September 23, 2023 • 43 mins
Dr. Allen and Braden from Clegg's Nursery are with you for this week's WJBO Lawn & Garden Show. They'll give you an update on what's fresh off the truck at Clegg's, plus take caller questions on when or should you winterize in these dry conditions, dealing with webworms, and what might be causing hard yellow spots on satsumas!
You can be part of the WJBO Lawn & Garden Show by calling us at (225) 499-9526 Saturday mornings between 8 and 9 am! Call early in the show to get your question answered quickly!
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Good Saturday morning, and welcome tothe WGBO Lanning Garden Show, brought to
you by Clegg's Nursery. If youhave a question about seasonal planting, lanning
garden concerns or questions about landscaping,call four nine nine WGBO. That's four
nine nine ninety five two six.Good morning, Baton ROUGEO. Welcome to
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the w JBO Lawn and Garden Show. Great to be here with my buddy
of Braden from Clegg's Nursery. Goodmorning, and this of course is Alan
Owings and it's gonna be another ninetytwo degree day in Baton Rouge now now
right, and you said it rainedat the at Seagan Lane yesterday. Yeah,
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I was actually really surprised by Okay, we've got a nice little poor
for about maybe ten minutes. Well, that's that's good. We we we
were talking to our producer Jeremy aboutthe the drought and weather situation and we
certainly need some us sneezing rains alwaysgetting very bad out there, right,
So what are you what are youseeing at the garden center this week?
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We have some new plants in itLegs Nursery. Yeah, so we received
some Japanese maples, which are oneof my personal favorites there. Uh,
they're just really cool trees. Alot of different varieties, a lot of
different pots, sizes, and theyjust they look phenomenal, very good,
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very good. There. There's alot of interests in Japanese maples, and
you know, many times home gardenersthink the Japanese maples are hard, but
they're really not that difficult to growif you put them in the right situation
exactly. And in Louisiana, that'sthat's where it counts, ISAs how you
where you plant them, and howyou take care of them right right,
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nice raised bad area. I liketo give them a little bit of afternoon
shay, definitely, right, theywill. Yeah, sometimes the green varieties,
the green foliage varieties do better thanthe red foliage varieties. Do I've
noticed that too, because uh,I have one of the just regular as
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or palmatums minds of Bond's eye.But if sometimes it'll kind of move stuff
around in the yard, and ifit's exposed to too much afternoon sun,
it'll it'll start to look a littlebad, but it'll still look a lot
better than some of the other cultivars, right, and then on Japanese maples.
When I was at LSU at theAgg Center, we planted about one
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hundred and twenty different varieties of Japanesemaples at the at the station in Hammond,
and and that property's flooded a coupleof times and we still have there's
still ninety varieties. It are stilllive and doing well. So so you
know, you can grow Japanese maplesin South Louisiana. And this is the
first day of all so we needto we need to be thinking about fall
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planning, but we have to havesome rain and temperature release first. You
know, it's still mid late September, and really the ideal planning time for
shrubs and trees in South Louisiana Novemberthrough January February, is that what you
tell folks? Yeah, when it'scooler outside, right, right, But
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we need to get some moisture inthe ground. And looking at the extended
forecast, it looks like we haveone more week in the low nineties and
then maybe we can be in theeighties regularly and then get to the seventies
and get to the sixties. AndI wonder if we'll see any rainfall with
any of that, I really needto look at some of the two and
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three month forecasts and see what therainfall looks like. But there's not significant
rain that I see coming in thenext ten days, although there's a couple
of days with there some decent percentages. But so even if you start to
see a nice drop in temperature,should we still be concerned about planting because
of the fact that we're not gettingany kind of significant rainfall. I really
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think we need to wait for whateverthe definition of significant rainfall is. And
I've been needed to look up andsee what our rainfall deficit is for this
year. I'm really not sure,but I was looking at the updated Louisiana
drought map that came out Thursday night, and the vast majority of the state
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still in D four and D threeand those year two first blowing. Last
year, at this time, zeropercent of the state was in drought.
Yeah, and right now one hundredpercent of the state is in drought.
That's that's insane to think about.Interstate twenty right up toward the Arkansas boarders
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the least stressed area right now,really, and usually they're more stressed up
there than we are down here.So I had a role reversal there,
but at least we've had a littlebit cooler mornings and those, yeah,
a couple of hours first thing givesus a little bit of relief. And
that helps the plants too, yeah, because when you have those, even
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if it's only five degrees cooler,that makes a lot of difference. Right,
So, so we have the Japanesemaples. It's getting to be chamelia
time too. Yeah. So usuallyright before chamelias start blooming, that's when
we'll get them in at Clegs.And that's that's what's been happening the last
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week. We've been receiving a lotof really nice chamelias. Chamelions are very
popular. Usually Cleggs and other gardencenters have the best selection of camelias September,
October till March. And uh theShishi Ga share that's always a popular
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number one so one, and that'sthe one that you see in commercial and
residential landscape plannings. And he usuallyblooms for sixty ninety days, depending on
you know, a significant freeze cankind of knock the flowers, but they're
very hardy plants. And oh yeah, and we and we haven't seen cold
damage on camelias to much extent inSouth Lewisiana, but I am starting to
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see a little bit of of heatdamage on them. And so they don't
really like to dry out for really, they do too long. And that's
the main thing on our shrubs,camelias as Elias gardenius. They don't like
it dry and they don't like itwet uniformity and soil moisture. But that's
very hard to manage. Yeah,you know, so well so Japanese maples
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camelias getting in as far as likeannual bedding plants, we didn't even start
receiving, uh like snap dragons andstuff, which in my opinion, and
it's probably still a little too hotright to be planting snap dragons, but
it's nice to see them come out. Idious. Yeah, it's getting time
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for the cool season bedding plants,but usually you know, we're getting just
now getting to the recommended planting timefor the cool season bedding plants that can
handle the warm weather. Yeah,and it's still way too early for pansies
about olas, yeah, definitely,you know, but we could put some
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Dianthus in the ground now, maybedo some snap dragons, but we've got
to make sure we have enough moisturein the landscape beds. Yeah, so
having a good garden soil will definitelyright, put that right. And I
like to put a little bit ofblack cow and some of your annual color
beds, and that seems to giveyou some good organic matter and helps you
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hold a little bit of moisture right, and it gets your plants off to
a good start too, because it'sgot a a small percentage of fertilized rent
it, you know. Yeah.So so anyway, Japanese maples so sank
was and the fruit trees have beenuh arriving. Yeah, we've we received
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well, I want to say,maybe about a month ago we start receiving
citrus, and then a couple ofweeks ago we received all our other different
kind of fruit trees like apples andpears, plums, peaches. Right.
But everything, man, when theycome off that truck, everything just looks
so good. It does. Itdoes. And I've been forgetting to remind
everybody to give us a call andwe're gonna get back to fruit trees.
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But uh, our phone number isfour nine nine w JBO four nine nine
nine five two six, And ofcourse We're an area code two two five,
So Brandon and I would love tovisit with you. Yeah, definitely.
The the so we have some niceat sumas in high demand for satsumas.
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I noticed this year a lot ofpeople have been coming in I guess
concerned about plants taking on damage fromcold weather because of last year's late freeze.
Right, So, we've been sellinga lot of the Arctic frost.
Arctic frost exactly, and I wantto say, on the back of the
tag I read the other day,they they're hardy down to like ten degrees.
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The initial research at Texas and Mon Arctic frost says they are in
the ten to fifteen degree range.It's not very common we'd see temperatures dip
that load exactly exactly. The weather'sjust so weird. I really wish I
could sit through a short presentation andunderstand what some of these weather trends are
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that. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know how we can explain
it. But we're having warm winters. What we get a week or two
a really bad cold every every winter. Yeah. So so, but it
is a good selection of citrus treesat Clegg's in our shirt right now,
we don't have come quite so dowe know? That's the one thing everybody
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comes in asking for that, Sothe sweet, the sweet and the tart
come quiets. They're a little bitbehind in wholesale availability right now, but
they should be coming in very soon. You know one thing, well,
I say one thing. It's quitea few different types of citrus. We
received dwarf too. Okay, okay, I see we have a phone call
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and it looks like it may beturf grass related. Let's talk to Mary
and Baton Rouge. Are you there, Mary, Good morning, good morning,
Good morning morning. How can wehelp you today? I am wondering
about winterizing my lawn. I dohave an irrigation, so I've been watering,
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but I need to know if we'resupposed to winter rise this year or
not with all the drought. Mary, if your lawn has been irrigated regularly
and it looks fairly decent, Ithink you're gonna be okay to do some
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winterization in the next week or two. But we really need to get that
done. Oh, you know,indou September by the first week in October,
and we do have some of thefirt Lome winter rise or do you
have a centipede grass or Saint Augustinegrass or do you know the majority of
it is sentipeed. I am someinvasion of other stuff, but the majority
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is since. Okay, what Iwould do is maybe put some winter riser
oute, maybe like half your recommendedrate and uh and that would certainly uh
help the lawn going into the intothe lake this fall and into the winter
months. Okay. And for neighborswe all use uh the same company if
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they're not If there has been nowater and the grass is not doing well
and we do not winterize, Iwould be very cautious about putting fertilizer out
on major league drought and heat stresslawns. I really would trying to do
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right. Right, I'm seeing alot more lawns looking bad than I'm seeing
lawns looking fair or very good.Yeah, So I really think we just
need to concentrate on raising the mowingheight a little bit, and uh keep
some irrigation water going because September,October, Novembers are very dry in Louisiana.
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Yeah, okay, shall keep theirrigation system running, Oh yes,
absolutely through through November. I mean, looking at the extended forecast. We
don't see a whole lot of raincoming in the next stuff a few weeks,
so everybody kind of thanks. Well, we're in the fall, we
don't need a water lawn as much, and this is the probably the most
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critical time to water. Yeah,okay, okay, I can I ask
one more question, if that's okay? Absolutely, Mary. I have a
three year old fruit tree that thatsumer and I've been pruning it to become
a tree instead of a bush,right, so I may have done more
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damage than good. It's doing well, but I have no sign of getting
fruit this year. Is there anythingI can put on that to encourage fruit
production? On the we saw wesaw of the December weather, and we
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saw that cold morning on March twentieth, and that hurts your bom. That
hurts your blooms this year, andthen sometimes your citrus will secondarily bloom in
the summer. But I saw mostpeople secondary flowers did not set this year
either, So so irrigate your citrusand then you want to fertilize next late
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February March. Yeah, I hearyou say I'm probably not going to get
fruits. Then I think you're goingto get fruit. You girl, get
some fruit set next year, andyou're gonna don't you don't you think,
right? Isn't it kind of latefor citrus to be trying to bloom us?
Absolutely? Absolutely right? Right,yeah, you would see that now.
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You just you just did not getfruits said this year. And that
was mostly weather related and even thoughyour tree looks good, there was cold
weather, stress, et cetera.Okay, okay, great, thank you
so much, guys. I reallyappreciate it, absolutely right. And uh,
first day of fall, I wasasking Braden if I said that earlier,
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and I did, so we justwant to remind you fall arrived at
one ten am this morning. Ihope y'all woke up and celebrated that moment.
But I love this time of yearwhen you get that that's that false
smell and exactly exactly you know.I have walked outside right around sunrise or
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a little before a few times atlast weekend. There's a little bit of
coolness in the air for about thirtyminutes if you wake up early enough.
Okay, So, so Braden wastalking about fruit trees. What fruit trees
do we have in at Cleggs?And uh, what are you seeing well.
First, Miss Allen, I wantto start, maybe we should tell
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everybody that phone number. Okay,okay, let's do the phone number four
ninety nine at JBO. We haveopen lines here, so on four nine
nine nine five two six. Thankyou for reminding me. But yeah,
we have seen a lot of newfruit trees come in at Cleggs, some
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of the native stuff like the mayhalland the malberry and the Paul Paul trees.
We've seen a lot of new inventoryon that. Peaches, plums,
pears, apples, nectarines, justa lot of fruit trees. It's it's
nice to see it all come in. And the Cleggs does a very good
job of carrying the varieties that dowell in bat Rouge and have a right
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chilling hours right for us in SouthLouisiana. And we get asked that a
lot. If like someone will comein and look at an apple tree,
for instance, and they want toknow if that's going to do well here,
and we always tell them that ifwe would only carry stuff that that
will do well in this climate.Yeah, that's probably the most common fruit
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tree that we get asked, well, can you actually produce apples in the
Baton Rouge area. Now we're certainlynot in an apple producing countries, but
the Anna variety Einsheimer excellent apples forBaton Rouge, and you can't you can't
produce apples. So I can attestto that because we have an apple tree
at home. It's in the Annaapple and it produces like crazy, exactly
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exactly. So so when you thinkingabout your fruit plannings for this fall,
you know October, if we getsome ray November, December, January,
February excellent time to get your fruitplanted. And then don't forget about the
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blueberries and blackberries and the fig trees. We've also received some uh, some
new blueberries and some blackberries. Verygood, it's very good. And blueberries
and blackberries, blueberries especially easy care. Really yeah, so not a whole
lot needed. They really do bestin acid soil, so know what your
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soil PhD is. And but youknow minimum pruning minium, you know,
a little bit of fertilizer every springand that make nice fall full which color.
They work very well in the landscape. So blueberries are excellent. It's
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like the little cluster of flowers thatthey do before they set, and then
that brings a lot of b activity, early season b activity to your landscape.
So the rabbitied varieties tiff Blue,Climax Premier, right, Well,
those are the ones that do reallygood in South Louisiana. And you want
to plant two varieties, multiple varietiesto get you good cross pollination soon.
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Don't you also do that with youryour fruit trees like peaches, and you
should, and that's that's important onyour peaches and plums also, Yeah,
some of your plumb varieties will notset fruit without cross pollination from another variety.
A couple of the varieties are selfpollinating. But well, we can
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grow. We can grow plums andpeaches. You may need to have a
spray program for some of the insectsand diseases, so because those are more
high maintenance fruit trees. But there'snothing better than a fresh peach off of
I know a tree with our Annaapple that I have at home, we've
struggled with a fits this year,and our low quat tree a fits.
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Okay, okay, the it doesseem like insects have been prevalent this year.
Yeah, I'm not sure why,but the fits and melie bugs every
I see scale and meaiebugs on everything. I'm not sure what the what the
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situation is with those, And alot of people say when we don't have
a lot of cold weather in thewinter, there's more insect problems. But
we've we had cold weather the lastcouple of winters. Yeah, so so,
but insects were here before we wereand they'll be here before after long.
So so. Citrus and fruit treesare here in stock looking very good,
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and those are locally grown and they'rewell adapted here in the Baton Rouge
area, the ones that we sellat Cleggs, and of course, our
our vegetable and strawberry expert, JohnnyNaylor, tells us that strawberries are going
to be coming in. Maybe Iwant to sometime, I want to say
I was told about a month We'reabout a month out. Yeah, usually
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mid October we get some strawberry bearroot plants in and right, and there's
a lot of interest in strawberries,and people don't understand that you plant strawberries
for the best productivity in the fall. And then we do put some strawberry
plants in containers and sell them inthe winter and early spring. But October
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Novembers your ideal strawberry planting time.So I'll tell you what. We've planted
strawberries at at home as just aground cover, yes, underneath some Japanese
magnolias. And I mean they're lookinga little rough right now because we haven't
had any right but they produce likecrazy absolutely. So, well, your
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strawberry plants, you plant your yourbear root plug plants this fall, and
they're going to flour and they're goingto produce strawberries if you plant them early
enough, maybe between Thanksgiving a Christmastime, and then they really start producing
February March April, and then theysent out runners. Yeah, and you
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can harvest those runners and use thosenew plants to plant in new strawberries next
fall. Ours ours even went throughthe winter. We didn't do anything to
try to protect them or get anycuttings. They went straight through the winter.
So I think it's about twenty eightthirty degrees. Well, it will
damage the strawberry flowers, okay,but the plant is pretty hard. The
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plant is very hardy. But youknow Ponchatoula Hammond uh Tikhaw area that's really
known for strawberries, and of courseThe strawberry festival in Prasatola is a big
event every April. So what elsedo we have going on in the fruit
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category that I was thinking about.Some of your fruits did get a little
bit stressed this year with the heatand the drought, but for the most
part, most of them are lookand good. And your fruit trees,
bushings and vines, you want todo fertilizer on them right when they start
growing again? Uh, next nextMarch. You don't want to be fertilizing
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this time time right right? Andthe fertilan fruit tree. Isn't there a
fertilone fruit tree, fertilizer cicerous fruit, cocoscious fruits, and pecons right right?
And once again, this is gonnabe a problematic year to get pecan
trees too. It has been problematicfor quite a few years, exactly exactly.
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And there's a there's a big articleon pecons and the current issue of
of the lsu accent or Horticulture hencefor fall. But we're gonna be lucky
if we're gonna be able to findsome pecan trees. Is there a reason
as to why people aren't the producersaren't growing the main the main picon growers
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who grow the container grown trees forgardens centers in Texas. They got hit
really hard with the cold in Februaryof twenty one. Okay, and it's
take it's going to take them fouror five years to get the production back
up because their seedling crops were hurt, their young buds were hurt, the
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budded plants were hurt. So butthey'll be coming back in about a year.
Right, And I see we havea phone calls. We have Roxy
and Baton Rouge. Good morning,Roxy, how can we help you?
Good morning, good morning. Ilove your show, guys, thank you,
thank you. I'm noticing these websare the mosque flying up in the
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grass when I'm walking around, SoI'm guessing those those sideweb worms and what
to do about those? So yeah, I would think that is sideweb worms.
And we sell a product at Clig's. It's called buck Blaster. I
want to say it's a high yieldp I looked, it's a We sell
the sell it in bags. It'sa granular form. You would just have
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to uh spread that out in yourin your lawn the correct right. And
there's also a hose in sprayer liquidform for that, right, for the
bug blaster. Yeah. Good,So you know the granular and the and
there's an attachment for your hose thatyou could put out a liquid form bug
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blaster two. Right. Yeah,So we're we've been seeing that in corn
to what I've been here in Roxythe last three to four weeks. So
with all the stress already on thelawns, I need I think we needed
to take control action on those.Definitely. Okay, does it need more
than one application? I would doone application, wait about ten days and
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see if you still see some uhsome moss line and then if you do
apply again. And also I wantto see Butch had mentioned this on a
previous show that the moss will flyinto your bushes and shrubs during the day
when it's hotter, and that's agood uh to treat that you can use
that that liquid form that hooks upto the hose. Okay, on the
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bushes your thing, correct, Okay, Grace, you have to kill the
moth, correct, because they're they'regonna lay the eggs. Right, Okay,
gotcha, thank you very much.Okay, you have a good day.
Roxy. That's a topic we've beenUh, we've been seeing the last
couple of weeks, so and that'sa good tip. Then, I remember
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you said bush. What's saying thatthe moss do seeks them a little bit
of shelter? Yeah, the heatof the day. So but if you're
mowing your grass and you see mossline, you have sode web worms?
Yeah, yes, yes, okay, we have uh we have uh Lee
in Baton Rouge and he's calling aboutcisrus. What do you have for us?
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Lee? Good morning? Well Iheard you're talking about it. I'd
like to prune myll citrus now ifI could set tum but I don't want
some advice on that. It's nofruit on it. Lee. Is there
a reason that you're looking at pruneyour side your fruit your citrus trees right
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now? Or are they large ordo they have cold damage on them?
Or they're large and next to myhouse? Oh? Where I can wait,
But I'd like to do it before, you know, before the growing
season. Do you have some somegrowth that kind of bypasses the rest of
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the plant or are you looking todo just a whole general she or like
if you just have a few branches. Yeah, if you just want to
prune back something got a little bitlonger than the rest of the plant,
right, that should be fine,right, But normally this is not the
year to do a general pruning oncitrus. You want to usually do that,
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you know, maybe in the springor no later than early summer.
So wait till still So wait right? Are you getting good? Are you
good? Are you getting good productionon your satsumously? With the cold weather
in the last couple of years,last couple of this year, I don't
have a fruit on it, rightright, right? Yeah? So I
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get in there because I want todo a general right right, yeah,
If you want to do what wecall a general pruning, I would not
do it right now. I'd waittill next year. But if you want
to remove those bypass shoots at wildgrowth, that's perfectly good to do.
Now, Can I do the liquidnot? I'm gonna get off the citrus
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on my grass like we free zone? Dang? Is it cool enough?
Na? Should I wait a lit? What do we kind of depend on
the condition of the lawn exactly asyour lawn healthy and well irrigator lead or
is a very stress yes, okay, well it's a healthy lawn. I
think you can go ahead and doit, but we are getting time to
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get your winter riz or fertilize areout and get your pre emmerged herbicide out.
Yes, it's time. Okay.Well I got this by any dream
looking kind of wet stuff and allover my yard and that's what I was
going to go after. I don'tknow what's garlic. Okay. So you
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do have some weeds out there.It sounds like like Virginia button weed.
Yeah, and then uh this thisweed woad weaves itself into the grass and
it makes maybe a little weight forthe Virginia buttonweed that that is, that
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is, and it kind of makesthe ground covering matt out there and smothers
out your your lawn uh folds.Yeah. And that's getting too late in
a year to do much about thatright now, don't you think, uh
brighten, Yeah, you really wantto work on that next spring and maybe
into early summer. So but youbut we need to be thinking about getting
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on that, you know, nextFebruary, right right right, that's good.
That's what I needed to hear.Okay, and maybe raise your mowing
height a little bit. That'll helpsome too, thank you. Okay,
Yes, early thanks for calling theUh yeah, the uh the Virginia buttonweed
situation. Uh. You can dosome h treatments in February. Uh do
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some post emerge with MS turf laterin the year, But it's getting just
too late in the year to tryto get your Virginia buttonweed under control now.
And like Butch and Chris and someof our friends at Clegs say,
getting rid of Virginia buttonweeds a twoyear process. It's gonna take a while.
So and we and we talk aboutthat regularly on the show. Yeah,
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is that something that comes back fromseed? It recedes like crazy,
that starts german eating in February nextyear. Okay, So so even if
you can pull some of those matsout, that's a good idea if you
have a small lawn, just canpull some of those mats out, But
you're gonna be dropping seed and goseed or going to germanate in February and
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people don't notice it till they startseeing the white flowers and then the mat
starts forming. And uh, Virginiabuttonweeds the number one weed issue we have
in lawns in South a weeds.Yeah, so I noticed that and a
lot of nut seedge. Nut sedgenutsedge is problematic to the sedge hammer does
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a good job on it. Yeah, but you gotta you want to treat
your weeds when they're young. Anda lot of times people treat their weeds
when they're getting more mature, whenthey're starting to drop seed exactly, and
uh, and they don't respond aswell to the herbicide. I was talking
to my barber yesterday. You know, they know I know stuff about gardening,
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so they always ask me questions.But he has sprayed his weeds in
this front ditch with round up abouta month ago, and the roundup didn't
really work. But then he eventuallytold me the weeds were about three feet
tall and they were drought stressed,so the weeds were not taking up the
herbicide. So he mowed the weedsdown and for a couple of days of
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new growth, and then he sprayedthem again and wail, they died.
So so sometimes it's the growth stageof the plant when you're trying to put
out herbicide. Makes sense. Soour friend Butch Drew sent us a text.
What did Butch want to know?He wanted to know if we were
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going to have a problem with gettinghay bells because of the droughts. Okay,
now, I know we got alot of hay bells in and all
the locations. Yeah, we definitelydid. As far as future deliveries of
hay, that I'm not really sureabout, but we definitely have hay at
at all locations, right, wedo when we're getting into octobers, and
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I know people will be coming into get hay for their final decorations,
especially when we advanced a little bitmore toward the Halloween season. Right.
But hay for the farmers is invery short supply in Louisiana and Texas and
Mississippi, and well, considering wehaven't had any rate exactly the most.
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Most farmers have only gotten in onehay harvest this year. Wow. And
the livestock, the cattle people areselling off their cattle because there's not enough
hay to fifty the cattle through thewinter. Wow. Yeah. So the
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cattle producers are struggling in the Uin Louisiana right now, as they are
in Texas, Oklahoma and Mississippi withthe hay shortage. So I'm not really
sure what the uh the hay situationis going to be. I know Tom
Findle, our owner, has reallygood h access to a lot of things.
But yeah, I would think wewere going to get another some more
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hay in but we'll check with themand see what that situation is going to
be. Definitely, that was agood call about side web worms that We've
had a couple of lawn and ancestrousquestions, but we were just talking about
the hay bail shortage. Louisiana agricultureit's not having a good year. Yeah,
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sugarcane harvest is going to be waydown. The corn harvest was way
down. The crawfish harvest is beingaffective. Now I'm seriously concerned about crawfish
because I love to eat crows.Yes, that is the dryer it is,
the more the crawfish berry into theground and so and the soybean crops
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not doing good. So we arehaving some agricultural issues around the state.
So pray for the farmers, youknow, and the nursuer growers are farmers
too. Yeah, you know,I helped Bracy's nursery and the meat the
wholesale nursurer grower, and we've hada lot of heat damage on plants there.
I mean it's so hot and dry. Sometimes times you can't get all
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the what plants adequately irrigated. Andthat was my question. What kind of
irrigation system does Bracey's use. Likeat Clegg's we just have sprinkler heads that
kind of water through the beds.Do they have the same kind of set
up or is it like a dripline? Yeah, so Bracey's Nursery,
everything in a seven gallon or smallor is overhead irrigated, and then the
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fifteen gallon and thirty gallon and fortyfive gallon plants are drip irrigated. Okay,
but like when you have a blockof plants out there and you can
see this at retail, to theway Clegs irrigates, the plants on the
perimeter sometimes don't get adequate moisture comparedto the plants in the middle of the
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brake. So so we need tobe really minit turn or irrigation, make
sure we're irrigating efficiently efficiently over awhole area and not have the dry spots
and wet spots. Yeah, wehave a collar Jerry and Prairie Viale.
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Good morning, Jerry, what canwe help you with today? Good morning?
The reason I'm calling is I havea set summetry and it has plenty
of fruit. But I'm having aproblem because there are and I'm not sure
I can explain it properly, butthere are areas on individual pieces of fruit
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that begin as little yellow areas andthey spread on the fruit and the fruit
turns hard. So I don't knowif it's because of the drought, or
if it's because of insects, orwhat it is and what to do about
it. Jerry, I'm thinking onour screen. I wasn't expecting what you
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said. But when you have someyellow fruit on your site zum us and
you have you said you have somehard spotting, Well, the yellow portion
itself is hard, right, yeah, And it's not spotting. It begins
as spots and it spreads. Itbegins at the very top of the piece
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of fruit and spreads downwards. Haveyou noticed any insects feeding on your fruit?
I only saw one the other day, and I'm sure there's more,
but not enough to account for I'mlosing probably a quarter to a third of
the fruit. I'm concerned you haveleaf footed bugs on your fruit. They
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leaf footed bugs, I'm not certainthat's what your problem is and it may
be a little bit early to have. Well we're in September, maybe it
isn't early, but leafoot of bugsis up here seeing insect that pierces into
your satsuma skin and sucks the juiceout of the fruit. Have you had
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anybody asking about that, Braden?But we don't have a lot of satsuma
set on trees this year. Thatthe fact that the satsuma or citrus in
general just hasn't been producing the sameIt hasn't been so much of an issue
this year. But if if he'ssaying that he has a lot of fruit
on his street, that could definitelybe what's causing him. I'm thinking that's
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leaf footed bugs. And you're goingto have sections or your wedges and your
satsuma fruit they're all dry out andhard, and that's the symptoms of of
the leaf footed bug damage. Ohsorry, go ahead. I did see
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one leaf footed bug a few daysago, but I haven't you seen a
lot of them. And the thingI'm wondering about is it begins as a
small area but continues to spread throughoutthe individual piece of fruit. Is that
characteristic? Yes, that's that's exactlywhat you're seeing, yes, right,
okay, right right, And there'sreally not good control. And leaf foot
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of bugs are hard to control.They they move through our garden and landscape
during the whole year. They starton your tomatoes, then they go to
your blackberries, and then they goto your citrus and pecan trees this time
of year. So I'm thinking that'swhat you have, so uh, okay,
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should I take those people? I'msorry? Go ahead? Could I
think I would just leave the fruiton the tree a jerry, and and
see what percentage of your fruit aregood? Enjoy your good fruit. If
you do have damaged fruit, youcould take those off. What do you
think, Braden? Yeah, Iagree with that, right right, and
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just monitor your tree earlier next year, and let's try to come in and
see us and get a fruit treeand secticide spray and try to uh do
some preventive control next year systemic inJune and July, right right, okay?
And so even even things like youknow, I've heard that what is
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it, uh, cayenne pepper inthat sort of stuff, would that do
any good? I'm sorry, Imissed. I missed what you say at
Jerry. Somewhere along the line,I picked up the idea that, uh,
putting cayenne pepper on the thing ina sprit in in a spray form
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would help prevent some of that.The cayenne pepper is not going to do
anything on your leafoot aboves. I'msorry, but you know, there is
maybe a little bit of benefit thecayenne pepper sprays for some insect management,
but that's not going to work onthe leaf footed bugs, all right,
So I'll just pull off the onesthat are already infested and let the rest
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go exactly go from there, right, okay, all right, well,
thank you very much, Yes,sir, have a good weekend. Jerry.
Yeah, the the leaf footed problemson satsuma fruit in a typical years
is a pretty major issue. Yeah, but we're just not seeing much that
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year because most people this year,because most people just don't have fruit on
their satsumas. And I just wantto clarify because I think I said something
about it. You could use thesystemic which that I apologize for that.
Yeah, just make sure whatever youuse on your edible crops is labeled very
edible because you don't want to takein that chemicals. Well, it's been
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a good morning. Thank you forjoining me. Bright and this is Alan
and we enjoyed being with you thismorning. We're representing Clegg's and Archery.
Come see us w J b OWine and Garden Show. Join us again
next week. Thank you all nextweek
Good Saturday morning, and welcome tothe WGBO Lanning Garden Show, brought to
you by Clegg's Nursery. If youhave a question about seasonal planting, lanning
garden concerns or questions about landscaping,call four nine nine WGBO. That's four
nine nine ninety five two six.Good morning, Baton ROUGEO. Welcome to
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the w JBO Lawn and Garden Show. Great to be here with my buddy
of Braden from Clegg's Nursery. Goodmorning, and this of course is Alan
Owings and it's gonna be another ninetytwo degree day in Baton Rouge now now
right, and you said it rainedat the at Seagan Lane yesterday. Yeah,
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I was actually really surprised by Okay, we've got a nice little poor
for about maybe ten minutes. Well, that's that's good. We we we
were talking to our producer Jeremy aboutthe the drought and weather situation and we
certainly need some us sneezing rains alwaysgetting very bad out there, right,
So what are you what are youseeing at the garden center this week?
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We have some new plants in itLegs Nursery. Yeah, so we received
some Japanese maples, which are oneof my personal favorites there. Uh,
they're just really cool trees. Alot of different varieties, a lot of
different pots, sizes, and theyjust they look phenomenal, very good,
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very good. There. There's alot of interests in Japanese maples, and
you know, many times home gardenersthink the Japanese maples are hard, but
they're really not that difficult to growif you put them in the right situation
exactly. And in Louisiana, that'sthat's where it counts, ISAs how you
where you plant them, and howyou take care of them right right,
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nice raised bad area. I liketo give them a little bit of afternoon
shay, definitely, right, theywill. Yeah, sometimes the green varieties,
the green foliage varieties do better thanthe red foliage varieties. Do I've
noticed that too, because uh,I have one of the just regular as
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or palmatums minds of Bond's eye.But if sometimes it'll kind of move stuff
around in the yard, and ifit's exposed to too much afternoon sun,
it'll it'll start to look a littlebad, but it'll still look a lot
better than some of the other cultivars, right, and then on Japanese maples.
When I was at LSU at theAgg Center, we planted about one
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hundred and twenty different varieties of Japanesemaples at the at the station in Hammond,
and and that property's flooded a coupleof times and we still have there's
still ninety varieties. It are stilllive and doing well. So so you
know, you can grow Japanese maplesin South Louisiana. And this is the
first day of all so we needto we need to be thinking about fall
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planning, but we have to havesome rain and temperature release first. You
know, it's still mid late September, and really the ideal planning time for
shrubs and trees in South Louisiana Novemberthrough January February, is that what you
tell folks? Yeah, when it'scooler outside, right, right, But
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we need to get some moisture inthe ground. And looking at the extended
forecast, it looks like we haveone more week in the low nineties and
then maybe we can be in theeighties regularly and then get to the seventies
and get to the sixties. AndI wonder if we'll see any rainfall with
any of that, I really needto look at some of the two and
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three month forecasts and see what therainfall looks like. But there's not significant
rain that I see coming in thenext ten days, although there's a couple
of days with there some decent percentages. But so even if you start to
see a nice drop in temperature,should we still be concerned about planting because
of the fact that we're not gettingany kind of significant rainfall. I really
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think we need to wait for whateverthe definition of significant rainfall is. And
I've been needed to look up andsee what our rainfall deficit is for this
year. I'm really not sure,but I was looking at the updated Louisiana
drought map that came out Thursday night, and the vast majority of the state
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still in D four and D threeand those year two first blowing. Last
year, at this time, zeropercent of the state was in drought.
Yeah, and right now one hundredpercent of the state is in drought.
That's that's insane to think about.Interstate twenty right up toward the Arkansas boarders
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the least stressed area right now,really, and usually they're more stressed up
there than we are down here.So I had a role reversal there,
but at least we've had a littlebit cooler mornings and those, yeah,
a couple of hours first thing givesus a little bit of relief. And
that helps the plants too, yeah, because when you have those, even
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if it's only five degrees cooler,that makes a lot of difference. Right,
So, so we have the Japanesemaples. It's getting to be chamelia
time too. Yeah. So usuallyright before chamelias start blooming, that's when
we'll get them in at Clegs.And that's that's what's been happening the last
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week. We've been receiving a lotof really nice chamelias. Chamelions are very
popular. Usually Cleggs and other gardencenters have the best selection of camelias September,
October till March. And uh theShishi Ga share that's always a popular
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number one so one, and that'sthe one that you see in commercial and
residential landscape plannings. And he usuallyblooms for sixty ninety days, depending on
you know, a significant freeze cankind of knock the flowers, but they're
very hardy plants. And oh yeah, and we and we haven't seen cold
damage on camelias to much extent inSouth Lewisiana, but I am starting to
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see a little bit of of heatdamage on them. And so they don't
really like to dry out for really, they do too long. And that's
the main thing on our shrubs,camelias as Elias gardenius. They don't like
it dry and they don't like itwet uniformity and soil moisture. But that's
very hard to manage. Yeah,you know, so well so Japanese maples
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camelias getting in as far as likeannual bedding plants, we didn't even start
receiving, uh like snap dragons andstuff, which in my opinion, and
it's probably still a little too hotright to be planting snap dragons, but
it's nice to see them come out. Idious. Yeah, it's getting time
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for the cool season bedding plants,but usually you know, we're getting just
now getting to the recommended planting timefor the cool season bedding plants that can
handle the warm weather. Yeah,and it's still way too early for pansies
about olas, yeah, definitely,you know, but we could put some
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Dianthus in the ground now, maybedo some snap dragons, but we've got
to make sure we have enough moisturein the landscape beds. Yeah, so
having a good garden soil will definitelyright, put that right. And I
like to put a little bit ofblack cow and some of your annual color
beds, and that seems to giveyou some good organic matter and helps you
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hold a little bit of moisture right, and it gets your plants off to
a good start too, because it'sgot a a small percentage of fertilized rent
it, you know. Yeah.So so anyway, Japanese maples so sank
was and the fruit trees have beenuh arriving. Yeah, we've we received
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well, I want to say,maybe about a month ago we start receiving
citrus, and then a couple ofweeks ago we received all our other different
kind of fruit trees like apples andpears, plums, peaches. Right.
But everything, man, when theycome off that truck, everything just looks
so good. It does. Itdoes. And I've been forgetting to remind
everybody to give us a call andwe're gonna get back to fruit trees.
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But uh, our phone number isfour nine nine w JBO four nine nine
nine five two six, And ofcourse We're an area code two two five,
So Brandon and I would love tovisit with you. Yeah, definitely.
The the so we have some niceat sumas in high demand for satsumas.
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I noticed this year a lot ofpeople have been coming in I guess
concerned about plants taking on damage fromcold weather because of last year's late freeze.
Right, So, we've been sellinga lot of the Arctic frost.
Arctic frost exactly, and I wantto say, on the back of the
tag I read the other day,they they're hardy down to like ten degrees.
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The initial research at Texas and Mon Arctic frost says they are in
the ten to fifteen degree range.It's not very common we'd see temperatures dip
that load exactly exactly. The weather'sjust so weird. I really wish I
could sit through a short presentation andunderstand what some of these weather trends are
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that. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know how we can explain
it. But we're having warm winters. What we get a week or two
a really bad cold every every winter. Yeah. So so, but it
is a good selection of citrus treesat Clegg's in our shirt right now,
we don't have come quite so dowe know? That's the one thing everybody
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comes in asking for that, Sothe sweet, the sweet and the tart
come quiets. They're a little bitbehind in wholesale availability right now, but
they should be coming in very soon. You know one thing, well,
I say one thing. It's quitea few different types of citrus. We
received dwarf too. Okay, okay, I see we have a phone call
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and it looks like it may beturf grass related. Let's talk to Mary
and Baton Rouge. Are you there, Mary, Good morning, good morning,
Good morning morning. How can wehelp you today? I am wondering
about winterizing my lawn. I dohave an irrigation, so I've been watering,
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but I need to know if we'resupposed to winter rise this year or
not with all the drought. Mary, if your lawn has been irrigated regularly
and it looks fairly decent, Ithink you're gonna be okay to do some
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winterization in the next week or two. But we really need to get that
done. Oh, you know,indou September by the first week in October,
and we do have some of thefirt Lome winter rise or do you
have a centipede grass or Saint Augustinegrass or do you know the majority of
it is sentipeed. I am someinvasion of other stuff, but the majority
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is since. Okay, what Iwould do is maybe put some winter riser
oute, maybe like half your recommendedrate and uh and that would certainly uh
help the lawn going into the intothe lake this fall and into the winter
months. Okay. And for neighborswe all use uh the same company if
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they're not If there has been nowater and the grass is not doing well
and we do not winterize, Iwould be very cautious about putting fertilizer out
on major league drought and heat stresslawns. I really would trying to do
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right. Right, I'm seeing alot more lawns looking bad than I'm seeing
lawns looking fair or very good.Yeah, So I really think we just
need to concentrate on raising the mowingheight a little bit, and uh keep
some irrigation water going because September,October, Novembers are very dry in Louisiana.
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Yeah, okay, shall keep theirrigation system running, Oh yes,
absolutely through through November. I mean, looking at the extended forecast. We
don't see a whole lot of raincoming in the next stuff a few weeks,
so everybody kind of thanks. Well, we're in the fall, we
don't need a water lawn as much, and this is the probably the most
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critical time to water. Yeah,okay, okay, I can I ask
one more question, if that's okay? Absolutely, Mary. I have a
three year old fruit tree that thatsumer and I've been pruning it to become
a tree instead of a bush,right, so I may have done more
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damage than good. It's doing well, but I have no sign of getting
fruit this year. Is there anythingI can put on that to encourage fruit
production? On the we saw wesaw of the December weather, and we
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saw that cold morning on March twentieth, and that hurts your bom. That
hurts your blooms this year, andthen sometimes your citrus will secondarily bloom in
the summer. But I saw mostpeople secondary flowers did not set this year
either, So so irrigate your citrusand then you want to fertilize next late
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February March. Yeah, I hearyou say I'm probably not going to get
fruits. Then I think you're goingto get fruit. You girl, get
some fruit set next year, andyou're gonna don't you don't you think,
right? Isn't it kind of latefor citrus to be trying to bloom us?
Absolutely? Absolutely right? Right,yeah, you would see that now.
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You just you just did not getfruits said this year. And that
was mostly weather related and even thoughyour tree looks good, there was cold
weather, stress, et cetera.Okay, okay, great, thank you
so much, guys. I reallyappreciate it, absolutely right. And uh,
first day of fall, I wasasking Braden if I said that earlier,
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and I did, so we justwant to remind you fall arrived at
one ten am this morning. Ihope y'all woke up and celebrated that moment.
But I love this time of yearwhen you get that that's that false
smell and exactly exactly you know.I have walked outside right around sunrise or
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a little before a few times atlast weekend. There's a little bit of
coolness in the air for about thirtyminutes if you wake up early enough.
Okay, So, so Braden wastalking about fruit trees. What fruit trees
do we have in at Cleggs?And uh, what are you seeing well.
First, Miss Allen, I wantto start, maybe we should tell
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everybody that phone number. Okay,okay, let's do the phone number four
ninety nine at JBO. We haveopen lines here, so on four nine
nine nine five two six. Thankyou for reminding me. But yeah,
we have seen a lot of newfruit trees come in at Cleggs, some
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of the native stuff like the mayhalland the malberry and the Paul Paul trees.
We've seen a lot of new inventoryon that. Peaches, plums,
pears, apples, nectarines, justa lot of fruit trees. It's it's
nice to see it all come in. And the Cleggs does a very good
job of carrying the varieties that dowell in bat Rouge and have a right
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chilling hours right for us in SouthLouisiana. And we get asked that a
lot. If like someone will comein and look at an apple tree,
for instance, and they want toknow if that's going to do well here,
and we always tell them that ifwe would only carry stuff that that
will do well in this climate.Yeah, that's probably the most common fruit
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tree that we get asked, well, can you actually produce apples in the
Baton Rouge area. Now we're certainlynot in an apple producing countries, but
the Anna variety Einsheimer excellent apples forBaton Rouge, and you can't you can't
produce apples. So I can attestto that because we have an apple tree
at home. It's in the Annaapple and it produces like crazy, exactly
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exactly. So so when you thinkingabout your fruit plannings for this fall,
you know October, if we getsome ray November, December, January,
February excellent time to get your fruitplanted. And then don't forget about the
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blueberries and blackberries and the fig trees. We've also received some uh, some
new blueberries and some blackberries. Verygood, it's very good. And blueberries
and blackberries, blueberries especially easy care. Really yeah, so not a whole
lot needed. They really do bestin acid soil, so know what your
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soil PhD is. And but youknow minimum pruning minium, you know,
a little bit of fertilizer every springand that make nice fall full which color.
They work very well in the landscape. So blueberries are excellent. It's
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like the little cluster of flowers thatthey do before they set, and then
that brings a lot of b activity, early season b activity to your landscape.
So the rabbitied varieties tiff Blue,Climax Premier, right, Well,
those are the ones that do reallygood in South Louisiana. And you want
to plant two varieties, multiple varietiesto get you good cross pollination soon.
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Don't you also do that with youryour fruit trees like peaches, and you
should, and that's that's important onyour peaches and plums also, Yeah,
some of your plumb varieties will notset fruit without cross pollination from another variety.
A couple of the varieties are selfpollinating. But well, we can
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grow. We can grow plums andpeaches. You may need to have a
spray program for some of the insectsand diseases, so because those are more
high maintenance fruit trees. But there'snothing better than a fresh peach off of
I know a tree with our Annaapple that I have at home, we've
struggled with a fits this year,and our low quat tree a fits.
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Okay, okay, the it doesseem like insects have been prevalent this year.
Yeah, I'm not sure why,but the fits and melie bugs every
I see scale and meaiebugs on everything. I'm not sure what the what the
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situation is with those, And alot of people say when we don't have
a lot of cold weather in thewinter, there's more insect problems. But
we've we had cold weather the lastcouple of winters. Yeah, so so,
but insects were here before we wereand they'll be here before after long.
So so. Citrus and fruit treesare here in stock looking very good,
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and those are locally grown and they'rewell adapted here in the Baton Rouge
area, the ones that we sellat Cleggs, and of course, our
our vegetable and strawberry expert, JohnnyNaylor, tells us that strawberries are going
to be coming in. Maybe Iwant to sometime, I want to say
I was told about a month We'reabout a month out. Yeah, usually
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mid October we get some strawberry bearroot plants in and right, and there's
a lot of interest in strawberries,and people don't understand that you plant strawberries
for the best productivity in the fall. And then we do put some strawberry
plants in containers and sell them inthe winter and early spring. But October
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Novembers your ideal strawberry planting time.So I'll tell you what. We've planted
strawberries at at home as just aground cover, yes, underneath some Japanese
magnolias. And I mean they're lookinga little rough right now because we haven't
had any right but they produce likecrazy absolutely. So, well, your
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strawberry plants, you plant your yourbear root plug plants this fall, and
they're going to flour and they're goingto produce strawberries if you plant them early
enough, maybe between Thanksgiving a Christmastime, and then they really start producing
February March April, and then theysent out runners. Yeah, and you
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can harvest those runners and use thosenew plants to plant in new strawberries next
fall. Ours ours even went throughthe winter. We didn't do anything to
try to protect them or get anycuttings. They went straight through the winter.
So I think it's about twenty eightthirty degrees. Well, it will
damage the strawberry flowers, okay,but the plant is pretty hard. The
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plant is very hardy. But youknow Ponchatoula Hammond uh Tikhaw area that's really
known for strawberries, and of courseThe strawberry festival in Prasatola is a big
event every April. So what elsedo we have going on in the fruit
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category that I was thinking about.Some of your fruits did get a little
bit stressed this year with the heatand the drought, but for the most
part, most of them are lookand good. And your fruit trees,
bushings and vines, you want todo fertilizer on them right when they start
growing again? Uh, next nextMarch. You don't want to be fertilizing
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this time time right right? Andthe fertilan fruit tree. Isn't there a
fertilone fruit tree, fertilizer cicerous fruit, cocoscious fruits, and pecons right right?
And once again, this is gonnabe a problematic year to get pecan
trees too. It has been problematicfor quite a few years, exactly exactly.
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And there's a there's a big articleon pecons and the current issue of
of the lsu accent or Horticulture hencefor fall. But we're gonna be lucky
if we're gonna be able to findsome pecan trees. Is there a reason
as to why people aren't the producersaren't growing the main the main picon growers
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who grow the container grown trees forgardens centers in Texas. They got hit
really hard with the cold in Februaryof twenty one. Okay, and it's
take it's going to take them fouror five years to get the production back
up because their seedling crops were hurt, their young buds were hurt, the
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budded plants were hurt. So butthey'll be coming back in about a year.
Right, And I see we havea phone calls. We have Roxy
and Baton Rouge. Good morning,Roxy, how can we help you?
Good morning, good morning. Ilove your show, guys, thank you,
thank you. I'm noticing these websare the mosque flying up in the
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grass when I'm walking around, SoI'm guessing those those sideweb worms and what
to do about those? So yeah, I would think that is sideweb worms.
And we sell a product at Clig's. It's called buck Blaster. I
want to say it's a high yieldp I looked, it's a We sell
the sell it in bags. It'sa granular form. You would just have
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to uh spread that out in yourin your lawn the correct right. And
there's also a hose in sprayer liquidform for that, right, for the
bug blaster. Yeah. Good,So you know the granular and the and
there's an attachment for your hose thatyou could put out a liquid form bug
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blaster two. Right. Yeah,So we're we've been seeing that in corn
to what I've been here in Roxythe last three to four weeks. So
with all the stress already on thelawns, I need I think we needed
to take control action on those.Definitely. Okay, does it need more
than one application? I would doone application, wait about ten days and
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see if you still see some uhsome moss line and then if you do
apply again. And also I wantto see Butch had mentioned this on a
previous show that the moss will flyinto your bushes and shrubs during the day
when it's hotter, and that's agood uh to treat that you can use
that that liquid form that hooks upto the hose. Okay, on the
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bushes your thing, correct, Okay, Grace, you have to kill the
moth, correct, because they're they'regonna lay the eggs. Right, Okay,
gotcha, thank you very much.Okay, you have a good day.
Roxy. That's a topic we've beenUh, we've been seeing the last
couple of weeks, so and that'sa good tip. Then, I remember
(26:34):
you said bush. What's saying thatthe moss do seeks them a little bit
of shelter? Yeah, the heatof the day. So but if you're
mowing your grass and you see mossline, you have sode web worms?
Yeah, yes, yes, okay, we have uh we have uh Lee
in Baton Rouge and he's calling aboutcisrus. What do you have for us?
(26:56):
Lee? Good morning? Well Iheard you're talking about it. I'd
like to prune myll citrus now ifI could set tum but I don't want
some advice on that. It's nofruit on it. Lee. Is there
a reason that you're looking at pruneyour side your fruit your citrus trees right
(27:18):
now? Or are they large ordo they have cold damage on them?
Or they're large and next to myhouse? Oh? Where I can wait,
But I'd like to do it before, you know, before the growing
season. Do you have some somegrowth that kind of bypasses the rest of
(27:41):
the plant or are you looking todo just a whole general she or like
if you just have a few branches. Yeah, if you just want to
prune back something got a little bitlonger than the rest of the plant,
right, that should be fine,right, But normally this is not the
year to do a general pruning oncitrus. You want to usually do that,
(28:06):
you know, maybe in the springor no later than early summer.
So wait till still So wait right? Are you getting good? Are you
good? Are you getting good productionon your satsumously? With the cold weather
in the last couple of years,last couple of this year, I don't
have a fruit on it, rightright, right? Yeah? So I
(28:30):
get in there because I want todo a general right right, yeah,
If you want to do what wecall a general pruning, I would not
do it right now. I'd waittill next year. But if you want
to remove those bypass shoots at wildgrowth, that's perfectly good to do.
Now, Can I do the liquidnot? I'm gonna get off the citrus
(28:52):
on my grass like we free zone? Dang? Is it cool enough?
Na? Should I wait a lit? What do we kind of depend on
the condition of the lawn exactly asyour lawn healthy and well irrigator lead or
is a very stress yes, okay, well it's a healthy lawn. I
think you can go ahead and doit, but we are getting time to
(29:18):
get your winter riz or fertilize areout and get your pre emmerged herbicide out.
Yes, it's time. Okay.Well I got this by any dream
looking kind of wet stuff and allover my yard and that's what I was
going to go after. I don'tknow what's garlic. Okay. So you
(29:42):
do have some weeds out there.It sounds like like Virginia button weed.
Yeah, and then uh this thisweed woad weaves itself into the grass and
it makes maybe a little weight forthe Virginia buttonweed that that is, that
(30:04):
is, and it kind of makesthe ground covering matt out there and smothers
out your your lawn uh folds.Yeah. And that's getting too late in
a year to do much about thatright now, don't you think, uh
brighten, Yeah, you really wantto work on that next spring and maybe
into early summer. So but youbut we need to be thinking about getting
(30:29):
on that, you know, nextFebruary, right right right, that's good.
That's what I needed to hear.Okay, and maybe raise your mowing
height a little bit. That'll helpsome too, thank you. Okay,
Yes, early thanks for calling theUh yeah, the uh the Virginia buttonweed
situation. Uh. You can dosome h treatments in February. Uh do
(30:55):
some post emerge with MS turf laterin the year, But it's getting just
too late in the year to tryto get your Virginia buttonweed under control now.
And like Butch and Chris and someof our friends at Clegs say,
getting rid of Virginia buttonweeds a twoyear process. It's gonna take a while.
So and we and we talk aboutthat regularly on the show. Yeah,
(31:21):
is that something that comes back fromseed? It recedes like crazy,
that starts german eating in February nextyear. Okay, So so even if
you can pull some of those matsout, that's a good idea if you
have a small lawn, just canpull some of those mats out, But
you're gonna be dropping seed and goseed or going to germanate in February and
(31:45):
people don't notice it till they startseeing the white flowers and then the mat
starts forming. And uh, Virginiabuttonweeds the number one weed issue we have
in lawns in South a weeds.Yeah, so I noticed that and a
lot of nut seedge. Nut sedgenutsedge is problematic to the sedge hammer does
(32:10):
a good job on it. Yeah, but you gotta you want to treat
your weeds when they're young. Anda lot of times people treat their weeds
when they're getting more mature, whenthey're starting to drop seed exactly, and
uh, and they don't respond aswell to the herbicide. I was talking
to my barber yesterday. You know, they know I know stuff about gardening,
(32:35):
so they always ask me questions.But he has sprayed his weeds in
this front ditch with round up abouta month ago, and the roundup didn't
really work. But then he eventuallytold me the weeds were about three feet
tall and they were drought stressed,so the weeds were not taking up the
herbicide. So he mowed the weedsdown and for a couple of days of
(33:00):
new growth, and then he sprayedthem again and wail, they died.
So so sometimes it's the growth stageof the plant when you're trying to put
out herbicide. Makes sense. Soour friend Butch Drew sent us a text.
What did Butch want to know?He wanted to know if we were
(33:21):
going to have a problem with gettinghay bells because of the droughts. Okay,
now, I know we got alot of hay bells in and all
the locations. Yeah, we definitelydid. As far as future deliveries of
hay, that I'm not really sureabout, but we definitely have hay at
at all locations, right, wedo when we're getting into octobers, and
(33:45):
I know people will be coming into get hay for their final decorations,
especially when we advanced a little bitmore toward the Halloween season. Right.
But hay for the farmers is invery short supply in Louisiana and Texas and
Mississippi, and well, considering wehaven't had any rate exactly the most.
(34:09):
Most farmers have only gotten in onehay harvest this year. Wow. And
the livestock, the cattle people areselling off their cattle because there's not enough
hay to fifty the cattle through thewinter. Wow. Yeah. So the
(34:29):
cattle producers are struggling in the Uin Louisiana right now, as they are
in Texas, Oklahoma and Mississippi withthe hay shortage. So I'm not really
sure what the uh the hay situationis going to be. I know Tom
Findle, our owner, has reallygood h access to a lot of things.
But yeah, I would think wewere going to get another some more
(34:52):
hay in but we'll check with themand see what that situation is going to
be. Definitely, that was agood call about side web worms that We've
had a couple of lawn and ancestrousquestions, but we were just talking about
the hay bail shortage. Louisiana agricultureit's not having a good year. Yeah,
(35:15):
sugarcane harvest is going to be waydown. The corn harvest was way
down. The crawfish harvest is beingaffective. Now I'm seriously concerned about crawfish
because I love to eat crows.Yes, that is the dryer it is,
the more the crawfish berry into theground and so and the soybean crops
(35:39):
not doing good. So we arehaving some agricultural issues around the state.
So pray for the farmers, youknow, and the nursuer growers are farmers
too. Yeah, you know,I helped Bracy's nursery and the meat the
wholesale nursurer grower, and we've hada lot of heat damage on plants there.
I mean it's so hot and dry. Sometimes times you can't get all
(36:00):
the what plants adequately irrigated. Andthat was my question. What kind of
irrigation system does Bracey's use. Likeat Clegg's we just have sprinkler heads that
kind of water through the beds.Do they have the same kind of set
up or is it like a dripline? Yeah, so Bracey's Nursery,
everything in a seven gallon or smallor is overhead irrigated, and then the
(36:24):
fifteen gallon and thirty gallon and fortyfive gallon plants are drip irrigated. Okay,
but like when you have a blockof plants out there and you can
see this at retail, to theway Clegs irrigates, the plants on the
perimeter sometimes don't get adequate moisture comparedto the plants in the middle of the
(36:45):
brake. So so we need tobe really minit turn or irrigation, make
sure we're irrigating efficiently efficiently over awhole area and not have the dry spots
and wet spots. Yeah, wehave a collar Jerry and Prairie Viale.
(37:07):
Good morning, Jerry, what canwe help you with today? Good morning?
The reason I'm calling is I havea set summetry and it has plenty
of fruit. But I'm having aproblem because there are and I'm not sure
I can explain it properly, butthere are areas on individual pieces of fruit
(37:29):
that begin as little yellow areas andthey spread on the fruit and the fruit
turns hard. So I don't knowif it's because of the drought, or
if it's because of insects, orwhat it is and what to do about
it. Jerry, I'm thinking onour screen. I wasn't expecting what you
(37:55):
said. But when you have someyellow fruit on your site zum us and
you have you said you have somehard spotting, Well, the yellow portion
itself is hard, right, yeah, And it's not spotting. It begins
as spots and it spreads. Itbegins at the very top of the piece
(38:19):
of fruit and spreads downwards. Haveyou noticed any insects feeding on your fruit?
I only saw one the other day, and I'm sure there's more,
but not enough to account for I'mlosing probably a quarter to a third of
the fruit. I'm concerned you haveleaf footed bugs on your fruit. They
(38:47):
leaf footed bugs, I'm not certainthat's what your problem is and it may
be a little bit early to have. Well we're in September, maybe it
isn't early, but leafoot of bugsis up here seeing insect that pierces into
your satsuma skin and sucks the juiceout of the fruit. Have you had
(39:08):
anybody asking about that, Braden?But we don't have a lot of satsuma
set on trees this year. Thatthe fact that the satsuma or citrus in
general just hasn't been producing the sameIt hasn't been so much of an issue
this year. But if if he'ssaying that he has a lot of fruit
on his street, that could definitelybe what's causing him. I'm thinking that's
(39:30):
leaf footed bugs. And you're goingto have sections or your wedges and your
satsuma fruit they're all dry out andhard, and that's the symptoms of of
the leaf footed bug damage. Ohsorry, go ahead. I did see
(39:51):
one leaf footed bug a few daysago, but I haven't you seen a
lot of them. And the thingI'm wondering about is it begins as a
small area but continues to spread throughoutthe individual piece of fruit. Is that
characteristic? Yes, that's that's exactlywhat you're seeing, yes, right,
okay, right right, And there'sreally not good control. And leaf foot
(40:15):
of bugs are hard to control.They they move through our garden and landscape
during the whole year. They starton your tomatoes, then they go to
your blackberries, and then they goto your citrus and pecan trees this time
of year. So I'm thinking that'swhat you have, so uh, okay,
(40:38):
should I take those people? I'msorry? Go ahead? Could I
think I would just leave the fruiton the tree a jerry, and and
see what percentage of your fruit aregood? Enjoy your good fruit. If
you do have damaged fruit, youcould take those off. What do you
think, Braden? Yeah, Iagree with that, right right, and
(41:00):
just monitor your tree earlier next year, and let's try to come in and
see us and get a fruit treeand secticide spray and try to uh do
some preventive control next year systemic inJune and July, right right, okay?
And so even even things like youknow, I've heard that what is
(41:23):
it, uh, cayenne pepper inthat sort of stuff, would that do
any good? I'm sorry, Imissed. I missed what you say at
Jerry. Somewhere along the line,I picked up the idea that, uh,
putting cayenne pepper on the thing ina sprit in in a spray form
(41:47):
would help prevent some of that.The cayenne pepper is not going to do
anything on your leafoot aboves. I'msorry, but you know, there is
maybe a little bit of benefit thecayenne pepper sprays for some insect management,
but that's not going to work onthe leaf footed bugs, all right,
So I'll just pull off the onesthat are already infested and let the rest
(42:10):
go exactly go from there, right, okay, all right, well,
thank you very much, Yes,sir, have a good weekend. Jerry.
Yeah, the the leaf footed problemson satsuma fruit in a typical years
is a pretty major issue. Yeah, but we're just not seeing much that
(42:30):
year because most people this year,because most people just don't have fruit on
their satsumas. And I just wantto clarify because I think I said something
about it. You could use thesystemic which that I apologize for that.
Yeah, just make sure whatever youuse on your edible crops is labeled very
edible because you don't want to takein that chemicals. Well, it's been
(42:52):
a good morning. Thank you forjoining me. Bright and this is Alan
and we enjoyed being with you thismorning. We're representing Clegg's and Archery.
Come see us w J b OWine and Garden Show. Join us again
next week. Thank you all nextweek
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