January 25, 2025 • 19 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp
from News Talk SEDB.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Right, it must be my my thanks again to Wayne
McGuire from Ray Whites who came into the studio. That
was awesome. It had climb passed. Good morning, sir.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
A very good morning pet. That was interesting, wasn't it.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Yeah, that's good stuff. So I think we'll get Wayne back. Hey,
I just want to say thank you to you again
for facilitating what was a fantastic morning at Wingspan. That
was you know, the fact that you were able to
talk to Eneca and the team there and allow us
to go through. We had a great time. It was
just so awesome.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
So it's extraordinary Wingspan.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
It's fantastic, and I look, to be fair, I was
a little surprised that the falcon was prepared to sit
on my head, like it leaped from the post and
just came and sat on my head for a minute
or two, gazing around. We're chatting away and this thing's
just sitting on my head. It was fantastic.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Yeah, exactly. That's and that's actually engagement at the same
time as learning. All these things operate because you have
to remember they may be trained as falcons, you know,
as falcons as falcons. Yes, that's an interesting thing. What
you're doing here is something that is thousands of years old.
Oh yeah, that people train falcons to literally catch prey,
(01:27):
not just for the falcons but for people as well.
Hunting methods old anting there, it's great. You go there,
it is And the same with the little arles when
they look at you.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
A they be just gorgeous, aren't they.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Another little rury Knox is fantastic. And they had some
barne els there as well, and a couple of other
eagles or other falcons as well. And and just the
engagement with the community and the passion that they bring
to it. And you know, there was an area that
was that was out of bounds where they do the
breeding and the air and so on, which is great.
(02:01):
But look, I think if you're heading through Rota wingspanners
should definitely be on your agenda. And I can imagine
the kids coming, you know, school groups coming would be
absolutely captivated by the place.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yep. And then looking at those palettes that they ejack
and get those have you seen those? And we were
talking about it. Yes, you put them in some water
and then you can actually identify what they've been eating.
And then what the kids do is they take all
the bones out of the balettes and recreate the complete
skeleton of a mouse.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yeah, and I just got a quick text from dev
as well, saying please thank Rud that was a fantastic morning.
You should see the look of delight on Devs's face
when she's sitting there with this ruru perched on her
hand where it was great. Joseph loved it too, So
thank you mate, that was awesome, and thank you to
and the team. Actually she sent me a couple of
(02:52):
vouchers to give away. We won't do that today, but
we will definitely give people the opportunity of getting a
couple of free passes to go to Wingspan.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
That's nice, right, Yes, yeah, I'm good. That's what I
did all these years ago, same thing. I gave the
things away right away. I am good. I've got I've
got a couple of I've got two things of news.
First of all, I've got my a cousin from the
Netherlands here that I haven't seen since the nineteen seventies.
I'm not and we are going traveling a little bit
through this part of New zeals it's absolutely fabulous. And
(03:21):
number two is that kind of somebody who's become my
friend over the last few years. Don Marie Lever is
leaving the station and this is her last bulletin that
you'll hear after we finished. And thank you don Marie.
It's always good having you in the morning here.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Absolutely certainly, absolutely right. All right, let's get amongst some callers.
A very good morning to you, Ginny, good.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Morning boys, love the show. I have a quick question
regarding peach trees. Please see what you think, rude. Three
years ago I bought a flat coat peach for a
very good friend in Trona. Last year, decided it wouldn't
have any fruit on, just thought, yeah, it's a young tree. However,
this year it had most beautiful crop, got nearly a
(04:08):
big pattern of features off. It took them off early
because the birds were about to show interest in them,
and I looked just like the shop ones, absolutely beautiful.
But within a couple of days they developed the great
pictures of rot on them, and in the end all
had to be thrown out. What can we do to
stop that happening next season? Any helpful advice please?
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Well, first of all, train the people at Niwa a
bit better so that we don't get as much rain.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Okay, that was a silly story, but anyway, the second
thing is that if you do expect rain and you've
got fruit developing, you can actually put some copper on
those fruits and that will stop, for instance, brown rot
and that sort of stuff developing on those developing peaches.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
So a copper cop or sulfur type mix quite often works,
especially say at least five or six hours before water
comes down from the heavens. That will help you quite
a bit to stop that happening.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
And I mean, if the if there isn't any if
there hadn't been any ran for about a week, why
would they do that? And should you store them in
the fridge or just just leave them?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
I keep them, I don't really put them in the fridge,
I think Jills and I usually have to in things
on the on the kitchen bench. No, that's right, But
but you are you telling me that they started rotten.
You see, the rotting could have actually been initiated like
a week or more before it starts to show. So
(05:57):
so this whole, this whole wetness is quite often the
trouble and it might pay in this case to keep
an eye literally in the way the forcas. Say we're
going to get rained to day, I'm going to give
it a quick a quick work of some copper and
copper materials. Now another few days maybe. Oh yes, you
(06:18):
could go through a vag two days before if you like,
you know, to be more efficient.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Oh, thank you so much more.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Than welcome, my dear, and I hope you know next
time and you can do it lovely talk.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Thank you very much, very good morning martytodayt.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
B.
Speaker 7 (06:40):
We have some little hits cup with livers. Flies flies
about the size of the blowfly, but they're skinny at
and they hover around the ground and sort of dart
about quite readily. And there's holes in the ground about
five million in diameter. Are they female? Ants? They holes?
And what are they?
Speaker 3 (06:57):
They are native bees? So these we have I think
twenty eight species of native bees that we kind of
tend to ignore a bit too much, because these things
are really important for pollination of our native flowers and
you know, all our stuff, but also not so native flowers,
(07:17):
because they'll do all sorts of bits and pieces in
your garden. And these native bees are not colony dwellers
like honey bees, but they have a mum and the
dad or mostly mum in the end that has a
hole in the ground, and in the bottom there will
be deposited some nectar and some pollen which the babies
will eat. They come out and start their own little
(07:38):
nests at some stage. And these are you've got them small,
and you've got them from very tiny to quite large.
So that's it.
Speaker 7 (07:46):
Yeah, Well they told me that because I thought the
female ants was quite on eradicating them.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
No, don't. These are very important bees.
Speaker 7 (07:57):
Oh fantastic. That's a very quick one. So a few
spray some weeds, like got the name of the If
you spray weeds that dies, it goes brown kin. The
seeds that come off of those deep plants they still
give with it.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Yeah, usually there will. Which plants are you talking about?
Speaker 7 (08:15):
Oh is it called mellow or merrow?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Mellow merrow?
Speaker 8 (08:18):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Yes, yeah, it depends on what the time is. But
if those seeds cannot develop properly, there's no way they
can actually have, you know, basically make new plants for
the next season if you like. So, you're right, if
you're quick enough, you can do it before they preferably
before they start flowering. Good questions, Mary, see you mate.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
All the best to you, May you take care and
genus of very good morning to you.
Speaker 9 (08:49):
Yes, good morning, Brew and your co pilots. Aren't we
enquiring about rubab? We have rubab growing. It's been growing
really weird the past few years. But it has a
huge leaf in a very short stalk. It's a fit man.
It's actually a great dressy entertainment for Adam and ease.
(09:11):
It's huge. So we're not sure what we're doing right
or wrong.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Oh dear, oh dear, fertilizer.
Speaker 9 (09:23):
We do that. It's actually had possibly too much.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Maybe what sort of philaser would you use?
Speaker 9 (09:32):
We're using the tree the tree liquid. Also, I give
it an acid or we give them acid food, you know,
the granules or the actual like it's like a salt
type of thing.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Yeah, yeah, okay, Yeah, there's a point in doing too
much for them, that's right. But on the other hand,
because they need a stalk that grows, you might need
a bit more nitrogen in this particular case, as opposed
to things like roots and all that sort of stuff.
You might find that that's how they actually extend their
stems and also their leaves. The leaves will become larger,
(10:10):
but the stems will become larger as well. And the
higher nitrogen np K. You might have seen that in
the shops has got a higher end than it has
P and then it has K for instance. So go
never look and it doesn't matter what make it is.
Or if you look at the NPK, the end should
be the higher of the of the of the three
(10:31):
numbers than the P and the gay. There you go.
Speaker 9 (10:34):
It's actually a beautiful, sweet type of rebb. It's not
a bit h peasant to eat without adding any sugar.
It's just a shame, you know, yes, I know, yeah,
thank you so much for your advice.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
We shall try that good life success with it, all right,
thanks to us. Take care. We're gonna take a short break.
We'll be back with Monique after the break is with
us money. Good morning, Good.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
Morning, Rude and Pete. Hey, I've got a line of
mechalia trees and magnolias, just five of them, and they're
all starting to the leaves are starting to yellow and
drop off. So on Friday, I actually picked up about
half a binful of leaves and I'm just a bit
(11:25):
consumed that something's wrong in there.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Oh my goodness, it's yellowing and falling off leaves, nutrient deficiency,
it could be cold temperatures, could be pests, diseases, dehydration, gosh,
light issues, natural yellowing. It could be insufficient watering. It
could be too much watering. And with michelia, I have
(11:51):
the feeling that this could have well been a result
of too much water in the soil causing some root issues.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
Okay, could Well, we've had a lot of it doesn't
get watered, you know, unnaturally, so it's just normally watered,
just rainwater. I mean, but I mean we have had
a lot of rainwater.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Where you're doing from where you mean crushes okay? Uh, well, yeah,
well you know I know what Grossier's head in terms
of water and thinks. It's just been ridiculous. And there
it comes to point if you plant them in an
area that floods regularly or a lot more when it rains,
(12:45):
then that could be not the right place for these
particular trees. And the best thing to do is maybe
is that if you can take them somewhere else, it's
take them off. Oh sh yes, of course they are,
of course they are.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
Is there anything It couldn't be nutrient decisions? You think
it's more likely water.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
No, No, I can, I'm not. I just gave you
a whole lot of different things, yea, And I cannot
tell you without looking at those things exactly what it is,
in my opinion, but those are the sort of things
you're talking about. It's really really difficult to identify over
the phone. Okay, I'm sorry, thank you, Okay, bye bye,
(13:33):
bye bye.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
We've got a stand of well, stand of them. We've
got three of them clustered in the back garden as well,
the Mikayla Grappi's, which I really like. They grow like crazy,
though probably not quite the right tree to put in
because they're going to get huge.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
You have to declare and when you sell the.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
House that my good old Bouda gar out the front there,
which I'll tell you what we did. I've mentioned this
couple of times. We did the big prune two years ago.
You know, strategically, right, this is the beauty and you
know this working with a good qualified arborist who's who's professional,
(14:10):
and and it's doing exactly what we wanted was to
encourage growth lower in the canopy. And then we'll remove
the outer canopy now and and so we'll keep the
health in the tree but reduce the size of it.
But it's a two well three year process and two
visits by the arborist. But man, it makes a difference.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
I hope Matt is listening. We've had exactly that discussion
two days ago. Yeah, it's it's it's interesting in your gardener,
how important is to have a good.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Right, Mary, A very good morning to you.
Speaker 8 (14:50):
Good morning morning. I'm up in Carrimandal. Just a query.
I've got some dailies. Some are in the garden and
another one in a pot. The one's in the garden,
the deep purple ones coming out really really faint, faint
pink other flowers on them. And the one in the
pot that was yellow, it's coming out white.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Oh, oh my goodness. I've had the same complaint from
a lady called Julie, and I happened to be married
to her, and she is a dahlia and nut and
she asks the same question, and I go like, are
you sure that's what you plant there? I have no idea.
Speaker 8 (15:35):
It's the first time I've ever done it.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
I have the feeling they are a bit susceptible to
it's you know, to pH in the soil. So if
you've put princess, put lime on the on the on
the ground, and they become a lot more bluer, I suppose,
And there are other plants that have that same idea.
(16:00):
But yeah, gosh, Dahlias, it might be it might be it.
It might exactly be that that they are lacking either
something that gives them a bit of a bluish tinge
due to having a higher what do you call it,
(16:22):
saidity if you like, etcetera.
Speaker 8 (16:27):
What what would.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Weird? I have no idea. I don't know. I wish
Julie was here. She would go, you know, she would
have some sort of crazy, non scientific answer. But it works.
It's good.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Luck with that, Mary. They are looking gorgeous at the moment,
aren't they.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Just I would say, try a bit of lime, That's
what I would say.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Okay, perfect, thank you very much.
Speaker 10 (16:56):
Hello David, Oh, good morning. I'm hoping that you might
have an answer for the word they what This property
was twelve years ago now and there's a Christmas plum
tree on the property that every year until this year
(17:16):
had produced hundreds of plums. This year it produced one
and the possum god at first.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Yeah, yeah, the possums are good at that.
Speaker 10 (17:27):
There's no other no other plums at all on the
tree to begin with.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Okay, so is this is this a tree that you
is on in your garden and you could actually fertilize
it in a different way.
Speaker 10 (17:41):
I haven't. I haven't, must admit I haven't put any
fidtalizer around it at all.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Okay, I think you need you need some of the
fertilizers that contains a little bit more potage that is
the stuff you get in rose fertilizer or some things
like that, and that means you get a higher sulfate
of potage content, which makes the tree set far more
flowers and far more fruit.
Speaker 10 (18:06):
Oh okay, Well that that would solve the problem of
us a tree which is it's probably been there since
there was built in nineteen twenty, but it's that's produced
no problems at all.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Yeah, and that was how you stimulate them. I'll tell
you what. We've got a couple of those threes Stiver
Kennedy's Boys Road where I live, and they've been doing
really well this year. They were all in the gutter.
It's just unbelievable. But it's the same thing nobody fertilized,
I reckon and they are unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
So yeah, feeding, even at this time of year, you'd
still be feeding, still be feeding because the growth.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Give it a little bit now, indeed, lots of growth,
and you actually start to make the plant think over
winter time. I've got to do that again. So spring, damers, really,
spring is the best dame to do. But do it now,
just for just to give it go.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Lovely to have you on again. Thanks for the wingspan experience.
Back next week, folks, have a great task, take care
of it.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
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You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp
from News Talk SEDB.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Right, it must be my my thanks again to Wayne
McGuire from Ray Whites who came into the studio. That
was awesome. It had climb passed. Good morning, sir.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
A very good morning pet. That was interesting, wasn't it.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Yeah, that's good stuff. So I think we'll get Wayne back. Hey,
I just want to say thank you to you again
for facilitating what was a fantastic morning at Wingspan. That
was you know, the fact that you were able to
talk to Eneca and the team there and allow us
to go through. We had a great time. It was
just so awesome.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
So it's extraordinary Wingspan.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
It's fantastic, and I look, to be fair, I was
a little surprised that the falcon was prepared to sit
on my head, like it leaped from the post and
just came and sat on my head for a minute
or two, gazing around. We're chatting away and this thing's
just sitting on my head. It was fantastic.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Yeah, exactly. That's and that's actually engagement at the same
time as learning. All these things operate because you have
to remember they may be trained as falcons, you know,
as falcons as falcons. Yes, that's an interesting thing. What
you're doing here is something that is thousands of years old.
Oh yeah, that people train falcons to literally catch prey,
(01:27):
not just for the falcons but for people as well.
Hunting methods old anting there, it's great. You go there,
it is And the same with the little arles when
they look at you.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
A they be just gorgeous, aren't they.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Another little rury Knox is fantastic. And they had some
barne els there as well, and a couple of other
eagles or other falcons as well. And and just the
engagement with the community and the passion that they bring
to it. And you know, there was an area that
was that was out of bounds where they do the
breeding and the air and so on, which is great.
(02:01):
But look, I think if you're heading through Rota wingspanners
should definitely be on your agenda. And I can imagine
the kids coming, you know, school groups coming would be
absolutely captivated by the place.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yep. And then looking at those palettes that they ejack
and get those have you seen those? And we were
talking about it. Yes, you put them in some water
and then you can actually identify what they've been eating.
And then what the kids do is they take all
the bones out of the balettes and recreate the complete
skeleton of a mouse.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yeah, and I just got a quick text from dev
as well, saying please thank Rud that was a fantastic morning.
You should see the look of delight on Devs's face
when she's sitting there with this ruru perched on her
hand where it was great. Joseph loved it too, So
thank you mate, that was awesome, and thank you to
and the team. Actually she sent me a couple of
(02:52):
vouchers to give away. We won't do that today, but
we will definitely give people the opportunity of getting a
couple of free passes to go to Wingspan.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
That's nice, right, Yes, yeah, I'm good. That's what I
did all these years ago, same thing. I gave the
things away right away. I am good. I've got I've
got a couple of I've got two things of news.
First of all, I've got my a cousin from the
Netherlands here that I haven't seen since the nineteen seventies.
I'm not and we are going traveling a little bit
through this part of New zeals it's absolutely fabulous. And
(03:21):
number two is that kind of somebody who's become my
friend over the last few years. Don Marie Lever is
leaving the station and this is her last bulletin that
you'll hear after we finished. And thank you don Marie.
It's always good having you in the morning here.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Absolutely certainly, absolutely right. All right, let's get amongst some callers.
A very good morning to you, Ginny, good.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Morning boys, love the show. I have a quick question
regarding peach trees. Please see what you think, rude. Three
years ago I bought a flat coat peach for a
very good friend in Trona. Last year, decided it wouldn't
have any fruit on, just thought, yeah, it's a young tree. However,
this year it had most beautiful crop, got nearly a
(04:08):
big pattern of features off. It took them off early
because the birds were about to show interest in them,
and I looked just like the shop ones, absolutely beautiful.
But within a couple of days they developed the great
pictures of rot on them, and in the end all
had to be thrown out. What can we do to
stop that happening next season? Any helpful advice please?
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Well, first of all, train the people at Niwa a
bit better so that we don't get as much rain.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Okay, that was a silly story, but anyway, the second
thing is that if you do expect rain and you've
got fruit developing, you can actually put some copper on
those fruits and that will stop, for instance, brown rot
and that sort of stuff developing on those developing peaches.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
So a copper cop or sulfur type mix quite often works,
especially say at least five or six hours before water
comes down from the heavens. That will help you quite
a bit to stop that happening.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
And I mean, if the if there isn't any if
there hadn't been any ran for about a week, why
would they do that? And should you store them in
the fridge or just just leave them?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
I keep them, I don't really put them in the fridge,
I think Jills and I usually have to in things
on the on the kitchen bench. No, that's right, But
but you are you telling me that they started rotten.
You see, the rotting could have actually been initiated like
a week or more before it starts to show. So
(05:57):
so this whole, this whole wetness is quite often the
trouble and it might pay in this case to keep
an eye literally in the way the forcas. Say we're
going to get rained to day, I'm going to give
it a quick a quick work of some copper and
copper materials. Now another few days maybe. Oh yes, you
(06:18):
could go through a vag two days before if you like,
you know, to be more efficient.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Oh, thank you so much more.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Than welcome, my dear, and I hope you know next
time and you can do it lovely talk.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Thank you very much, very good morning martytodayt.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
B.
Speaker 7 (06:40):
We have some little hits cup with livers. Flies flies
about the size of the blowfly, but they're skinny at
and they hover around the ground and sort of dart
about quite readily. And there's holes in the ground about
five million in diameter. Are they female? Ants? They holes?
And what are they?
Speaker 3 (06:57):
They are native bees? So these we have I think
twenty eight species of native bees that we kind of
tend to ignore a bit too much, because these things
are really important for pollination of our native flowers and
you know, all our stuff, but also not so native flowers,
(07:17):
because they'll do all sorts of bits and pieces in
your garden. And these native bees are not colony dwellers
like honey bees, but they have a mum and the
dad or mostly mum in the end that has a
hole in the ground, and in the bottom there will
be deposited some nectar and some pollen which the babies
will eat. They come out and start their own little
(07:38):
nests at some stage. And these are you've got them small,
and you've got them from very tiny to quite large.
So that's it.
Speaker 7 (07:46):
Yeah, Well they told me that because I thought the
female ants was quite on eradicating them.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
No, don't. These are very important bees.
Speaker 7 (07:57):
Oh fantastic. That's a very quick one. So a few
spray some weeds, like got the name of the If
you spray weeds that dies, it goes brown kin. The
seeds that come off of those deep plants they still
give with it.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Yeah, usually there will. Which plants are you talking about?
Speaker 7 (08:15):
Oh is it called mellow or merrow?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Mellow merrow?
Speaker 8 (08:18):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Yes, yeah, it depends on what the time is. But
if those seeds cannot develop properly, there's no way they
can actually have, you know, basically make new plants for
the next season if you like. So, you're right, if
you're quick enough, you can do it before they preferably
before they start flowering. Good questions, Mary, see you mate.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
All the best to you, May you take care and
genus of very good morning to you.
Speaker 9 (08:49):
Yes, good morning, Brew and your co pilots. Aren't we
enquiring about rubab? We have rubab growing. It's been growing
really weird the past few years. But it has a
huge leaf in a very short stalk. It's a fit man.
It's actually a great dressy entertainment for Adam and ease.
(09:11):
It's huge. So we're not sure what we're doing right
or wrong.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Oh dear, oh dear, fertilizer.
Speaker 9 (09:23):
We do that. It's actually had possibly too much.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Maybe what sort of philaser would you use?
Speaker 9 (09:32):
We're using the tree the tree liquid. Also, I give
it an acid or we give them acid food, you know,
the granules or the actual like it's like a salt
type of thing.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Yeah, yeah, okay, Yeah, there's a point in doing too
much for them, that's right. But on the other hand,
because they need a stalk that grows, you might need
a bit more nitrogen in this particular case, as opposed
to things like roots and all that sort of stuff.
You might find that that's how they actually extend their
stems and also their leaves. The leaves will become larger,
(10:10):
but the stems will become larger as well. And the
higher nitrogen np K. You might have seen that in
the shops has got a higher end than it has
P and then it has K for instance. So go
never look and it doesn't matter what make it is.
Or if you look at the NPK, the end should
be the higher of the of the of the three
(10:31):
numbers than the P and the gay. There you go.
Speaker 9 (10:34):
It's actually a beautiful, sweet type of rebb. It's not
a bit h peasant to eat without adding any sugar.
It's just a shame, you know, yes, I know, yeah,
thank you so much for your advice.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
We shall try that good life success with it, all right,
thanks to us. Take care. We're gonna take a short break.
We'll be back with Monique after the break is with
us money. Good morning, Good.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
Morning, Rude and Pete. Hey, I've got a line of
mechalia trees and magnolias, just five of them, and they're
all starting to the leaves are starting to yellow and
drop off. So on Friday, I actually picked up about
half a binful of leaves and I'm just a bit
(11:25):
consumed that something's wrong in there.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Oh my goodness, it's yellowing and falling off leaves, nutrient deficiency,
it could be cold temperatures, could be pests, diseases, dehydration, gosh,
light issues, natural yellowing. It could be insufficient watering. It
could be too much watering. And with michelia, I have
(11:51):
the feeling that this could have well been a result
of too much water in the soil causing some root issues.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
Okay, could Well, we've had a lot of it doesn't
get watered, you know, unnaturally, so it's just normally watered,
just rainwater. I mean, but I mean we have had
a lot of rainwater.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Where you're doing from where you mean crushes okay? Uh, well, yeah,
well you know I know what Grossier's head in terms
of water and thinks. It's just been ridiculous. And there
it comes to point if you plant them in an
area that floods regularly or a lot more when it rains,
(12:45):
then that could be not the right place for these
particular trees. And the best thing to do is maybe
is that if you can take them somewhere else, it's
take them off. Oh sh yes, of course they are,
of course they are.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
Is there anything It couldn't be nutrient decisions? You think
it's more likely water.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
No, No, I can, I'm not. I just gave you
a whole lot of different things, yea, And I cannot
tell you without looking at those things exactly what it is,
in my opinion, but those are the sort of things
you're talking about. It's really really difficult to identify over
the phone. Okay, I'm sorry, thank you, Okay, bye bye,
(13:33):
bye bye.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
We've got a stand of well, stand of them. We've
got three of them clustered in the back garden as well,
the Mikayla Grappi's, which I really like. They grow like crazy,
though probably not quite the right tree to put in
because they're going to get huge.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
You have to declare and when you sell the.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
House that my good old Bouda gar out the front there,
which I'll tell you what we did. I've mentioned this
couple of times. We did the big prune two years ago.
You know, strategically, right, this is the beauty and you
know this working with a good qualified arborist who's who's professional,
(14:10):
and and it's doing exactly what we wanted was to
encourage growth lower in the canopy. And then we'll remove
the outer canopy now and and so we'll keep the
health in the tree but reduce the size of it.
But it's a two well three year process and two
visits by the arborist. But man, it makes a difference.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
I hope Matt is listening. We've had exactly that discussion
two days ago. Yeah, it's it's it's interesting in your gardener,
how important is to have a good.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Right, Mary, A very good morning to you.
Speaker 8 (14:50):
Good morning morning. I'm up in Carrimandal. Just a query.
I've got some dailies. Some are in the garden and
another one in a pot. The one's in the garden,
the deep purple ones coming out really really faint, faint
pink other flowers on them. And the one in the
pot that was yellow, it's coming out white.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Oh, oh my goodness. I've had the same complaint from
a lady called Julie, and I happened to be married
to her, and she is a dahlia and nut and
she asks the same question, and I go like, are
you sure that's what you plant there? I have no idea.
Speaker 8 (15:35):
It's the first time I've ever done it.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
I have the feeling they are a bit susceptible to
it's you know, to pH in the soil. So if
you've put princess, put lime on the on the on
the ground, and they become a lot more bluer, I suppose,
And there are other plants that have that same idea.
(16:00):
But yeah, gosh, Dahlias, it might be it might be it.
It might exactly be that that they are lacking either
something that gives them a bit of a bluish tinge
due to having a higher what do you call it,
(16:22):
saidity if you like, etcetera.
Speaker 8 (16:27):
What what would.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Weird? I have no idea. I don't know. I wish
Julie was here. She would go, you know, she would
have some sort of crazy, non scientific answer. But it works.
It's good.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Luck with that, Mary. They are looking gorgeous at the moment,
aren't they.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Just I would say, try a bit of lime, That's
what I would say.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Okay, perfect, thank you very much.
Speaker 10 (16:56):
Hello David, Oh, good morning. I'm hoping that you might
have an answer for the word they what This property
was twelve years ago now and there's a Christmas plum
tree on the property that every year until this year
(17:16):
had produced hundreds of plums. This year it produced one
and the possum god at first.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Yeah, yeah, the possums are good at that.
Speaker 10 (17:27):
There's no other no other plums at all on the
tree to begin with.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Okay, so is this is this a tree that you
is on in your garden and you could actually fertilize
it in a different way.
Speaker 10 (17:41):
I haven't. I haven't, must admit I haven't put any
fidtalizer around it at all.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Okay, I think you need you need some of the
fertilizers that contains a little bit more potage that is
the stuff you get in rose fertilizer or some things
like that, and that means you get a higher sulfate
of potage content, which makes the tree set far more
flowers and far more fruit.
Speaker 10 (18:06):
Oh okay, Well that that would solve the problem of
us a tree which is it's probably been there since
there was built in nineteen twenty, but it's that's produced
no problems at all.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Yeah, and that was how you stimulate them. I'll tell
you what. We've got a couple of those threes Stiver
Kennedy's Boys Road where I live, and they've been doing
really well this year. They were all in the gutter.
It's just unbelievable. But it's the same thing nobody fertilized,
I reckon and they are unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
So yeah, feeding, even at this time of year, you'd
still be feeding, still be feeding because the growth.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Give it a little bit now, indeed, lots of growth,
and you actually start to make the plant think over
winter time. I've got to do that again. So spring, damers, really,
spring is the best dame to do. But do it now,
just for just to give it go.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Lovely to have you on again. Thanks for the wingspan experience.
Back next week, folks, have a great task, take care
of it.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
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