When my eyes saw that my brain auto filled Loch Ness monster. Ha I was like what blackberry is that. Silly brain.
Ha! There actually is a blackberry ‘Loch Ness’! Pretty sure the berries aren’t shaped like Nessie, though. 
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Surveying the damage done last night, 24.8f on the electronic remote thermometer this morning. It looks like the peaches and nectarines escaped major damage. Spring Satin was at 60% kill, ozark premier at 99% kill, excelsior at 99% survival, south mountain everbearing at 50%. More data to come tomorrow.
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No harm done here that I could see… shiro still blooming some today. Leaves on everything looked Ok. Goumi still blooming. Cherry blossoms looking good.
Low on my back porch was 29-30.
My Mt. Royal EU Plum looks like it is going to do a significant bloom this year.
We still have dogwood and blackberry winters to get thru… hope they are kind this year.
TNHunter
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Hit 30F here before dawn after weeks of warm weather.
Blueberries still have blossoms but a lot of fruitlets have likely been destroyed. No apparent damage to the blackberries (mostly Ponca). The jujubes evidently remembered last spring’s pump-fake and mostly haven’t leafed out yet. Same with the pawpaws and pecans.
The most immediately apparent damage was to the persimmons. Prok took tip damage:
A Coffee Cake on lotus (bad rootstock for the east coast) had leafed out even more and got zapped hard, like it does every year. Interestingly, however, a nearby Saijo and a Giombo have just started opening buds, but they appear to have taken no damage.
Can’t be sure about the pear blossoms without dissecting them, but the tender new leaves on all varieties have no apparent damage:
Even a newly-planted young Asian pear in a frost pocket seems to be fine on casual inspection (sorry for scruddy pic):
All in all, if this is indeed the last freeze of the year as promised, I’ll take it and call it even with Mother Nature.
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@marten … up here in southern TN… z7b now…
Persimmons dont start showing bud swell until first week of April (early ones)… and most are not pushing small leaves until mid to late April.
Persimmons were the last things I grafted last spring.
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Tahoe Gold (TDE3) mandarin in the greenhouse has really exploded with its first flush of the year after that sunny, warm weather recently. Looks like there will be plenty of flowers soon:
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Thank you for posting blossom pics, my honey halo blossoms look like yours, so I am relieved.
The tree had the plastic label but was missing the one that had a description and a picture so I worried, because the blossoms look smaller than my other nectarine blossoms. I wondered if there was a mix up but I see your honey halo blossoms are dark pink and on the smaller side in size.
How do you like the fruit? Do the small blossoms mean gives a smaller fruit? I don’t mind small size, good eating experience means more to me.
Oh, I am so sorry! I am sure I will have this problem, we get sudden surprise dips in temp here too.
This will be the first year fruiting for me. From what i recall they are a smaller donut nectarine. We will see!
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Butterfly on my All in One Almond.
Crab-apple bud. Just started waking up.
Orange tree with buds and flowers.
Nectarine in full bloom and about to be done.
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Somehow, miraculously, shangri-la mulberry does not look completely toasted. Normally, young tomato plants are more cold hardy. Go figure.
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Remind me what month you grafted?
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September 18. There’s a photo of the grafts the day they were done here:
You can see that I didn’t bother wrapping the scions and I left some partial leaves attached. We were already getting enough rain then that I didn’t think desiccation was a problem, and I didn’t want to remove all the leaves from a non-dormant cutting.
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was the bark slipping for the bark grafts, or do you do the brute force style