June 21, 2025 • 20 mins
On The Garden Hour with Pete Wolfkamp and Ruud Kleinpaste Full Show Podcast for 22nd June 2025, Ruud discusses why fruits can be rotten inside, why your grapefruits can flower earlier than usual, how soon you can pick tamarillos, and how to tell if your fruit-trees are dying.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp
from News Talks at.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
A Right Climb Pass. Good morning, sir, Hello root ah, gotcha?
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Had you you?
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Ha?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Wella back again?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Hello root? Yeah? Hi, how are you? You're all good?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I'm all good. I'm all good, and yourself.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Excellent, excellent, excellent, getting a lot better. I've got a
couple of interesting little things. First of all, there's been
this lovely new fundraising thing called call Yourself a Kiwi.
Did you see that in the media at all yet?
Not yet? Maybe it only I think started in Wednesday
(00:52):
or Thursday something like that. It's basically about, you know,
if there were no more kiwi, could you still call
yourself oh brilliant?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yes, yeah, yeah, very yes.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
It's basically it's basically about predator free, so literally getting
rid of all sorts of the rubbish things that eat
our natives. Yes, if you like. But I love the
way they actually use the kiwi as an example, so
you know, the supporters reference is the kiwi ferns instant,
kiwi kiwi rail two wi. I like that. We're at
(01:27):
the workshop. I think it's another good one. So there's
a lot of people that are a lot of groups
that actually have the Kiwi in their name, in their
in their name of their business that have gotten on board.
And I think that's wonderful. But there's another thing, of
course we can We can, of course genuinely need more
predator control areas. We need it anyway, so we can
turn the Kiwi there. Now we work very closely, these
(01:51):
guys with Capital Kiwi and Corowai y Heki. That's the
Kiwi Trust of which I'm part. So I'm totally supporting this,
you know, support the predator control work by donating to
the PF Trust, the Predator Free Trust, or directly to
save the Kiwi. I think that's what we call working together.
I just thought i'd mentioned that. I just wonderful, a
stunning and for people in Canterbury. We were bird bending
(02:14):
yesterday and my mate Phil told me that there are
enormous amounts of hump back whales migrating around the peninsula.
That's the peninsula at Canterbury, you know.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
The exponent Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
So you go to the end of the of the exponentsula.
I think, isn't it isn't it lovely?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
It must be the time for it, because I've seen
a number of posts people kayaking and the Watamata Harbor
here in Auckland, and dolphins and so on coming into
the harbor as well, and we get auca from time
to time as well, which is awesome.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
No say so Lighthouse Road for those of you who
want to know where to go, go to the end
of Lighthouse Road which is the beginning of the a
Coroa Harbor if you like. And Phil Grutchley told me
that he saw nine on Wednesday and five on Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
And this is just obviously from land with a pair
of I mean they are pretty big, so you know, yeah,
you can't miss them as far as sea creatures go,
probably easier to spot than most exactly. So I love
that fantastic and thanks for replying to my text. I
was genuinely surprised. I mean, you know, the gardens are
(03:29):
all over the place at the moment, but you know
the old plum tree at the back of my place,
which is a Christmas plum, we always get plumps just
before Christmas had to fruit on it just the other
day on on Friday.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
It's amazing, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
I Mean I've seen blossoms from time to time and
the occasional sort of random leaf, but in terms of
it actually fruiting pretty much. Well, Friday was sure to stay,
wasn't it all? Said they? Yeah, so yeah, I don't
know crazy things, right, let's get amongst it. Helen, good
morning to you.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Oh good morning, A.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Very good thank you. What can I do for you? Oh?
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Good morning? Word, it's nice to hear you. And Ben.
I've got a naval orange tree which I planted or
about five six years ago, and finally I've got a big,
you know, whole range of a whole lot of oranges
on it, naval oranges, and I was looking forward to
having loveling, sweet naval oranges. But they're one very very
(04:29):
sour and tart. But I'm don okay with that. But
I'm not okay with this little borer thing that's getting
into all of them. And I can't find what it is,
but there's a little black hole and then when I
cut it away, it's all rotten inside the orange where
it's been. I don't know what it is because I
can't see anything, but it's kind of ruining my crops.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
You know.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
It could be the guava moth if they're s caterpillars
in there, because I know guava mos don't just go
to guavas and fijoas and things like that. They also
go through some citrus species. So I can't tell you
because in Christis we do not have guava moth touch wood.
So this is the point. You might find that this
(05:17):
happened earlier, say in late summer early early winter, if
you like, even and these caterpillars basically tunnel in and
course indeed some sort of I suppose rotting if you
like a fungal thing, isn't.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
It No, it's fungle. It's it's actually like if you
leave an orange for too long, you know, it starts
just just you know, go rotten or whatever. But I
haven't seen any caterpillars. I've chipped all over the tree. No,
in six, No caterpillars, nothing. But it's obviously some kind
(05:56):
of borer. Would it be in the wood itself?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Well, it is. It is probably that these guys might
have finished by now and they left the tunnel behind.
That is one. That is one possibility. Okay, that's one possibility.
The other one is that you have something called alternaria,
which is a black rot that makes small patches of
black skin which go inside the citrus as well. And yeah,
(06:25):
does it look more like so have a look at
alternaria pictures or the tunnels alter alternaria A L T
E R N A R I A.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
Okay, thank you.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
It's known as black rot as well. And if you've
got that, you are much easier to control it because
you just look. Use a really good copper spray if
you like.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
Okay, you've got that, okay. And I ask a question
about the avocado tree next door to it. Yeah, when
I first hunted, it took about seven years but for
it to start the fruit. But now it's not a
huge tree, but it's laden with avocados, but they're all
very tiny. That last year they were huge. This year
they're very tiny. And you've had lots of water summer.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Yeah, yeah, okay, did you did you put this? Did
you grow this from a pip?
Speaker 6 (07:20):
No?
Speaker 5 (07:20):
No, I bought it.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
You bought it? Okay. In that case, we might have
to look at some fertilizer.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
What kind of fertilizer do I use for them?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Well, basically a general fertilizer with some extra little bits
of potage. You can get it from from your local
your local stores. Sulfate of potash is got contains extra potage.
If you've got the general fertilizer, it will do everything
from creating roots to flowers to goodness, no shot, but
(07:51):
the potage does very good development.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Not my naval oranges. Then yeah, yeah, well I put
fertilizer around the roots. I was going to go to
the extreme of pouring a bag of sugar under the
roots to see that would sweep the.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
No, it doesn't. The answer is no. I can tell
you that for free. But but yeah. The thing. The
thing with potash is you know n p K. You
know n p K. You've seen it on the bags.
I'm sure, okay. And potash is the k which is callium.
It is the lovely Dutch and let the name for
for potash. And potash does if you give that to plants,
(08:30):
basically it actually grows them really good flowers and also
really good fruit. And it makes the fruit a lot
sweeter than you.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
And you.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
Have a wonderful day.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
And thank you to.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
All this and ross are very good banding to you.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Hi.
Speaker 7 (08:53):
Our grapefruit tree started flowering the end of May, and
some of the fruits of some of the blossoms have
been pollinated and the pedals have dropped. Normally, that doesn't
happen to the end of September and by Lay weekend
they're just a massive, massive flower. But this year they're
what three months early, which is quite extraordinary, and the
(09:16):
bees are working away. I saw a bumblebee on there yesterday,
quite extraordinary.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
There's very little you can do about it. That happens
every now and then with all sorts of plants. Actually
they go clock and they are three months ahead or
three months too late or whatever. I wouldn't be too
worried at this stage ross that it might be. It
might be that it's not going to give you a
heck of a lot of fruit, or it might be
too early, you know what I mean. But this happens.
(09:46):
And again that little tip I just gave you about
sulfate of potash might be really good for.
Speaker 7 (09:51):
Yeah, I do put it in PQ on granular fertilizers.
I'm not worried about it, but it's just a point
of interest. Really. I just wondered if we get we
haven't had a decent trust in Auckland here for twenty
odd years, so if he did get a coal spell,
I was just wonderingly the fertilized, the pollinated flowers might
just drop off and we get nothing for the whole year.
(10:13):
So it's just better just watch the space.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Yeah, that's right, But that's what Peter you said about
his plums as well. You know, I mean this time
of the year.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Hello, it's only two so it's not exactly you know,
after a roaring start. But does the tree kind of
reset or does the tree go right? That's my lot
for this year.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
It might do that, but on the other hand, it
might reset too. It depends on exactly how it is working.
And you're right, these things happen every now and then,
and when they do, everybody goes what's going on here?
But the best thing really is for for both of
you actually to chuck a little bit of self eatee
of bottish at the root zone and do that from
(10:51):
early spring onwards. That's when flowers are being really pushed
into the system.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
I'll put a note in the diary now all your ross,
thank you for you caught your is with me. If
you'd like to talk to eight hundred eighty is the
number to call. We will take a break and back
with Mary shortly. When you talk to Climb past with
us and Mary A very good morning to you.
Speaker 8 (11:16):
Good morning Peter and Rube.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Hello.
Speaker 8 (11:18):
I'm an ash person and I have a tamarillo about
five years old. Tiny we sing about or fifty sevent
meters when I bought it, and it's now up to
the eve. However, it's laden this fruit. May I pick
some early? I've got a cupboard, but there are only
sort of a lot of them are green and only pinkish.
Now can you help me? Please?
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Can you? Can you keep it on there and keep
it off the frost in Ashburn.
Speaker 8 (11:45):
I've got frost cloth over it. Yes, and they regarded
early on.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Yes, I remember trying that stuff. Tamilla is on my
at on the porthills here, and it didn't work very
well for me, to be quite honest. Tamarilla, you know
they do they some places they do go well, So
that's number one. If they're too late, I would leave
them on. If they're still going, I would leave them
(12:11):
on the tree if you can, but protect them from
these cold frosts. We had a bummer this more.
Speaker 8 (12:17):
You know, they may still rip them if we get
some sunny days.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Yeah, they could do, they could do, but it's but
we're actually slightly to myself if you like for that.
Speaker 8 (12:30):
I don't want to know that.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
No, no, you don't want to know that. But what
I would do then hang on, no, no, but Mary,
what I would do is again that potash is actually
something that speeds things up earlier in the season. So
you can do that next year anyway and avoid that
that late ripening.
Speaker 8 (12:47):
Okay, because I picked them earlier last year, they were right.
My other question of provide a minute is just I've
got a mandarin in the same hot side under the eaves,
very small, but very sweet, but very small. Is there
any way I can encourage them to grow the figures?
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Same thing? Get some potash. Pottish potash is the stuff
that actually makes fruit grow well, larger and sweeter. That's
the key of NPK. So I okay, a little bit,
you know, just a little bit off by hands, a
handful to the square meter boom, just like that.
Speaker 8 (13:20):
Wonderful. Thank you very much, Mary, Bye, thank you so much.
Good have a wonderful day.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Bye bye you do.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
All of rybis to you too, Mary, take care and.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Blaire are very good morning, good morning, Hey, hello guys.
We've got a mandarin tree. We're in the top of
Bay a plenty orapy. We've had it for about five
years now and it's fruited well for the last three years,
and now it seems to have like all the leaves
are curling up. Looks like is dying.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
So leaves go yellow, go brown and falling off.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
No, just gone green and turned into like cones sort
of things, all just shriveled up. It's got fruit on
it at the moment, but they're not really sizing up,
and it's just looking very unhealthy.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Have you had a lot of rain in the Bay
plenty We have.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
We have had a lot of rain in the Bow Plinny,
but it seems to have even with the fine periods,
that's not coming back.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Now. What I mean is that if you really put
the root zone under a lot of pressure with a
lot of water, you could get all sorts of little,
little quite bad diseases if you like. And one of
them is a root rot called fightoftra. And if that
kills you, yeah, and if that kills your tree, the
(14:40):
bad news is you can't even plant another citrus in
the same spot. But you need to put it well
away from there. So fingers crossed that it isn't that,
but if it is, put something else in that area,
because not all hitoftras are the same species, you know
what I mean, So they don't kill everything. But if
you've got one that does citrus, don't put another citrus
(15:03):
in there.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Okay, because what we've got decided about too man as
a way are plum trees, and they seem been fine
at the moment.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Yeah, exactly, good.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Yeah, there you go, so just not there's no coming
back from there, was there?
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Well, go online and see if that. I think our
local company here Kiwi Care have something that does some
work on fight off dra but I have no expertise
in how well that works to be quinals. I've never
tried it.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Yeah, okay, all of this, take care, thank you very
much all this. Someone has bought an expense of Louisa
plum tree. Best time you planted in northern Auckland.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Now, now Julie has her Louisa going every year. And
what is it with Louisa. I think it's it's actually
quite a lovely plum and it looks nice too. Yeah
yeah do it? Now? This good down to Planta.
Speaker 8 (15:57):
Now.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Someone else wants to know how to get rid of slugs.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Ah yes, good, go out at night with the torch
with the kids and have a good couple of hours
of fun.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Awesome digital control.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
We like that exactly. Yep, we like that.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Radio very greetings.
Speaker 6 (16:16):
Yes, hello, rude. Just a question on a hydranger hedge.
I've got a boundary with seventy meters of hydranger and
all of a sudden, starting from the tops on a
bit of a slope, they're all dying and I can't
(16:37):
work out why. The only thing that I have noticed
is that my neighbor on the other side of the
hedge has got aga panthers growing all the way down,
and I'm wondering.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
I was just going to say, oh, yeah, and the
agapanth is usually if you use the right agapanthas materials,
you'll find that that will have a go at anybody nearby,
especially if it blows over with the wind, you know
what I mean, as it gets spread.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Yeah, I'm a little confused. Can I just tell them
so the neighbor with the aga panthers, have they tried
to spray it as an with weed killer?
Speaker 3 (17:15):
I would say so, No, no, oh.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
They haven't two meters deep and it goes right down
the full seventy meters and I'm just wondering whether the
roots are coming through and interfering with the aga panther
with the hydrangea.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
I don't, well, are they that close together?
Speaker 6 (17:36):
Yeah? Yeah, just defence and between.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Well, you're no, I don't think that that should the
hydrangea should not be hassled too much like that, because
it can make its roots grow elsewhere as well. It
can go further away from that if it feels well.
It depends on what it looks like, I suppose, and
how close it is. But I think hydrangea is usually
quite easy, quite easily spread its roots too, if it
(18:02):
needs to right sprayed. I thought they sprayed the exactly.
I thought they sprayed the Uh good god, Okay, No,
I don't know. Is it is it a moisture thing again?
Was it very wet? Has it been inundated for.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
Have a lot of rain? And but the rest of them,
you know, they have been healthy every year, beautiful beautiful plants.
They're dying. They're sort of following each other going down
the hill. And I've got about eight and a row
which had just you know, you can put them out
of the ground.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Yeah, to me, to me, that's that sounds like a
fungal thing under you know, underground, lower down, and that
could well be the case. Is I just just said
to the previous caller that could have been too much
water at a certain time and inundation and that causes
that to fight off tru for instance. And alterno, there's
(19:07):
all sorts.
Speaker 6 (19:07):
Of things and replant some more. Can I replant them
in the same place?
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Not likely. I wouldn't do that now if that's the case.
But the problem is we need to actually find out
if that's what it is. So if you can pull
some out and see if somebody can have a look
at the garden center whether that looks like root rot,
then I would say be careful planting the same thing.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
Yeah, okay, thanks for your advice.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Very sorry to hear about that. Hey, just with the hydrangers.
What's your tips to pruning.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Now and pruning about third? Yeah, and pruning about the third.
If you like a node up from the ground so
that it will grow up from there, you can you
can prune it as deep and as far as you like.
But you know, and Julie does it usually quite carefully,
but you can also literally give it a smack down
to about a feet or two from the ground. As
(20:05):
long as you've got that's going up the right series.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Okay, yeah, ours are tiny, so I got a while
to go before it foot tall.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Oh no, no, no, woun't no, don't worry, no stop it.
I can do that, all right.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
That's a job that I can take off my list. Hey,
the good newsers it will be there next week again
to give us more advice. Thanks again, take care all day,
all of this money. Thank you very much for your company.
I trust you have a good week. Looking forward to
being back with you again next Sunday. All the best.
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
A Right Climb Pass. Good morning, sir, Hello root ah, gotcha?
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Had you you?
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Ha?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Wella back again?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Hello root? Yeah? Hi, how are you? You're all good?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I'm all good. I'm all good, and yourself.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Excellent, excellent, excellent, getting a lot better. I've got a
couple of interesting little things. First of all, there's been
this lovely new fundraising thing called call Yourself a Kiwi.
Did you see that in the media at all yet?
Not yet? Maybe it only I think started in Wednesday
(00:52):
or Thursday something like that. It's basically about, you know,
if there were no more kiwi, could you still call
yourself oh brilliant?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yes, yeah, yeah, very yes.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
It's basically it's basically about predator free, so literally getting
rid of all sorts of the rubbish things that eat
our natives. Yes, if you like. But I love the
way they actually use the kiwi as an example, so
you know, the supporters reference is the kiwi ferns instant,
kiwi kiwi rail two wi. I like that. We're at
(01:27):
the workshop. I think it's another good one. So there's
a lot of people that are a lot of groups
that actually have the Kiwi in their name, in their
in their name of their business that have gotten on board.
And I think that's wonderful. But there's another thing, of
course we can We can, of course genuinely need more
predator control areas. We need it anyway, so we can
turn the Kiwi there. Now we work very closely, these
(01:51):
guys with Capital Kiwi and Corowai y Heki. That's the
Kiwi Trust of which I'm part. So I'm totally supporting this,
you know, support the predator control work by donating to
the PF Trust, the Predator Free Trust, or directly to
save the Kiwi. I think that's what we call working together.
I just thought i'd mentioned that. I just wonderful, a
stunning and for people in Canterbury. We were bird bending
(02:14):
yesterday and my mate Phil told me that there are
enormous amounts of hump back whales migrating around the peninsula.
That's the peninsula at Canterbury, you know.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
The exponent Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
So you go to the end of the of the exponentsula.
I think, isn't it isn't it lovely?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
It must be the time for it, because I've seen
a number of posts people kayaking and the Watamata Harbor
here in Auckland, and dolphins and so on coming into
the harbor as well, and we get auca from time
to time as well, which is awesome.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
No say so Lighthouse Road for those of you who
want to know where to go, go to the end
of Lighthouse Road which is the beginning of the a
Coroa Harbor if you like. And Phil Grutchley told me
that he saw nine on Wednesday and five on Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
And this is just obviously from land with a pair
of I mean they are pretty big, so you know, yeah,
you can't miss them as far as sea creatures go,
probably easier to spot than most exactly. So I love
that fantastic and thanks for replying to my text. I
was genuinely surprised. I mean, you know, the gardens are
(03:29):
all over the place at the moment, but you know
the old plum tree at the back of my place,
which is a Christmas plum, we always get plumps just
before Christmas had to fruit on it just the other
day on on Friday.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
It's amazing, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
I Mean I've seen blossoms from time to time and
the occasional sort of random leaf, but in terms of
it actually fruiting pretty much. Well, Friday was sure to stay,
wasn't it all? Said they? Yeah, so yeah, I don't
know crazy things, right, let's get amongst it. Helen, good
morning to you.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Oh good morning, A.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Very good thank you. What can I do for you? Oh?
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Good morning? Word, it's nice to hear you. And Ben.
I've got a naval orange tree which I planted or
about five six years ago, and finally I've got a big,
you know, whole range of a whole lot of oranges
on it, naval oranges, and I was looking forward to
having loveling, sweet naval oranges. But they're one very very
(04:29):
sour and tart. But I'm don okay with that. But
I'm not okay with this little borer thing that's getting
into all of them. And I can't find what it is,
but there's a little black hole and then when I
cut it away, it's all rotten inside the orange where
it's been. I don't know what it is because I
can't see anything, but it's kind of ruining my crops.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
You know.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
It could be the guava moth if they're s caterpillars
in there, because I know guava mos don't just go
to guavas and fijoas and things like that. They also
go through some citrus species. So I can't tell you
because in Christis we do not have guava moth touch wood.
So this is the point. You might find that this
(05:17):
happened earlier, say in late summer early early winter, if
you like, even and these caterpillars basically tunnel in and
course indeed some sort of I suppose rotting if you
like a fungal thing, isn't.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
It No, it's fungle. It's it's actually like if you
leave an orange for too long, you know, it starts
just just you know, go rotten or whatever. But I
haven't seen any caterpillars. I've chipped all over the tree. No,
in six, No caterpillars, nothing. But it's obviously some kind
(05:56):
of borer. Would it be in the wood itself?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Well, it is. It is probably that these guys might
have finished by now and they left the tunnel behind.
That is one. That is one possibility. Okay, that's one possibility.
The other one is that you have something called alternaria,
which is a black rot that makes small patches of
black skin which go inside the citrus as well. And yeah,
(06:25):
does it look more like so have a look at
alternaria pictures or the tunnels alter alternaria A L T
E R N A R I A.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
Okay, thank you.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
It's known as black rot as well. And if you've
got that, you are much easier to control it because
you just look. Use a really good copper spray if
you like.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
Okay, you've got that, okay. And I ask a question
about the avocado tree next door to it. Yeah, when
I first hunted, it took about seven years but for
it to start the fruit. But now it's not a
huge tree, but it's laden with avocados, but they're all
very tiny. That last year they were huge. This year
they're very tiny. And you've had lots of water summer.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Yeah, yeah, okay, did you did you put this? Did
you grow this from a pip?
Speaker 6 (07:20):
No?
Speaker 5 (07:20):
No, I bought it.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
You bought it? Okay. In that case, we might have
to look at some fertilizer.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
What kind of fertilizer do I use for them?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Well, basically a general fertilizer with some extra little bits
of potage. You can get it from from your local
your local stores. Sulfate of potash is got contains extra potage.
If you've got the general fertilizer, it will do everything
from creating roots to flowers to goodness, no shot, but
(07:51):
the potage does very good development.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Not my naval oranges. Then yeah, yeah, well I put
fertilizer around the roots. I was going to go to
the extreme of pouring a bag of sugar under the
roots to see that would sweep the.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
No, it doesn't. The answer is no. I can tell
you that for free. But but yeah. The thing. The
thing with potash is you know n p K. You
know n p K. You've seen it on the bags.
I'm sure, okay. And potash is the k which is callium.
It is the lovely Dutch and let the name for
for potash. And potash does if you give that to plants,
(08:30):
basically it actually grows them really good flowers and also
really good fruit. And it makes the fruit a lot
sweeter than you.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
And you.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
Have a wonderful day.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
And thank you to.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
All this and ross are very good banding to you.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Hi.
Speaker 7 (08:53):
Our grapefruit tree started flowering the end of May, and
some of the fruits of some of the blossoms have
been pollinated and the pedals have dropped. Normally, that doesn't
happen to the end of September and by Lay weekend
they're just a massive, massive flower. But this year they're
what three months early, which is quite extraordinary, and the
(09:16):
bees are working away. I saw a bumblebee on there yesterday,
quite extraordinary.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
There's very little you can do about it. That happens
every now and then with all sorts of plants. Actually
they go clock and they are three months ahead or
three months too late or whatever. I wouldn't be too
worried at this stage ross that it might be. It
might be that it's not going to give you a
heck of a lot of fruit, or it might be
too early, you know what I mean. But this happens.
(09:46):
And again that little tip I just gave you about
sulfate of potash might be really good for.
Speaker 7 (09:51):
Yeah, I do put it in PQ on granular fertilizers.
I'm not worried about it, but it's just a point
of interest. Really. I just wondered if we get we
haven't had a decent trust in Auckland here for twenty
odd years, so if he did get a coal spell,
I was just wonderingly the fertilized, the pollinated flowers might
just drop off and we get nothing for the whole year.
(10:13):
So it's just better just watch the space.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Yeah, that's right, But that's what Peter you said about
his plums as well. You know, I mean this time
of the year.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Hello, it's only two so it's not exactly you know,
after a roaring start. But does the tree kind of
reset or does the tree go right? That's my lot
for this year.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
It might do that, but on the other hand, it
might reset too. It depends on exactly how it is working.
And you're right, these things happen every now and then,
and when they do, everybody goes what's going on here?
But the best thing really is for for both of
you actually to chuck a little bit of self eatee
of bottish at the root zone and do that from
(10:51):
early spring onwards. That's when flowers are being really pushed
into the system.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
I'll put a note in the diary now all your ross,
thank you for you caught your is with me. If
you'd like to talk to eight hundred eighty is the
number to call. We will take a break and back
with Mary shortly. When you talk to Climb past with
us and Mary A very good morning to you.
Speaker 8 (11:16):
Good morning Peter and Rube.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Hello.
Speaker 8 (11:18):
I'm an ash person and I have a tamarillo about
five years old. Tiny we sing about or fifty sevent
meters when I bought it, and it's now up to
the eve. However, it's laden this fruit. May I pick
some early? I've got a cupboard, but there are only
sort of a lot of them are green and only pinkish.
Now can you help me? Please?
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Can you? Can you keep it on there and keep
it off the frost in Ashburn.
Speaker 8 (11:45):
I've got frost cloth over it. Yes, and they regarded
early on.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Yes, I remember trying that stuff. Tamilla is on my
at on the porthills here, and it didn't work very
well for me, to be quite honest. Tamarilla, you know
they do they some places they do go well, So
that's number one. If they're too late, I would leave
them on. If they're still going, I would leave them
(12:11):
on the tree if you can, but protect them from
these cold frosts. We had a bummer this more.
Speaker 8 (12:17):
You know, they may still rip them if we get
some sunny days.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Yeah, they could do, they could do, but it's but
we're actually slightly to myself if you like for that.
Speaker 8 (12:30):
I don't want to know that.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
No, no, you don't want to know that. But what
I would do then hang on, no, no, but Mary,
what I would do is again that potash is actually
something that speeds things up earlier in the season. So
you can do that next year anyway and avoid that
that late ripening.
Speaker 8 (12:47):
Okay, because I picked them earlier last year, they were right.
My other question of provide a minute is just I've
got a mandarin in the same hot side under the eaves,
very small, but very sweet, but very small. Is there
any way I can encourage them to grow the figures?
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Same thing? Get some potash. Pottish potash is the stuff
that actually makes fruit grow well, larger and sweeter. That's
the key of NPK. So I okay, a little bit,
you know, just a little bit off by hands, a
handful to the square meter boom, just like that.
Speaker 8 (13:20):
Wonderful. Thank you very much, Mary, Bye, thank you so much.
Good have a wonderful day.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Bye bye you do.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
All of rybis to you too, Mary, take care and.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Blaire are very good morning, good morning, Hey, hello guys.
We've got a mandarin tree. We're in the top of
Bay a plenty orapy. We've had it for about five
years now and it's fruited well for the last three years,
and now it seems to have like all the leaves
are curling up. Looks like is dying.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
So leaves go yellow, go brown and falling off.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
No, just gone green and turned into like cones sort
of things, all just shriveled up. It's got fruit on
it at the moment, but they're not really sizing up,
and it's just looking very unhealthy.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Have you had a lot of rain in the Bay
plenty We have.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
We have had a lot of rain in the Bow Plinny,
but it seems to have even with the fine periods,
that's not coming back.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Now. What I mean is that if you really put
the root zone under a lot of pressure with a
lot of water, you could get all sorts of little,
little quite bad diseases if you like. And one of
them is a root rot called fightoftra. And if that
kills you, yeah, and if that kills your tree, the
(14:40):
bad news is you can't even plant another citrus in
the same spot. But you need to put it well
away from there. So fingers crossed that it isn't that,
but if it is, put something else in that area,
because not all hitoftras are the same species, you know
what I mean, So they don't kill everything. But if
you've got one that does citrus, don't put another citrus
(15:03):
in there.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Okay, because what we've got decided about too man as
a way are plum trees, and they seem been fine
at the moment.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Yeah, exactly, good.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Yeah, there you go, so just not there's no coming
back from there, was there?
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Well, go online and see if that. I think our
local company here Kiwi Care have something that does some
work on fight off dra but I have no expertise
in how well that works to be quinals. I've never
tried it.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Yeah, okay, all of this, take care, thank you very
much all this. Someone has bought an expense of Louisa
plum tree. Best time you planted in northern Auckland.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Now, now Julie has her Louisa going every year. And
what is it with Louisa. I think it's it's actually
quite a lovely plum and it looks nice too. Yeah
yeah do it? Now? This good down to Planta.
Speaker 8 (15:57):
Now.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Someone else wants to know how to get rid of slugs.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Ah yes, good, go out at night with the torch
with the kids and have a good couple of hours
of fun.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Awesome digital control.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
We like that exactly. Yep, we like that.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Radio very greetings.
Speaker 6 (16:16):
Yes, hello, rude. Just a question on a hydranger hedge.
I've got a boundary with seventy meters of hydranger and
all of a sudden, starting from the tops on a
bit of a slope, they're all dying and I can't
(16:37):
work out why. The only thing that I have noticed
is that my neighbor on the other side of the
hedge has got aga panthers growing all the way down,
and I'm wondering.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
I was just going to say, oh, yeah, and the
agapanth is usually if you use the right agapanthas materials,
you'll find that that will have a go at anybody nearby,
especially if it blows over with the wind, you know
what I mean, as it gets spread.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Yeah, I'm a little confused. Can I just tell them
so the neighbor with the aga panthers, have they tried
to spray it as an with weed killer?
Speaker 3 (17:15):
I would say so, No, no, oh.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
They haven't two meters deep and it goes right down
the full seventy meters and I'm just wondering whether the
roots are coming through and interfering with the aga panther
with the hydrangea.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
I don't, well, are they that close together?
Speaker 6 (17:36):
Yeah? Yeah, just defence and between.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Well, you're no, I don't think that that should the
hydrangea should not be hassled too much like that, because
it can make its roots grow elsewhere as well. It
can go further away from that if it feels well.
It depends on what it looks like, I suppose, and
how close it is. But I think hydrangea is usually
quite easy, quite easily spread its roots too, if it
(18:02):
needs to right sprayed. I thought they sprayed the exactly.
I thought they sprayed the Uh good god, Okay, No,
I don't know. Is it is it a moisture thing again?
Was it very wet? Has it been inundated for.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
Have a lot of rain? And but the rest of them,
you know, they have been healthy every year, beautiful beautiful plants.
They're dying. They're sort of following each other going down
the hill. And I've got about eight and a row
which had just you know, you can put them out
of the ground.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Yeah, to me, to me, that's that sounds like a
fungal thing under you know, underground, lower down, and that
could well be the case. Is I just just said
to the previous caller that could have been too much
water at a certain time and inundation and that causes
that to fight off tru for instance. And alterno, there's
(19:07):
all sorts.
Speaker 6 (19:07):
Of things and replant some more. Can I replant them
in the same place?
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Not likely. I wouldn't do that now if that's the case.
But the problem is we need to actually find out
if that's what it is. So if you can pull
some out and see if somebody can have a look
at the garden center whether that looks like root rot,
then I would say be careful planting the same thing.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
Yeah, okay, thanks for your advice.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Very sorry to hear about that. Hey, just with the hydrangers.
What's your tips to pruning.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Now and pruning about third? Yeah, and pruning about the third.
If you like a node up from the ground so
that it will grow up from there, you can you
can prune it as deep and as far as you like.
But you know, and Julie does it usually quite carefully,
but you can also literally give it a smack down
to about a feet or two from the ground. As
(20:05):
long as you've got that's going up the right series.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Okay, yeah, ours are tiny, so I got a while
to go before it foot tall.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Oh no, no, no, woun't no, don't worry, no stop it.
I can do that, all right.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
That's a job that I can take off my list. Hey,
the good newsers it will be there next week again
to give us more advice. Thanks again, take care all day,
all of this money. Thank you very much for your company.
I trust you have a good week. Looking forward to
being back with you again next Sunday. All the best.
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