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Lago Chiller
#1 Posted : 5/4/2012 4:23:53 AM
I returned home Monday from a weekend trip and during that time, we had a hard freeze in my area.
I placed 1 out 4 caapi I've tried to overwinter indoors into a fabric style greenhouse on Friday and all the top growth froze and was dead Monday. I'm pretty sure the 6 gallon pot it's in protected the roots and I'm hoping for regrowth.
Has any had the same problem? Did it regrow a new top?

 
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#2 Posted : 5/4/2012 4:28:42 AM
I left a caapi vine out all winter once, the leaves fell off (normal) and the trunk looked dead.
I cut a bunch of it off and it grew back, but I think I could have gotten away with not cutting it, too.
 
Lago Chiller
#3 Posted : 5/5/2012 3:12:27 AM
Thanks ۩
I was going to give it a week or so but now I've got more than hope!
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dg
Cacti expert
#4 Posted : 5/5/2012 2:17:52 PM
How cold did it get?
iirc House is on the west coast, very temperate compared to the great lakes
if the pot froze solid its likely a goner
 
Lago Chiller
#5 Posted : 5/6/2012 4:43:57 AM
Unfortunately, I do not know. The official weather is recorded at an airport 50 mi away(Z6), local temps can be way different. Supposedly it vwas only 30 that Sat evening.
I think the top growth took the brunt as it was in a protected fabric greenhouse.
No sign of life yet at nodes of any branch.

Did yours resprout from the nodes of the trimmed back vines or from the base?

 
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#6 Posted : 5/6/2012 4:44:55 AM
New nodes appeared at the base and it definitely dropped a little below 30 that winter in my case.
 
 
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