The avocado trees have taken a beating in the freezing nighttime temps lately:
Strangely, there was one tree that had sprouted near the house that suffered nothing in the cold -- looked just fine. It's supposed to go down to 17 degrees tonight, so this afternoon I dug it up and put it in a large planter and brought it indoors (in front of a south-facing window) for the remainder of the winter. This was motivated by Daniel's friend Hector who has had an avocado tree growing inside for several years and is quite tall. So I'll make a house-tree out of this one and see what happens:
Strangely, there was one tree that had sprouted near the house that suffered nothing in the cold -- looked just fine. It's supposed to go down to 17 degrees tonight, so this afternoon I dug it up and put it in a large planter and brought it indoors (in front of a south-facing window) for the remainder of the winter. This was motivated by Daniel's friend Hector who has had an avocado tree growing inside for several years and is quite tall. So I'll make a house-tree out of this one and see what happens:
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I'm glad you saved one. We have been covering our greens because it has been so cold these last few nights. We lost all our lettuces already. I'm so sad.
ReplyDeleteSo sad to see those frost bitten avocado trees...there were several trees, here in Santa Barbara, looking just like that this past winter.
ReplyDeleteGlad to see the healthy one...indoors, how cool! A sign of hope (smile).
Prisc,
ReplyDeleteI started to write and ask you if you've ever seen any "real" avocado trees out there during the winter. Do you know if they look like this because of being burned with the cold, and then they come back in the spring . . . ? Or are they done for? I'm going to leave them in the ground over the winter just to see what happens next spring.