What happens is the plant cells expand to fast and they burst if the sun
hits them.
The idea of spraying the leaves with water, allows the plants to get to
temperature stage which then wont burst the cells.
After they do and have recovered the temperature equalises with air
temperature, which happens at a much slower rate, so no burst cells.
The plant should recover fully..
"Linda H" wrote in message
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Farm1 wrote:


One thing worth
remembering is that often it's not the frost that does the damage but
the thawing. By that I mean that a plant can be smothered in frost
but if it thaws out without the sun hitting it, it will often be OK
but if the sun hits it before about 10.00am then often it will be
badly damaged.


Ahh, now that is very interesting. And surprising. I would have done it
all wrong in the thinking that the sooner the sun thaws it the better -
and been worse off.

Hey, thanks for that very handy bit of info.