Some frost damage
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4 months agolast modified: 4 months agoI think that plant coming back to life is unlikely, BUT that may depend how low temps were...I had a frostbitten jade, and all afected branches fell off. It was left on a balcony for few cold nights (I don't know how many, & don't know how cold it was, but def. below 0*C). Maybe you remember, I posted the photos at least couple of times. Main stem/trunk was quite thick & didn't suffer. But every single branch - mostly tips or about 1-2", fell off. It may depend on how hard it is damaged; it reacts few different ways: Its leaves may wilt/collapse when they become warm again (I hink there is some tissue damage when it is frostbitten). Some leaves may turn brown or black and others may just dry out and shrivel. Some may fall off the plant and others remain attached. Parts of the plant may rot. Here are the pics of the said jade:
I trimmed some leaves before - they were blackish & mushy. Just about all the leaves you see in the photo fell off. And parts of the branches. I didn't think it will survive & didn't take photos after. It did over the years; photo below is same plant 3.5yrs later. The main trunk straightened up without me doing anything. There is orange line I drew showing what was left after frozen parts/branches fell off:
The plant is much bigger now - I don't have recent photos since I gave it away.IF MY PLANT, I would cut off all damaed parts...
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Comments (2)They aren't "lost" CSem, they're just frostbitten. I don't know about the sturdiness of the first two, but it will take a *lot* more than a little frost to kill off the bougies and I expect your sissoo and ficus will survive, too, even if they look terrible. Take heart and wait for spring. You'll be surprised, I think....See MoreSome pics of my Pachypodiums, etc.
Comments (25)Hurrah! I recognise one of several 'mystery succulents' in my girlfriend's front yard (hate how often they're sold labelled just as "succulent" with no species and no specific cultivation info! Grr!)- we've been calling it "Cousin It" but it's actually a pachypodium geayi. Awesome! Now I just have to warn her that cute, tufty little Cousin It has the potential to grow very tall indeed... which could be a bit of a worry, given the ferocity of those spikes!...See MoreThis Morning: 37 Degrees and Frost
Comments (18)Jay, Our odd weather irritates me! It isn't fair that with an average last frost date for my county of March 27th, there I sat with frost on the morning of April 28th, is it? Our forecast for Sunday night is for 44, and I bet I have frost early Monday morning too unless that forecast changes. I'll be ready this time and will either cover up tender vegetation or have the sprinkler in place and ready to turn on briefly in the early morning hours to wash the frost off the plants. You know, I wouldn't mind the odd weather so much if we were 5 or 10 degrees cooler than the surrounding area in summer, but sadly that doesn't happen. Our first August here, we had a heat wave where the highs varied from 108 to 111 (113 in nearby Ardmore) for about a week....and Tim's relatives from Pennsylvania were in town visiting and they were just dying in the heat. In Fort Worth, we rarely got above 105, so 108 to 111 was a huge shock. Then, we had an "early" hard killing freeze before the end of September. Yet, some years we don't have a killing frost until mid-December. If any of you can figure out my weather and explain it to me, please do so! Y'all are burdened with the wild wind lately, aren't you? Does the wind ever stop blowing there? Gordon Graham, who you might remember as the grower of the world's largest tomato on record, used to stack two Wall-O-Waters on top of each other to protect tall plants. If I remember correctly, he put wooden surveyor's stakes inside the first WOW, hammered into the ground, for support. After the first WOW was filled, he'd place the second one on top and then fill it. Although it didn't say (that I can recall) in his little "how to grow large tomatoes" booklet, I always assumed he used 3' tall stakes so that they would give partial support to the second WOW and keep it from collapsing inward on top of the plant. If you have Marvin Meisner's "Giant Tomatoes" book, which is the best book I've read on growing tomatoes in general whether you want to grow large tomatoes or normal ones, there is a reprint of Gordon Graham's little booklet near the end of the book. My potato plants that got bit back a couple of weeks ago have finally shown some good regrowth. I was starting to wonder if they would. Chalk it up to the weather that see-saws wildly from one extreme to another. I'd be confused if I were a plant too. I'm excited that you'll be getting your plants in the ground soon. It never feels like spring is really here until you're out slaving away in the garden planting your tomatoes. That's when I feel winter truly has ended. I hope this week's cold spell is the last. However, since we had June type temperatures earlier in April, who knows what the weather will do next? We've never had frost or freeze damage here after May 3rd or 4th, so I'm eager for those days to get here so I can stop worrying about it. Dawn...See MoreFrost Damage No Latex
Comments (3)If you got clean wood, some wrinkling but no latex then I'm thinking maybe they are just dehydrated. You could also put a little bit of caulk or something to seal the end if you'd like, but I think they should bounce back. Good luck, let us know how they do!...See More
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