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This was my first year planting 名媛直播 trees. I planted several in the Summer...Delonix Regia, Black Poui, and some Spruces. Everything was progressing very nicely and they were all growing very well. When it started to get cold outside, I had asked around for some help with preparing for the winter. Unfortunately, I was misinformed and told I could keep my 名媛直播s outdoors. Luckily, I moved all of my trees indoors before they were out in the low temperatures for very long. But during the move, I did notice that the soil in some of my planters was almost rock hard. I’m thinking that when I watered them one day, it was cold enough for the water to freeze. Of course, after a few hours inside, the soil returned back to its normal consistency.

I’m attaching some pictures below...are all of my trees done for? Is there a way to somehow test whether or not they’re alive and they can still make it? I’m hoping that all of my work hasn’t been for nothing.

At last one of these plants is dead, as for the rest most of the species I have not heard of. If the species grows where you are then they must be outside, but some look as if they may not be hardy. You need to do the research before getting species that will live outside in your climate.

Your tropicals will have died if they froze completely. Your spruces should be outside and can deal with a bit of winter. If however you drop below -10 consider protection.

leatherback wrote: below -10 consider protection.

A small point, just in case you are in the US and think in Fahrenheit. I think this means -10C, which is nowhere near as cold as -10F. -10C is +14F, which is still pretty cold. If the spruce gets down to this, put it in an unheated room, if you have one, or do something to insulate it. You might put it in a box with a light bulb or other low grade heater.

It's not a death sentence, but the spruce will do better. Several years ago we were out of town, expecting temperatures here to be the usual no lower than 25F or so, and there was a sudden drop to 10F or 12F or something like that for several days. We came back to icy roads, my coat in my suitcase which the airline managed to lose, ice all over the roads, and all the trees survived.

Isn’t there some way I can “test” to see which of these plants are alive? Would a dead plant be absorbing water?

Any ideas?

You can always check if a tree is alive by scratching the bark with your fingernail. If the tree is green its alive and if not its dead.

The way to test whether trees are alive is by getting them to grow. If they do not grow, they are dead.

Scratching the bark tells you nothing but whether there is still green tissue. If that is not there it is dead. But.. If you have a tree that is halfway dead.. Do you really want to break one of the defence lines against infections?

Hello bluewaterpig,

I had the same problem with a Fukien Tea. I keep all my trees on the balcony, and it was going good even with - 10C, but the temperature dropped a lot one night and the soil was slightly wet and it froze. I took the fukien inside, placed it in a window away from any source of heat and waited. The tree lost most of its leaves but new ones appeared. I found it best to leave it be and water it when needed (slightly more often then when it was outside).
The fukien was the only tree that does not grow in my region so that is why I took it inside.

I think that if you can wait for maybe one week, the trees should show signs of improving.