Looking good George! Mine is holding in there but it has some cold damage. It’s the first winter I haven’t put it under the pergola. I hope both yours and mine make it through winter.
I bought mine inside just in case. It was starting to get some cold damage outside, and yes the scale seem to love them! That frost cloth seems really good, I was expecting a lot worse underneath!
@@RealLifeFruitopia I don't have ultra tropicals like you do. The most tropical would be Rollinia and Papayas. Rollinia is in a protected spot so *should* be fine. Papayas are all seedlings from food scraps so I can ignore them 😄
My abiu is looking a little sad, dropped lots of leaves but the new shoots still look good. I only drop to 7°c in winter with no frost so I don't need to wrap it. Good luck with your tree 😁
I know, back in 2005 I hopped onto a plane after work on a Friday afternoon which was bound for Melbourne at the Newcastle airport in New South Wales & it was a nice & sunny 26°C day in October there. But as soon as I hopped off the aeroplane & went to catch the shuttle bus to Melbourne at the Tullamarine airport I shivered because it was only 13°C at about 5pm in the afternoon & it was overcast. I noticed that you have been having a few days under 10°C at your location in Scoresby whereas we've been having 14-18°C days & there's a few days which are forecasted to have a top of 20°C so I am looking forward to those nice days during the middle of winter,yes it's sunny a lot of the time up my way except for the last day or so because it has been raining. The nights have been getting down to 3-4°C so I have been starting to chuck a few of my Cassava plants under the house to give them both frost protection & to keep the rain off them to prevent root rot then I will drag them back out in September after the last of the winter frosts, they will just grow back. I also want to prove to people that I can grow Abiu at anywhere south of Port Macquarie in New South Wales because they're trying to tell me that Abiu will grow up in the Tweed/Byron areas on the far north coast of New South Wales & it will just die during winter time anywhere south of Port Macquarie when we basically have a similar climate to theirs,my area has a similar to Lismore so I want to prove that. What they're trying to tell me is my climate is a warm temperate one which is a Koppen Geiger Cwa classification which means that they have a dry winter but we've been having rain all year round which is typically of a Cfa climate. It's not until you get to Singleton & Muswellbrook where they have nights which have got down to -4°C overnight recently that you really need to worry about some serious frost & cold protection for your plants !
Being so much closer to the subtropics than I am, you seem to be the lone ranger for tropical fruit growers up there. Keep up the good work! I love Melbourne's big city vibe, but without the ugliness of other large cities around the world.
