cold damaged plants
greenmanOK (Zone7)
3 years ago
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Best Time to Prune Cold Damaged Plants?
Comments (7)Hello Mikey, I too have alot of damage but have been told not to trim, cut back or remove the damaged leaves or stems until the freeze, frost and artic weather has passed. I have lived in San Juan Capistrano for 16 years and the older neighbors that are familiar with this coastal valley say not until March 15th. The longest I ever waited was March 1rst and it was fine. Hopefully someone with more knowledge can tell you and post it so we all can use the INFO. I have included 2 pictures. One is of the large plant that was damaged and I want to cut it back all the way as it should have never been planted under the eve,Notice that is now all BLACK except a couple leaves at the very top, and the other is of a Helaconia that was burned and somehow the palms survived. Does anyone know if I should cut the Helaconia back to the ground when time to cut back or just leave it?...See Morecold tolerant plantings get tested
Comments (12)You guys (both male and female) must be really young with really strong backs! When we moved here from Miami - I was determined to have some tropicals. And I can remember running out in the late afternoon when it was 45 trying to cover things when we were supposed to have a hard freeze. Lots of fun (rolling eyes). After about 5 years - I stopped trying to fight mother nature. I still do buy tropicals - but only small fairly inexpensive ones for a butterfly/hummingbird garden that I'm prepared to lose every year (and pull out and throw away). Plant only after 3/15 (recommended date here - almost no chance of hard freeze here after then in zone 9A) - and when the plants die - they die - they die (sometime our first hard freeze is in February - sometimes - this this year - it's in December). IMO - if you're new to the area - especially if you're in zones 9A or 9B - I'd see what normal weather patterns are like where you live. Not only what the low temps are during the winter - but how long they last (some plants are ok with an hour of light freeze - many others need 3-4+ hours to get hurt). And how often you get them. And you have to remember not to prune many of those cold damaged plants until your last probable freeze date (like I have some hibiscus that have been damaged - they look like garbage - but I won't know until spring pruning whether I have to prune off a foot of deadwood - or take them down to the ground (if the latter - I'll dig them up and toss them - don't want to wait until August for flowers). BTW - in the years we lived in Miami - and our folks lived in Lighthouse Point (east Broward) - we never saw a freeze (hurricanes yes - freezes no). But there are a lot of plants there that don't even like weather in the 40's. Still - I only remember a couple of days down there when the lows were in the 40's. Robyn...See MoreCalling all old timers!
Comments (84)Hey Guys, it is so good to read again from all the old timers, that I have learned so much from in the past years. I come here hardly ever anymore, missing the old timers and the old friendly forum. Our garden does not look very good as well these days. Many tropicals have hard time surviving the weather we have been having lately. Most of my time and effort is taken by homeschooling my son (we just started this school year, after a not that good experience in magnet school last year) and chess tournaments (new passion of my son :-) I do wish everybody a great New Year, especially to those who deal with hardships. I would be up for a plant swap. Just to see everybody would be great! Maybe it is the motivation that I am lacking to kick me into the gardening mode again. Veronika J"s new passions: turtles and chess :-)...See MoreWhat to do with Rubber Tree
Comments (2)I haven't found this or any species of Ficus difficult from cuttings. I'd rate your tree's difficulty factor insofar as propagation goes (from cuttings) as about a 3 on a 1-10 basis with 10 being most difficult. That said, chances it will survive if you take the roots with it are better than 90% - close to 100% unless something is waay wrong with the medium. Chances someone skilled in propagating by cuttings will have success (based on how it looks and timing) would be about 80-90%. Someone w/o much experience propagating by cuttings would be doing well if they had success 40-50% of the time. If you want a really bushy planting like a grove or clump style, do your root pruning and pinch it. If you want single trunks, divide it (with a saw if necessary) or remove the trunks you don't want and focus on the one(s) you do want. Al...See MoreLynn Dollar
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