I live in Arnaudville, LA. I would love to plant satsuma and lemon trees in the ground. I the past, we have experienced hard freezes. What can I do to prevent damage or death because of these freezes, if anything? Thanks for the help!
This is a bit late, but what i did was i built some small enclosures out of PVC and wrapped that with visqueen. I put that over my tree, then i put a 100W shop light in there and left it on while under 32°F. My trees came out of the cold just fine.
@@cl112688 thanks for the reply. I ended up covering my trees with a 24x40 tarp, placed for 150w incandescent bulbs under it, and weighted it down along the ground. I also clipped on an outdoor thermometer, and kept track of the temp. When the sun was out, I had to get some ventilation going. The coldest night was 14-15°, and the trees came out in pretty good shape. My lemon tree dropped some leaves, but has since loaded up on buds. Orange tree looks like nothing ever happened.
I live in Evangeline Parish. We stayed below freezing and were iced over for 4 or 5 days in a row. I saved all 5 of mine from the big freeze the same way as the others. (Ponkan, Pomelo, Lemon, Blood Orange, Grapefruit). I draped clear plastic 20' x 50' tarps over them and made sure they were weighted down to the ground to create a greenhouse over the trees. I put a clamp light with a halogen bulb in each one that turned off during the day time. They stayed covered for about a week. The only damage I had was where the leaves touched the tarp. My father has a huge 20+ year old satsuma that we saved by wrapping the trunk and bases of the main branches with water heater insulation. It was very interesting shortly after everything warmed up his tree dropped all of its leaves while they were still green! Within another week or so they all started to sprout back. He is going to have a great crop of fruit this year despite all that.
@@cjr4497 That is very interesting and some great information!!! i will keep that in the memory bank for sure! LSU AG center has some great articles to go by for citrus if anyone ever has some questions. But this was some great information cjr!
I live in Arnaudville, LA. I would love to plant satsuma and lemon trees in the ground. I the past, we have experienced hard freezes. What can I do to prevent damage or death because of these freezes, if anything? Thanks for the help!
Are their roots extensive?
There are so many misleading information in this video and I will say no more.
What can I do in South Louisiana to protect my trees from the possible cold snap next weekend? Looking at lower than 24 degrees.
This is a bit late, but what i did was i built some small enclosures out of PVC and wrapped that with visqueen. I put that over my tree, then i put a 100W shop light in there and left it on while under 32°F. My trees came out of the cold just fine.
@@cl112688 thanks for the reply. I ended up covering my trees with a 24x40 tarp, placed for 150w incandescent bulbs under it, and weighted it down along the ground. I also clipped on an outdoor thermometer, and kept track of the temp. When the sun was out, I had to get some ventilation going.
The coldest night was 14-15°, and the trees came out in pretty good shape. My lemon tree dropped some leaves, but has since loaded up on buds. Orange tree looks like nothing ever happened.
I live in Evangeline Parish. We stayed below freezing and were iced over for 4 or 5 days in a row. I saved all 5 of mine from the big freeze the same way as the others. (Ponkan, Pomelo, Lemon, Blood Orange, Grapefruit). I draped clear plastic 20' x 50' tarps over them and made sure they were weighted down to the ground to create a greenhouse over the trees. I put a clamp light with a halogen bulb in each one that turned off during the day time. They stayed covered for about a week. The only damage I had was where the leaves touched the tarp. My father has a huge 20+ year old satsuma that we saved by wrapping the trunk and bases of the main branches with water heater insulation. It was very interesting shortly after everything warmed up his tree dropped all of its leaves while they were still green! Within another week or so they all started to sprout back. He is going to have a great crop of fruit this year despite all that.
@@cjr4497 That is very interesting and some great information!!! i will keep that in the memory bank for sure! LSU AG center has some great articles to go by for citrus if anyone ever has some questions. But this was some great information cjr!
@@cjr4497 how big and old are the 5 trees you saved? The two i spoke of (lemon and satsuma) are young, maybe 3 years old.
I can't believe this much bad information came in a single video, much less from LSU...🤔
LMAO, the last minute or so of this is sure to trigger some folks. What does she know anyway with that PhD and all.
I prefer spraying.
Don’t use chemical nutrients 👎