For my grapefruit tree. I went on ahead and cut down after weeks of online research seeing if there was a chance it would come back. We enjoyed a lot of fruit from this tree over the past years.




After the freezing rain and snow in January.

Dang, I hate that.

Dang...Hate it to see that...

Dang global warming. I hate you lost the tree and I enjoyed your posts about it. I even considered planting one

I hate that. Any possibility it will come back from the roots?

As a side note, I have lost a LOT of shrubbery around my house. Some complete kills and a whole lot of burn backs. With the exception of some green leaves at the bottoms, my tea olives look like they've been sprayed with agent orange.

I think both of my fig bushes are dead too.

I hate you cut it down were any of the branches still green on the inside? If so it wasn't dead. If the leafs drop they are usually just in stress and will put back out but if they hold leafs there dead.

I don't know Fur. I left the stump to see but the tree may have ran its course. Up until three years ago the tree produce over or around a thousand pieces of grape fruit annually. Dropped down to around 500 two years ago and less than 120 when I picked it in early December.

I talked to some citrus farmers in Lakeland Florida area and they told me it wasn't uncommon for a tree to bear fruit for as long as fifty years or longer in the right climate of course. So I guess having it in Montgomery for twenty five wasn't bad.

Most fruit trees are grafted onto a different rootstock so even if it comes back from the root it probably won't bear fruit. Probably be a thorny trifolieta.

I noticed a big old Valencia orange tree today that I thought was dead was beginning to bud out some leaves. Won't have any oranges this year, but maybe next. I planted two more Satsumas close to the house on the south side hoping I can either keep them misted in freezing temps or I can build some plastic sheeting panels I can use to protect them. They are loaded with little Satsumas right now. If the grapefruit sprouts from the stump it will probably be the root stock and not any good.

Those sour oranges that are from the typical root stock are GREAT for cooking.