Funny enough I just cut it before reading this post, looks ripe enough. All the leaves had fell off so figured it wasn’t getting anything from being on the plant
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Looks pretty good to me. Mostly yellow, the rest it will color out on the counter.
Ours are blooming again, the cranberry hibiscus all stopped last week. Some of the roselles lost leaves in the cold. I imagine this cold burst will kill them off. Supposed to have “feels like” around freezing Sunday/Monday.
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My vanilla x tahitensis pushed out its first root since getting the cuttings. Good sign, especially since it was thrown in for free since it looked sickly.
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Made my (probably) final batch of roselle jam yesterday, since the plants seem to have gotten powdery mildew from the cold. 10 pint jars from 4ish plants. I pulled a couple plants early to make space in the garden. Won’t do that again next, this jam is the best!
No serious cold damage on anything. Peanut Butter fruit dropped a few older leaves, so did the orange. Miracle fruit has some burnt edge leaves but is still holding flowers and trying to fruit. Its supposed to warm back into the 80s next week, it might sneak out some winter fruit. Wax apple, Ice Cream Beans, Sapodilla and Barbados cherry no discernable issues. Pigeon peas are fruiting right now. Probably over 200 flowers between all my plants. My biggest one probably has close to 100 on its own. Good thing too, because something at all my bean plants at the stalk, so I have no beans to eat. Pretty mad about that.
Greenhouse plants are all doing fine except my black pepper, which had a water/sun issue. Its inside with my fig cuttings now until I see some leaf growth. Soursops still have their leaves, so I know its staying warm.
The Psidium collection has expanded.
Longipetiolatum
Robustum
I’ll graft sections of both of these to my fruiting P. cattleyanum var. littorale or whatever you want to call them. Hopefully, those scions will then fruit themselves, as otherwise I’m between three and five years away from getting fruit from these.
I’ll also attempt to root some cuttings and if that succeeds I’ll plant some in ground to test winter hardiness.
If I’m really really really lucky, I’ll be able to get some hybrids as well.
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I have a ton of robustum seedlings, a few longipetiolatum also. I also have a giant bag of robustum seeds that someone sent me for free with an order. Not sure if I can plant them out, if anyone wants some robustum seeds let me know.
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I will happily take some if no one else ends up asking. Germinating a few more seedlings would save me from having to root cuttings.
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Finally got a dragonfruit trelis up. Pink Townsend (Hylocereus sp) on the west side, yellow pitaya (Selenicereus megalanthus) on the south side and Queen of the Night (Selenicereus grandifloras) on the east and north side. Queen of the Night is usually an ornamental, but I had the fruit this year and it was better then my dragonfruit, so i decided to put some cuttings where I can reach them. Pink Townsend is a pink-fleshed dragonfruit, hopefully better than my white fleshed one.
I still need to put the top on it. I was thinking of maybe doing a middle brace too since its pretty tall. QoN and the yellow don’t necessarily need the downward growth to flower like the standard dragonfruit, so I am not too concerned about it. I am expanding my cactus garden. Next I want to get some barrel cacti, and probably a second dragonfruit trelis with some more QoN and the white fleshed fruit I have.
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Psidium littorale/lemon guava after a night unprotected at 19 F on the south side of my house.
Looks unhappy but not terrible. It’ll be warmer the next few days so any cold damage will probably become visible then.
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As long as we can stave off a frost for the next couple weeks, my 1.5 year old pigeon pea is gonna have over 200 pods. My less than 1 year olds will have around 50 each I think. Should have around 400 pods total, which is gonna be maybe like 2 bag of beans.
Did it have any serious cold damage?
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Doesn’t look like it, thankfully.
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My lemon cattley guava just has some tip burn. Sete Capote no damage at all, Eugenia repanda (4 inch seedling) has no damage (protected) my Eugenia uniflora seedling (8-10inches) seems pretty damaged. It wasn’t protected other than some leaves raked around it like the capote. We will see if it comes back strong in spring if not I have two more in pots.
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Intense pigmentation in mine, both the ones kept in the shed overnight and the one outside near the south wall.
I’m guessing the intense color is a good thing, if the plant is pumping pigments into those leaves they should be more resistant to cold damage and the plant is probably as dormant as it can be. Or it’s about to defoliate, who knows. My Kiowa does the same sort of thing though, as do some other plants that hold their leaves through winter. So I’m hopeful the deep color is a good sign.
Pitangatuga is dead, very very dead.
Interestingly, CORG looks unaffected so far.
Thomasville is still small and I let it fruit this year, so it’s suffering.
US-802 is close to the shed which helps but still, zero damage or sign of stress.
Dunstan is looking decent, some leaf curling on cold nights and a bit of yellowing. Some very new growth got fried.
Ten Degree Tangerine will defoliate soon I think. The leaves are pretty limp and sad looking.
Ichang lemon looks mostly good except for very new growth.
The big test comes next week. Gross 
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@Gkight How does your sapodilla do in the cold if yours in the ground? We are 50s/30s all next week, trying to figure out what needs to be cover up.
How wellndp cardboard boxs insulate in the cold? My wax apple ans ice cream beans are small enough to fit in some, and I have way more boxes than blankets.
Mine is in a pot in the greenhouse but my greenhouse stays at 37 (low) during the night. I have a Silas woods which is reportedly “cold hardy” as far as sapodilla go, I think 30 will be fine maybe toss a blanket (or whatever you have)over it to keep the frost off it.
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It did. Both pots of my eugenia langsdorffii have stems. Not sure which one was the one that I broke the roots on, but the stems appeared about a week apart, so didn’t slow it down much if at all.
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