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Tangerine tree. Is there any coming back from this?

8 years ago

We have an 11 year old, potted tangerine tree that's about 6' tall (pruned back every year). It was a beautiful tree until last fall. We moved, and as a result lost the sunroom we always kept it in during the winter. Kept it in the basement, which was heated, and gave it as much light as we could. Watered as we normally did in the winter. Still, I think because of light, it lost probably 3/4 of its leaves. As soon as it warmed up a bit this spring, we took it outside and would take it into the garage overnight if needed as temps would dip down into the 30s (supposed to be cold tolerant down to 21 F). One night about two weeks ago we had an unexpected frost and it killed off all the rest of the leaves. Every single one of them.


The branches are still pliable, a bit of bark scraped away on the trunk still reveals moist, green wood. Is there hope for it to come back, and can we do anything to help it? Temps here are 60s and 70s during the day and 40s-50s at night.

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