November 1, 2025 • 20 mins
The Arbor Doc talks about his trip and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Our toll free number eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. Good morning. I am Ron Wilson, your
personal yard boy, talking about yarning and as I promise,
it's time for a bifurcation of segments. Time for weather.
It's the weather and in the Trees with Ronnie Roethas
starring the True Seera of Sears. He's a prognosticate tour
of prognosticate tours. He's a weather predictor extraordinaire. He is
(00:21):
our Registered Consulting Arbist, Amateur Meteorologist, I SA board certified
Master Arbutist, and now that he's back from Australia, I
don't know what other kinds of certifications he has, but
everything is a good days whatever he'll tell you in
just a second. Ladies and gentlemen his website arbordoctor dot com.
Mister ron Rothas go ahead and say it.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Good day mate, there you go.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Wow, where have you been?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
We're ben I have been on the other side of
the world, Australian well. And I was there because the
International Society of our Boor Culture had their christ Church
New Zealand this year. And when I heard that that
was gonna happen, a year ago. All you have to
(01:18):
quit moving interesting. So I started to you're.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
You're fading in and out on us.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
I'm fading in and out. Yep, that's you.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
You could write that. You could write a song about that.
Why that's happening, I don't know anyway. Talking with Ron Roethlinson.
You just got back from the other you know.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Up.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Do we lose him?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Yes, it's call dropped off.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Well, look at that. He got mad just hanging up
on us. He'll call back about that. He'll call back
talking about yarding at eight hundred and eight two three
eight two five five. I'll get back with us and
a second here, we'll get the phone system straightened around.
By the way, I was talking about the fall, leaves
dropping down, and we'll talk more about this with Rowan
and gets back on here with us. But as they
start to drop, I want you to remember, we're gonna muh,
(02:04):
we're gonna keep all those leaves in your yard. Whatever
drops in your yard is gonna stay in your yard.
That's our goal this year is to use all of
those leaves within your yard. Now, let's try it again.
Ron roethis.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Hi hopefully sound better this time.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Well, you sound horrible, but you know, the sound sounds
a lot better I did.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
What was going on?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
You didn't laugh? All right? Anyway?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Come I should laugh?
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yeah, you should. You just got Well, there's been a
lot of people say you were on the other side
of the world. I mean they've said that for years.
But you were on the other side of the world
in Australia and New Zealand, something you've been trying to
do and you get started planning it last year. So
congratulations that you were able to do this. You kept
us posted while you were there. You were there both
(02:58):
to see Australia and New Zealand, but you were also
there for another reason.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yeah. The Internationalists of a borcoll Sure had their annual
conference this year in christ Church, so found it was
there for that. But it was a three day conference.
And I kind of decided early on and if I
was going to travel halfway around the world, I wasn't
going to travel halfway around the world day for instance,
(03:27):
and around and come back. I wanted to actually see
the place. So I started looking from tour that would
may last a week or so and see some of
the area. It was kind of hard to firstpond with
the conend. So a travel agent found a nineteen day
(03:49):
tour of a Zealand. I'm like, that was a little
bit longer than I had thought about, but why not?
So I did it and it was as amazing.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Wellly go around in his life one time, so why not?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Absolutely started out in Sydney, a beautiful garden of course,
the iconic uh Opera House and in the Harbor Bridge
and it's a beautiful Chinese frontman Sydney as well. It's
absolutely incredible city. Went up the Cans in Northeast Australia
and the Great Barrier reef O, the Auls Springs in
(04:27):
the outback and the Lularo Rock with Anstein Rock out
therea down to Melbourne where there was another absolutely cradle
botanical are and probably the best in the entire trip.
Then they were to Queenstown, New Zealand, where that they
have another beautiful botanical Garbuya couches that had Charlie seven
(04:54):
die amazing under the Millerford Sound which had a full
mhm uh kind of a fjord that comes in off
the ocean with mountain down into it. Snow there too,
it's actually snowing while we were going through the mountains.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I saw that picture.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, I writ in Mount Coach last Peak in New Zealand,
which is normally shrouded in clouds, but we actually got
to see it out in the clear before the before
clouds moved in. And then down to christ Church where
there's another of Tampa garden which I all Thetannell spent
a lot of time walking through those and taking tons
(05:37):
of stures and of course to the conference was in
christ Church, which was amazing conference to people from all
over the world, really good information. So it ended up
being an amazing three and a half weeks, a lot
of time changes which were kind of crazy, but we
(05:58):
survived that did an app I found an app of
about a club. It helps you to reship your schedule
in your circadian rhythms in advance to travel. And and
you know, when I went to China the adoption trip
years ago had horrible uh jet lag, and this time,
(06:21):
using the time shifter app, I had virtually so I
have to say that it worked for me at least.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
There you go and then in the middle of nowhere,
you're walking through an of a garden and who do
you come across but mister Tien back from back Tree
here in Cincinnati.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Yeah, he was going as well, but he still started
out in Fiji and then traveled over to New Zealand
and was traveling around museum. I mean not. You know,
this is like the week before the conference, and we
just happened to be in the same hotel town in
New Zealand, and so I got together with him his
(07:00):
wife and I spend a couple of hours walking through
the Botango garden there in Queens. So that was kind
of crazy play around the world. I actually took a
picture of standing on a cut a tree stump, and
I put a cap on that. I said, the tree
(07:20):
has timed.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
So you well, you're breaking up again. We can barely
hear you. We're gonna take a break. See, we can
try to figure this out. By the way, the camel,
the picture of the camel you sent me, beautiful camel.
Uh what was the camel's name, panicum pannicum.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Yes, we should have no concern getting on a camel
camel with the word panic and panic, but.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
It was, Hm, well it's quite quite an attractive camel.
All right, we'll take a break, we come back, we'll
try to fix this phone system with around office. The
arbor doc is website arbordoctor dot com. Here in the
Garden with Ron Wilson.
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Speaker 1 (10:28):
Welcome back here in the Garden with Ron Wilson, special
guest this morning, the arbor doc Ron Rothas just got
back from New Zealand and Australia with a conference there
and a nice little tour as well. Danny said, you know,
looking at the point of the just Cammell's nose in
your head kind of the same.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Yeah, there is a striking resemblance there isn't there.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Yeah, that was kind of funny. I would say words
in my mouth again, right, I wouldn't have said that,
but you know, what can I say anyway? So on
a serious note, Ron Rothas, arbor doctor arbordoctor dot com.
You were there to learn about anything new and exciting
that's going on around the world with the health of
trees and the tree research, and you came back with
(11:12):
something I thought was fairly interesting talking about basically the
use of fire on trees.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Yeah, it was an interesting presentation by an arbreast from
California with a very interesting name, Sprout Weinberger. She's a
certified arborist serious California.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
That it was seriously Sprout yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
So in any case, she practices out in the California
coast where they have a lot of oak sudden oak
death if I taught to her more among other things,
which is serious disease of oak trees, which so far
seems to be restricted to the California coast. But in
any case, she talked about how you know, wildfires are
(12:08):
something that have happened throughout history, and there are a
number of trees that are classified as being fire adapted.
In other words, they grow in areas with a which
will burn from time to time, and these trees have
adapted to that and actually adapted mechanisms for responding in
(12:31):
a positive fashion for to fire. So she's been using fire,
and I don't mean, you know, set in a whole
tree on fire, but she uses the torch to cauterize
wounds on trees as well as to burn out some
of the pathogens that are getting into some of those
wound areas, like the I taught there remoram and and
(12:57):
she's having quite a bit of success with it. She
shared had some time lapse photos of wounds that she
uh that she treated with the fire and how they
closed more rapidly than they would close otherwise. So very
interesting presentation. Everything that she uh presented was experiential. Uh.
(13:20):
It's something that has to be looked into more, you know,
with peer reviewed research, which there isn't a whole lot
on that right now, but it certainly is uh mimicking
a natural process which you know, has we know, has
been used for for for centuries. She talked about indigenous
(13:42):
cultures and how they've used fire uh to to manage landscapes,
and we know that the uh you know, Native Americans
used fire uh to to manage hunting grounds and landscape areas.
So it's it's something that's based on uh, something that
has some historical precedents, and certainly she's been doing it
(14:06):
with a great deal of success. It was a very
interesting presentation, and I think it's going to have some
application opportunities and as we manage trees, because there's some
of some of these things we just you know, haven't
had a lot of answers for, and so this is
certainly another another avenue to look at when it comes
(14:28):
to how we manage trees. So I was everyone who
was in that talk was just really excited about it
was so kind of out of the box. But that
made a lot of sense, and she had a lot
of data to back up what she was what she
was talking.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
About, and basically you're saying that that so we we
kind of branch off of and this could be something
I guess you could do. Uh, we talk about not
pruning oak trees during the growing season. Will this now
offer you the opportunity to do that and be able
to seal those wounds through the use of those.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Conceptually that that is what that would be an approach
that this would suggest. Say yes, Now, I would caution
people who are listening to this that this again, this
is a little bit in the experimental stage. I mean,
she's doing it quite successfully out there. I don't want
people taking torches to all the trees because some trees
(15:24):
are not are not as fire resistant or fire adapted
as others.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
What I was going to say is that that is
it limiting. Did she find that also that you're going
to be limited as far as which trees you would
actually use this on.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Uh? Yeah, that's my understanding. Because some trees are not
as fire adapted as others. You know that that you know,
there's some species of trees that tend not to grow
in areas that that are that they're hit by fire
as often, or they're not as is adapted to that
is some other species. So so yeah, I think it's
(16:02):
not going to necessarily have application to every species a tree,
but it certainly is something to be looked at and
uh and see how see how trees respond. But but
again I do put forth a little bit of caution
just because I don't want people, no, we're not asking
to do just going after the trees.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Right, It's just I thought that was very interesting that
and it does make you know, you read this and
it does kind of make sense depending on the type
of tree obviously. And the first thing I thought it
was the oak thing, you know, with not pruning those
during the season, how you could wind up using that
to help get those ceiling over. But she's you know,
the pictures that you showed me were that she had
done that, uh two years after cauterizing that pruning wound
(16:48):
thing was darn near closed.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Off exactly and they were up trees. I mean, that's
one of the species that she's been been working with
quite a lot with the fire. So so yeah, that
would make a lot of sense.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Now, have you posted this a picture of you on
the camel on your website.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
I have not yet, but it's on my everlength of
the list of things to do. In fact, I may
just be inspired to do it when I when I
finished this interviews.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Yeah, because I think folks want to see that. I
want to see because the pictures taken right in front
of the camel's face and then Ron is right behind it,
which makes it a very interesting picture. So you might
want to get that posted so folks can check that out.
Got about a minute to go.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
It was more photogenic the camel.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
So anyway, I thought about a minute ago. Anything right
now we should be doing with our trees besides planting.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Well, uh, and I know you're nationwide with your show.
There's still a lot of drought around, uh nationwide, you know.
Certainly we had great soaking rains in the Ohio Valley
this week. The Tennessee Valley's had some good soaking rains,
but northwest Ohio is still in severe drought, and much
of the East Coast up and down the East Coast
(18:03):
is in severe drought. Lots of drought through parts of
the south and certainly the western part of the country.
So a lot of areas are still suffering from significant
amounts of drought, so I certainly don't want people to
let their guard down on that. You know, we were
blessed this week in our area. I had over half
(18:25):
an inch and a half of rain. But you know,
the watering thing is it is still a big deal.
And as we've talked, you know, year after year about
the ghosts of droughts passed. You know, we get into
the spring and people have evergreens that are starting to die. Well,
you know, right now is the time that you can
have that off by doing timely watering and certainly keeping
(18:46):
things well watered through the month of through the month
of November. Is is really really important. Even in the
Cincinnati area, we have below normal rainfall forecast for the
munch In month and now November, so it's going to
dry out more slowly this time of the year than
it would otherwise, but it could still dry out. So
that's that's that's the biggest thing right now.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
All right, during the break, get this picture posted on
your website Arbordoctor dot com. Folks, you go check it out.
Tell me who is more Photogenny Ron Roethlis or the
Campbell Thank you, sir. Always a pleasure.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Thank you very much. Go Bucks, Go Bucks.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
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Our toll free number eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. Good morning. I am Ron Wilson, your
personal yard boy, talking about yarning and as I promise,
it's time for a bifurcation of segments. Time for weather.
It's the weather and in the Trees with Ronnie Roethas
starring the True Seera of Sears. He's a prognosticate tour
of prognosticate tours. He's a weather predictor extraordinaire. He is
(00:21):
our Registered Consulting Arbist, Amateur Meteorologist, I SA board certified
Master Arbutist, and now that he's back from Australia, I
don't know what other kinds of certifications he has, but
everything is a good days whatever he'll tell you in
just a second. Ladies and gentlemen his website arbordoctor dot com.
Mister ron Rothas go ahead and say it.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Good day mate, there you go.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Wow, where have you been?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
We're ben I have been on the other side of
the world, Australian well. And I was there because the
International Society of our Boor Culture had their christ Church
New Zealand this year. And when I heard that that
was gonna happen, a year ago. All you have to
(01:18):
quit moving interesting. So I started to you're.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
You're fading in and out on us.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
I'm fading in and out. Yep, that's you.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
You could write that. You could write a song about that.
Why that's happening, I don't know anyway. Talking with Ron Roethlinson.
You just got back from the other you know.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Up.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Do we lose him?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Yes, it's call dropped off.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Well, look at that. He got mad just hanging up
on us. He'll call back about that. He'll call back
talking about yarding at eight hundred and eight two three
eight two five five. I'll get back with us and
a second here, we'll get the phone system straightened around.
By the way, I was talking about the fall, leaves
dropping down, and we'll talk more about this with Rowan
and gets back on here with us. But as they
start to drop, I want you to remember, we're gonna muh,
(02:04):
we're gonna keep all those leaves in your yard. Whatever
drops in your yard is gonna stay in your yard.
That's our goal this year is to use all of
those leaves within your yard. Now, let's try it again.
Ron roethis.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Hi hopefully sound better this time.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Well, you sound horrible, but you know, the sound sounds
a lot better I did.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
What was going on?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
You didn't laugh? All right? Anyway?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Come I should laugh?
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yeah, you should. You just got Well, there's been a
lot of people say you were on the other side
of the world. I mean they've said that for years.
But you were on the other side of the world
in Australia and New Zealand, something you've been trying to
do and you get started planning it last year. So
congratulations that you were able to do this. You kept
us posted while you were there. You were there both
(02:58):
to see Australia and New Zealand, but you were also
there for another reason.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yeah. The Internationalists of a borcoll Sure had their annual
conference this year in christ Church, so found it was
there for that. But it was a three day conference.
And I kind of decided early on and if I
was going to travel halfway around the world, I wasn't
going to travel halfway around the world day for instance,
(03:27):
and around and come back. I wanted to actually see
the place. So I started looking from tour that would
may last a week or so and see some of
the area. It was kind of hard to firstpond with
the conend. So a travel agent found a nineteen day
(03:49):
tour of a Zealand. I'm like, that was a little
bit longer than I had thought about, but why not?
So I did it and it was as amazing.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Wellly go around in his life one time, so why not?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Absolutely started out in Sydney, a beautiful garden of course,
the iconic uh Opera House and in the Harbor Bridge
and it's a beautiful Chinese frontman Sydney as well. It's
absolutely incredible city. Went up the Cans in Northeast Australia
and the Great Barrier reef O, the Auls Springs in
(04:27):
the outback and the Lularo Rock with Anstein Rock out
therea down to Melbourne where there was another absolutely cradle
botanical are and probably the best in the entire trip.
Then they were to Queenstown, New Zealand, where that they
have another beautiful botanical Garbuya couches that had Charlie seven
(04:54):
die amazing under the Millerford Sound which had a full
mhm uh kind of a fjord that comes in off
the ocean with mountain down into it. Snow there too,
it's actually snowing while we were going through the mountains.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I saw that picture.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, I writ in Mount Coach last Peak in New Zealand,
which is normally shrouded in clouds, but we actually got
to see it out in the clear before the before
clouds moved in. And then down to christ Church where
there's another of Tampa garden which I all Thetannell spent
a lot of time walking through those and taking tons
(05:37):
of stures and of course to the conference was in
christ Church, which was amazing conference to people from all
over the world, really good information. So it ended up
being an amazing three and a half weeks, a lot
of time changes which were kind of crazy, but we
(05:58):
survived that did an app I found an app of
about a club. It helps you to reship your schedule
in your circadian rhythms in advance to travel. And and
you know, when I went to China the adoption trip
years ago had horrible uh jet lag, and this time,
(06:21):
using the time shifter app, I had virtually so I
have to say that it worked for me at least.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
There you go and then in the middle of nowhere,
you're walking through an of a garden and who do
you come across but mister Tien back from back Tree
here in Cincinnati.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Yeah, he was going as well, but he still started
out in Fiji and then traveled over to New Zealand
and was traveling around museum. I mean not. You know,
this is like the week before the conference, and we
just happened to be in the same hotel town in
New Zealand, and so I got together with him his
(07:00):
wife and I spend a couple of hours walking through
the Botango garden there in Queens. So that was kind
of crazy play around the world. I actually took a
picture of standing on a cut a tree stump, and
I put a cap on that. I said, the tree
(07:20):
has timed.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
So you well, you're breaking up again. We can barely
hear you. We're gonna take a break. See, we can
try to figure this out. By the way, the camel,
the picture of the camel you sent me, beautiful camel.
Uh what was the camel's name, panicum pannicum.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Yes, we should have no concern getting on a camel
camel with the word panic and panic, but.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
It was, Hm, well it's quite quite an attractive camel.
All right, we'll take a break, we come back, we'll
try to fix this phone system with around office. The
arbor doc is website arbordoctor dot com. Here in the
Garden with Ron Wilson.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Landscaping made easier with your personal yard boy. He's in
the garden and he's Ron Wilson. Hey homeowners, ever wish
(08:29):
you had a plumbing expert right in your pocket. It's
Gary Sulvin for roto Ruter Plumbing and water clean up.
Let me introduce you to the Rotor Router Mobile App,
your ultimate plumbing companion. Access DIY videos, frequently ask questions,
and exclusive offers. You can also track your service history
and schedule appointments all in one place. Now, don't wait.
(08:50):
Download the Rotor Router Mobile App today from the App Store,
Google Play or from rotoreruter dot com. Hey, Gary Salvin
Here for Zalar Pumps been keeping home safe and dry
since nineteen thirty nine, and their passion for excellence is
why it's the only name I trust to keep my
basement dry. For your home's groundwater protection system, you got
(09:11):
to check out the Zlor Model sixty three some pump
with the LED plug and the aquanot Fit five oh
eight battery backup system. Together they're your guaranteed water protection system.
When installed by a factory certified installer. To find your
installer today, go to Zalarpumps dot com. For over forty years,
Dumont has made powerful pain and coating removers that are
(09:32):
tough on layers but save for you in the environment.
Tried demand smart Strip Advanced. It works on over ninety
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Speaker 1 (10:28):
Welcome back here in the Garden with Ron Wilson, special
guest this morning, the arbor doc Ron Rothas just got
back from New Zealand and Australia with a conference there
and a nice little tour as well. Danny said, you know,
looking at the point of the just Cammell's nose in
your head kind of the same.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Yeah, there is a striking resemblance there isn't there.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Yeah, that was kind of funny. I would say words
in my mouth again, right, I wouldn't have said that,
but you know, what can I say anyway? So on
a serious note, Ron Rothas, arbor doctor arbordoctor dot com.
You were there to learn about anything new and exciting
that's going on around the world with the health of
trees and the tree research, and you came back with
(11:12):
something I thought was fairly interesting talking about basically the
use of fire on trees.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Yeah, it was an interesting presentation by an arbreast from
California with a very interesting name, Sprout Weinberger. She's a
certified arborist serious California.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
That it was seriously Sprout yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
So in any case, she practices out in the California
coast where they have a lot of oak sudden oak
death if I taught to her more among other things,
which is serious disease of oak trees, which so far
seems to be restricted to the California coast. But in
any case, she talked about how you know, wildfires are
(12:08):
something that have happened throughout history, and there are a
number of trees that are classified as being fire adapted.
In other words, they grow in areas with a which
will burn from time to time, and these trees have
adapted to that and actually adapted mechanisms for responding in
(12:31):
a positive fashion for to fire. So she's been using fire,
and I don't mean, you know, set in a whole
tree on fire, but she uses the torch to cauterize
wounds on trees as well as to burn out some
of the pathogens that are getting into some of those
wound areas, like the I taught there remoram and and
(12:57):
she's having quite a bit of success with it. She
shared had some time lapse photos of wounds that she
uh that she treated with the fire and how they
closed more rapidly than they would close otherwise. So very
interesting presentation. Everything that she uh presented was experiential. Uh.
(13:20):
It's something that has to be looked into more, you know,
with peer reviewed research, which there isn't a whole lot
on that right now, but it certainly is uh mimicking
a natural process which you know, has we know, has
been used for for for centuries. She talked about indigenous
(13:42):
cultures and how they've used fire uh to to manage landscapes,
and we know that the uh you know, Native Americans
used fire uh to to manage hunting grounds and landscape areas.
So it's it's something that's based on uh, something that
has some historical precedents, and certainly she's been doing it
(14:06):
with a great deal of success. It was a very
interesting presentation, and I think it's going to have some
application opportunities and as we manage trees, because there's some
of some of these things we just you know, haven't
had a lot of answers for, and so this is
certainly another another avenue to look at when it comes
(14:28):
to how we manage trees. So I was everyone who
was in that talk was just really excited about it
was so kind of out of the box. But that
made a lot of sense, and she had a lot
of data to back up what she was what she
was talking.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
About, and basically you're saying that that so we we
kind of branch off of and this could be something
I guess you could do. Uh, we talk about not
pruning oak trees during the growing season. Will this now
offer you the opportunity to do that and be able
to seal those wounds through the use of those.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Conceptually that that is what that would be an approach
that this would suggest. Say yes, Now, I would caution
people who are listening to this that this again, this
is a little bit in the experimental stage. I mean,
she's doing it quite successfully out there. I don't want
people taking torches to all the trees because some trees
(15:24):
are not are not as fire resistant or fire adapted
as others.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
What I was going to say is that that is
it limiting. Did she find that also that you're going
to be limited as far as which trees you would
actually use this on.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Uh? Yeah, that's my understanding. Because some trees are not
as fire adapted as others. You know that that you know,
there's some species of trees that tend not to grow
in areas that that are that they're hit by fire
as often, or they're not as is adapted to that
is some other species. So so yeah, I think it's
(16:02):
not going to necessarily have application to every species a tree,
but it certainly is something to be looked at and
uh and see how see how trees respond. But but
again I do put forth a little bit of caution
just because I don't want people, no, we're not asking
to do just going after the trees.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Right, It's just I thought that was very interesting that
and it does make you know, you read this and
it does kind of make sense depending on the type
of tree obviously. And the first thing I thought it
was the oak thing, you know, with not pruning those
during the season, how you could wind up using that
to help get those ceiling over. But she's you know,
the pictures that you showed me were that she had
done that, uh two years after cauterizing that pruning wound
(16:48):
thing was darn near closed.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Off exactly and they were up trees. I mean, that's
one of the species that she's been been working with
quite a lot with the fire. So so yeah, that
would make a lot of sense.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Now, have you posted this a picture of you on
the camel on your website.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
I have not yet, but it's on my everlength of
the list of things to do. In fact, I may
just be inspired to do it when I when I
finished this interviews.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Yeah, because I think folks want to see that. I
want to see because the pictures taken right in front
of the camel's face and then Ron is right behind it,
which makes it a very interesting picture. So you might
want to get that posted so folks can check that out.
Got about a minute to go.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
It was more photogenic the camel.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
So anyway, I thought about a minute ago. Anything right
now we should be doing with our trees besides planting.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Well, uh, and I know you're nationwide with your show.
There's still a lot of drought around, uh nationwide, you know.
Certainly we had great soaking rains in the Ohio Valley
this week. The Tennessee Valley's had some good soaking rains,
but northwest Ohio is still in severe drought, and much
of the East Coast up and down the East Coast
(18:03):
is in severe drought. Lots of drought through parts of
the south and certainly the western part of the country.
So a lot of areas are still suffering from significant
amounts of drought, so I certainly don't want people to
let their guard down on that. You know, we were
blessed this week in our area. I had over half
(18:25):
an inch and a half of rain. But you know,
the watering thing is it is still a big deal.
And as we've talked, you know, year after year about
the ghosts of droughts passed. You know, we get into
the spring and people have evergreens that are starting to die. Well,
you know, right now is the time that you can
have that off by doing timely watering and certainly keeping
(18:46):
things well watered through the month of through the month
of November. Is is really really important. Even in the
Cincinnati area, we have below normal rainfall forecast for the
munch In month and now November, so it's going to
dry out more slowly this time of the year than
it would otherwise, but it could still dry out. So
that's that's that's the biggest thing right now.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
All right, during the break, get this picture posted on
your website Arbordoctor dot com. Folks, you go check it out.
Tell me who is more Photogenny Ron Roethlis or the
Campbell Thank you, sir. Always a pleasure.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Thank you very much. Go Bucks, Go Bucks.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
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