Meyer needs no protection in your area - it is a hybrid of mandarin and lemon and hence is more cold tolerant than the eureka.

Thanks Ashley. That's really good news.

Susan

Hey, Susan!
Up here, some folks cover more tender citrus with plastic and Christmas lights during the coldest weeks.


Josh

Hi Josh, and whoopee. I just went into the attic today and found a brand new 24' string of clear C7 lights, so I wound them around my Eureka Lemon tree, with an extension cord available to plug them in at a moment's notice. The tree has a very nice crop of good looking green lemons on it, and maybe just maybe this year I won't lose them to a cold snap.

All the other citrus trees are pretty tiny (2' or so), so I think I will just pick up some of that floating crop cover for them.

As we talked about, I'm a bit less vulnerable here than where you are, but I've still had more lost lemon years than I'm okay with, and this year it feels as if I'm gonna be able to manage the preventive maintenance that is necessary.

Susan

Our first freeze is predicted for tonight, so I'm back into protection mode . The three smallest trees (Meyer Lemon, Kaffir Lime and Owari Satsuma) are all about 2' tall and as wide and have cages around them that I made from concrete reinforcing wire. Around that I wrapped two layers of something called Harvest Guard -- a sort of row cover material. Do you think I need to add lights under there too?

The Eureka is much bigger and up against the south side of a shed. I do have C7 lights strung around it, and there is a shed roof over most of it. I will probably run to HD today and get some clear plastic sheeting to hang from the edges of the shed roof. Do I need to make an airtight tent? or am I just trying to keep more of the slightly warmed air enclosed????

Don't make it air-tight, but do make sure that the cover reaches to the ground/floor.
I'd use the lights, too.

My little Blood Orange had its first taste of snow on Saturday night...but the temp
was only about 35ðF. I should probably protect it. A low of 24ðF is forecast.

Josh

Thanks, Josh.
Guess I'll have to climb into the attic and see what lights I've already got and what I need to go find. Needless to say, this is an easy time of year to find 'em....:-)))))