Those 2 towering branches can be taken out which should force more energy into the lower branches, encouraging them to get taller. If you do that, I would suggest grafting them to herbaceous roots just so you don't end up wasting very good scion wood. Even branches with no buds can be forced into producing a bud to create a new plant. Grafting is easier than most people would think it is, and should be done best in the fall. If you cannot get a hold of any herbaceous peony roots for the grafting, then I would suggest simply taking those branches and forcing them to root. I've successfully rooted some Japanese Tree peony cuttings. I admit that they aren't that vigorous, but it works if you give them the right conditions. I think using a broad fork to aerate the soil a bit, adding a few lbs of gypsum & azomite, and a layer of compost should rejuvenate this peony for next year's growth. I believe this is the species you have right here as the flowers and foliage look identical to yours. This is a Yagumo japanese tree peony. Those top leaves are definitely staying on without any die back so conditioning the soil should help yours regain its health.

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