Freeze damage to foliage

pancake

pancake

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What kind of affect will the 3 days of lower 30's to lower 20's have on new leaves, some have wilted others have obviously burned. How much vascular damage has been done? what are the comeback probabilities?
 
The days of 25 degree nights hit hard. Many mast and fruit producing trees were flowering. Most of the suculent growth blackened and turned brown. The university of TN Extension has a good website, paying attention to starch and water needs seem to be the most critical. I am seriously hoping for a releafing.
 
Here's a clip from an email that I got from a guy in western North Carolina about the temps:

Our county produces about 5 million bushels. We have four acres of fifty year old trees. Most trees have died and been burned for firewood. Our ten living trees were in full bloom with 19° on Easter Saturday morning. Four nights in a row of below 25°. Apples in Virginia, WV, NC and SC peaches are gone. Lots of new tree plantings are outright GONE! All strawberries and even wild blackberries are gone also. New growth on holly trees is burnt also. Corn, wheat, and oats in SC too.
 
Expect the unexpected, always.

From genetically mutating tomatoes to make them square in order to increase profits and lessen costs to Terminating gene insertion in row crops to withstand higher herbicide applications, we've assumed bigger and better is like standard and conventional.

Earlier flowering in fruit and nut crops is practiced to have more variety longer in the season. I don't feel sorry for the producers who lost the early peaches or oranges or apples - they could've stuck with the historical cultivars. Same with Guard troops complaining about medical care coming from Iraq - they had a choice way back when.
 
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Earlier flowering in fruit and nut crops is practiced to have more variety longer in the season. I don't feel sorry for the producers who lost the early peaches or oranges or apples - they could've stuck with the historical cultivars. Same with Guard troops complaining about medical care coming from Iraq - they had a choice way back when.

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Oakwilt, I agree with most of your political views, but I fail to see the correlation between fruit producers wanting to maximize their yields using modern cultivars and Guard troops complaining about inadequate medical care for the injuries they sustain in the field of battle.

To say that they had a choice way back when is true, but these are two very separate situations, and it smacks of a lack of respect for what those brave men and women actually do for our country either in Iraq or at home during emergencies.

LIke I said, I agree with your views on the current state of affairs (for the most part), but taking shots at the men and women in uniform on a thread that is talking about freeze damage is a little extreme, even what Rush Limbaugh might call "wacko".

SZ
 
I have noticed new foliage sparsely comming out on poplars, beech, and some oaks. Ornamentals are really suffering and hollies are burnt to a crisp. The Charlotte (TN)Research Center is looking at selective pruning to stimulate regrowth on dwarf Burford hollies. I have also thought of a mild tgr or root homone stimulant to slow them down this season. I am concerned about tissue damage on the new tips.

I heard a farmer in Zebulon GA say they used to burn 'ol tares' to let the smoke settle over their peach trees keeping the temp 3-4 degrees higher. Interesting to say the least.
 
I heard that same story on NPR.

Around Charlotte, NC, we have a lot of freeze damage on White Oaks and Hickories, cause the leaves came out later than all the other trees and were still tiny. I am interested to see how fast some of them re-leaf out and how the overall growth rates for this season will be affected.
 
RE-leafing consumes stores of energy, so susceptability to disease is increased.

On the guard issue, true. But there's a big difference between enlisted believing they are fighting for democracy and the ones who have a few years under their belts. The former have to be pretty stupid people, the latter...unfortunate. Sorry, they had choices they could've made and apparently some have. To those dumb enough to believe the Country will uphold it's promise to relieve the burdon of battle-caused injuries, I can see why they would enlist thinking they are fighting for America and what she represents.

I'm not driving down the blind road of "supporting our troops" until the price gets paid from our last foreign blunder, now 30 years ago.
 
With all due respect, I understand what you are saying,

but my point is that this thread is about freezing damage on trees in the South, not whether or not I understand the reasons I have to support the troops.


Over the last couple of days we have had showers here which I think has really helped. Once the warm weather returns, these trees should leaf out fairly quickly.
 
Various plants affected here: Fig, hydrangea, Japanese maple, butterfly bush, Vitex all got hit hard. Some tulip poplars also sustained a lot of damage, but most seemed to have come through with just a smattering of damage. White oaks were in the very early stage of leaf development. If the buds were not damaged then I'm guessing that they should begin to leaf out in 1-2 weeks. If the buds were damaged it could take 3-6 weeks.

The weather this weekend had been cold, windy, and rainy, so development has been stalled.
 
All trees here were in full leaf except for the Maples when we had two nights on the coast in the high twenties and the Maples are not popping yet but they do have very small buds forming now and they might be fine here in the next month or so.
 
In the middle of January here in Los Angeles we had record breaking cold temps. I LOVED it, but the local plants didn't fare so well. It got down to below freezing in almost all of LA. Ficus were hit the hardest. Also avocados.

I've been getting a lot of calls from people asking what to do. I've been saying to do NOTHING and wait to see what will grow back and what won't.

Topped trees didn't do so well....go figure.

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nick
 
Today we had winds gusting up to 50 mph....

That should clear all the dead leaves out of the way nicely.

Between the canker worms, the hard frosts, and now the wind, I think the spring is no more, once all of the trees recover, it will be 90 degrees and muggy.


Too bad, spring is my favorite season.
 
What are you doing listening to NPR Easy P? I despise commercials personally. I have a wide variety of species at the CRC, to this point only the oaks, redbuds, hickories look really bad. There is obvious twig, stem and in some cases trunk damage. Elms, beech, maples and poplars are flushing back out. Crepe Myrtles and Japanese Maples are really struggling. I am also seeing gray mold and various other disease beginning with temperature increases on trees that have large amounts of foliage hanging on. Boxwoods and hollies are turning the corner. I am closely monitoring water and have decieded to stick to the regular regiment of nutrients. Paitence for 2 to 4 more weeks with the exception of dead stems.
 
It very well may be a CC28.

It's not my boat. I don't own a sailboat, but do have the pleasure of serving on a fine Ericson 33. The race season on Lake Norman started last week!
 
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