Winter Protection Begins - Covering Ultra Tropicals In Melbourne

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[@lyonheart84]

Great job George, hopefully those levels of protection will be adequate this winter for most of the sulks 🤞

[@RealLifeFruitopia]

Let's hope so, Brett!

[@oblivionslight1346]

This channel is gardening goals, thanks for the constant inspiration.

[@RealLifeFruitopia]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@RussellBooth1977]

Our winter won't hit us until late May or early June up Here in the Newcastle area in New South Wales but I think that I will be better off ordering one of those cylindrical shaped frost cloth covers for my potted Cassava plants because they die back during winter time. They don't die back until July when it really gets cold like down to between 0-5°C overnight & I have lost a couple of potted Cassava plants that way,if we get some rain then the roots just rot. Either that or buy another greenhouse for them, next year & the year after I may not care since I will plant them in the ground then take the canes off them prior to the cold & frosty period of winter time,I will store the canes in a container of potting soil or something during winter time & dig the tubers up during winter time since I will be on a property by then !

[@RealLifeFruitopia]

How do you use Cassava? I wish I could grow it all year, but it doesn't survive past May.

[@FunnySurpriseToys]

Hi my friend!😊

[@sergio34410]

Hello George! I saw some scale’s on it hopefully that’s not a issue for the abiu! 😮have a great day amigo

[@RealLifeFruitopia]

Wow, you have incredible eyesight! I saw it when I played back the video. Tomorrow I'll wash it off, then monitor how it goes down the track.

[@Hydreii]

Let's hope this winter will be mild ! I'm really curious about how your tropicals will do with all this protection. At my place (North-eastern France) we just got our last frost this week. Well, they announced -1°C, but my thermometer was showing 1°C. One of my neighbors' kiwi vine was slightly burnt on a few high growing tips, but that's it. We had both the coldest and the mildest winter in ten years here, it was very weird. The first half of the winter was very cold, temperatures stayed below freezing even during the day for two weeks in early January. But then, we didn't get any frost at all in February, nor March, and the "frost" this week was so mild that most areas didn't even freeze. I don't think this has ever happened historically, but my citrus certainly didn't mind getting a break after the early winter cold. I didn't lose any of them this year, despite temperatures dropping to -12°C at some point (well, I protected the most sensitive ones like I've seen you do !). Even my passion vines started growing early, usually they stay dormant underground until May. You're truly inspiring, I wouldn't be experimenting with subtropical plants if I never found your videos. Thanks a lot.

[@RealLifeFruitopia]

Wow! -12C is seriously cold! Fruitopia would end up with so many dead trunks at half that temperature. You're truly amazing for keeping all your tropicals alive! Thanks for your continued support!

[@Hydreii]

Well, I don't deserve that much praise. I plant passionfruits, taro, feijoas, citrus etc, and people from my area don't believe me when I tell them it can be done, and it certainly isn't easy, but I have no chance at growing mangoes or cherimoyas. I'm sure most of your plants wouldn't do great here for sure ! It's fun to experiment, though. I plant basically anything tropical or subtropical that might survive here, even though the cold tolerant citrus aren't known for being particularly tasty (the ones I've had so far were just OK, which is considered excellent by hardy citrus standards). Most of the tropical stuff ends up hidden underground during winter, but they do grow back, so it's fine (taro, peruvian oca, cape gooseberry, runner beans, passionfruits, lemon verbena...). Even some of my pomegranates died back to the ground this year, even one of my russian ones, even though they're supposed to survive -15°C. It can definitely be a harsh climate here unfortunately. I've only been gardening seriously for four years though, before that I just grew tomatoes, cherries, plums and quince. Most of my garden is still temperate stuff nowadays, even though many of my plants aren't generally thought to do well here (pomegranates, jujubes, kiwi vines, persimmons, apricots, almonds...), as well as a lot of fun hybrids (apple-quince, pear-quince, pear-ash, apricot-cherry, peach-plum, etc), although I would consider some of these as cold-adapted subtropical plants rather than temperate plants (persimmons being very adaptable to the subtropics and being from a mostly tropical family, just like jujubes, maypop passionfruits and pawpaws from the subtropical areas of the south-eastern US as well as being from tropical families, kiwi vines from the subtropical chinese highlands, tejocote from the subtropical and tropical mexican and guatemalan highlands, goufla vines from the subtropical and tropical highlands from India to China and South-East Asia, Azores blueberries from the subtropical Azores archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean...) Anyway, sorry for rambling. I'm always like this when discussing gardening. Have a nice day ! (or night ?)

[@Howsthat-xq3sn]

Good work 👍 I have to do that with my Abiu 2 trees and also Rolinia and Miracle Fruit tree I have one outside in ground and one in ground in the greenhouse which has come back to life just to go through another winter 🥶 Mangoes in grow bags have gone into greenhouse but I may try some outside with frost cloth just to see ? Like the Glen Mango that I put in ground due to the success you had with your Glen Mango. Paw Paw is to large to do anything it’s fence and a half in height now and I did nothing to protect it to get to that through past winters. It has flowers but not set fruit so I hope the new baby ones I planted in spring next to it survive as well and help for setting fruit in the future? I believe its spot of trees all around it has protected it to survive otherwise it would have die long ago. Also believe the Babaco has helped sharing the same root system. I think the Miracle Fruit I just would be happy if one can survive ? 2 would be a bonus. Which will do better the Greenhouse one or the outside one with frost cloth ? I think you have said in the past don’t waste your time with Miracle Fruit in Melbourne but so many people in Melbourne want this tree and it’s to tempting not to try get this tree to work. I think my best chance is the one in the ground in the greenhouse ? As if it keep surviving and coming back as it gets stronger in 5 years time it may work ? Time will tell ?

[@RealLifeFruitopia]

Miracle trees will survive with protection long term but how long is long term depends on the size of the tree initially. I've only tried miniatures, around 20 inches tall. In recent years, I have had better results with inground tropicals wrapped in frostcloth than similar trees in greenhouse pots. Unfortunately, the waiting game takes years even a decade for results in our cooler climate.

[@Sunset-kx9eb]

Great thank you

[@RealLifeFruitopia]

Welcome

[@Hold3nman24122412]

Add more stakes boss. A hexagon or something more aerodynamics to it would also help.. the distances between the stakes would be less an have more space for ya trees😊

[@RealLifeFruitopia]

Clever! Thanks mate.

[@petergilfillan8340]

Just as you showed that 1st cold sensitive plant(not sure of its name), you lifted the leaves and there's evidence of black scale there. Worth a double check and treatment i think? Well done with yr Preparation. Can you post a link to where you buy yr Frost Fabrics from? Thanks for the informative videos.

[@RealLifeFruitopia]

Good spotting! I missed it. I'll treat tomorrow. Link is www.ebay.com.au/str/netproprotectivecanopies

[@MikeOne84]

Put a blacked out light in there for some heat at night.

[@RealLifeFruitopia]

I'm not familiar with them. Solar powered or battery?

[@MikeOne84]

@@RealLifeFruitopia any type of light bulb with the bulb blacked out, so it is heat only. I guess it depends on how dedicated you are in keeping the ultra sooks.

[@RealLifeFruitopia]

@@MikeOne84 Ok