3 main factors in planting; Tricking amaryllis to bloom

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, everybody. Welcome. I'm Ron Wilson, and you are
in the garden. Youre on news radio six ten WTVNA
two to one wtv IN one hundred and sixty ten
WTV and talking about yardening. I'm gonna tell you right
off the bat and celebration of the National Championship I
know we have and go Bucks. What a great night.

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You know. I think the icing on the cake was
watching Kurt after the game was over. That's a true
Buck guye. That's that's what happens when you got Buck
guys in the heart. But anyway, today's show no guests,
and I've done it on purpose because there's a lot
of tips that I want to share with you that
are timely, and I also want to make sure we
give you plenty of time to call. I've had quite

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a few emails this week, folks. Starting to think about
you know, we're only you know, if you think about this,
a week left in January, crazy, huh, four weeks in February.
We're talking first of March, so it's right around the corner.
Starting to look ahead, started to look at some of
the issues they had last year. What can I do
to correct it? I'm et cetera, et cetera. So I said,
you know, let's just do this today. Let's just make
it you and me and of course Ella, our producer

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in between, just you and me talking about yardning. So
we're taking your calls and we're taking your tips. I
love hearing from you. If you've got a tip you
want to share, I have at it. Love hearing from you.
And again it's an eight two to one w TV
and eight hundred and six to ten WTVN. And you know,
and I love hearing it from folks. You know, things
that did well last year, things that did not do

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well last year. Starting to get some questions already. I
had these tomatoes that I planned last year and wasn't
able to whatever. And we're starting to get that. And
that's good because now we start to share some thoughts,
try to, you know, do whatever we can to change
things to make you a little more successful in your
gardening endeavors in twenty twenty five. So again, and as

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I've always said, and you know, I've said this during
the whole time doing this show, this is our twenty
fourth season. Can you believe that of doing our gardening
show here on News Radio six ten WTIS and it
has been an honor trust me to be a part
of a six ' ten. It's a pretty cool thing
and I loving it. But anyway to share information, and

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I've always said there's more than one way to garden,
and I you know, I base my when I give
out tips or suggestions based on several things, personal experience,
experiences that I have shared with other gardeners, landscapers, growers,
whatever it may be out there, and scientific based research,

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which we're seeing more and more all the time. As
a matter of fact, we're seeing a lot over the years,
and this happens as we're trying, as we're actually getting
more and more research and funding spend, just like with
the BS and things like that. We're learning more all
the time, and in some cases we're debunking some of
the myths that we used to talk about out there.

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You know, I've gone by the wayside thanks to scientific
research or more research for ways of guardening. So I've
always said, you know, there's more than one way to
do what we talk about on this show. And if
there's a way that you've done it that works for
you and you've had success with it, don't be afraid
to call and say, hey, here's what I've tried and

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it did work for me, or I did try that
and it didn't work, and we talk about it. So
I love that. I like that interaction, so you know,
always feel free to you know, I look at this
as kind of a networking show, and I'll have friends
of mine that they're in a business or gardeners that
during the show and we're talking about whatever, will send
me a text and say, yeah, I did this, or
I tried this, or you might want to mention whatever.

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That's a great thing, and I think that's what it's
all about. And I think that's why, you know, it's
so much fun to get together with gardening clubs and
gardening groups or groups to talk about gardening and landscaping
and that to share all the different ideas. So as
we have always done and we always will continue to
do on this show. We welcome your calls and your input. Well,

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so don't ever and I've had folks come up, but
we're doing remotes or whatever. And by the way, we
have I think three remotes booked already for the spring season,
and we'll keep you posted on that when everything's confirmed.
But maybe going to be a few more. But when
folks come up and say, you know, I don't call
you because I feel silly I call you don't need to,
you know, I just like come here and talk to you.

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Well that's cool and I like that. But on the
same token call, it's just you and me talking on
the phone and Ella listening in. We won't tell anybody
else and just you and me, and that's it. So
you know, don't be shy. All the tips out there
are great. Now. I'm not looking for tips to say,
you know, poor gasoline down that. That's not what we're
looking for. We're looking for sensible tips for making all

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of us successful in our gardening and yardening endeavors. So
please keep that in mind as well. And again, I
come in here every week with a legal pad. It's
probably about thirty things written on it as far as
that can be timely tips to talk about during that day.
And my goal is to take your calls and help

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to answer your immediate questions, and in between that share
the tips or elaborate on maybe your call has to
tie in with some of these tips as well, elaborate
those on as well, keep you as updated as I
can so that's our goal. That's what we'll continue to
do through twenty twenty five. As we continue, like I said,
our twenty fourth season. I can't believe with the first
year that we were on that I started this show

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in the garden with Ron Wilson on six ' ten
was the year that twenty two thousand and two when
the Bucks won the national championships. What a great thing,
you know, to witness that, I think, what now three
times in that period of time, so pretty cool and
very excited. So anyway, that's it. That's what we're doing.

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And again I appreciate your calls. I appreciate you listening
to the show. I appreciate your emails. And you know,
when you do email me, I usually print those out
and keep those with me as well, so we can
help to directly answer some of those questions for you too.
So you know we're always welcoming you call again at
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WTV And and don't forget, we do have a website that

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we do separate. It's it's it's for the shows, but
it's it's and it's set up through iHeart, but it's
Ron Wilson online dot com Ron Wilson online dot com
and podcasts are posted there. You can listen to different
interviews on there. I have the plant of the week
that's listed on there, and I have a friend of mine,
Rita Hikenfeld, lives down in the She lives in Batavial, Ohio.

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She is an herbal scholar Appalachian herbal Scholar CCP CMH
been doing the herbs forever and she does. She's a
great cook and she has recipes on that website. Every
week has a different recipe. They're always simple, they're always
very very good. And I talked to Rita and she

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and I will get together sometimes and some talks and
all talking about growing herbs and container guardening in that.
But I ask Rita if she would like to start
maybe every other week featuring a specific herb as we
go through the spring season, and share specific information about
those herbs. So we'll see if we can convince her

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to start coming on with us on this particular show
and sharing her talk about her recipe and also talk
about a specific herb about every couple weeks or so.
So we'll see if we can do that. As a
matter of factor, recipe this week at Ron Wilson online
dot com is garlic palm chicken bites, just in time

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for the big football game that's coming up in a
couple of weeks. Can't say it, but the big game
that's going to be coming up. If you're looking for
some snacks or whatever, here's a good one and it's garlic,
chicken whatever. And obviously the featured herb would be garlic.
And we'll talk more about that. We've got lots of
tips to share and we're taking your calls. Take a break,

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can we come back, Chris, you're coming up first, eight
two to one WTVN here on news radio six '
ten wtv in. Great to hear Ella doing the weather
last week. She was hurting, struggling with the flu and everything,
but doing a lot better this Saturday, and it's glad
to see her recovery and getting back to normal. So
a two to one wtv in eight hundred sixty ten

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WTVN to the arning phone lines, we shall go, Chris,
good morning.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
Good morning, Ron. I enjoy your show and I'm glad
you're going to be answering a lot of questions today.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
Mine has to do with an Amarillis. I bought it
at Oakland Nursery. I bought three of them and gave
two away. And mine started to grow, you know, right away,
and it shot up one big stem, and then I
had eight blooms on it, which I thought was unusual.

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I've never had that. They've meant it maybe two or three,
but never ate so, and this was quite a bit
before Christmas, so I cut it back. I cut that
main stem off when they wilt it, and I just
kind of kept watering it. And I saw a little
green thing like a stem coming up out of right

(09:13):
on the side of the bulb. Well, this one has
come up and it now has eleven blooms on it.

Speaker 1 (09:21):
Wow, I know how big? How big is the how big?
Now they'll do that. The larger the bulb, the more
flower stalks and more flowers you get. So if you're
able to keep that going year after year is to
actually get you know, more and more as it gets older.
So when you buy Ammerrillis bulbs, you know, if you

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buy them, they're really any expensive ones. Sometimes even with
those kiss they're real small. You get one stock usually
sometimes too but one stock, you know, four or five
flowers on there, and that's about it. So the larger
the bulb usually the and the higher quality the bulb
is grown properly, fed, properly, stored, properly. You get that.
But that's a wow, that's got to be your record.

(10:03):
I'm sitting there trying to think of a mine at home.
How many did I count on there? And probably about
six or eight maybe at the most. So that's that's phenomenal.
That's great.

Speaker 2 (10:15):
My question is now what do I do with this?
I mean, it's still going full blue? But what how
do I take care of it? Can I get it
bloom next year?

Speaker 1 (10:26):
Oh? Absolutely? Are you starting to see foliages come up? Now?

Speaker 2 (10:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (10:32):
Okay, so what's going to happen is and you probably
the two stocks maybe all you get, but you know again, dude,
like you did once, they're starting to be spent and
it looks bad. Gwinn, cut that off just above the
ball and watch. You never know, you may get a
third one that comes up out of there. But now
the goal is, once you're done with it flowering, is
to continue to grow it like an indoor house plant.

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You know, good light, bright light, likes bright light, morning, sun, afternoon.
Shay would be great for it. I would I would
actually feed it, use a water soluble fertilizer, so maybe
half the rate every three weeks or so, give it
a little shot a fertilizer. And then once we get
into where we could take that thing outside, you can

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actually move it outside, grow it in a pot outside
during the summer. And again they are very heavy feeders, Chris,
So you would feed that thing every couple of weeks.
You're gonna use that water soluble fertilizer and give it
a good shot. Let it grow all summer long, and
to make it flour. During the holiday season or around
the holiday season, usually about mid to late August, you

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kind of stop watering it. Let it start to turn yellow.
The folds will start to turn yellow. You cut that off.
Just take that whole thing, pot and all, and store
it away in a dark, cool closet, and I mean
put it away. Don't pay any attention to it for
at least six weeks, if not eight weeks. The longer
you can store it away the better. Then bring it

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back out. Water it a little bit, get a little
light to it, and next thing you know, it'll start
to All of a sudden, you start to see a
green up and hopefully start the whole process all over again.
Now I have a tip sheet on that, so if
you email me, you can go to Ron Wilson at
iHeartMedia dot com. I'll send you back the tip sheet
on how to care for that, and I'll walk you

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through the whole process. Now, I'll tell you this much.
I have had some folks that have tremendous success getting
them to reflour. I've had some folks that get fifty
percent of them to reflour. Personally, I've never gotten all
of them to reflower the next season. I've had out
of five maybe three some years, two some years, four,

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So it'll vary a little bit, but it does work,
and you can't get them to do that. Some folks.
My mom had one, for instance, that she just let
it grow. She never did anything to it. She just
let it grow and it would flower, not during the holidays,
but whenever it decided to flower, so all of a
sudden it would set up a stock. And so she
grew it as a houseplant and just kept you know,

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fed it on a regular basis, and it just flowered
whenever it wanted to flowers. So we're tricking it into
flowering for the holiday season. By this putting in a
way making go dormice. So you're tricking it into flowering.
But if you just kept it growing all the time,
it'll flower sometime down the road. It just it picks
what it wants to flower. One last thing, pot size

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is it probably what a six inch pot or so?

Speaker 2 (13:23):
Yes, it's the same pot that you know I got
into the package. Okay, I just put it in there
to I need to go into a bigger pot.

Speaker 1 (13:31):
Well, over time, yeah, you're going to jump up to
a you know, if it's at a six inch, you'll
jump up to an eight inch pot. And I usually
will transfer those into a clay pot. And the reason
I go into a clay pot is the weight because
as they get bigger and older, they tip over pretty easy,
you know. And then yes, the smaller plastic pots, next thing,

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you know, they fall over and whatever. And by the way,
if they do that and that breaks, just cut it
off and put it in a glass of water. It'll
continue to grow, it'll continue to flower. We broke one
off I don't know, two or three years ago, and
I had I mean, we fell over. It snapped the
flowers hadn't opened yet, but they had the tubes are
getting ready to We cut it off, put it in

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a glass of a vase of water. It continued to
open and continue to flower. It worked perfect as a
cut flower, So you can always do that. But the
claypot gives you that added weight and you'll want more
space for the roots. So yeah, sometime maybe in the spring,
upgrade it to an eight inch pot clay and usually,
like I say, claypot, and then take it from there
and send me the email me and I'll send you

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back the tip sheet on that. But it's very easy
to do. But congratulations on all the flowers. Onto that's outstanding.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
Well, I will send you a picture of it.

Speaker 1 (14:44):
Yeah, dude, please, I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
Okay, thank you for the advice.

Speaker 1 (14:48):
Oh you're welcome. All right, good talking with you. And
I've got to got some friends up in Cuyhoga County
that listened to the show. I think they stream it
or or downloaded, but anyway, listen to the show. And
they have been tremendously successful with their Amberillis bulbs. But
what's interesting is the last two or three years, not
only have they gotten several flowers and I don't think

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they've gotten eleven, but their stalks have been like three
and four feet tall. So these Amberillis bulbs have just
been enormously tall, the craziest thing I've ever seen. Well,
this year they sent me pictures and I think they
had six pots of them, and they're all at different stages,
so they they do make them go dormant six to

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eight weeks stories and then bring them back out two
weeks at a time to get them started, so they're
flowering at different stages. So the pots that were on
the floor had just started to send up some green.
The pots on the top of the table were in flowering.
So they had like three pots up there, one of
which was in full flower, one of which was just
starting to show some tubes forming, the other one was

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just the green stalk. So they've done that on purpose,
but not quite as tall, and they apologized and said
only twenty four to thirty six that just tall this year.
Sure what we did differently, but again they're having fun
with it, and they've been really good about getting all
of theirs the flower each year. So again it's one
of those gifts we talk about it the holiday season.
You know, you give them to somebody. They get a

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thank you when you give them the gift, and then
when they add Morella's flowers later, they get a second
thank you because of the great colors. And look at
that eleven flowers on one stalk. That is phenomenal. And
I appreciate the call and good talking with you as well.
All right, we'll take a quick break. We come back.
We'll continue sharing tips with you and taking your calls
and your questions at a two to one WTVN eight

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if you've got a tip you'd like to share, our question,
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wtv and now I was talking earlier about our special
website at Ron Wilson online dot com. And then we
do a recipe every week with Rita, and of course
I do the plant pick of the week, and I've
been trying since the beginning of the year to focus
on trees, and of course very very important to get

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out there and plant trees. Remind you every show at
the end of the show to get out where you
get to plant a tree or two or three. So important.
But you know, it's always again the right tree and
the right location to be successful in your gardening again,
in your gardening endeavors, you know, and I look at it.
We were putting a list together for a little pamphlet
we were putting together, and I said, you know, what

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are the three keys? If there were three three generic,
three general keys to the success of a plant that
you would plant in the ground, just general top one liners,
what would the three keys be. And you know, we
concluded that number one, it's right plant, right place, bottom line.

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You got to pick the right plant to grow in
the right spot. So you got a particular location, sun shade,
soil type, wet, dry, you know, clay, soil, rocky, whatever
it may be. And then how big can it get?
You know, you know, and again all those factors figured
in and calculated in and then what plant you know

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specifically fits that location, not just buying because I like
it impulse buying, and that works for annuals and perennials,
and we do we all do that. We know that
we're guilty of it. You should see something and you
buy it and you go home and try to figure
ot where you can plant it. And sometimes we plant
it where it doesn't do too well, we're not successful,
or it go overgrows or whatever. So right plant, right place,

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right location, right spot is number one key because if
you do that, there's a real good chance, no matter
what else you do, that plant's going to grow because
it's in the right location. Number two is proper planting procedure,
and we talk about that every year. Is finding the
root flare and digging the wider hole and you know,
again how deep do you plant it and chopping up

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the soil when you backfill about it around it. Do
you want to use soil amendments If you do, you know,
do only do about twenty percent pine soil condition or
compost of manure or whatever it may be. But make
sure you use the original soil that comes out of
that hole chopped up and used it again as a backfill.
And you can do soil amendments if you choose to
be a part of the backfill as well. So again

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planting procedures. Planting depths very very important obviously, and number
and that's to get it off to good start. And
number three, which was really almost could go, you know,
in front of the planting procedure because we've shoved some
stuff in the ground before and it's still didn't do
the proper procedures and it still grew. But number three,

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which is really really key and really shouldn't be as
far as an order of preference. But and that's proper watering.
And we talk about that all the time on the
show How to Water. It's hard to describe to folks
how to water newly planted trees and shrubs and perennials
and annuals and all of those and using moisture meters
and trying to calculate the rainfall and all of that

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in between and doing proper watering. And of course, when
the season's over and you get into first of October
and they shut off the irrigation system, you're done. You
quit watering. But technically we should continue to water these
new plants, tree, shrubs, evergreens right up until the holiday season.
If it continues to be dry, but watering is key,
I mean it's key. So those are the three main factors.

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So when you're planting plants, keep that in mind. Right, plant,
right place, proper planting procedure, and then watering as needed,
and you're watering until that plant gets itself established. And
then if you get into drought situations, you're going to
supplement as needed. Most established plants like a ntioned rainfall
every ten days or so. If mother nature doesn't provide it,

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you come back and provide it for them. Then again
monitoring the rainfall with a rain gage in your own backyard.
So that and then you want to do that until
they get themselves established. Annuals. You know, it's all something
you're going to grow for one year. Perennials first year
for sure, maybe the second year to get them established
and then they then it's as needed for the weather conditions.

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Trees and shrubs may take two, three, four years to
finally get some root system out there that they can
start supporting themselves. Remember they're living off the roots that
are in an immediate root ball when you planted it,
and it takes time for that to get rooted out
into your soil. So it could be two three four years,
evergreens especially, so that watering may not be every seven

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to ten days, but you're going to you're gonna keep
watering it as needed through those two three four years,
especially the evergreens. So again, those are three main factors,
key factors. And I think that the watering, because you
hear me harping about it all the time, really is
the icing on the cake, because you know, you do
all the rest of this stuff, and if you don't

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water it properly, you know there's a good chance you
aren't going to make it. But anyway, so what I've
been doing is I've been choosing trees that really I
think are different. We don't talk about them a lot.
They're out there, they're available, they're tough, they're durable. Again,
they all have their different locations that they like to

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grow in. But if you go to our website at
royn Wilson online dot com, you can scroll back and
see what we started out with, which was a sycamore
tree called Exclamation. It's a plane tree, so it's the hybrid,
but it's Exclamation. It's a sycamore that grows more and
upright puremidal form. Great street tree great Street tree shows
pretty good resistance to anthracnose just as this thing continues

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to grow absolutely wonderful. We took a look at silver leaf.
Linden fell in love with this tree when I was
fifteen years old. First year I started working at a
garden center. They had one planet on the corner of
the building. As soon as you how long it's been around,
Absolutely gorgeous And again big tree pretty much opened about
any planting location besides standing water, but again learn more

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about that at Ron Wilson online dot com. Well last
week and this week looking at a couple of the smaller,
more specimen ornamental trees. The one last week which I
think is just the more it grows, the better it looks.
Is paper bark maple. Are you familiar with that acier grissium?
And if you're not familiar with paper bark maple, garden

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centers have it. Local independent garden centers sell it, not
that many. It's expensive because it's slow to grow early,
moderate grower once it gets established. But the thing is
so cool about this plant again. Twenty twenty five feet high,
twenty feet wide, usually multi stem, single stemming, the kind
of low branching upright, spreading around a crown trifoliate leaves.

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So the leaves set up is kind of like poison
ivy and I don't like to use that for an example,
but it's kind of like that with three leaves. And
they are a dark they are a dark green, really nice.
They turn a spectacular red fall color. It's absolutely gorgeous.
The bark exfoliates with a cinnamon dark cinnamon appealing bark,

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which is phenomenal. It's an all around interest with his tree,
but his paper bark maple. Again, specimen tree could be
a street tree, smaller yards, patio tree, planet and I
guarantee you when you have that in your yard, every year,
somebody's going to come to your house and say, what
is that tree? Because it's absolutely gorgeous. Well, this week's tree,
and we'll take a break, come back to our collars.

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This week's pick is pretty similar. As a matter of fact,
if you look at both of the pictures from both trees,
the same characteristics on both. This is very different and
again you'll find it out there. But it's called parodia
parodia or common name being Persian parodia or Persian iron

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wood again. Twenty twenty five feet high, fifteen twenty feet wide,
usually single stem and then multi stemmed low very interesting
upright oval shaped. Again somexfoliating bark, not like the paper bark.
But it has three or four different colors grays and
beige and white, and so it's a really interesting bark system.

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So you see that year round. The fall colors are phenomenal,
yellows to oranges to a spectacular scarlet color, unbelievable. The
new foliage as it comes out kind of a reddish maroon,
opens up into a green, and then the fall you
get this this great fall color. Again, pretty much open
to it tolerates all kinds of pH levels. Tough tree,

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no serious pest problems, which is great. Again, a smaller tree,
so you could use it maybe as a street tree,
but again patio tree, smaller yards, specimen tree for sure.
It's another one that as it continues to grow, folks
are going to you'll like it more and more and
folks are going to say, what the heck is that tree?
But again, if you want to check those out, go

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to our website at Ryan Wilson online dot com and
you'll find those. And I'm gonna continue to do that
pretty much through the spring season, trying to highlight these
trees so that when we get into March and early April,
great again, good tree planting time. You can get out
try to find these and see if it's the right
plant for the right place in your yard. Quick break,
we come back, ed and Leys, you're coming up next

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A two to one WTVN. Here on news radio six
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talking to your rard. Now you're on news radio six
to ten WTVN, A two to one w TV and
I'm petitioning to uh, whatever Boots isn't in town to

(26:42):
do open phones. I'm gonna have a I'm gonna petition
to get Ella to do that. She would be outstanding
to do open phones. Someday you're gonna listen to open
phones in the morning. It's gonna be Ella doing it.
It's gonna be next, next time, next, next drop the Yeah,
you're out of here. It'll be a blast. You'll you'll
be spitting your coffee everywhere. It'll be it'll be the

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most fun you ever had.

Speaker 2 (27:06):
Ten minutes in we'll be out of callers.

Speaker 1 (27:09):
And then you get to talk. Yeah, and that would
be even better. I'm saying it'll be a great show someday,
someday that that's going to happen. I get this feeling. Okay, okay,
to the guarding phone as we shall go ed good morning,
good morning, Yes, sir.

Speaker 3 (27:30):
I have a couple of ten oaks, pick their red oaks,
and I've heard that they have a pro have a
problem called what penoak wilt. And I've seen some of
that indication where limbs on the north side will start

(27:52):
to die back. And I know that you're not supposed
to trim those or prune in the warm season, but
only do it in the winter. But I'm afraid I
do have that wilt in these these trees. One of
them it's almost a four foot caliper. Don't want to

(28:14):
lose it. No, they're a cure one. Some people say there's.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
No cure, not for oak wilt. Here's what you need
to do. I don't know if you've had an arborist
come out and take a look at it or not.
And a tree of that caliper I would get. I
would definitely look to get a certified arborst to come
out and take a look. I mean, it's you know,
if they caught charges seventy five or one hundred bucks,
it's well worth it, and they can take a look.

(28:40):
As a matter of fact, if there's any trimming to
be done, you are correct if that is the case.
Most oaks are trimmed during the dormant period so that
that can't be spread by the with through the open wounds.
So that's why they do that. But you know, pinoaks,
especially carry a lot of dead wood anyway. And I
say that because my a, my mom lives down in

(29:02):
the Cincinnati area. She has three pinoaks that are like yours.
They're one hundred and ten feet wide. The branches that
go out are one hundred and ten feet, So it
shows you how old these trees are. Easily a three
to three to I don't think they're four foot trunk
diameter close to the base, but easily three feet plus.

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And there's someone there every two years to clean them
out of the dead wood that's up inside that tree.
And if we get a real strong storm that comes through,
there's always a branch that falls out here and there.
They don't have oak wilt, they do have slime wood,
and that'll happen sometimes wetwood, I'm sorry, slime flex wetwood,

(29:44):
and they'll drip a little bit and they'll snap down
the side of it. But they don't have oak wilt
and so, and we know that because we've had arbis
come out to take a look at it, and so
we've certified no, it's not oak will but they naturally
carry that at an older age, that particular one and
so hers Like I said, every two years, somebody's out
there up in the trees getting rid of the dead wood,

(30:05):
bigger dead wood to clean them out. But otherwise they're
it's still in really good shape. But that is very natural.
So my point being is this that it's worth the
money to have an arborist come out take a look
if there's dead wood, clean it out. And now's the
time to do that, anytime, you know, through some time
in March early April. And on the same token, they

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can have that wood, pieces of it or bark shipped
out to have it tested, or when the leaves come out,
they can also do that with those leaves and you
would send it to the to the lab and let
somebody test it and give you a positive ida or nay,
and then you know for sure. But if it's oak wilt,
you know, no, there is anything else you can do

(30:47):
besides you know, proving that stuff out, keeping them as
healthy as you can and take it from there. As
a matter of fact, if if a tree shows an
oak shows up with that, they'll try to get that
oak tree out of there and away from the other
oaks as soon as possible su as it would be diagnosed.
So that's what I would suggest you do. Because of
a tree of that size, it's well worth the money

(31:08):
to try to save it. And if it's just the
old deadwood that they naturally carry, then you can sigh
a little bit of relief and knowing that every two
or three years somebody's going to come out and have
to do a little cleaning out of it, but otherwise
they're good to go. So get the certified at arburst,
get the testing, identify it for sure, and then take
it from there. And if you do that, let me

(31:28):
know what happens. I'd like to hear the results, you know,
if you do get a test and find out what's
going on there, just to hear back from you and
see what they have to say. But again, pinoaks older
ones are really known for doing that. I have experienced
with my three big ones that my mom's and we had.
There's a fourth one there which is a black Oaks
been there planet I think the same time as all

(31:50):
the rest of them. It rarely ever has any deadwood
in it, and it's huge as well. Loss Good morning.

Speaker 4 (31:58):
Hi, I I had a question about watering plants. You've
talked about watering with warm water. I always have taken
the water and put it in a container and let
it set for a while to get the boring and

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stuff to come out of it.

Speaker 1 (32:22):
And that's what I thought we were.

Speaker 2 (32:23):
Supposed to do.

Speaker 4 (32:23):
But then it's not warm when I use it, So
I'm wondering how you do it?

Speaker 1 (32:30):
Well? If you here's the thing. If you it depends
on what kind of water you have, obviously, uh, but
if you're right, if the particular water that you're getting
has a lot of the fluoride in it, which a
lot of plants do not like, and the chlorine, and
you let us sit out like that when you're watering
from that that it's usually at room temperature, so you're
looking at still at water that's you know, it could

(32:52):
be sixty sixty five seventy degrees because it's at room temperature,
and that's much different than water that would come out
of the cold tap, which would be a lot colder
than that. And you can measure it and see the
differences between you two. So at least at warm at
room temperature, you know, you're pushing sixty sixty five seventy
depending on what you keep the house at. And that's

(33:13):
a great way to go. And if you know, again,
if you want to warm it up on the stove,
you could, but you wouldn't have to. Room temperature works.
It's just the extremely cold water can really be you know.
And again there's folks out there that have been water
at cold water forever. But we have found that watering
with at least room temperature water or warmer actually is
better for the plant than the cold water. So room

(33:36):
temperature is fine. That works for you, just fine. And
again you know, again, if you ever have your water tested,
you'll see what levels of chlorine or fluoride that is
in there and you may not have to leave it,
set out and go from there. But room temperature does
work all right, And that's a great question. And again
that's we do want to use that during the winter time.

(33:56):
During the summertime not as important, but I still like
to use room temperature or more matter of fact, some anyway,
let's see

Speaker 2 (34:09):
MHM