Good morning!

Today I’d like to show a few photos of my fruit trees/homestead after we had a low of 33 degrees a couple weeks back. I was afraid we’d lose almost everything because we expected a hard freeze, but we got lucky.

Let’s start with 1 of 3 of our jackfruit trees

All three jackfruit trees lost their leaves, and even the young tips of branches shriveled up. Over the past week I’ve been pruning the dead wood off. I thought I would lose them all, but this morning I saw some green that gave me hope.

Jackfruit #1

One of two Moringa Trees - putting out leaves again

My largest coconut palm - I’m afraid we might lose one out of the four we have

Ahhh, resilient Mulberries

The mulberries and guava tree seem to have been the most resilient (and the cacti), whereas the papayas don’t look great and I lost a young mango sapling.

This pink guava is one of the only larger trees I have that didn’t lose any leaves at all - must be pretty cold hardy!

Soursop tree lost all its leaves

Only to regrow more!

Papayas have suffered a bad fate - I fear these have met their match

Bananas beginning to push out new leaves - after just being stalks last week!

One of our mango saplings is pushing out new leaves

Sugar cane looking healthy again

We have many more plants but just I’d give you guys a rough overview of how things are going here now. I have more papaya seedlings that I just planted into the ground yesterday, so hopefully those take and we don’t get another near frost. I try my best to cover my smallest plants when this happens, but sometimes it’s not enough.

Hope you enjoyed! Thanks a lot and have a great weekend!