Being in NW Florida, the weather gets warm and gets cold again so that the fruit trees are tricked into believing the spring has come.
They flower, then the blooms freeze, so looks like no fruit again this year on my plum trees. My tangerine tree doesn’t bloom for a month or so, so hopefully it will be okay....................
Wife and I visited Orlando for a few days in February. I bought a swim suit and hit the hotel pool while she went to meetings. A nice fellow sun bather shared some 40 SPF so I didn’t burn. It was 82-84 degrees.
Then we had to come home.
We have the same problem here with peach trees. In the 70s we lived in a place that had a nice size peach tree. We only got peaches once in the 8 years we lived there.
We will have a killing frost or two in March and April just about the time that we have nice blooms on the trees.
It can get cold in Florida! How distressing to lose the chance for fruit on your trees for a season. I remember when my sister (who lived in Palmetto) lost a ficus tree in her yard due to a cold snap.