thanks for sharing the pictures :-)

Hello Bluepalm,
Man I thought my mangoes looked rough! That's terrible. My heart goes out to you and the others who have the same damage. It must be so frustrating to have these nice healthy trees and then have one freaky winter destroy it all. I am glad to see the new growth on your mango trees but how long will they be setback? Will you have any mango fruits this season? I am hoping you have some other trees that didn't get damaged and they will bear a freakish amount of big delicious fruit! Keep us posted!
Andrew

Hi Bluepalm, This was really a horrible year for Mangoes and other tropical trees! I have some that look exactly like yours, its so devastating to see...even after we covered and added heat. My Lychees and mango looks just like your Dot. I really need to move a couple more hours south,lol...

Thanks for the photos and Good Luck with all your trees!

Sad to see such canopy loss. The good news is that mangoes ae very resilient. You will not have fruit this year or probably next, but in two years you'll have a beautiful tree again. That is, assuming some more mild winters in the couple years to come. Hang in there!

Harry

I realize that cold winters like this will come along every so often (every 10, 20, 30 years). After how cold it was, I'm glad my trees are even alive. My objective is to try to protect them (mango trees) until they get fairly large...then these occasional cold snaps will just knock the trees back moderately...not put them on the edge of death.
Looking back, I would have run the sprinklers the night it got down to 25.7...IF I had known it would be this cold. Every weather forecaster had my low that night as 31, so I didn't realize it would be so bad. My jaw hit the floor when I saw the temperature at 7 a.m. Everything I had was covered with frost cloth/blankets, so I think that may have been the difference in keeping the trees alive. If it ever gets that cold again, the sprinklers will be on full-force.
Does anyone have experience using sprinklers for cold protection? Any major pros/cons of using them?

Thanks!
Bluepalm

I know the sprinklers work well for citrus.....and I heard they have been used for lychee, put never seen it. I'd be worried to use sprinklers unless I could be assured that no ice would form. The ground water being well above freezing, it might work out. But anything that is not completely bathed in the warm water will freeze. The question is will the ice formation protect the plant underneath as it does with citrus. I am skeptical.

Harry

bluepalm your alphonso looks like my lancetilla...the top got burnt but the newer, more tender leaves were untouched...

the glenn mango right next to it was also untouched and fine.

It got around 28-29 and i did not protect the trees with anything...i am taking a very laissez faire attitude with them.

bluepalm,

how long did it take from the day you pruned the dot mango till it the day you noticed new growth ? I pruned and removed all the leaves on my lychee and longan tree due to serious shipping shock and its been 20 days, no new growth yet.

My mango trees were showing tiny green nubs on the trunk...that is when I decided to prune. I also had to prune back my Kohala longan and it took at least 2-3 weeks for new growth to appear.

Good luck!
Bluepalm