Dead buds on BRT

[Ali Bubba]

Hey everyone. Quick question... Had some cold weather in the high 40's and low 50's here in south florida for a couple three weeks or so and then it warmed up to 70's for a week and all my Brazilians budded up and flowered out hard... that followed by a week of near freezing temperatures daily and now the vast majority of those buds are brown. Should I pinch off those dead buds or just leave them alone and the tree will push out new ones from underneath them? Thx so much for the help.

 

[Paradox]

Hey everyone. Quick question... Had some cold weather in the high 40's and low 50's here in south florida for a couple three weeks or so and then it warmed up to 70's for a week and all my Brazilians budded up and flowered out hard... that followed by a week of near freezing temperatures daily and now the vast majority of those buds are brown. Should I pinch off those dead buds or just leave them alone and the tree will push out new ones from underneath them? Thx so much for the help.

Can we see a picture of the areas you are talking about? Would help greatly to give you the best advice.

If you have these BRT outside in pots, I would move them inside if its going to be below 50 degrees F. They are tropical trees and dont like to get much colder than that.
I was given this advice by someone who grows them in Florida that I bought a really nice BRT from.

 

[SWfloirda]

You had flowers before the cold weather or new growth? If they were flowers they turn brown with or without cold weather. Mine rarely flower and only in the summer. It got down to 36F here in Cape Coral and some of the buds on my BRTs browned a little. You are north of here so you may have gotten more damage. It was hard to get the camera to focus right but in the close up picture there's a brown bud on the left and a viable bud on the right. A picture of yours would help but I would consider just leaving the brown ones on, mine always look a little rough after winter I let them get a good growth spurt in the early spring before doing any pruning.

 

[Ali Bubba]

Can we see a picture of the areas you are talking about? Would help greatly to give you the best advice.

If you have these BRT outside in pots, I would move them inside if its going to be below 50 degrees F. They are tropical trees and dont like to get much colder than that.
I was given this advice by someone who grows them in Florida that I bought a really nice BRT from.

Here's a sample from a couple of my trees with green buds and dead ones.
Unfortunately, I can't really move mine inside. I have alot of them and some of them are very big. To this point, I've had no problem with them when the weather has gotten down to anything above 40... I actually wasn't expecting it, but a couple nights it was forecast to hit 45 and we got down to 37 or 38. If I had known ahead of time, I would've picked up a couple of tarps to drape over everything

 

[Ali Bubba]

You had flowers before the cold weather or new growth? If they were flowers they turn brown with or without cold weather. Mine rarely flower and only in the summer. It got down to 36F here in Cape Coral and some of the buds on my BRTs browned a little. You are north of here so you may have gotten more damage. It was hard to get the camera to focus right but in the close up picture there's a brown bud on the left and a viable bud on the right. A picture of yours would help but I would consider just leaving the brown ones on, mine always look a little rough after winter I let them get a good growth spurt in the early spring before doing any pruning.
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no, they flowered b4 the real cold snap, when it warmed up for a week... I'm not concerned with the flowers, I have a few that flower year round, but the buds on a couple of them died in spots. I attached some pics

 

[Paradox]

no, they flowered b4 the real cold snap, when it warmed up for a week... I'm not concerned with the flowers, I have a few that flower year round, but the buds on a couple of them died in spots. I attached some pics

I would just leave them alone rather than pick them off. The tree should take care of them on its own.
Hopefully the cold didnt do too much damage to them. Being tropical, they dont like cold