How long before I need to give up on my 12 year old satsuma and grapefruit trees?

summer/fall. really

I just cut my Satsuma near lafaytte, back ti the green shoots on the bigger limbs foo main trunk. Rest of tree is brittle or semi brittle with one live limb dying since it leafed. So I’m thinking it’s too weak to feed while tree and reduced it so it can consolidate its strength ti the core.

In BR, my satsuma is doing great.

However, had a 10’ lime tree and that guy looks dead as a door nail.

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Cenla. Wind Chill got down to zero.

Update: Green shoots showing on main trunk of Grapefruit tree.

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My CENLA Satsuma is only showing green growth on the main trunk. All limbs appear dead. Can this turn into a producing tree or should I start over?

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the main root is still alive but the fruit tree grafted to it has died.

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I have shoots above the graft and am snipping everything from below.

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I have shoots above the graft and am snipping everything from below.

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well it might still have a chance then, just watch what the leaves look like.

you can tell once they get a little bigger if its a satsuma leaf, or leaf of the base root bush that it was grafted to, that was just growing up through the dead top satsuma part of the tree

i never knew you were dealing with 2 trees with satsuma, one is the base root, and then the grafted on satsuma on top. i kept seeing green leaves, but no flowers, or fruit, for 2 years that i was wasting time on trying to save it.

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There are satsuma varieties that are good down to 15 degrees. Are yall planting older less cold hardy varieties?

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in my case it was a small young tree roughly 3-4 years old. IIRC it was a osawi satsuma

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. Are yall planting older less cold hardy varieties?

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I just buy what I can find in my area.

I think my hardy hibiscus bit the dust too.

Cenla here also. I keep my citrus no higher than 6 feet, and cover them with leaves in December with a heavy cover around base. On really cold spells like we had, I cover with painters sheet and top with tarp anchored down. A lot of work but I lose only a few tips of branches and have lots of fruit flowers right now.