October 11, 2025 • 18 mins
On The Garden Hour with Pete Wolfkamp and Ruud Kleinpaste Full Show Podcast for October 12, 2025, Ruud talks about how to handle Passion Vine Hoppers, what to do about struggling broad beans, and how to reduce the pH in your garden.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter wolf
Camp from News talks'd.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Be This is the remarkable thing, though, is that I've
only done the show for eleven years.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Right, that's right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're only just a beginner.
Really nobody. It's like, wait, don't you know that?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Anyway, anyway, I'll talk to you.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
I say when when people say, oh, ring me on Sunday,
but not not then?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
And then excellent, excellent right here, you're well.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Yes, I'm very well. I just want to say a
couple of things. I don't know. We've got lots of callers,
we got on broad other Broadbeans. I mean, who cares.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
But I'm just well, you're in fine form today, I
can tell no.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
No, I just want to make sure just to just
to get people to get at the moment, fluffy bombs
are coming out of your way their passion fine hoppers
quite personal route yet right, So.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
What a fluffy bum passion with fine.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Hop fine hopper. Those are those little things that jump
up on your on your plants the whole time in
the summer time, and at the moment the little babies
with a little fluffy bottoms. Is this the way to
say it at the moment coming out of the eggs
and there go, And this is the time to actually
do something about it. This is probably one of the
only times you can do something about it by, for instance,
(01:32):
spraying them with anything you like. But because they jump
away when you normally spraying when they're older, now they're
so young they can't get away from it yet, So
this is the time to do it. I just thought
i'd make that point because a lot of people usually
ask the questions too late, so I'm a bit early.
Now there you go.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
What's that preventative maintenance?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Yeah, exactly, you know what's coming up? Pain and the
bum you know from what I remember.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Right, And what's the treatment again?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Anything? Well, any any insecticides you can get, you can use,
even knem oil and things like that. But the point
is if you do it in about a month from now,
they can feel it, see it coming, and they jump
out of the air, out of the out of the
out of the way the insecticide is moving towards them.
Now they are too young to actually get that point,
and that's it.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
They can't stand right, So get in there now. Anything
create a hospitable environment for.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Them, Yes, not only that, but they actually basically get
they die before they even land. It's that quick, right,
very very weak at the moment. Just another reason you're
just saying.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Hey, if you've got a Christian for rut, you can
call us now. Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty Colin,
Good morning, Hello Colin. Oh, hang on here, what's going
on here?
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
There you go? Sorry, hard enough mate.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
What's the problem. What's the problem with your broad beans?
Get on with them?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Wow, they're not getting any pods on them.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Oh, and normally they do.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
There. I've planted them on the twenty eighth of April.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yep, that makes sense.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Yeah, and usually around about I've done them for quite
a few years and I've had no problems. But this
time I've got them up to six foot tall.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Wow, it's strange.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
And I got the stalks. The stems are bloody huge.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
They go high, don't they?
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Yeah, these are high. I've had toned up them in
the middle on the top of them to stop them
from getting any higher.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
And you couldn't reach them. Are you as short as
are you?
Speaker 4 (03:52):
I'm a wee short ass year I knew you would be.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Hey, listen, what do you what are you fertilizing with colin.
What do you What have you done this year?
Speaker 4 (04:00):
I've got What I do is I've got horsemen. You're
that I water right down, trod over the over the soil.
Now I put in the compost bags. Yeah you buy.
I've got my guards about ten foot by twelve foot yep.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Okay. Do you have you used have you used horse manure?
A lot?
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Pardon?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Have you used horse manure in the past? A lot?
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Yeah? Yeah, I have.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Okay, because you've got the problem with horse maneuver is
that they there's something about it that is not too great,
and it is that it can be quite weedy. For instance,
you know what I mean, can become quite weaky. The
second thing, I haven't had any weight good, okay. Well
what you do need, though, is you need a little
bit of potash to get those things setting. Yeah, sulfate
(05:00):
of potage, which is which you can buy from garden
centers and selfate of potash is the material that makes
a plant not only get flowers, but also get the
seeds or the fruits as the next for the next job.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Now that's strange. I've got cabbages and and collis and
then they've got no centers, no hearts.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
That is I. I think it's that fertilizer, my friend,
I think you. I think that potash might just do
that for you.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
You'll start to wonder how long will I leave the
beans and just pull them out?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Keep good, No, keep going, just put the get go
to the shop today. Get some sulfate of potash and
you might find it. In a couple of weeks you
will get flowers and you will get beans and fruit
flowers around.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Yeah, okay, bloody beans.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Have a go at potage and you'll find it will
come right. Yeah, sulfate of potash.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Throw that around the roots.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
You follow, you do it basically, you put it. You
can make that around the yes, around the roots of
the plant, water and well in and you get the
potation into the soil.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Oh yeah, all right, okay, Yeah, I've been a bit worried.
Oh I'll pull them out a nart.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
No, don't pull them out, give them an extra chance.
You can do it. I reckon, you can do it. Boy.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
They are really good. Like you know, I've been had
the prop them up through the one and all that
sort of stuff would be getting.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Yeah, that happens sometimes. No, you can do it off
you go.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Colin, you take care of now. I love this text
after your visit. A couple of weeks ago. Uh, my
daughter in Cromwell saw a red backed spider on her
exterior spouting yesterday she took a video. Is there something
they should do about from barb Well. No, generally you
go outside of a little container, put it on the
shot team mates.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
That's right, I take it with me, do a whole
lot of school kids and they love it. They have
a look at it. Oh, it's beautiful and it is gorgeous.
And here's the irony of it is Cromwell is exactly
the place where they are extremely common, especially this for
the locals near the bridge to Bennetburth Rise. I've only
(07:19):
had three hundred on my desk last autumn.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
So question, have you even been bitten by one of
these ferocious red back spiders?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
They're not froze, she stayed, bite when you do the
wrong thing. Yes, I've been bitten three times. Right the
first time? What isn't painful the first time? No problem?
I know you can ask for a f first time.
No problem, was hardly any end venomation if you like.
Right the second time, was a bit more in venomation,
thought oh, that's not good. And the third time I
(07:52):
was in Dneedin with a whole lot of kids and
I was showing it in the little rother. She gave
me a real envenomation that hurt like hell. I had
to fly back to Auckland that evening and the next
day I had to fly to Cairns and I thought, well,
that'll be good because it thinks they've got lots of
empty vame there and two weeks of yeah, it was
(08:13):
quite painful to right, and I did my filming there
and I came back and it slowly went away. So
I'm a bit more careful.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Okay, So again, you know, while we just best not
to antagonize them, no get but.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
No, don't muck around with them too much. That's why
my general rule I would say, yeah, good ideas.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
For most things. I think, good morning to you.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Were good morning.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
My PX level of mass is up around eight eight,
and I obviously got to produce it for my tomatoes.
I mean, we're just the best way rude to reduce
my p X.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
And Mabaska, oh well you use so eight is a
very acid and not acidic. It's it's the other side.
You need a bit more acid. If you like soil acid,
that will do that for you. So what can you use?
Speaker 5 (09:09):
Like?
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Say lime? No, not lime? Is lime? No, it's not lime.
It's the other one. It's the other one. It's not
the lime, it's the other I forget. I forget all
the time what it is. So it's a sulfur, I suppose. Yeah, sulfur. Yeah,
put some self on it, so change it a little bit.
(09:30):
Yeah yeah. If you're eight, eight is a bit too high.
I would go down to six and a half seven
if you if I were, What are you growing?
Speaker 5 (09:37):
I just have tomatoes, cheeks, chili the yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Lowered the pH by sulfur.
Oh hang on, Pete Moss among himself, eate, there you go.
There's another one, Amoer himself. Yeah, that's another one. Have
a go with that. Good on you go.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Well you take care of interesting ticks as well. There
are lots of red backs in Cromwell. I own a
pis control business. I really don't like killing these amazing
little creatures. Love the show from Steve. There you go.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
I totally agree with him. I don't either. And there's
a story about these things, because these, of course are
the Australian red Backs, and we believe that they came
into New Zealand, especially in Central Otago with the Chinese
people that came to go to the mines do the
mining there, and they in their gear that they took
with them from Australia, there were some red backs and
(10:36):
away we went.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
How amazing? Yeah, good, fantastic, Right, I think we should
take a break. We'll do that. Keep lock happy. It
is eight forty six and new talks they'd be and
(11:03):
let's race in to it. Susan, good morning, good morning, hello.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
Just a question, two very quick questions for rude. First
one is where do we get medics?
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Three?
Speaker 2 (11:16):
From let's emails this week about it as well.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Yeah, yeah, we set up, we set it up, all right.
Medics is available from a couple of different areas. Let
me have a look here we go. I've got just
have the ipen to have it here, and you can
get it from some of these places, like where you
(11:42):
can get your your what do you call it, proper materials?
What do you call it? Insecticides? From that you can
get from a little bit I've forgotten what they called
actually I haven't got it on this particular thing. And
let me have a look. No, I haven't, I haven't,
I haven't, I haven't. I haven't gone wrong one you
(12:06):
get right since and places like that, you know what
I mean. Okay, yep, thank you, right, that sort of
thing you're go on.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
Second question is we've got a nickterine, a pitch tree.
The leaf is starting to curl on it. We did
spray it, but we've still got that awful curl coming
on the leaves.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Now, yeah, that was something that needed to be done
by the time the leaves are falling off in autumn time.
So when your leaves are starting to fall because it's
getting winter, that's when you give it a double dose
of copper and do that maybe twice a week or
two apart, and that basically stops those new leaves that
(12:50):
are being formed for it right now, coming out right
now to not have that curling effect. And what you
can do, what you can do now is you can
use not copper. You don't use copper now because you
actually can damage the new leaves too with copper. That
is what the problem is with these with these plants.
But you can have just a general what do you
(13:12):
call it fungal spray, but not copper.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
Okay, and how often would we put the fung will
spray on?
Speaker 3 (13:21):
I will do it now and do it again in
two weeks time after that. Just gentle, don't go over
the top. But not copper because copper will damage your
your your leaves at the moment, especially.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
Of those things, and not the going to pick the fruit.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
No, no, no, no no no, You'll be fine.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
Okay, good luck, so.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Bye, take care bye and Marie, good morning.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
Good morning. How are you guys?
Speaker 3 (13:48):
We're good, thank you, good good good.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
I have a chili plant and that the greenhouse and
the chilies have grown, the grown red. But they don't
have any hate in them.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Some varieties I like that. You can get them. You
can get them, burn your bum off to absolutely nothing there.
But they have got a little bit of taste. But
it's not it's actually basically something that kids might like,
you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
The funny thing is that there because this is probably
a couple of years old. The previous year, they were
quite hot. The same seeds, yeah, the same plant.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
That that's unusual. I wouldn't think that that would be
a different that shouldn't be a different taste after those years,
not that I know.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
Yeah. So, yeah, so they taste like a capsicum.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Yeah, yeah, that's basically they're related, of course.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
Yeah, hmmm, yes, So I just thought maybe I need.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
To feed it with something or no, I don't think so.
Oh no, I don't think so. It's basically inherent in
the in the plant. If you get a really hot variety,
then you'll get that. But why don't you get a
different one from the shop and see if you can
use that. Give that a go. You know that there
are very there are many different varieties of of of
(15:16):
chili chili varieties if you like, and I would, I
would go and go for the hot one if that's
what you want.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
The other thing is that they did grow quite long,
but now they're quite sort of shortened study and they
just they go from growing to read.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Yeah, well that's what they would should do, I suppose,
but I'm wondering why that is would they be doing old?
Are you sure you got the same batch?
Speaker 5 (15:43):
Yes, I'm pretty sure it's the same. It's sort of
pot sorry, and it's quite whole, just you know. So
I just thought I'll run up by you and say
what you're doing.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Yeah, no, I find that strange because you can keep
them for a couple of years, but you know after
that they should still be the same. If you like
agreed creature is on the label, you know.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
Yes, Well, to be fair, these were seeds that I
had kept from a supermarket chili that i'd brought. And
there's probably about three different seeds in the pot. So
it's quite a volumptuous plant. And it's got lots and
lots of flowers on it, and it looks really healthy.
(16:32):
And I was really excited because I like the heat.
And when I tried some it was very time and I.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Thought, have you have you tried covering it with cayenne pepper?
Speaker 5 (16:48):
That would work?
Speaker 3 (16:51):
You got it?
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Just Maria quick text on this. Don't know if it's
applicable to chili's, but with reddishes, the same variety will
be hotter if the conditions are drier.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Oh yeah, it's quite a.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Different something to throw into the mix. Marie, thanks very
much for the call in roud to someone else's text
through I purchased madd X from Farmlands, so that's helpful, wonderful, wonderful.
Thank you. Rude as always it's us. Well yeah, no
(17:27):
nephew traveling with my brother. Ah crikey. Anyway, right he
have a great day, have a great week, all the best.
Take care and folks, thanks very much. I've got some
homework to do, so there was a couple of things
that came up on the show today. I promise you
I'll get some information on that and I'll talk to
you about it next week. Take care.
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
Be This is the remarkable thing, though, is that I've
only done the show for eleven years.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Right, that's right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're only just a beginner.
Really nobody. It's like, wait, don't you know that?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Anyway, anyway, I'll talk to you.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
I say when when people say, oh, ring me on Sunday,
but not not then?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
And then excellent, excellent right here, you're well.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Yes, I'm very well. I just want to say a
couple of things. I don't know. We've got lots of callers,
we got on broad other Broadbeans. I mean, who cares.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
But I'm just well, you're in fine form today, I
can tell no.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
No, I just want to make sure just to just
to get people to get at the moment, fluffy bombs
are coming out of your way their passion fine hoppers
quite personal route yet right, So.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
What a fluffy bum passion with fine.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Hop fine hopper. Those are those little things that jump
up on your on your plants the whole time in
the summer time, and at the moment the little babies
with a little fluffy bottoms. Is this the way to
say it at the moment coming out of the eggs
and there go, And this is the time to actually
do something about it. This is probably one of the
only times you can do something about it by, for instance,
(01:32):
spraying them with anything you like. But because they jump
away when you normally spraying when they're older, now they're
so young they can't get away from it yet, So
this is the time to do it. I just thought
i'd make that point because a lot of people usually
ask the questions too late, so I'm a bit early.
Now there you go.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
What's that preventative maintenance?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Yeah, exactly, you know what's coming up? Pain and the
bum you know from what I remember.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Right, And what's the treatment again?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Anything? Well, any any insecticides you can get, you can use,
even knem oil and things like that. But the point
is if you do it in about a month from now,
they can feel it, see it coming, and they jump
out of the air, out of the out of the
out of the way the insecticide is moving towards them.
Now they are too young to actually get that point,
and that's it.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
They can't stand right, So get in there now. Anything
create a hospitable environment for.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Them, Yes, not only that, but they actually basically get
they die before they even land. It's that quick, right,
very very weak at the moment. Just another reason you're
just saying.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Hey, if you've got a Christian for rut, you can
call us now. Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty Colin,
Good morning, Hello Colin. Oh, hang on here, what's going
on here?
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
There you go? Sorry, hard enough mate.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
What's the problem. What's the problem with your broad beans?
Get on with them?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Wow, they're not getting any pods on them.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Oh, and normally they do.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
There. I've planted them on the twenty eighth of April.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yep, that makes sense.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Yeah, and usually around about I've done them for quite
a few years and I've had no problems. But this
time I've got them up to six foot tall.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Wow, it's strange.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
And I got the stalks. The stems are bloody huge.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
They go high, don't they?
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Yeah, these are high. I've had toned up them in
the middle on the top of them to stop them
from getting any higher.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
And you couldn't reach them. Are you as short as
are you?
Speaker 4 (03:52):
I'm a wee short ass year I knew you would be.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Hey, listen, what do you what are you fertilizing with colin.
What do you What have you done this year?
Speaker 4 (04:00):
I've got What I do is I've got horsemen. You're
that I water right down, trod over the over the soil.
Now I put in the compost bags. Yeah you buy.
I've got my guards about ten foot by twelve foot yep.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Okay. Do you have you used have you used horse manure?
A lot?
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Pardon?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Have you used horse manure in the past? A lot?
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Yeah? Yeah, I have.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Okay, because you've got the problem with horse maneuver is
that they there's something about it that is not too great,
and it is that it can be quite weedy. For instance,
you know what I mean, can become quite weaky. The
second thing, I haven't had any weight good, okay. Well
what you do need, though, is you need a little
bit of potash to get those things setting. Yeah, sulfate
(05:00):
of potage, which is which you can buy from garden
centers and selfate of potash is the material that makes
a plant not only get flowers, but also get the
seeds or the fruits as the next for the next job.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Now that's strange. I've got cabbages and and collis and
then they've got no centers, no hearts.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
That is I. I think it's that fertilizer, my friend,
I think you. I think that potash might just do
that for you.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
You'll start to wonder how long will I leave the
beans and just pull them out?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Keep good, No, keep going, just put the get go
to the shop today. Get some sulfate of potash and
you might find it. In a couple of weeks you
will get flowers and you will get beans and fruit
flowers around.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Yeah, okay, bloody beans.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Have a go at potage and you'll find it will
come right. Yeah, sulfate of potash.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Throw that around the roots.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
You follow, you do it basically, you put it. You
can make that around the yes, around the roots of
the plant, water and well in and you get the
potation into the soil.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Oh yeah, all right, okay, Yeah, I've been a bit worried.
Oh I'll pull them out a nart.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
No, don't pull them out, give them an extra chance.
You can do it. I reckon, you can do it. Boy.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
They are really good. Like you know, I've been had
the prop them up through the one and all that
sort of stuff would be getting.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Yeah, that happens sometimes. No, you can do it off
you go.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Colin, you take care of now. I love this text
after your visit. A couple of weeks ago. Uh, my
daughter in Cromwell saw a red backed spider on her
exterior spouting yesterday she took a video. Is there something
they should do about from barb Well. No, generally you
go outside of a little container, put it on the
shot team mates.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
That's right, I take it with me, do a whole
lot of school kids and they love it. They have
a look at it. Oh, it's beautiful and it is gorgeous.
And here's the irony of it is Cromwell is exactly
the place where they are extremely common, especially this for
the locals near the bridge to Bennetburth Rise. I've only
(07:19):
had three hundred on my desk last autumn.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
So question, have you even been bitten by one of
these ferocious red back spiders?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
They're not froze, she stayed, bite when you do the
wrong thing. Yes, I've been bitten three times. Right the
first time? What isn't painful the first time? No problem?
I know you can ask for a f first time.
No problem, was hardly any end venomation if you like.
Right the second time, was a bit more in venomation,
thought oh, that's not good. And the third time I
(07:52):
was in Dneedin with a whole lot of kids and
I was showing it in the little rother. She gave
me a real envenomation that hurt like hell. I had
to fly back to Auckland that evening and the next
day I had to fly to Cairns and I thought, well,
that'll be good because it thinks they've got lots of
empty vame there and two weeks of yeah, it was
(08:13):
quite painful to right, and I did my filming there
and I came back and it slowly went away. So
I'm a bit more careful.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Okay, So again, you know, while we just best not
to antagonize them, no get but.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
No, don't muck around with them too much. That's why
my general rule I would say, yeah, good ideas.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
For most things. I think, good morning to you.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Were good morning.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
My PX level of mass is up around eight eight,
and I obviously got to produce it for my tomatoes.
I mean, we're just the best way rude to reduce
my p X.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
And Mabaska, oh well you use so eight is a
very acid and not acidic. It's it's the other side.
You need a bit more acid. If you like soil acid,
that will do that for you. So what can you use?
Speaker 5 (09:09):
Like?
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Say lime? No, not lime? Is lime? No, it's not lime.
It's the other one. It's the other one. It's not
the lime, it's the other I forget. I forget all
the time what it is. So it's a sulfur, I suppose. Yeah, sulfur. Yeah,
put some self on it, so change it a little bit.
(09:30):
Yeah yeah. If you're eight, eight is a bit too high.
I would go down to six and a half seven
if you if I were, What are you growing?
Speaker 5 (09:37):
I just have tomatoes, cheeks, chili the yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Lowered the pH by sulfur.
Oh hang on, Pete Moss among himself, eate, there you go.
There's another one, Amoer himself. Yeah, that's another one. Have
a go with that. Good on you go.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Well you take care of interesting ticks as well. There
are lots of red backs in Cromwell. I own a
pis control business. I really don't like killing these amazing
little creatures. Love the show from Steve. There you go.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
I totally agree with him. I don't either. And there's
a story about these things, because these, of course are
the Australian red Backs, and we believe that they came
into New Zealand, especially in Central Otago with the Chinese
people that came to go to the mines do the
mining there, and they in their gear that they took
with them from Australia, there were some red backs and
(10:36):
away we went.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
How amazing? Yeah, good, fantastic, Right, I think we should
take a break. We'll do that. Keep lock happy. It
is eight forty six and new talks they'd be and
(11:03):
let's race in to it. Susan, good morning, good morning, hello.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
Just a question, two very quick questions for rude. First
one is where do we get medics?
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Three?
Speaker 2 (11:16):
From let's emails this week about it as well.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Yeah, yeah, we set up, we set it up, all right.
Medics is available from a couple of different areas. Let
me have a look here we go. I've got just
have the ipen to have it here, and you can
get it from some of these places, like where you
(11:42):
can get your your what do you call it, proper materials?
What do you call it? Insecticides? From that you can
get from a little bit I've forgotten what they called
actually I haven't got it on this particular thing. And
let me have a look. No, I haven't, I haven't,
I haven't, I haven't. I haven't gone wrong one you
(12:06):
get right since and places like that, you know what
I mean. Okay, yep, thank you, right, that sort of
thing you're go on.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
Second question is we've got a nickterine, a pitch tree.
The leaf is starting to curl on it. We did
spray it, but we've still got that awful curl coming
on the leaves.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Now, yeah, that was something that needed to be done
by the time the leaves are falling off in autumn time.
So when your leaves are starting to fall because it's
getting winter, that's when you give it a double dose
of copper and do that maybe twice a week or
two apart, and that basically stops those new leaves that
(12:50):
are being formed for it right now, coming out right
now to not have that curling effect. And what you
can do, what you can do now is you can
use not copper. You don't use copper now because you
actually can damage the new leaves too with copper. That
is what the problem is with these with these plants.
But you can have just a general what do you
(13:12):
call it fungal spray, but not copper.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
Okay, and how often would we put the fung will
spray on?
Speaker 3 (13:21):
I will do it now and do it again in
two weeks time after that. Just gentle, don't go over
the top. But not copper because copper will damage your
your your leaves at the moment, especially.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
Of those things, and not the going to pick the fruit.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
No, no, no, no no no, You'll be fine.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
Okay, good luck, so.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Bye, take care bye and Marie, good morning.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
Good morning. How are you guys?
Speaker 3 (13:48):
We're good, thank you, good good good.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
I have a chili plant and that the greenhouse and
the chilies have grown, the grown red. But they don't
have any hate in them.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Some varieties I like that. You can get them. You
can get them, burn your bum off to absolutely nothing there.
But they have got a little bit of taste. But
it's not it's actually basically something that kids might like,
you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
The funny thing is that there because this is probably
a couple of years old. The previous year, they were
quite hot. The same seeds, yeah, the same plant.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
That that's unusual. I wouldn't think that that would be
a different that shouldn't be a different taste after those years,
not that I know.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
Yeah. So, yeah, so they taste like a capsicum.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Yeah, yeah, that's basically they're related, of course.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
Yeah, hmmm, yes, So I just thought maybe I need.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
To feed it with something or no, I don't think so.
Oh no, I don't think so. It's basically inherent in
the in the plant. If you get a really hot variety,
then you'll get that. But why don't you get a
different one from the shop and see if you can
use that. Give that a go. You know that there
are very there are many different varieties of of of
(15:16):
chili chili varieties if you like, and I would, I
would go and go for the hot one if that's
what you want.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
The other thing is that they did grow quite long,
but now they're quite sort of shortened study and they
just they go from growing to read.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Yeah, well that's what they would should do, I suppose,
but I'm wondering why that is would they be doing old?
Are you sure you got the same batch?
Speaker 5 (15:43):
Yes, I'm pretty sure it's the same. It's sort of
pot sorry, and it's quite whole, just you know. So
I just thought I'll run up by you and say
what you're doing.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Yeah, no, I find that strange because you can keep
them for a couple of years, but you know after
that they should still be the same. If you like
agreed creature is on the label, you know.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
Yes, Well, to be fair, these were seeds that I
had kept from a supermarket chili that i'd brought. And
there's probably about three different seeds in the pot. So
it's quite a volumptuous plant. And it's got lots and
lots of flowers on it, and it looks really healthy.
(16:32):
And I was really excited because I like the heat.
And when I tried some it was very time and I.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Thought, have you have you tried covering it with cayenne pepper?
Speaker 5 (16:48):
That would work?
Speaker 3 (16:51):
You got it?
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Just Maria quick text on this. Don't know if it's
applicable to chili's, but with reddishes, the same variety will
be hotter if the conditions are drier.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Oh yeah, it's quite a.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Different something to throw into the mix. Marie, thanks very
much for the call in roud to someone else's text
through I purchased madd X from Farmlands, so that's helpful, wonderful, wonderful.
Thank you. Rude as always it's us. Well yeah, no
(17:27):
nephew traveling with my brother. Ah crikey. Anyway, right he
have a great day, have a great week, all the best.
Take care and folks, thanks very much. I've got some
homework to do, so there was a couple of things
that came up on the show today. I promise you
I'll get some information on that and I'll talk to
you about it next week. Take care.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
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