Following 3 days of low 20's or high teens, April 6-9, 20074-9-07 By Larry Tankersely, UT Extension Forester

Trees have been dealing with cold for a long time, so I'm not lookin' for any to die.

That said their may have been some damage. If the "tissue" is brown and/or watery it is dead the cell walls ruptured as they froze and the tree will have to grow around that as soon as "normal" whether returns. If the brown tissue was flowers then we won't have flowers and that means no fruit. So acorns, apples, pears etc. will be missing this year.

Much of the tissue that I have been lookin' at is wilted, not brown or watery. These twigs and leaves should be okay again as the whether warms.Should these tissues ultimately die, again the tree will grow around the dead material. Some trees may be a bit misshaped by all this but by this summer much of this will be a forgotten memory except to persons especially close to their plants.

Water is our remedy in helping the plants thru this spell. We are in a bit of a drought anyway and damaged plants have already spent one round of starch to set up the damaged leaves before these were able to begin much production for this year. Additional stored starch will be necessary to re-foliate. I definitely would not fertilize until the plants get back to normal. "Dumped" nitrogen can stress already stressed plants.