A cool collection of cold hardier citrus trees. Thanks for the info, Brother Lead

I can’t wait to see how all of your citrus 🍊 trees bounce back Uncle Lead! Those who have doubt will see soon enough. Stay blessed fam! -Calvin

There are a few things more guaranteed to get me through a day of work than listening to the sounds of the birds in your garden as you drop some knowledge 😊

I’m in central Florida and my peach tree was hit the hardest. Thanks for the video, I was looking for reliable information and you provided it. God bless you and your family 🙏🏽💞

A most helpful video. I' m growing the ten degree tangerine ,the us942,,and the Browns Select Satsuma in ground here in eastern central Tenn.( Zone 7b). It got down to eight degrees F. last winter so I'll have to give my three citrus some protection( Frost covers and Christmas lights). My Meyers lemon will stay potted up for another year before I plant it out. I hear that the Dunstan citramelo and the new variety Sugarbelle will take temps down into the teens. Good luck with your growing citrus in S.C. Thanks again.

I'm in Texas, zone 8b. Satsuma, Meyer Lemon, lime trees and all other citrus were taken out by the 2021 freeze. I also lost my apples, peaches and it injured my plum and Apricots. The only thing that made it through without damage were my Bartlet pears.

Yes that weather was crazy for a few nights, my citrus looks the same right now and are starting to bud out. It’s amazing what some of these plants can go through 💪🏾💪🏾

We are having some strange weather! Today here in Maryland it's 65 degrees, tomorrow it will be in the 70 ,and Thursday in the 80's. Friday and Saturday back in the 30's and 40 possible snow and rain! I enjoyed your video Mr. Lead and thanks for sharing. God Bless. 🙏❤

Thank you sooooo much for this King. I live in NC and needed this!

I'm in ky .... My trees are still babies ... I drag them in and out each winter ... I'm getting those trees ... Thanks unc

I love making juice from blood oranges. Thanks for the info. Have a great day and happy gardening 🌿🌱 🍊🍊🍊🍊🍊😊🤗

Wow. Thank you so much. I really want to grow citrus trees but was afraid because of the winters here in Southern Maryland zone 7a. Looking for it right now

Thank you Mr. Lead, you gave me hope because i was worried about my Meyer lemon tree. I’m in A8 also in Mesquite Texas. I appreciate you so much. ❤

That great imformation as always Leadfarmer73 God Bless l

Glad you made this video. I was wondering how your citrus did. My Meyer lemon (zone 8b) looks like yours but I’m hopeful. She’s been with me for over 6 years. Thanks for sharing 😊

I’m in zone 8 . My Improved Meyer lemon survives the cold under the patio roof . When the weather dropped very low, I used the anti frost to cover it . The lemons and leaves are ok . The Improved Meyer lemon can handle 20 degree F , but it needs to be covered .

Appreciate you man. I had to move from Cyprus back to Scotland and left behind my citrus trees and dragon fruit. It's nice to know that all hope may not be lost and that I can try something new once I get my own place.

Thank you Lead. Please share what you are doing to these trees and vegetables to strengthen and to grow stronger to produce fruit. In 10a California the weather is still colder at night {29 -40} and 50 - low 60 during the day. One of my blueberries , Meyer lemon, and fig tree are budding, since December. I cover them on the coldest nights like you show us. Oakland experiencing power outage right now. In your name Jesus, Speak Lord. Thank you Jesus, for showing us how to survive and escape. Let us see and hear and understand what to do with Your protection. 🙏❤

Thank you so much Lead!! This is very valuable information. It takes out the guessing game when purchasing citrus. Thanks again!!!

Blessings! This info is so helpful. Thank you so much and you explain so clearly.

Good morning Lead and family thanks for sharing.❤️

I d love to know what rootstock they were grafted onto, it could be that the stock is very cold tolerant and so the top grafts sruvive, but wowee! Im so thrilled for you and yes, it has helped a lot, Id been thinking Id only be able to grow Japanese bitter orange - but now I will try a few of these !!! Thank you so much my Maaan! love your channel now!

Thankyou for this insight. I am attempting to grow some citrus in London, UK (8b) and have been struggling to find useful information on which citrus can deal with my erratic temperature fluctuations. That blood orange was epic looking btw, I need one in my life.

Thanks for sharing 👍🏿 😊

Thank you for sharing this.

I saw recently on a "Deep South Homestead" yt channel video, where Miss Wanda freeze dried the peels of her satsuma oranges she made juice from. And she then bagged them in mylar bags with oxygen absorbers. She didn't grind them into a powder form. But said they're great for grinding and using in all kinds of recipes for some really tasty orange flavoring. She said she adds it to cakes, muffins, smoothies, yogurt, etc. And she said It's a great orange flavoring.

Love your gardening videos Lead! Very educational 🙂

Great information... Definitely taking notes. Thank you ✊🏿✊🏿

The hunt is on 😅Thank you, I have my list. You suggested the Arkansas Black a couple of years ago and now I have two. I hope to get apples 🍎 this year 😊

Oregon zone 8b here, and we have a Meyer Lemon, Bearss Lime, and an Owari Satsuma that are growing next to the south side of our house, planted last Autumn. I put a PVC hoophouse over all of it, with a few strands of incandescent Christmas lights inside, and a black water barrel toward the middle as a backup. Survived last winter's 18° nights, and never dropped a leaf. We even got our first lemon a few weeks ago. They are so delicious! Looking forward to fruits off the other two. I also put a few citrus seedlings and pineapple plants under there to see if they'll all survive. Fingers crossed!

Here in the burbs of New Orleans we always cover our Meyers lemon. No leaves dropped. Simply love them!

I live in North East Texas, I have all my citrus and avacado potted in mineral tubs. I bought a 10x20 Quictent built a 2x6 frame for the base and connected the greenhouse frame to it. The cover is one piece and slips over the frame. Has door on each end and 4 windows on each side. Put all my trees in thar right before the artic blast we got. Had a propane bottle top heater on low . Trees came through fine was very comfortable inside. I have prolific blooming now and also fruit on all the trees. So you might consider this. I potted the trees so I can move them around. During the extreme heat of the summer I moved them into a shady area.nput 4 to a pallet ( will take that down to 2 seeing how they've gotten bigger) and I mover around with my hay forks on my tractor loader..... Jeff

I am waiting for my nursery to have a kumquat. I learned about this variety watching your channel.

Love your transparency!!

My Southern Bell (MeyerLemon) suffering after blooming so well. Thanks for the info as ALWAYS!

Last month for my birthday my little brother surprised me with a peach tree! I am so happy

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge on this. I have been wanting citrus really bad and you gave a bunch of great examples for me. Thanks for always inspiring me to try something different

I'm in Alabama zone 8A my myer lemon tree lost all it's leaves during the artic blast but it's still green. Thanks Mr. Lead I need this God bless 🙏❤️

I have the Owari , Shiranui and Meyer Lemon in ground here in South Georgia. I covered them and had some buckets of water with them . We got down to 17 degrees here but they didn’t loose any leaves at all . They are all only about 4 -5 feet tall . Probably won’t need any protection after they get bigger . I have 2 Meiwa Kumquats I’m gonna plant into the ground when they get a little bigger . I noticed that the fruit on mine doesn’t all get ripe until December thru March . I’m not sure if the fruit will survive though .

Late for the live....but I'm taking copious notes🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾. I'm in Marion Junction, Alabama, where we're in a 8a hardiness zone. Can you create a tent around them, using the same type of plastic on a green house to help them during these cold harsh freezes sir?

You are a wealth of knowledge. The trees made it, but did you make fruit for the year?

Great info. Much that I've never knew was possible with the citrus type trees in cold weather. Unfortunately I live in NJ and although our winter has been the mildest I can remember in years for the most part I think it would decimate those trees if we had our normal winters. But its worth trying. Thanks

Great to hear that so many of them survived the low temps! I'm still amazed by that Smiths Blood Orange 😲 I gotta have it! You got me when you said it tastes like Raspberry and Orange 😋 thanks for sharing

I agree they will live through a cold snap, but weeks of cold and winds. I have 7 citrus trees that I bring in after losing 3, leaving outside. Folks in 6A, Michigan had better HEAR you when you say 8A or they'll be disappointed! 😂😂

Thanks for sharing

Should make a combined community list to share. This is very valuable information. Another great video.

GLad to see so many can withstand our crazy weather. I might try one inside.

Great information Lead. Notes were definitely taken. I would still have to bring in during the coldest part of winter here in Ohio, but now that I have the room I can start buying trees once I am settled in.

Mr. Lead I can’t find any seeded oranges in the stores for months now. I’m not sure if these oranges will grow in NY but I think I have to try. Thanks for sharing.

New plants for me to try! Thanks!!

Thank you so much for all your help your information is wonderful.🙏

Great video, thanks for all the information!

Awesome!!! I'm glad you remembered the Smith's Red. I just purchased one this week from Logee's.

Where did you put the names of your trees? I must be overlooking them. Thank you for your help!

Youve given me a huge boost. My citrus is in an unheated greenhouse. There was a huge freeze here and plenty of leaves turned grey and fell off. Im guessing theyll rebound. Love that you have so many

Hey Lead. Those 17 nighttime degrees with 70 degree days don't work for us in zone 6 where it's 17 degrees constantly for days. Very helpful info if I lived in your zone.

😂😂 It’s so cool, you have both he and she in your garden. Hopefully, they gets along well 😇😂😂

Hey Lead Farmer. Thank you for sharing with us. Question: what are you planning to do to help your hard- hit trees? I'm in NC with a struggling peach tree from that cold snap!

My Meyer lemon trees dropped all of their leaves and fruit in the Pee Dee during the artic blast in December. My 1st year Persian lime trees dropped all of their leaves but surprisingly they are beginning to leaf out (1 didn't survive though). Thanks for the pointers and I look forward to more tips.

I am in coastal NC, i got down to 19 degrees. my owari's had no problems at that temp, very little leaf drop. my kumquat looks similar to yours, it dropped half of its leaves and has some burnt tips, but still looks pretty good. my avocado did ok too, burnt leaves but no major damage to any branches.

You've grouped your trees for warmth 👍..

It is amazing how some citrus trees can take such low temps than they are otherwise rated to take, had a night where temps dropped from 45 degrees to -5 degrees at night and killed my fruit trees that I would store in my garage with the old school wood door that has the half inch gap at the bottom so lost my Mexican Sweet Lime, Guava, and a Kishu that almost made it but died a few weeks later and then there was my WA Navel that should have also died but all it did was lose all its foliage from them being basically freeze dried. The trunk and stems though were still green and it has recovered well.

I live near Columbia SC, closer to Pontiac on the North east side of town. I'm glad to see a SC KZfaqr doing his thing and giving lots of great info! Instantly subscribed.

Utcha, Lead Farmer sending divine energy to you and your family. #glasscity

Thanks so much for showing this. We had a cold couple days here in zone 8 and after seeing so much yellowing and leaf drop, I was getting extremely nervous

You are the citrus and banana god. I'm in 8a/b in Atlanta and I've lost about 4 meyer lemons, 2 key limes, and I just realized today that my 6 foot meiwa kumquat is all rootstock. Gonna try it again with a valencia orange. If this doesn't make it, I'm done. Lol

Zone 7 in the upstate of SC. My food forest is three years old. I tried the arctic frost satsuma and it died when the temperatures got to 7 degrees last Christmas. I also lost all of the calamondin trees and my kumquats were slaughtered. I wish I could grow citrus in Greenville.

Jodi and I are in zone 9 a and Satuma and Myers Lemon made it through in northwest Florida.

Sell some rooted cuttings of your most cold hardy Citrus, You might actually have a cultivar thats more cold hardy than others of the same name. These cold spells are a blessing, you may be able to move some of these to zone 7 homesteaders

Great video. I look forward to seeing them regrow.

Great video! I'll look out for some of these. I'm doing cane borer resistant blackberries this year with Concorde grapes. My current blackberry plant has all the canes swollen out but it's still alive and the raspberries too

If I just had one more zone of heat I'd try those varieties. Prague Chimera from Stan Mckenzie is doing good in NJ, and of course some trifoliate hybrids. Do you have pineapple guava/ feijoa? Not a citrus but a good cold hardy fruit to try in your backyard it will definitely grow there

I sheltered my pepper plants, lemon and lime trees in the garage, even tried to heat it but it still got down to 20 degrees or so by morning. That appears to have killed many of the pepper plants. The lemon and lime trees did take some damage, lost about half their leaves and the lemon tree bloomed but dropped the buds. That was just one night in those temps and we brought everything into the house the next morning because we were not getting any warm ups at all. Maybe if my trees were a bit larger they might not have had that damage but mine are only about 18 inches tall.

I’m in zone 7b. I’ve conditioned it for 4 years in the winter and brought it in when below freezing. I just planted it and plan on putting a large pile of compost blend(leaves and grass) at the base and covering it this winter. Wish me luck. I’ve became attached to this tree

Exactly, DRAMATIC and/or SUDDEN fluctuations are your main worries as you mentioned. That why sometimes even a "light" frost is "harmful" or even "deadly" to even "hardy" plants. While a "hard" frost on "sensitive" plants may thrive against ALL odds.

I'm in Clinton SC dude love the channel

So are your trees able to ripen fruit within a season? From blossoms to fruit within a year?

Lemon Lane looking a little bleak... Come on springtime!!! 🤣👍❤️

Oh, I've never heard of the Smith blood orange. But it looks delicious. I wish I had one now. Are you selling the seeds for that one?

Sir, I lost track of you after viewing you in Ohio with your lemon trees. I bought a Meyer lemon tree and I'm keeping it barely alive. So, I am delighted to have found you again, quite by accident. I am within @150 miles of you, so your advice should be appropriate. So, now, my lemon tree is in a big pot and the leaves are YELLOW. Full sun. If you read your comments, will you advise re. What to do. Thank you.

Ya’ll gotta order your trees and plants from Minnesota. They bounce right back after the winter no problem.

I am in Michigan. I would like to do is close to organic as possible on some citrus trees. Can anyone suggest a spray? And do you automatically spray them or do you wait till you see signs of a pest or disease? Thank you friends! God bless your gardening this year

I got grapefruit this year. Also added a nectaplum and a pineapple guava.

My Limes, Lemons and Mystery Citrus all look like they are burned out from the freeze we had here in TX. I hope the come back in Spring 🤷🏾‍♀ I have a Loquat that dried out but still looks alive.

You guys are the best ❤

Beautiful citrus, I’m in zone 5b so my citrus is in the house.

Thank you

Some of mine looking the exact same way.

In Washington D.C., and just starting out, I brought my Myer Lemon inside and it seem to flourish in the basement with heat. I wondered if she could be planted in ground

Thank you!!!💕👏👏 Definitely need my own oranges up here in Maryland. 😀🍊 Unfortunately I did lose my 8 year old Myer lemon in 2021.

Where would you get your trees from

Yeah so I’m gonna need cuttings from those that pulled through. The plant adapts to what it’s been through and adjusts accordingly. It’s real cold up here in NY

You could have taken the potted ones indoors during the winter😢 And covered the ones in the ground.

Here in Maine we don't have a choice but to use heated greenhouses. A few weeks back we had -46F wind chills. Nothing survives. I will definitely be adding citrus to my greenhouse.

Thank you for this video. Do you think these will survive if I do the same thing in Maryland - DMV area?

'Kimbrough' Satsuma. Is supposed to be a little bit more cold hardy than 'Owari' Satsuma, and the taste is said to be significantly different than 'Owari' Satsuma.

I follow your channel on a regular basis. I am in the Caribbean. I know that this topic is on growing cold hardy citrus in freezing temperatures, but I am having some issues with my citrus trees where the leave look wilt almost all the time. Can you share any suggestions for me?

I keep waiting to see if my lemon and kumquat come back from that hard freeze

I'm building a greenhouse this year.

We're in 6B and I thank you for this share🎉❤