Still no leaves on citrus trees

simple, scratch with fingernail. if green you are good. if not, rip

Probably gone. I lost both my blood oranges this winter. No foliage and the limbs are dry and fragile. My lemon and satsuma survived though. Didn’t cover this winter just gave them my best wishes. FWIW the improved Meyer lemon variety is incredibly hardy.

My grapefruit is gone I believe.One Orange has only 4 new growths coming Lemon tree has about 5 or 6 shoots coming from main trunk, I squeezed 4 gallons of Lemon juice last year. Dug up my bottlebrush yesterday

Send LSUAg center an email and ask them for advice.
You were probably hit harder than us further south.

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Should I continue to wait, or are they done?

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they gone, if they sprout anything at all after all this time, it will just be the base shrub growing that the tree was grafted to. the fruit tree part of it is dead.

plant new trees now while its still the right time to get them started and established

This was the coldest winter i remember in 55 years living in La. Several winters were spent abroad so I may have missed something. I have seen a night or two here and there where it got as cold, but there was a solid week there of some crazy cold weather. In Baton Rouge we had pipes freeze on a 12 year old house that never froze. Didn't loose any citrus, but the extra wet and cold winter did in some plums, figs and other small fruit trees. I think the extra wet more than anything, they were stressed over the summer and the cold finished them off.

Had issues. I think(or hope)they are moving it to a new server. It'll come back.

Ok man. I've been checking daily with hopes. i enjoyed it. I emailed them but no response. fingers are crossed

My citrus survived with minimal dead loss. However, I haven't seen any buds on my lemon or lime. When should that occur? The orange and satsuma have budded and set fruit. (All trees are 5 years old and under)