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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Don't miss Clay and Buck. Monday at twelve oh six
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
Here is your ninth first yarding forecast. Today, rain high
at forty tonight, flurries and cold, low of seventeen on Sunday,
a little bit of snow here and there high have
twenty five degrees cold next week seven five hundred Here
fifty five KRCD Talk Station. Welcome back here in the
garden with Ron Wilson. Is time for a bifurcation of segments.
(00:28):
His time for weather. It's the Weather and in the
Tree starring Ronnie Rothas you know Ronnie, he's our register
consulting arborist. He is an amateur meteorologist. He is an
ISA board certified Master Arborist. He has all those titles
his website arbordoctor dot com. Ladies and gentlemen, mister weather
predictor Extraordinaire ron Rothis. Yes, good morning.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Sir, Good morning.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
How are you good? I know it say as I
said biocharm, my cell phone started binging.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Well, I mean I've I've used it for a number
of years. The research on it is favorable. You know,
one of your guests or not guess one of your
callers made the comment that you know it's it's whenever
you hear something that's going to solve all the world's problems,
to be said, skeptical, skeptical of it. And I agree
with that it's not going to solve all the world's problems.
(01:35):
But there is good research to support its use. Uh,
there there are some issues with it. Uh, you know,
the pH issue could be an issue in some cases,
but if the if the biochart is produced properly and
used properly, it's generally not going to be a major issue.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
A which way, ron acidic or alkaline.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Usually alkaline, Okay, yeah, but I mean if you put
something that's somewhat alkaline and already alkaline soil, it's only
going to bring it up. You know, it's only going
to bring up so far. It's kind of like if
you have a really acidic soil, you put something that
is highly alkaline in there, it's going to bring it
up more than if the soil is already alkaline and
(02:26):
you put something that slightly more alkaline in there. That
makes sense. So if it's produced properly and used properly,
it's not a major issue. The other thing that was
brought up was, you know, do you have to keep
using it, keep using it, and keep using it. Well, one
of your other tollers had made the comment that it's
it's something that kind of stays in the soil, and
(02:48):
it does. It is a five hundred year i think
half life and soil. So you don't have to keep
using it and keep using it and keep using it.
It stays in the soil. And that's one of the
one of the one of the pluses for it is
you put it in the soil and it doesn't just
go away in a few months. And it does, you know,
(03:09):
And I keep saying, you know, if it's properly produced,
because there are a lot of people producing biochar. If
it's not produced properly, it can have an even higher
pH which can become more problematic if it's not charged
with nutrients. Most of the really good biocharted products either
infused with organic nutrients or combined with organic matter. That
(03:35):
can kind of enchiuse the biochart with nutrients because it
can absorb nutrients out of the soil and it becomes
kind of a nutrients sink in the soil, which is
a good thing over time, but if it's not charged
with anything before, it can actually draw nutrients out of
the soil and become a problem. So how it's produced,
(03:57):
how it's put together, the research behind the product is important,
and if you don't cover your basis on those, it
can become problematic. I'm kind of pushing the edges of
my knowledge on the subject. I sent you one research
one resource of the person who I know personally who's
(04:19):
very knowledgeable on the subject. I'm sure you found some others,
but I would encourage you to contact somebody like that
because they would be able to speak more about Mark Mann,
who I sent you the information on. He is very
knowledgeable in the science behind it and all the ways
that it works and everything.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
The biochart that you use, like how large are the particles.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
They're quite small. I mean it's kind of like a
fertilizer type material. So yeah, And I will make the
comment too that someone mentioned that biocharge charcoal, Well, not exactly.
In fact, I just recently saw a research report where
they used both biochar and charcoal, and and they had
(05:11):
several other things that they used, and they were getting
significantly better results with the biochart than with the charcoal.
The charcoal was having some some benefit because there are
some similarities, but it wasn't as effective as the biochar.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
So you can interesting stuff. And of course you've been
using it for quite some time.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
So yeah, so you don't want to go out and
buy brick cats, especially, you don't want to buy cats
are they're pre.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
And don't you don't use the ones out of your
out of your grill.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Yeah, they had the lighter fluid already in them. That's
probably not a good idea. And then you would have
then you would have some real biolutlement essence in your
in your garden.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Literally. Good point talking with Ron Roth is his website
harbordoctor dot com. And I wanted to just to hit
that real quick and we will as a matter of fact,
and we get somebody, it would pick somebody here to
be on and talk about it. Maybe we'll just get
you on the have you come down here sit in
with us as well. I know you don't like doing that, but.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Oh I hate doing that.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Yeah, I know, I know you hate it. All right,
I want to talk first of all, I want to
talk weather, and I want to first look back at
twenty twenty four, and I know you've already seen this,
but came out that is now the warmest year on record. Yeah,
since the previous record was twenty twenty three, but now
(06:32):
twenty twenty four happens to be the Earth's warmest year
on record. Looking at that and looking at just and
we're based on Ohio. Looking at Ohio, how did Ohio
come in based on past records as far as the
warmest years.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Well, I can speak most intelligently on my own location
because I'm a co op observer for the National Weather Service,
and they've kind of combined my records, which our official records.
They go into the National Climate Data Center and they
combined it with historical record. There was a co observer
before me in the same general location, and so on
(07:14):
the thirty year average, my location was four and a
half degrees above normal for the year, which is pretty significant.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
In fact, last year, every month was above normal at
my location. July was actually the coolest months of the
year compared to normal. That the summer was actually cooler
compared to normal than than the other months were. June
was three degrees above normal, July was only a half
degree above normal, and August was nine tenths of a
(07:45):
degree above normal. So the summer months weren't We're still warm,
and they're still warmer than normal, which you know, normal
in my location in July is eighty six degrees is.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Normal based on an average of past temperatures.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
It's a thirty year average, so they take the past,
the temperatures over the past thirty years and the average
of the temperatures over the past thirty years, so it
does change over time. I think every ten years they
kind of update that so you get a so so
you get kind of a difference depending on what the
past thirty years have been like. But you know, the
(08:24):
summer months were the lowest departure from the average. But
February last year was nine point five degrees above normal,
which is you know, that's just ridiculous. March last year
was six and a half degrees above normal, April was
four point five above. May was five point three above
(08:48):
and then he got into the fall. September was four
and a half degrees above normal. October was four point
seven degrees above normal. November was six point three degrees
above normal, in December was five point one degrees above normal.
So I mean last year was just really warm. It
again because the summer didn't have such astounding departures, you
(09:13):
didn't see the you know, I don't think I hit
one hundred degrees last year, but we certainly were way
above normal. And that's that's one of the you know
things that you know, people are all complaining about this
winter in January is I think at my location is
about seven or eight degrees below normal right now, and
(09:34):
I think we're going to end the months you know,
below the first time and over a year that were
below normal. But from a from a horticultural standpoint, from
an ecological standpoint, plants in the Midwest, in the Ohio Valley,
in the temperate regions of the country need an extended
(09:55):
cold period to kind of shut down and go dormant.
And we have these winters, you know, like we had
last year with February being nine and a half degrees
above normal. The plants don't go all that dormant. They
keep kind of waking up. It's kind of like you
go to bed and and something keeps waking up, or
you wake up every hour over night, and the next
(10:17):
morning you just you know, you're you're groggy and.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
You have to go to the bathroom. Run.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Well there's that too. You get older at these things happen. Yeah,
but but I mean so, so you certain some trees
and you know, I don't I don't know the study
that directly correlates this, but well, what I do know
is that sugar maples have been having a lot of
problems in the Files Valley area. Still good tree, but
(10:47):
we see some significant problems with them. And there are
even some projections based on global warming and climate change
that would say that Cincinnati could move out of the
native range of sugar maple over the next the years
that you know the trees. It's interesting that trees native
range will actually migrate as temperature patterns change. You go
(11:09):
back to the last Ice Age or right after the
last Ice Age, and spruces and firs were native to
the Cincinnati area, and then those native ranges for spruces
and firs moved north into Canada as temperatures warmed. So
so native ranges of plants do migrate over time. The
timescale is different than say a humming bird or a
(11:31):
monern butterfly, but they do change, and they do migrate.
And one of the things that I think is problematic
the sugar maple, there's a whole range of things that
they are problematic. Is the fact that you know, it's
more of a northern tree Canada, New England, Great Lakes
down into the Ohio Valley, but it really thrives in
(11:53):
areas that have those longer winters, and as our winters
get shorter and we get all these warm spells over
the wind to it, I think it's stressing sugar maples
and adding to the problem. Again, I know all the
study back this up. It's just kind of intuitive on
my part. And someone, you know, research at the Colins
(12:14):
Ron's all wet on this. That'd be me, Ron, not
you Ron.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Both those Rons are all wet on this. You know,
we had Dan hermes on from Davy Tree and he's
done he's done a lot of this research, to which
I know you're aware of all that. But his comment
last year was the fact that he felt that the
way we were changing and warming every season, that within
a twenty five to thirty year period that we meaning
(12:38):
southern Ohio, would be looking at his own eight. Yeah,
that was that was his early you know, twenty five
to thirty years you're like, Wow.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
I won't say that's impossible. I would think that that's
at the at the at the far edge of.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Yes, but it could be that's a hit. It was
this point. It was against obviously, but hey, we got
to take a break. Stick with me, sick, come back.
We'll talk more. Keep talking about this warm up. We
also want to talk about the cole Weather this moveing
in next week. Boy, I got a ton of emails
this week. Now what do I do about my plans? Well,
we'll talk about that as well after we take the break.
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and great information about not only trees and the environment,
but also the weather as well, and that's why we
have them on to talk about both and talking about
the warmest a year in the history twenty twenty four. Well,
(15:33):
I don't know twenty twenty five. You know you were
talking about the sugar maple possibly suffering from that, if
I don't, If I recall right about three years ago,
four years ago, Georgia had a reduction in peach production
because it didn't it wasn't cold long enough.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Yes, I was actually gonna make that point that when
you had the person from the peach truck on your show,
he mentioned that they didn't have enough chill hours and
the peach trees barely produced that year. And I really
think that the same thing. And this again, I don't
have a research study to back this up, but I
think the same thing kind of goes on with the
(16:13):
with the sugar maple trees. Uh, if they don't have
enough cold. So from an ecological standpoint, I would argue,
you know, while everybody's complaining I wanted to get warm.
I left seventy all this stuff. I'm looking out and
I'm saying, this is good. I mean, a month where
it's cold, you have snowcover on the ground for almost
(16:34):
the entire month. Everything shuts down and stays shut down.
It's good. And even this cold that's coming in, I
kind of chuckle a little bit because they're like, oh,
extreme cold, it's gonna you know, it's terrible and everything
like that was the lowest temperature this week in Cincinnati
at least it's in the forecast is negative five. And
(16:56):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
With that, I said, and we're in zone six in
our average lowest temperature in zone six for the winner
is in then a minus five to minus ten.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
I believe.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
So yeah, so we're in the range.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Yeah, it's not I mean people say it's abnormally cold
and think, well is it. I mean, this week is
commensologically the coldest month of the year or week of
the year.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
This week coming up, and you know what's that this
week coming up?
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Well, we're in the middle of it right now. It's
kind of the fifteenth to the twentieth is kind of
that time period. If you look at the record lows
in Cincinnati, they're all in that, you know, seven day
period from like the fourteenth to the twenty first or
whatever happens to be. But yeah, right right where we
are right now. You know, back in nineteen seventy seven,
(17:54):
we were twenty five below zero this during this week,
and actually I kind of chuckled because you know, they
always call off school when it could stand to zero,
And when I was in school, we actually had school.
We had probably a half foot of snow on the ground,
and we had school the day it was native twenty five.
I was in sixth grade. I was a crossing guard
(18:15):
at Westwood Elementary School, and we prided ourselves, I'm always
showing up for crossing guard duty. So my friend Jim
Stultz and I we showed up for crossing guard duty
that morning we got our equipment, we were ready to
head out, and his teacher stopped us and she's like,
you're not going out today. I'm like why not? She
says it's too cold out there. We're like, well, we
have crossing guard duty. She won't let us go. But
(18:37):
I did go to school and I did have crossing
guard duty the coldest morning in Cincinnati history, negative twenty five.
But I did not end up on the street corner.
The teacher won't let me, so I hold that against
that teacher to this day.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
But he was prepared, ladies and gentlemen, and he was
going out to sacrifice himself to make sure everbody got
across that crosswalk without getting hit.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Exactly exactly.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Did you lose anybody during your time as a crosswalk guard?
Speaker 3 (19:05):
No, but there was a morning that my friend Jim Stoltz,
who was actually with iHeartRadio for a while, he pulled
someone out of the street when a car was coming
toward that person. So you could say that he may have.
So there you go, there you go. I didn't see it,
(19:26):
but I heard the story.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
So all right, So we got this cold, really cold
drop coming up starting tomorrow night, I guess Monday Tuesday Wednesday,
and we could be seeing in the negatives. So I
got a lot of emails this week saying, hey, you know,
is there anything we can do to protect our plants
with a sudden cold drop? And basically my answer was no,
you're good to go. I mean, you know, if you
(19:48):
planted the right plant in the right place and it
was healthy going into the fall, and you watered in
the whole nine yards, should be good to go. Because
it's zone six. Man, those minus five to minus ten
are you know, reach coldest temperatures for the winter. So
really nothing folks can do. And again, snowcover a great insulator.
(20:08):
As a matter of fact, your article about that is
on our website this week at run Wilson online dot
com The insulating Qualities of a snowy winter Blanket.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Well, I guess you did anyone have to have me
on this morning.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
So I really I could have just pulled that up
and not adds you on at all. So there you go,
exactly anything we should do. I mean, obviously wind chill
factor doesn't affect plants. Otherwise we're just going to write
it out right.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Yeah, the snow and melted a little bit, there's still
you know, very good snow cover, but like a round
knockout roads, things does melted away from those you might
want to file some leaves around them because they can't
be vulnerable when it gets closier like that. But overall
the snow's there and things we should be.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Good to go. You got it, Ron roths again. Go
to his website Harbordoctor dot com. Thank you, sir, Thank
you very much. Have a great day. All right, you
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
Here is your ninth first yarding forecast. Today, rain high
at forty tonight, flurries and cold, low of seventeen on Sunday,
a little bit of snow here and there high have
twenty five degrees cold next week seven five hundred Here
fifty five KRCD Talk Station. Welcome back here in the
garden with Ron Wilson. Is time for a bifurcation of segments.
(00:28):
His time for weather. It's the Weather and in the
Tree starring Ronnie Rothas you know Ronnie, he's our register
consulting arborist. He is an amateur meteorologist. He is an
ISA board certified Master Arborist. He has all those titles
his website arbordoctor dot com. Ladies and gentlemen, mister weather
predictor Extraordinaire ron Rothis. Yes, good morning.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Sir, Good morning.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
How are you good? I know it say as I
said biocharm, my cell phone started binging.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Well, I mean I've I've used it for a number
of years. The research on it is favorable. You know,
one of your guests or not guess one of your
callers made the comment that you know it's it's whenever
you hear something that's going to solve all the world's problems,
to be said, skeptical, skeptical of it. And I agree
with that it's not going to solve all the world's problems.
(01:35):
But there is good research to support its use. Uh,
there there are some issues with it. Uh, you know,
the pH issue could be an issue in some cases,
but if the if the biochart is produced properly and
used properly, it's generally not going to be a major issue.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
A which way, ron acidic or alkaline.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Usually alkaline, Okay, yeah, but I mean if you put
something that's somewhat alkaline and already alkaline soil, it's only
going to bring it up. You know, it's only going
to bring up so far. It's kind of like if
you have a really acidic soil, you put something that
is highly alkaline in there, it's going to bring it
up more than if the soil is already alkaline and
(02:26):
you put something that slightly more alkaline in there. That
makes sense. So if it's produced properly and used properly,
it's not a major issue. The other thing that was
brought up was, you know, do you have to keep
using it, keep using it, and keep using it. Well, one
of your other tollers had made the comment that it's
it's something that kind of stays in the soil, and
(02:48):
it does. It is a five hundred year i think
half life and soil. So you don't have to keep
using it and keep using it and keep using it.
It stays in the soil. And that's one of the
one of the one of the pluses for it is
you put it in the soil and it doesn't just
go away in a few months. And it does, you know,
(03:09):
And I keep saying, you know, if it's properly produced,
because there are a lot of people producing biochar. If
it's not produced properly, it can have an even higher
pH which can become more problematic if it's not charged
with nutrients. Most of the really good biocharted products either
infused with organic nutrients or combined with organic matter. That
(03:35):
can kind of enchiuse the biochart with nutrients because it
can absorb nutrients out of the soil and it becomes
kind of a nutrients sink in the soil, which is
a good thing over time, but if it's not charged
with anything before, it can actually draw nutrients out of
the soil and become a problem. So how it's produced,
(03:57):
how it's put together, the research behind the product is important,
and if you don't cover your basis on those, it
can become problematic. I'm kind of pushing the edges of
my knowledge on the subject. I sent you one research
one resource of the person who I know personally who's
(04:19):
very knowledgeable on the subject. I'm sure you found some others,
but I would encourage you to contact somebody like that
because they would be able to speak more about Mark Mann,
who I sent you the information on. He is very
knowledgeable in the science behind it and all the ways
that it works and everything.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
The biochart that you use, like how large are the particles.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
They're quite small. I mean it's kind of like a
fertilizer type material. So yeah, And I will make the
comment too that someone mentioned that biocharge charcoal, Well, not exactly.
In fact, I just recently saw a research report where
they used both biochar and charcoal, and and they had
(05:11):
several other things that they used, and they were getting
significantly better results with the biochart than with the charcoal.
The charcoal was having some some benefit because there are
some similarities, but it wasn't as effective as the biochar.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
So you can interesting stuff. And of course you've been
using it for quite some time.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
So yeah, so you don't want to go out and
buy brick cats, especially, you don't want to buy cats
are they're pre.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
And don't you don't use the ones out of your
out of your grill.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Yeah, they had the lighter fluid already in them. That's
probably not a good idea. And then you would have
then you would have some real biolutlement essence in your
in your garden.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Literally. Good point talking with Ron Roth is his website
harbordoctor dot com. And I wanted to just to hit
that real quick and we will as a matter of fact,
and we get somebody, it would pick somebody here to
be on and talk about it. Maybe we'll just get
you on the have you come down here sit in
with us as well. I know you don't like doing that, but.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Oh I hate doing that.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Yeah, I know, I know you hate it. All right,
I want to talk first of all, I want to
talk weather, and I want to first look back at
twenty twenty four, and I know you've already seen this,
but came out that is now the warmest year on record. Yeah,
since the previous record was twenty twenty three, but now
(06:32):
twenty twenty four happens to be the Earth's warmest year
on record. Looking at that and looking at just and
we're based on Ohio. Looking at Ohio, how did Ohio
come in based on past records as far as the
warmest years.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Well, I can speak most intelligently on my own location
because I'm a co op observer for the National Weather Service,
and they've kind of combined my records, which our official records.
They go into the National Climate Data Center and they
combined it with historical record. There was a co observer
before me in the same general location, and so on
(07:14):
the thirty year average, my location was four and a
half degrees above normal for the year, which is pretty significant.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
In fact, last year, every month was above normal at
my location. July was actually the coolest months of the
year compared to normal. That the summer was actually cooler
compared to normal than than the other months were. June
was three degrees above normal, July was only a half
degree above normal, and August was nine tenths of a
(07:45):
degree above normal. So the summer months weren't We're still warm,
and they're still warmer than normal, which you know, normal
in my location in July is eighty six degrees is.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Normal based on an average of past temperatures.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
It's a thirty year average, so they take the past,
the temperatures over the past thirty years and the average
of the temperatures over the past thirty years, so it
does change over time. I think every ten years they
kind of update that so you get a so so
you get kind of a difference depending on what the
past thirty years have been like. But you know, the
(08:24):
summer months were the lowest departure from the average. But
February last year was nine point five degrees above normal,
which is you know, that's just ridiculous. March last year
was six and a half degrees above normal, April was
four point five above. May was five point three above
(08:48):
and then he got into the fall. September was four
and a half degrees above normal. October was four point
seven degrees above normal. November was six point three degrees
above normal, in December was five point one degrees above normal.
So I mean last year was just really warm. It
again because the summer didn't have such astounding departures, you
(09:13):
didn't see the you know, I don't think I hit
one hundred degrees last year, but we certainly were way
above normal. And that's that's one of the you know
things that you know, people are all complaining about this
winter in January is I think at my location is
about seven or eight degrees below normal right now, and
(09:34):
I think we're going to end the months you know,
below the first time and over a year that were
below normal. But from a from a horticultural standpoint, from
an ecological standpoint, plants in the Midwest, in the Ohio Valley,
in the temperate regions of the country need an extended
(09:55):
cold period to kind of shut down and go dormant.
And we have these winters, you know, like we had
last year with February being nine and a half degrees
above normal. The plants don't go all that dormant. They
keep kind of waking up. It's kind of like you
go to bed and and something keeps waking up, or
you wake up every hour over night, and the next
(10:17):
morning you just you know, you're you're groggy and.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
You have to go to the bathroom. Run.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Well there's that too. You get older at these things happen. Yeah,
but but I mean so, so you certain some trees
and you know, I don't I don't know the study
that directly correlates this, but well, what I do know
is that sugar maples have been having a lot of
problems in the Files Valley area. Still good tree, but
(10:47):
we see some significant problems with them. And there are
even some projections based on global warming and climate change
that would say that Cincinnati could move out of the
native range of sugar maple over the next the years
that you know the trees. It's interesting that trees native
range will actually migrate as temperature patterns change. You go
(11:09):
back to the last Ice Age or right after the
last Ice Age, and spruces and firs were native to
the Cincinnati area, and then those native ranges for spruces
and firs moved north into Canada as temperatures warmed. So
so native ranges of plants do migrate over time. The
timescale is different than say a humming bird or a
(11:31):
monern butterfly, but they do change, and they do migrate.
And one of the things that I think is problematic
the sugar maple, there's a whole range of things that
they are problematic. Is the fact that you know, it's
more of a northern tree Canada, New England, Great Lakes
down into the Ohio Valley, but it really thrives in
(11:53):
areas that have those longer winters, and as our winters
get shorter and we get all these warm spells over
the wind to it, I think it's stressing sugar maples
and adding to the problem. Again, I know all the
study back this up. It's just kind of intuitive on
my part. And someone, you know, research at the Colins
(12:14):
Ron's all wet on this. That'd be me, Ron, not
you Ron.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Both those Rons are all wet on this. You know,
we had Dan hermes on from Davy Tree and he's
done he's done a lot of this research, to which
I know you're aware of all that. But his comment
last year was the fact that he felt that the
way we were changing and warming every season, that within
a twenty five to thirty year period that we meaning
(12:38):
southern Ohio, would be looking at his own eight. Yeah,
that was that was his early you know, twenty five
to thirty years you're like, Wow.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
I won't say that's impossible. I would think that that's
at the at the at the far edge of.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Yes, but it could be that's a hit. It was
this point. It was against obviously, but hey, we got
to take a break. Stick with me, sick, come back.
We'll talk more. Keep talking about this warm up. We
also want to talk about the cole Weather this moveing
in next week. Boy, I got a ton of emails
this week. Now what do I do about my plans? Well,
we'll talk about that as well after we take the break.
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(15:09):
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bifurcation of segments, whether it's the Weather and in the
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and great information about not only trees and the environment,
but also the weather as well, and that's why we
have them on to talk about both and talking about
the warmest a year in the history twenty twenty four. Well,
(15:33):
I don't know twenty twenty five. You know you were
talking about the sugar maple possibly suffering from that, if
I don't, If I recall right about three years ago,
four years ago, Georgia had a reduction in peach production
because it didn't it wasn't cold long enough.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Yes, I was actually gonna make that point that when
you had the person from the peach truck on your show,
he mentioned that they didn't have enough chill hours and
the peach trees barely produced that year. And I really
think that the same thing. And this again, I don't
have a research study to back this up, but I
think the same thing kind of goes on with the
(16:13):
with the sugar maple trees. Uh, if they don't have
enough cold. So from an ecological standpoint, I would argue,
you know, while everybody's complaining I wanted to get warm.
I left seventy all this stuff. I'm looking out and
I'm saying, this is good. I mean, a month where
it's cold, you have snowcover on the ground for almost
(16:34):
the entire month. Everything shuts down and stays shut down.
It's good. And even this cold that's coming in, I
kind of chuckle a little bit because they're like, oh,
extreme cold, it's gonna you know, it's terrible and everything
like that was the lowest temperature this week in Cincinnati
at least it's in the forecast is negative five. And
(16:56):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
With that, I said, and we're in zone six in
our average lowest temperature in zone six for the winner
is in then a minus five to minus ten.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
I believe.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
So yeah, so we're in the range.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Yeah, it's not I mean people say it's abnormally cold
and think, well is it. I mean, this week is
commensologically the coldest month of the year or week of
the year.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
This week coming up, and you know what's that this
week coming up?
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Well, we're in the middle of it right now. It's
kind of the fifteenth to the twentieth is kind of
that time period. If you look at the record lows
in Cincinnati, they're all in that, you know, seven day
period from like the fourteenth to the twenty first or
whatever happens to be. But yeah, right right where we
are right now. You know, back in nineteen seventy seven,
(17:54):
we were twenty five below zero this during this week,
and actually I kind of chuckled because you know, they
always call off school when it could stand to zero,
And when I was in school, we actually had school.
We had probably a half foot of snow on the ground,
and we had school the day it was native twenty five.
I was in sixth grade. I was a crossing guard
(18:15):
at Westwood Elementary School, and we prided ourselves, I'm always
showing up for crossing guard duty. So my friend Jim
Stultz and I we showed up for crossing guard duty
that morning we got our equipment, we were ready to
head out, and his teacher stopped us and she's like,
you're not going out today. I'm like why not? She
says it's too cold out there. We're like, well, we
have crossing guard duty. She won't let us go. But
(18:37):
I did go to school and I did have crossing
guard duty the coldest morning in Cincinnati history, negative twenty five.
But I did not end up on the street corner.
The teacher won't let me, so I hold that against
that teacher to this day.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
But he was prepared, ladies and gentlemen, and he was
going out to sacrifice himself to make sure everbody got
across that crosswalk without getting hit.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Exactly exactly.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Did you lose anybody during your time as a crosswalk guard?
Speaker 3 (19:05):
No, but there was a morning that my friend Jim Stoltz,
who was actually with iHeartRadio for a while, he pulled
someone out of the street when a car was coming
toward that person. So you could say that he may have.
So there you go, there you go. I didn't see it,
(19:26):
but I heard the story.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
So all right, So we got this cold, really cold
drop coming up starting tomorrow night, I guess Monday Tuesday Wednesday,
and we could be seeing in the negatives. So I
got a lot of emails this week saying, hey, you know,
is there anything we can do to protect our plants
with a sudden cold drop? And basically my answer was no,
you're good to go. I mean, you know, if you
(19:48):
planted the right plant in the right place and it
was healthy going into the fall, and you watered in
the whole nine yards, should be good to go. Because
it's zone six. Man, those minus five to minus ten
are you know, reach coldest temperatures for the winter. So
really nothing folks can do. And again, snowcover a great insulator.
(20:08):
As a matter of fact, your article about that is
on our website this week at run Wilson online dot
com The insulating Qualities of a snowy winter Blanket.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Well, I guess you did anyone have to have me
on this morning.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
So I really I could have just pulled that up
and not adds you on at all. So there you go,
exactly anything we should do. I mean, obviously wind chill
factor doesn't affect plants. Otherwise we're just going to write
it out right.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Yeah, the snow and melted a little bit, there's still
you know, very good snow cover, but like a round
knockout roads, things does melted away from those you might
want to file some leaves around them because they can't
be vulnerable when it gets closier like that. But overall
the snow's there and things we should be.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Good to go. You got it, Ron roths again. Go
to his website Harbordoctor dot com. Thank you, sir, Thank
you very much. Have a great day. All right, you
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to say, all right? Cut them by the way. We
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