July 11, 2026 • 20 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp
from News Talks at be.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Your News Talks add climb past with us. I've had
weather updates from around the country. Root, what's it like
in right now?
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Minus three minus three? Yeah, that was when I was
driving via from Lincoln to here, and it was bloody cold,
and it was beautiful and white, and there's this gorgeous moon,
this beautifully tiny moon that's just going through the empty
moon face. Oh, it was gorgeous. No, it's beautiful. But
(00:41):
the birds were all flying trying to get themselves warm again.
You know, they are fantastic. They didn't have to open
their doors either, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
And look in terms of you know, the cycle of
the seasons and that sort of thing, these frosts in
the garden, they has an important role to play as well.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Yes it does, Yes it does. And because you know,
our house is slightly higher up at one hundred feeties
above sea level, we're kind of lucky. But I think
this was the time when some of the sensitive plants
are getting a bit of a whoopie daisy from the frost.
You know, woooo, got to be careful.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
So this is where if you're trying to grow something
that's maybe a little bit frost sensitive, this is where
you're trying to a cover over it and so on.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
And that's when gardeners should really be aware of the
fact that this could happen, like tonight or last night.
This last night, we could see this coming actually, and
it might go again tomorrow. I think I haven't seen
the full forecast yet, but that's what you can do.
Just a little bit of thing over the top and
you will just literally go to minus two and everybody
will be happy. Though.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Yeah, but I mean, look, it's well today from what
I can see, it's going to be a stunning day.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
It's a beautiful blue day here.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Off to the markets, are you. Norway's playing England and
I'm still going to the market, so I find that amazing. Anyway,
it'll be of a game right here. Let's get onto it.
If you've got a question for it, you should call
us right now. We've got a spare lines of plenty
oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number
to call. I laughed myself, silly. I was listening to
(02:16):
you with Francisca on Friday on Matadiki day talking about
Fijars and giving them a bit of a haircut.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
So I had a Fijar that was a well, I
was standing on a plank that was at one point
eight meters and it was as tall as me. So
we're getting up to sort of three point five meters, right,
It's not three point five meters anymore. I can tell
you that.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
No, No, honestly you can. That's the nice thing about
Fijo is you can literally trunk trim them anywhere you like,
and you can go to two meters if you want,
you know, and make that a total hede, or you
can go to whatever you want to go lower down
to about a meter meter and a half. Yeah, not
a problem for these things.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Well, I trust it's not gonna be a problem, because
I ended up filling one trailer load, rushing on, tipping
that as green waist, and then coming back and loading
up another trailer loader and most of it came from
the FEEDJA just one tree by the way.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
And exactly. And what you can do now two peet
is very simple. If it gets a bit, if it
gets a bit less cold, if you give those roots
a little bit of liquid fertilizer, Honestly, they don't mind
that because they'll go.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yeah, all right, I'll do that next someone back there.
Amount of the lawns fantastic, Right, let's get amongst it. John,
good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Yeah, how's it going well?
Speaker 3 (03:38):
John?
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Thank you. I've got a little problem I've got. I
think I've got my roses are dying and a rose
bead and I've wrapped them out, put new ones and there.
It really upset too. I think I've got googling it.
I think I've got nematoads in the soil. But how
do I correct there?
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Oh? What makes you think it's nematodes?
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Well, just google it. It looks like that's replacing roses
and then and they pick up as well. So what
I saw was it's a soil thing.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Could be Have you ever had anything like that before?
Speaker 4 (04:23):
No?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Okay, it could be a root root disease for instance.
It doesn't have to be nematodes. But you know, I mean,
but the nematodes are tiny things. They're ty, you know,
the tiniest little crawlers if you like, long thin crawlers
if you like. But you're very difficult to find sometimes.
But have a look, have a look at the at
the at this therap you know, scrape a little bit
(04:47):
of your roses, if you like, the stems and the
roots down there to see if you can find those things,
and then you might be able to do something about it.
But it could be anything.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Okay, I didn't realize that you could see them with
naked eye.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Yeah they're tiny really, but you can see it, especially
if you've got some really good eyesight, like eye have
with glasses.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Glasses.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Yeah, get some extras to clouds. So if it's not nematodes,
that could be like for paper or something like that.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Oh, that's a different gig again, because you can tell
that fight after that type stuff when when the plant
itself is literally going very quickly and it goes above
the ground as.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Well as really slow. They just slowly pick up.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Slowly and and the only the only problem you have,
no is that if you put if it is for instance,
fight after or you know that sort of stuff, if
you put another rose there, you will get it back again. Yeah, okay,
that's that is that is the problem.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
So so what should I do?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Plant something totally different?
Speaker 4 (05:50):
It's a rose, it's a rose bead.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
The roses can't see that that's their bed. You can
plant other things there.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Yeah, yeah, but it's like it's an yeah, whole limp
for roses in the front of the house.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
So it's gonna look a bit weird if I put
something completely different than there.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Look, I reckon if you go to a local your
local garden center, and you can tell them that your
roses might not be happy, can you do something that
is not that's susceptible to the diseases? If you like,
what else can you use that flowers? You know, from
spring onwards, and you can do your Honestly, you can
make something quite different, and I think that might that
(06:33):
might be the way to do it.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Thank thank you very much. Ye I'll try that.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Take care and Nicole, good morning to you.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Good morning. How are we on the frosty morning?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
I thought it was wonderful to wake up to this.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
Oh it was gorgeous, I must admit. I agree. Hey, rude,
I've got a question regarding a tackabac tree that I
was gifted in a large pot. And when I say
a large pot, it's probably half a meter across, and
it was looking a little bit sort of droopy. So
I watered it and didn't make it wet, and then
(07:13):
about two weeks later all the leaves just fell off.
I'm like, I don't know what it's doing, but it
looks really sad and I'm hoping I can savor it.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Have you got it in sunlight?
Speaker 5 (07:26):
It is in indirect sunlight. It's in the pot that
I've been moving in and out with the weather, so
it didn't get hammered by the wind, and it's in
gets the early morning sunlight.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
But that's all I think. The fact that, well, you
know what the cleverest thing is that you've done is
you put it in a big pot, because that means
you can actually muck around with its position.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
So if I say, you know that Kackabek does like
it in some sunny conditions, see if you can do that.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
Now.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
The problem, of course is it's mid winter and Krkobek
might think not now. We might come back in a
couple of months time and everything will be fine. But
it is just one of those ways to try it out.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
Yeah, okay, what's dr Gogle? I was looking at whether
it was possibly root rot, so I was looking should
I repot it? It didn't get wet would be potting
help have you heard.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Of have you have you heard of root rot? Root
rot in cacabek? I don't know. Let me ever look
water in water? No, maybe, but I don't think it's
a heavy it's a heavy topic for for that cacabek.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
Right, Okay, Well, if I repot it would any further?
Do you think?
Speaker 1 (08:45):
No?
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Because you can do that too. What what did you
put in the pot before you when you when you
planted it for the first time.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
It's just in the straight free draining mix.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Well, I don't see if anything.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
It's a dryer mix. And then it doesn't get soggy.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
No, but it will get wet when it rains, so
of course doesn't it. That's what it should be. I
don't think that that should be your problem, to be
quite honest, I would not say that that's your problem.
I think you try it a little bit more more
light and a little bit more a bit more not now, No,
that would be a waste of time in some ways,
(09:20):
because you can give it a little bit of liquid
fertilizer as you water it, you know what I mean,
something like something like seaweed tea or seafood soup. Or
something like that. Mix it into a nice you know,
literally a liquid fertilizer. That's that's good, but that would
be more important later on when it becomes Yeah, I'm
sure you could do that, yes, but plus it place
(09:44):
it into a warmer place with.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
Warm and packet and basically you got it all this morning, so.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
We all have.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
It's great, it's beautiful, thanks very much to cold. Appreciate that.
That reminds me too. I've got to send you a
photo of me, Ficus. That's a little leaves gone black feeling.
I'll send you the photo in a minute. Brian, good
morning to you.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Yeah, good morning. How are you?
Speaker 3 (10:13):
We're good, my friend.
Speaker 6 (10:15):
I've got two black Boy pictures. One of them are
and the fruit goes fru rot, got fru rot and
I've been frian of with them. Brother also cannot sprat
with Do.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
You think you've got root rot in black Boy peaches? Yeah, yeah,
it could be, it could be. I've never had it.
I've got a couple of them and and they are what.
I love them, mate, Gosh, I love them. Yes, they do,
they do have They could could have fight after and
that sort of thing. If you have a very badly
(10:53):
draining soil.
Speaker 6 (10:56):
Well, we're on, we're on prep the hemel.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Yeah, pea pete is sometimes susceptible to too much, Yeah,
doesn't it. Yeah then you yes, you might be right
in that case, and I think it would be Can
you put it in a different place or no, don't
prout any fight after material on the same spot, of course,
(11:21):
So forget about that now. If it is fight after,
or see if you can take a piece of that
with you to your local gun center to see if
they can identify this fight after, then you surely know
what it is, you know.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
Yes, that's the fruit, and that has a rotten or
as it ripens and it gets worse and worse.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Yeah, that doesn't sound too great. Yeah, that's one of
the rots anyway. And it might not be fight aftra,
but it might be another rod. Tried it in a
different place, because if it's too wet, I think you
might be weighing into the wind as we say, Yes, yes,
they can be.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
Yeah, So I I've got what the name nectar rain
tree you all been ground from, and I've got the
spearful nectarine tree, and then I have not come with
it at all. Fairly, now, spray that with cop I
(12:24):
give that a cup of spray.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Fair enough, and it might it might be more resistant
a nectarine. Aye, you realize that.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
All the very best to Brin and good luck with that.
Just before the break, quick text, why are my camelia
leaves turning a bronze color?
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Oh gosh, there could be all sorts of different things.
That's really hard to tell, Uh, camellia, I don't know.
I don't know. I don't know. We haven't had that problem.
I've never really had that problem. I have to ask
you if I'm quite sure we haven't. I have no
idea what that would be. That's that that would be
(13:03):
too much. Guesswork a fair enough to take a break.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
We'll come back with Theresa after the break.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Yeah, before we go to it, before we go to
new a new caller. I had a look at the
camellia and the bronze colors of the leaves, and it
is a bit like that. It's it could be all
sorts of different things. It could be all sorts of colors,
of course as well. And it depends entirely on whether
(13:37):
you're in the cold or in the wet to or
blah blah blah, blah blah, crisp scorchy brown leaves indicates
direct sunlight or not enough sunlight, et cetera, et cetera.
So it's always a bit of a trick. So that's
number one, and number two is the one of the
cacabek people say, the caabase. You see that there is
flower full of flowering, but also it's it's a thing
(13:59):
that can be high maintenance depending on where you are.
Spectrum of more DearS, dust, and plenty of blitz him.
That's one other call it right in the text. I
think these are really good suggestions because we've got one
and we never have any problems with it. It's crazy.
Depends entirely on these things.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
A question about the pruning. So I was listening to
you talk about the Fijos with Francisca on Friday, and
like I said, I did some last week as well.
So where we pruned it a couple of years ago,
let's say at one point six meters above the ground,
A big branch fifty millimeters in diameter gets cut off.
(14:38):
And so now what you've got is like ten little
new leaders that have come off that. So I've cut
them down to almost that height again. If you were pruning,
would you take off that bulb and get rid of
all of that new growth? Again, you don't a weird
little no.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
That new growth growth will become new flowers and new fruit, right,
So that's the point. It becomes denser, and it's quite
cool actually because you can keep them like that and
you'll have plenty of figios.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Yeah, it's a prolific fruiter I think is in there exactly. Yeah,
everything else in the cards looking great as well. Right here, Teresa,
good morning to you all.
Speaker 7 (15:17):
Hi, good morning. It's for ruder question. It's about a
lemon tree.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Now.
Speaker 7 (15:23):
We've been away on holiday for a few weeks and
when we came back, I noticed it's only about five
lemon trees, lemon and lime in the orchard. One of
the trees has lost most of its leaves, it's not
bearing fruit, it's looking very brown. And yet today I
went up very closely and had a look at the
(15:43):
branches of the lemon tree and what I noticed was
there was like a very like a prominent red orange
powdery covering. You can scrape it off of your fingernail.
It's covered all the branches. And I'm wondering if that
isn't maybe the problem because it's lost all it leave.
(16:04):
It almost looks like it's busy dying.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Oh my goodness, it's a bit like a suiting molder.
I think one of those diseases, you know, the fungal diseases.
Could that have been it?
Speaker 6 (16:15):
Sorry?
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Could it be a fungal disease you know that you got?
Speaker 7 (16:20):
Well, I'm thinking maybe a fungal disease. I'm not very
good at plants or trees, but it's got like a
quite a distinct red brown covering on all the branches.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Have a go. This is your last chance. You tell
you tell your tree, because it could be it could
be final if you like for it. But get some
fertilized some not fertilized, but some fungal stuff to spray
on it and see if you can get rid of
that and at least control it. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (16:48):
If that which one is that a copper one liquid.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Copper, copper and sulfur together, or a real proper heavy
duty fungal mixture. Go to your local garden center. They'll
know exactly what what about?
Speaker 7 (17:01):
What about Maverick would do it?
Speaker 3 (17:04):
No, that's a that's a pesticide. That's a diff thing.
Speaker 7 (17:09):
And get something very strong and you say mixture of
liquid copper and sulfa.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
You can do that sulfur and yeah, or a normal
normal fungicide as well. You know you don't have to
always call organic.
Speaker 7 (17:22):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Besides, for copper, is anything stronger
than copper?
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Oh? There there are. There are materials that are stronger
than these things. Yes, go to your gun center. They'll
know what is best in your area.
Speaker 7 (17:37):
Sorry, Ruder, Just one more quick question. A few times
you've mentioned certain things. Some spray that you buy that
I use on airplanes to get rid of certain things.
And what's the name of that spray.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
It's an It's a material called permethrin. But the only
place where you can get that particular stuff is in
a company called safe Works. Safe Works ends with an
X safe Work.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
What's the name of the product.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
It's permethrin. Everybody in safe Works will.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Know we'll come and get some spray. They'll know exactly
which one of them, you know, which one of it is. Oh,
that's brilliant. All the busy trees. I thank you, Hey Ross, good.
Speaker 7 (18:18):
Morning, Rude Whens.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
The be time to pune roses.
Speaker 7 (18:23):
Normally the second week in July, but my.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
Roses have still got heaps of flowers are and they're
not showing any signs of coming to the end of
the season.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
I would say the whole winter. You can do it
whenever you like. If they've just flowers that you like,
do it in August or September, that sort of stuff.
September is getting a bit late. But July, June, July, August,
that sort of thing.
Speaker 6 (18:46):
You can get yourself used to do the normally do
them the second weekend of July, and rose gardens do it.
Everyone else should be doing it.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Yeah, that's exactly. That sounds like that, That sounds like
the Auckland group. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
But it also gets thanks for that Ross. It gets
a sense that, you know, all of these sort of
markers that we had in terms of you know, now's
a really good time to paint outside. Now is a
really good time to prune. It's it's all kind of shifting,
isn't it.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
It is shifting, And it's also it's also usually longer
and wider than you think, right, you know, And it
depends on what your climate yours microclimate is. All these
things are important, But when you're talking about roses man.
You can literally put it under your your lawnmower and
that's how you prune it as well. Boom right.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
I never had much success with with the old rosers.
I think I think the feature is going to do
all right. And thank you for your advice around using
a wire to try and disrupting whatever had been growing
inside the lemon tree, because I've kept an idea on
the on the the the borer or the material that
(19:53):
they might have excavated from inside my tree, and it
seems to have diminished.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Yes, that's what it's the way to go, though you'll
have to do it maybe another time.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
We have another crack, don't you worry, spring mate. Enjoy
the beautiful weather, enjoy the frost. Yeah, talk to you
as always, right, Yes, yes, indeed. Ah at the upset
of my good English friends, I put up the Norwegian flag.
It's going to be a cracker of a game. Enjoy, folks.
See you next Sunday.
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
Your News Talks add climb past with us. I've had
weather updates from around the country. Root, what's it like
in right now?
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Minus three minus three? Yeah, that was when I was
driving via from Lincoln to here, and it was bloody cold,
and it was beautiful and white, and there's this gorgeous moon,
this beautifully tiny moon that's just going through the empty
moon face. Oh, it was gorgeous. No, it's beautiful. But
(00:41):
the birds were all flying trying to get themselves warm again.
You know, they are fantastic. They didn't have to open
their doors either, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
And look in terms of you know, the cycle of
the seasons and that sort of thing, these frosts in
the garden, they has an important role to play as well.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Yes it does, Yes it does. And because you know,
our house is slightly higher up at one hundred feeties
above sea level, we're kind of lucky. But I think
this was the time when some of the sensitive plants
are getting a bit of a whoopie daisy from the frost.
You know, woooo, got to be careful.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
So this is where if you're trying to grow something
that's maybe a little bit frost sensitive, this is where
you're trying to a cover over it and so on.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
And that's when gardeners should really be aware of the
fact that this could happen, like tonight or last night.
This last night, we could see this coming actually, and
it might go again tomorrow. I think I haven't seen
the full forecast yet, but that's what you can do.
Just a little bit of thing over the top and
you will just literally go to minus two and everybody
will be happy. Though.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Yeah, but I mean, look, it's well today from what
I can see, it's going to be a stunning day.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
It's a beautiful blue day here.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Off to the markets, are you. Norway's playing England and
I'm still going to the market, so I find that amazing. Anyway,
it'll be of a game right here. Let's get onto it.
If you've got a question for it, you should call
us right now. We've got a spare lines of plenty
oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number
to call. I laughed myself, silly. I was listening to
(02:16):
you with Francisca on Friday on Matadiki day talking about
Fijars and giving them a bit of a haircut.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
So I had a Fijar that was a well, I
was standing on a plank that was at one point
eight meters and it was as tall as me. So
we're getting up to sort of three point five meters, right,
It's not three point five meters anymore. I can tell
you that.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
No, No, honestly you can. That's the nice thing about
Fijo is you can literally trunk trim them anywhere you like,
and you can go to two meters if you want,
you know, and make that a total hede, or you
can go to whatever you want to go lower down
to about a meter meter and a half. Yeah, not
a problem for these things.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Well, I trust it's not gonna be a problem, because
I ended up filling one trailer load, rushing on, tipping
that as green waist, and then coming back and loading
up another trailer loader and most of it came from
the FEEDJA just one tree by the way.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
And exactly. And what you can do now two peet
is very simple. If it gets a bit, if it
gets a bit less cold, if you give those roots
a little bit of liquid fertilizer, Honestly, they don't mind
that because they'll go.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yeah, all right, I'll do that next someone back there.
Amount of the lawns fantastic, Right, let's get amongst it. John,
good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Yeah, how's it going well?
Speaker 3 (03:38):
John?
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Thank you. I've got a little problem I've got. I
think I've got my roses are dying and a rose
bead and I've wrapped them out, put new ones and there.
It really upset too. I think I've got googling it.
I think I've got nematoads in the soil. But how
do I correct there?
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Oh? What makes you think it's nematodes?
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Well, just google it. It looks like that's replacing roses
and then and they pick up as well. So what
I saw was it's a soil thing.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Could be Have you ever had anything like that before?
Speaker 4 (04:23):
No?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Okay, it could be a root root disease for instance.
It doesn't have to be nematodes. But you know, I mean,
but the nematodes are tiny things. They're ty, you know,
the tiniest little crawlers if you like, long thin crawlers
if you like. But you're very difficult to find sometimes.
But have a look, have a look at the at
the at this therap you know, scrape a little bit
(04:47):
of your roses, if you like, the stems and the
roots down there to see if you can find those things,
and then you might be able to do something about it.
But it could be anything.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Okay, I didn't realize that you could see them with
naked eye.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Yeah they're tiny really, but you can see it, especially
if you've got some really good eyesight, like eye have
with glasses.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Glasses.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Yeah, get some extras to clouds. So if it's not nematodes,
that could be like for paper or something like that.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Oh, that's a different gig again, because you can tell
that fight after that type stuff when when the plant
itself is literally going very quickly and it goes above
the ground as.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Well as really slow. They just slowly pick up.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Slowly and and the only the only problem you have,
no is that if you put if it is for instance,
fight after or you know that sort of stuff, if
you put another rose there, you will get it back again. Yeah, okay,
that's that is that is the problem.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
So so what should I do?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Plant something totally different?
Speaker 4 (05:50):
It's a rose, it's a rose bead.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
The roses can't see that that's their bed. You can
plant other things there.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Yeah, yeah, but it's like it's an yeah, whole limp
for roses in the front of the house.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
So it's gonna look a bit weird if I put
something completely different than there.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Look, I reckon if you go to a local your
local garden center, and you can tell them that your
roses might not be happy, can you do something that
is not that's susceptible to the diseases? If you like,
what else can you use that flowers? You know, from
spring onwards, and you can do your Honestly, you can
make something quite different, and I think that might that
(06:33):
might be the way to do it.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Thank thank you very much. Ye I'll try that.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Take care and Nicole, good morning to you.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Good morning. How are we on the frosty morning?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
I thought it was wonderful to wake up to this.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
Oh it was gorgeous, I must admit. I agree. Hey, rude,
I've got a question regarding a tackabac tree that I
was gifted in a large pot. And when I say
a large pot, it's probably half a meter across, and
it was looking a little bit sort of droopy. So
I watered it and didn't make it wet, and then
(07:13):
about two weeks later all the leaves just fell off.
I'm like, I don't know what it's doing, but it
looks really sad and I'm hoping I can savor it.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Have you got it in sunlight?
Speaker 5 (07:26):
It is in indirect sunlight. It's in the pot that
I've been moving in and out with the weather, so
it didn't get hammered by the wind, and it's in
gets the early morning sunlight.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
But that's all I think. The fact that, well, you
know what the cleverest thing is that you've done is
you put it in a big pot, because that means
you can actually muck around with its position.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
So if I say, you know that Kackabek does like
it in some sunny conditions, see if you can do that.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
Now.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
The problem, of course is it's mid winter and Krkobek
might think not now. We might come back in a
couple of months time and everything will be fine. But
it is just one of those ways to try it out.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
Yeah, okay, what's dr Gogle? I was looking at whether
it was possibly root rot, so I was looking should
I repot it? It didn't get wet would be potting
help have you heard.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Of have you have you heard of root rot? Root
rot in cacabek? I don't know. Let me ever look
water in water? No, maybe, but I don't think it's
a heavy it's a heavy topic for for that cacabek.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
Right, Okay, Well, if I repot it would any further?
Do you think?
Speaker 1 (08:45):
No?
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Because you can do that too. What what did you
put in the pot before you when you when you
planted it for the first time.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
It's just in the straight free draining mix.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Well, I don't see if anything.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
It's a dryer mix. And then it doesn't get soggy.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
No, but it will get wet when it rains, so
of course doesn't it. That's what it should be. I
don't think that that should be your problem, to be
quite honest, I would not say that that's your problem.
I think you try it a little bit more more
light and a little bit more a bit more not now, No,
that would be a waste of time in some ways,
(09:20):
because you can give it a little bit of liquid
fertilizer as you water it, you know what I mean,
something like something like seaweed tea or seafood soup. Or
something like that. Mix it into a nice you know,
literally a liquid fertilizer. That's that's good, but that would
be more important later on when it becomes Yeah, I'm
sure you could do that, yes, but plus it place
(09:44):
it into a warmer place with.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
Warm and packet and basically you got it all this morning, so.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
We all have.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
It's great, it's beautiful, thanks very much to cold. Appreciate that.
That reminds me too. I've got to send you a
photo of me, Ficus. That's a little leaves gone black feeling.
I'll send you the photo in a minute. Brian, good
morning to you.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Yeah, good morning. How are you?
Speaker 3 (10:13):
We're good, my friend.
Speaker 6 (10:15):
I've got two black Boy pictures. One of them are
and the fruit goes fru rot, got fru rot and
I've been frian of with them. Brother also cannot sprat
with Do.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
You think you've got root rot in black Boy peaches? Yeah, yeah,
it could be, it could be. I've never had it.
I've got a couple of them and and they are what.
I love them, mate, Gosh, I love them. Yes, they do,
they do have They could could have fight after and
that sort of thing. If you have a very badly
(10:53):
draining soil.
Speaker 6 (10:56):
Well, we're on, we're on prep the hemel.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Yeah, pea pete is sometimes susceptible to too much, Yeah,
doesn't it. Yeah then you yes, you might be right
in that case, and I think it would be Can
you put it in a different place or no, don't
prout any fight after material on the same spot, of course,
(11:21):
So forget about that now. If it is fight after,
or see if you can take a piece of that
with you to your local gun center to see if
they can identify this fight after, then you surely know
what it is, you know.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
Yes, that's the fruit, and that has a rotten or
as it ripens and it gets worse and worse.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Yeah, that doesn't sound too great. Yeah, that's one of
the rots anyway. And it might not be fight aftra,
but it might be another rod. Tried it in a
different place, because if it's too wet, I think you
might be weighing into the wind as we say, Yes, yes,
they can be.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
Yeah, So I I've got what the name nectar rain
tree you all been ground from, and I've got the
spearful nectarine tree, and then I have not come with
it at all. Fairly, now, spray that with cop I
(12:24):
give that a cup of spray.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Fair enough, and it might it might be more resistant
a nectarine. Aye, you realize that.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
All the very best to Brin and good luck with that.
Just before the break, quick text, why are my camelia
leaves turning a bronze color?
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Oh gosh, there could be all sorts of different things.
That's really hard to tell, Uh, camellia, I don't know.
I don't know. I don't know. We haven't had that problem.
I've never really had that problem. I have to ask
you if I'm quite sure we haven't. I have no
idea what that would be. That's that that would be
(13:03):
too much. Guesswork a fair enough to take a break.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
We'll come back with Theresa after the break.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Yeah, before we go to it, before we go to
new a new caller. I had a look at the
camellia and the bronze colors of the leaves, and it
is a bit like that. It's it could be all
sorts of different things. It could be all sorts of colors,
of course as well. And it depends entirely on whether
(13:37):
you're in the cold or in the wet to or
blah blah blah, blah blah, crisp scorchy brown leaves indicates
direct sunlight or not enough sunlight, et cetera, et cetera.
So it's always a bit of a trick. So that's
number one, and number two is the one of the
cacabek people say, the caabase. You see that there is
flower full of flowering, but also it's it's a thing
(13:59):
that can be high maintenance depending on where you are.
Spectrum of more DearS, dust, and plenty of blitz him.
That's one other call it right in the text. I
think these are really good suggestions because we've got one
and we never have any problems with it. It's crazy.
Depends entirely on these things.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
A question about the pruning. So I was listening to
you talk about the Fijos with Francisca on Friday, and
like I said, I did some last week as well.
So where we pruned it a couple of years ago,
let's say at one point six meters above the ground,
A big branch fifty millimeters in diameter gets cut off.
(14:38):
And so now what you've got is like ten little
new leaders that have come off that. So I've cut
them down to almost that height again. If you were pruning,
would you take off that bulb and get rid of
all of that new growth? Again, you don't a weird
little no.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
That new growth growth will become new flowers and new fruit, right,
So that's the point. It becomes denser, and it's quite
cool actually because you can keep them like that and
you'll have plenty of figios.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Yeah, it's a prolific fruiter I think is in there exactly. Yeah,
everything else in the cards looking great as well. Right here, Teresa,
good morning to you all.
Speaker 7 (15:17):
Hi, good morning. It's for ruder question. It's about a
lemon tree.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Now.
Speaker 7 (15:23):
We've been away on holiday for a few weeks and
when we came back, I noticed it's only about five
lemon trees, lemon and lime in the orchard. One of
the trees has lost most of its leaves, it's not
bearing fruit, it's looking very brown. And yet today I
went up very closely and had a look at the
(15:43):
branches of the lemon tree and what I noticed was
there was like a very like a prominent red orange
powdery covering. You can scrape it off of your fingernail.
It's covered all the branches. And I'm wondering if that
isn't maybe the problem because it's lost all it leave.
(16:04):
It almost looks like it's busy dying.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Oh my goodness, it's a bit like a suiting molder.
I think one of those diseases, you know, the fungal diseases.
Could that have been it?
Speaker 6 (16:15):
Sorry?
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Could it be a fungal disease you know that you got?
Speaker 7 (16:20):
Well, I'm thinking maybe a fungal disease. I'm not very
good at plants or trees, but it's got like a
quite a distinct red brown covering on all the branches.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Have a go. This is your last chance. You tell
you tell your tree, because it could be it could
be final if you like for it. But get some
fertilized some not fertilized, but some fungal stuff to spray
on it and see if you can get rid of
that and at least control it. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (16:48):
If that which one is that a copper one liquid.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Copper, copper and sulfur together, or a real proper heavy
duty fungal mixture. Go to your local garden center. They'll
know exactly what what about?
Speaker 7 (17:01):
What about Maverick would do it?
Speaker 3 (17:04):
No, that's a that's a pesticide. That's a diff thing.
Speaker 7 (17:09):
And get something very strong and you say mixture of
liquid copper and sulfa.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
You can do that sulfur and yeah, or a normal
normal fungicide as well. You know you don't have to
always call organic.
Speaker 7 (17:22):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Besides, for copper, is anything stronger
than copper?
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Oh? There there are. There are materials that are stronger
than these things. Yes, go to your gun center. They'll
know what is best in your area.
Speaker 7 (17:37):
Sorry, Ruder, Just one more quick question. A few times
you've mentioned certain things. Some spray that you buy that
I use on airplanes to get rid of certain things.
And what's the name of that spray.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
It's an It's a material called permethrin. But the only
place where you can get that particular stuff is in
a company called safe Works. Safe Works ends with an
X safe Work.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
What's the name of the product.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
It's permethrin. Everybody in safe Works will.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Know we'll come and get some spray. They'll know exactly
which one of them, you know, which one of it is. Oh,
that's brilliant. All the busy trees. I thank you, Hey Ross, good.
Speaker 7 (18:18):
Morning, Rude Whens.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
The be time to pune roses.
Speaker 7 (18:23):
Normally the second week in July, but my.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
Roses have still got heaps of flowers are and they're
not showing any signs of coming to the end of
the season.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
I would say the whole winter. You can do it
whenever you like. If they've just flowers that you like,
do it in August or September, that sort of stuff.
September is getting a bit late. But July, June, July, August,
that sort of thing.
Speaker 6 (18:46):
You can get yourself used to do the normally do
them the second weekend of July, and rose gardens do it.
Everyone else should be doing it.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Yeah, that's exactly. That sounds like that, That sounds like
the Auckland group. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
But it also gets thanks for that Ross. It gets
a sense that, you know, all of these sort of
markers that we had in terms of you know, now's
a really good time to paint outside. Now is a
really good time to prune. It's it's all kind of shifting,
isn't it.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
It is shifting, And it's also it's also usually longer
and wider than you think, right, you know, And it
depends on what your climate yours microclimate is. All these
things are important, But when you're talking about roses man.
You can literally put it under your your lawnmower and
that's how you prune it as well. Boom right.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
I never had much success with with the old rosers.
I think I think the feature is going to do
all right. And thank you for your advice around using
a wire to try and disrupting whatever had been growing
inside the lemon tree, because I've kept an idea on
the on the the the borer or the material that
(19:53):
they might have excavated from inside my tree, and it
seems to have diminished.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Yes, that's what it's the way to go, though you'll
have to do it maybe another time.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
We have another crack, don't you worry, spring mate. Enjoy
the beautiful weather, enjoy the frost. Yeah, talk to you
as always, right, Yes, yes, indeed. Ah at the upset
of my good English friends, I put up the Norwegian flag.
It's going to be a cracker of a game. Enjoy, folks.
See you next Sunday.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
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