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How to Identify and Treat Frost Damage on Ginkgo Trees?
A ginkgo tree can take frost damage from late frosts, especially on young specimens. Signs of this are brown discolored, drooping or curled leaves. In the case of frost damage, you should be patient and wait, since the ginkgo usually sprout again in early summer.
Can Ginkgo Trees Take Frost Damage?
Of course you can too robust ginkgo tree suffer Frost damage! This concerns above all young, trees that are not yet sufficiently stable, as well as young and old specimens that grow from a late frost were surprised.
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Besides are also Ginkgos cultivated in pots endangered by frost damage, because the small amount of substrate in such a planter freezes through very quickly and offers only little protection against icy temperatures. Such a pot ginkgo needs, like young trees, special horticultural attention.
In principle, however, a well-rooted ginkgo biloba is very hardy and easily tolerates temperatures down to minus 25 °C.
How do you recognize frost damage on the ginkgo tree?
You can recognize possible frost damage on the ginkgo by these symptoms:
- brown leaves
- leaves hanging
- or Leaves curl up
- loses leaves (at unusual time of year)
- Leaves remain small and crumble
- shoots (v. a. shoot tips) appear dried up
Also can Frost cracks in the bark occur, which is particularly important at sub-zero temperatures very sunny locations the case is. In general, the combination of “bright sunshine” and “dry frost” is dangerous for trees in winter: the warming rays of the sun get the tree juices flowing. These in turn freeze and cause damage to the wood and bark.
How to treat frost damage on ginkgo?
First of all, you don't have to be afraid of your ginkgo dying off - provided the tree has been in place for a few years and is well rooted there. Young trees and pot specimens are more at risk of freezing, after all, they can counteract less strength.
The most important measure against frost damage is: be patient and wait! The ginkgo will in all likelihood be the latest sprout again in early summer. Then you can also see exactly which parts of the plant actually dead are and can cut them off with sharp scissors.
How do you protect a (young) ginkgo from frost damage?
In order to protect them from frost damage, young ginkgo trees should either be cultivated in a large tub for the first few years and winter frost-free or especially in late winter or early spring with a winter protection Mistake. A garden fleece or a jute cover filled with straw is suitable for this.
A Ginkgo in the pot on the other hand, place it on a thick base made of wood or plastic, cover the planter with a warm coat (e.g. B. garden fleece) and push it against a warming wall. You can also overwinter the potted ginkgo in a frost-free place indoors at a maximum of 10 °C.
Tip
Be careful during the ice saints
The Ice Saints are three days in May, during which the icy polar air can bring us dangerous night frosts. They always appear in mid-May, even if the weather was previously warm and sunny.
