How To Protect Fruit Trees From A Freeze! Saving My Subtropical Garden! Zone 9 Houston

In this tutorial I'll show you how I save my fruit trees from frost and freezing temperatures. I also will demonstrate emergency propagation methods to ensure subtropical success in your garden!
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[@ZE308AC]

Paul Plantu is the most entertaining youtube gardening channel, and I appreciate it that.

[@TheLivingBackyard]

Great video! It is such a joy to see what made it! We were also dragging pots and plants to the garage lol Only plant lovers know the feeling! 💚💚💚 It was 14 around here, colder than what they said

[@leelulady2010]

Plus you can chip/cut/mow over the stuff in the bags to turn into fresh mulch/compost!

[@tropicalpdx1341]

I have a couple tips to help, should there be this type of cold again - hopefully not. Frost cloth is a little better at shedding moisture than blankets, but fortunately this freeze was a dry one. You can get frost cloth bags with a draw string which can make it pretty quick to cover small to medium sized plants. Also using small incandescent Christmas lights generate more heat than you think and can be easily strung through the branches of your citrus. Using the frost cloth along with mini lights is a highly effective way to protect plants, its been proven out for years in colder areas. Using the leftover bags of leaves is a great idea with minimal effort too. Glad to see things look pretty good so far! Good luck.

[@Bluesage2024]

I never thought about bags of leaves and clippings as insulation-Genius. Thank you for the video. 🪴🌳🌴

[@michellepollino4986]

Paul it’s sad that you have to cut your plants down, but at least you the chance to root them and replant out in your garden. That’s good that you had a garage to put all your plants in to protect them.

[@TheLittleSindyMuseum]

I love your videos man! You're so cute, clever and engaging! Very well done saving so many of your plants! /Martina

[@8thLife]

*"Out here in my garage like Tai Lopez"* 😂

[@ZE308AC]

That frost thing is a pretty nifty idea 💡 👌🏻 🤔.

[@msroro3127]

Paul I enjoyed your video especially being in the same area. You have more tropicals than I do. The closest I have are my hardy hibiscus that are zone 4 cold/zone 10 heat and they come back every year. I would suggest a few things. 1) Invest in a garden cart so you not lifting and carrying too much. Preserve your back. I love my gorilla cart. 2) you may want to push all the plants together, insulate with the bags of leaves and cover with frost blankets or blankets. I like the frost blanket. 3) maybe mixing tropicals with some cold/heat tolerant plants like azeleas or camellia. 4) water plants before a freeze. I heard Horttub with Jim Putnam (KZbin) say this and it also helps. I got my frost blanket with drawstring from Lowe’s in October. That helped my azeleas that I planted in December. This rain we have had since Monday also was a big help to our gardens. You are doing a fantastic job. It’s your garden so enjoy it. Texas weather is changing so don’t get discouraged. Save the plant babies.

[@margie9026]

Genius!!!

[@nolennaicken7176]

Always look forward to watching your videos. Gardening is one of the best things about life and i enjoy the presentation of your videos. I feel sad that you have to keep moving your tropical plants around, here in South Africa (Durban), we are blessed with good garden conditions.

[@MonoiLuv]

Great tips!

[@zwicknagel]

I prune my Cordyline every year, even when it's not freezing, which makes it bushier

[@leelulady2010]

You're welcome to my Ice Cream banana plants. I'm in Houston.

[@user-tucsonsw]

Thanks Paul, this was a great video. I'm glad you got through the freeze as well as you did. I didn't do as well in Tucson. I have a lot of damage. Take care, my best to the family. Gary

[@monicavaldez2369]

I live in Houston too and after the freeze I didn’t even want to go outside and look at the casualties 🫣 I wish I would have dug up my Bougainville but it will come back, it did the last two years. I’m gonna try your leave method next year👍 also it took me a couple of days to put my plants in the garage, they’re still in there😂

[@rickyt3961]

nice success! great idea using the bags of leaves.

[@goco4697]

Next time, harvest the passionfruit flower for a good night time tea.

[@leelulady2010]

Please consider investing in those rolling pot saucers.

[@mountain.spider]

The roller saucer wouldn't work that well rolling them on grass or dirt. Obviously he plans on putting them in the ground so putting them in a pot is only temporary. His yard is not exactly smooth where a roller sauce would work.

[@mountain.spider]

I'm in zone 9/10 and have somewhat similar plants (cordyline I thinks the name). I never really had to dig them out of the ground because the pretty resilient.

[@paulplantu]

They do always come back for sure, I just rather have big ones back in the ground.

[@roxiereed4061]

Dude get you some kind of wagon to pull when you're moving your plants in and out of the garage 😊😊

[@msroro3127]

The gorilla cart is well worth the price. I named mine Dexter, he’s been a big help to me.

[@santaanaroadwildman3614]

Dawg! Ya I heard bout ur freeze I'm glad your citrus survived, the passionfruit will come back. Im in CA the only thing hurtin by our near 30F is ma bananas. As a raiders fan, that sux bout Dallas. As long as its not the 9ers or Chiefs. Go ravens

[@NM-ql7ey]

I wish I had seen this before the freeze. Did your passion flower plant come back? Mine finally grew in the fall. My garage was freezing. Did you use a heater or anything? I may rethink getting a fruit tree to replace my mountain laurel Im going to remove (not fighting caterpillars again).

[@savannahrossy2405]

Dubai

[@catiepower3550]

Wonder if this would work for my peach tree. Last year we got an April frost as it was flowering and the buds died before pollination could take place.

[@Kary2117.]

My lime tree survived 😊 but still keeping watch on the weather

[@AhmadAsrafHashim]

Luv the 90s hair 🤭

[@Eric.Mercado]

For any of those that have been in the ground for a year or more, are they not established enough to take a freeze, unless it's something that's not rated for your zone? So is this something you'll have to be doing every year? I imagine covering these things would be harder the bigger they get, not to mention the pots being a b!tch to move the bigger and heavier the plants continue to get too.

[@eliee1]

I'm an island boy

[@heactsgood]

smh needed this game this past week in Dallas. All my plants got blasted😔

[@paulplantu]

I meant to get it out quick but I don’t like drop vids without reaults

[@quicknumbercrunch8691]

Living in West University, I found figs to be the best at surviving 20 degrees and at tolerating the extreme heat. Nice video, but I would prefer that when speaking of plants dying in the cold you say something other than, SMOKED. Maybe: iced, frozen, killed-off, etc. Also, you used an accent at one point that some people might interpret as racist. I doubt that you are. You just like to be funny and that's cool, but why take the chance of hurting feelings. You seem to have ended your gardening video with a gun shot. Not cool. Adding gangster rap is your style, fine, but gardening involves a mellow vibe and gardeners don't wish to hear that here. Stay cool. Keep up the good work. Hope the rains only help your plants.

[@paulplantu]

I grew up in an environment you didn't that's why I think you have an issue understanding my mannerisms and speech at times.

[@quicknumbercrunch8691]

@@paulplantu 1) If you want to succeed at this, then the customer is always right. Show respect. I am three times older than you. 2) I understood perfectly. 3) I grew up in Dallas and once lived in University Park Houston, so I doubt the culture was much different. 4) I am on you side , trying to help, as older people often try to help young people. Smart young people take advice. You do not have to follow it. That is your business, but lashing back, not cool. 5) Most people interested in plants are middle aged or seniors. They don't wish to hear gun shots and imitations that should like they might be racist even if that was not the intention. If your desire is to attack me again, then wait a week and think about what has been said. 6) "I grew up in an environment you didn't that's why I think you have an issue understanding my mannerisms and speech at times." You should consider taking a couple of semesters of English. Houston has many good colleges and Jr. Colleges. I notice many errors in your grammar use. A few errors are fine, might even add color, but there were too many errors. Here is how you say what you wished to say, "I believe that we grew up in significantly different cultures, and that you do not understand mine. My jokes might not appeal to you, but the people I live amongst enjoy them." What you wrote says that I did not grow up in an environment. I guess I suddenly appeared from thin air.

[@amybui915]

Hey Paul! Congratulations on the new land! I'm also from Houston and want to pass along that Trees for Houston is doing another free tree giveaway this weekend February 17th. They'll have pear, barbados cherry, brown turkey fig, ein shemer apple, santa rosa plum, sun red nectarine, and climax blueberry at 1865 Aldine Bender Rd FM 525 Houston, Tx 77032 from 9AM-12PM. The limit is 3 per household first come first serve, and they're in 3 gallon containers. :] Wow, I just sounded like an ad. Lol. Anyways I figure you may be interested.