To: mamelukesabre
The oranges will freeze and be ruined by a mild freeze, just a couple hours under 30* or so.
A “hard freeze” can kill the entire tree. That’s defined as 26* or lower for five hours. We’ve had worse than that for several night.
19 posted on
01/09/2010 5:22:13 PM PST by
Travis McGee
(---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
To: Travis McGee
Good luck. I see my son has gotten a couple of warming bulbs for the chicken house.
26 posted on
01/09/2010 5:31:41 PM PST by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Travis McGee
Are you telling me the entire florida orange grove industry is a total loss? Complete restart from scratch? No surviving trees?
31 posted on
01/09/2010 5:40:21 PM PST by
mamelukesabre
(Veni, Vidi, Vicki: "I came, I saw, and I'm like, Omigod!")
To: Travis McGee
I think the orange concentrate mfgrs. can salvage some of the frozen fruit.?
1976 killed huge swaths of orange trees.
I remember flying over Central Fla and seeing the damage.
56 posted on
01/09/2010 9:14:37 PM PST by
Vinnie
(You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Jihads You)
To: Travis McGee; humblegunner
Good luck with your tree.
Gunner, is your lemon tree okay?
59 posted on
01/09/2010 9:37:44 PM PST by
Eaker
(Where I'm from, "Gang Colors" is Realtree and Mossy Oak. You know what I'm saying hoss. Rule.308.)
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