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Speaker 1: You're with Cape Talk listen Spurparton on lunch.

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Speaker 2: It is time to step into the garden if you've

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Speaker 2: got sunscreen on and a hat on your head. I

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Speaker 2: should add we are delighted to welcome back to studio

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Speaker 2: Sharis Polon of Cherish Plants, who has a master's degree

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Speaker 2: in horticulture and several decades experience working in the nursery

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Speaker 2: and botanical garden environments, and is standing by to tackle

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Speaker 2: your questions. I know some of them already coming through

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Speaker 2: on WhatsApp. Just a reminder, you're also welcome to email

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Speaker 2: me on pipa h at Cape Talk dot co dot

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Speaker 2: or give us a call and actually talk to us

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Speaker 2: on the phone. Imagine that two one four four six

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Speaker 2: five sixty seven. Nearly forgot our phone number for a second. There.

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Speaker 2: I use it so seldom.

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Speaker 1: It must be the heat.

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Speaker 2: Scherie, welcome back, Thank you.

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Speaker 1: It's always so lovely to be here. And the studio's

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Speaker 1: air conditioned, which I'm just breathing in this break from

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Speaker 1: this awful, awful heat.

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Speaker 2: I mean, we have to start there. We have the

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Speaker 2: luxury of escaping into a very well air conditioned studio

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Speaker 2: and sitting in a fridge for a little while. Our

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Speaker 2: plants do not. I mean, obviously they are hot and

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Speaker 2: wilting and thirsty in this weather, but that's sort of

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Speaker 2: stating the bleeding obvious. Do you want to elaborate a

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Speaker 2: little bit about the impact this kind of heat has

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Speaker 2: on your plants and what we can do to sort

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Speaker 2: of manage it.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely. Yeah, they are obviously transpiring at a rate of knots,

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Speaker 1: which is them drawing water up from the soil through

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Speaker 1: their plant system, roots, stems, leaves, and out into the air.

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Speaker 1: That's how they trying to cool themselves down because they

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Speaker 1: can't move out of the sun or the wind into

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Speaker 1: the shade. So ways you can help do that is

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Speaker 1: to keep that soil hydrated, because if they can't keep

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Speaker 1: up with the transpiration rate, they start to wilt. They

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Speaker 1: just start to shed leaves that they can't support. And

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Speaker 1: there's nothing wrong with getting out a white sheet or

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Speaker 1: a white tablecloth, or a shade piece of shade cloth

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Speaker 1: or anything you've got and literally just giving them some

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Speaker 1: extra shade on the plants that you see that's suffering.

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Speaker 1: And do remember, although they might be wilting in the

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Speaker 1: middle of the day, don't walk water in the middle

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Speaker 1: of the day. It really is not a good idea.

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Speaker 1: There's droplets on the leaves actually act like little magnifying

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Speaker 1: glasses and they concentrate the sun's rays and you can

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Speaker 1: get a really bad spots or range of spots of

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Speaker 1: scorch on the plants leeves.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I thought you were going to say, don't water

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Speaker 2: in the middle of the day because it's such a

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Speaker 2: waste because you leave lose so much water to evaporation.

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Speaker 2: But that's a really interesting secondary or maybe primary concern.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, And also the water is warm out the hose,

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Speaker 1: warm in the soil. It's like giving someone a lukewarm

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Speaker 1: really just not doing the drink. Okay, it's better to

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Speaker 1: get out there in the early morning and avoid hitting

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Speaker 1: the leaves. Even then, just try get the water into

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Speaker 1: the soil area and then missed spraying. In a different situation,

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Speaker 1: if you indoors or you're on a patio, you can

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Speaker 1: use miss sprait to cool things down, wetting floors in

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Speaker 1: that case, to increase humidity, although it feels like it's

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Speaker 1: humid enough out there, and just cover marsh. No best

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Speaker 1: well don't let those roots cook, Okay, And that's about

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Speaker 1: the best we can do, and we just kind of

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Speaker 2: I mean, it thankfully does feel like we are starting

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Speaker 2: to see the the end of this particular current heat wave.

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Speaker 2: But I mean, I'm saying that all things are relative.

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Speaker 2: I'm grateful it was only thirty three driving in this

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Speaker 2: that's still very hot, so do do keep it in mind. Okay,

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Speaker 2: thanks for that advice. So watering early in the morning,

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Speaker 2: and watering the soil, not the leaves of the plant itself,

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Speaker 2: I mean, obviously, if you have questions around heat management

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Speaker 2: But we're also gonna happily take any other question for

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Speaker 2: Are there any particular sort of shapes or varieties or

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Speaker 1: I might even answer the other way around, but yes,

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Speaker 1: any large flat you know, open surface to the skun

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Speaker 1: If they gray, they're reflecting the sun. If they hairy,

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Speaker 1: escaping as quickly. And if they red tipped or red leave,

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Speaker 2: Interesting question for Mallie saying it confuses me. If water

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Speaker 2: droplets in the daytime can burn plants leaves by magnifying sunlight.

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Speaker 2: Why do you so many farmers irrigate throughout the day

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Speaker 1: A really good question, A really good question. A lot

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Speaker 1: and those plants are amazingly designed in their leaf arrangement

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Speaker 1: so that would be one. If they have broad leaved crops,

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Speaker 1: they are going to get scorch on those leaves as well.

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Speaker 1: But then possibly they're not as interested in the leaf.

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Speaker 1: They're waiting for the actual fruit or vegge or grain

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Speaker 2: And on the subject of heat a heat, Dorothy, thanks,

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Speaker 2: as do I Dorothy. That's great great to hear that

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Speaker 1: And that's also a really great idea for plants just

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Speaker 1: It's clever, yeah, but how wonderful to think about someone

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Speaker 1: equally walking across that hot tar.

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Speaker 2: Well done, Palmarra Junction, and well done Vida, who must

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Speaker 2: have sponsored those BROLLI so well done you.

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Speaker 2: To the WhatsApp line and some of the questions already

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Speaker 2: streaming in for Charisa. Let's start with Chris, who would

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Speaker 2: like your advice on when is the right time to

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Speaker 2: prone hibiscus? He says mine, not quite woody, but I

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Speaker 2: don't want to miss any new flowers that might be coming.

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Speaker 2: That's from Chris, and hotbay.

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Speaker 1: Hibiscus is tricky for me. I think as soon as

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Speaker 1: the reason I say it's tricky is because they flower

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Speaker 1: mulshing and hiding your plants from the sun should be happening.

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Speaker 1: So autumn orspring are the times that I like to

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Speaker 1: prune the hydrangers. I feel in the middle of summer

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Speaker 1: middle of the winter, they're not growing actively enough to

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Speaker 1: their recovery is going to be like, and I cut

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Speaker 1: cut the other half down. So, Chris, it's very complicated,

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Speaker 2: Wait for the seat to break before you do that.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to take your thereesa. This is asking a

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Speaker 2: on to life. In this kind of heat is asking too.

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Speaker 1: Much exactly, and every cut. Although you might be thinking

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Speaker 1: well I'm taking off leaf, therefore I'm reducing water pressure,

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Speaker 1: and if the plant is struggling, you're just going to

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Speaker 2: Okay, thanks for that and good Luckross. Hope that works right.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to a voice note in from Keith Hyperber.

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Speaker 3: It's Keith from Gordon's Bay. I've been using a product

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Speaker 3: called Quantum Silver plant care.

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Speaker 3: They say it's a natural antigotic and it was suggested

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Speaker 4: The roots or on the leaves to get it absorbed

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Speaker 4: through the foliage because what I've been treating it with

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Speaker 4: I've been spraying, and I must say the color of

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Speaker 3: They advocate that they don't kill bees and it's natural

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Speaker 3: and it's not chemical. Thank you very much, Papa, a

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Speaker 3: great show.

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Speaker 2: So are you familiar with the product.

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Speaker 1: I'm not as familiar with it. But it needs to

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Speaker 1: be diluted and then always once it's in liquid form,

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Speaker 1: often the most effective way to get it into the

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Speaker 1: center of the plant and through the systems is to

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Speaker 1: apply it to the root zone. And particularly in this

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Speaker 1: I keep saying it, sorry, but in this heat, don't

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Speaker 1: put any product on the leaves, even if it is

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Speaker 1: quickly absorbed. Rather just leave leave the leaves clear of

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Speaker 1: any form or any product aim for the root zone.

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Speaker 1: Some products like Kulpak are great for anti stress and

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Speaker 1: for disease resilience. They're full of hormones that the plant

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Speaker 1: that kind of product is absorbed both through the leaves,

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Speaker 1: the foliage and the roots. But in this case I

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Speaker 1: would recommend just aiming directly for the soil and putting

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Speaker 2: Okay, thank you Keith, and let us know how that works.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for your voice note O seven two five six

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Speaker 2: seven one five six seven if you'd like to send

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Speaker 2: a voice note of your own, otherwise a text. Very welcome,

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Speaker 2: and there are several more already coming through. Let's go

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Speaker 2: to Virginia who says, my granadilla tree does not bear fruit.

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Speaker 1: What might it be lacking. Gosh, there are so many

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Speaker 2: Yes that point, Yes, that's why we took a cut

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Speaker 2: Okay, good luck, Angela Right. Peter says, I've bought a

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Speaker 1: What was the term you use? The apex tip, apical dominance,

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Speaker 2: I have discovered they don't eat lavender and rosemary. Any

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Speaker 2: I think you're the what is the typical diet and

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Speaker 2: PAM a really really unusual, out of left field question

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Speaker 2: Okay, So ten miles of canola oil to one liter

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Speaker 2: and try that, Caren, and let's hope that it works

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Speaker 2: for you. Thank you. Okay, what a beautiful name. Alixia.

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Speaker 2: Elixia has an ailing kara kara orange tree. It's in

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Speaker 2: a pot and it has been happy, but the branches

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Speaker 1: Any suggestions, I think pretty much what I've said before.

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Speaker 1: I can keep up with really good watering. The pots

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Speaker 1: dry so quickly in this heat that you might find

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Speaker 1: that you should be watering both morning and evening because

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Speaker 1: pot bound, and in a month or two you could

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Speaker 1: then transfer it to a bigger pot. Check the watering,

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Speaker 1: check the pot size, do the fertilizing, do the micro

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Speaker 1: move the pot to a shady area, and don't forget

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Speaker 1: to check for wind damage if you've moved it. And

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Speaker 1: brown tips on leaves generally wind damage. So the first

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Speaker 1: thing I do when I see brown tips pippitt is

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Speaker 1: I feel them. If it's crispy and hard, it's generally drought,

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Speaker 1: and if it's squishy and soft, it's generally overwatering, which

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Speaker 1: I doubt is happening at this time of year, but

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Speaker 1: that's a good thing to feel for indoor plants as well.

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Speaker 2: Okay, we have to leave things there before we send

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Speaker 2: you back out into the Heat series. As always, thank

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Speaker 2: you so so much for your contributions, and just remind

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Speaker 2: listeners if they want to find you and reach out

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Speaker 2: to you for advice or consider bringing you into help

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Speaker 2: with their own gardens. What's the best place to connect

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Speaker 2: with you?

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Speaker 1: Email just Sharissatcherish Plants Dot com I am on Instagram

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Speaker 1: as well, so you can contact me that way, but

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Speaker 1: an email's always best and I look forward to hearing

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Speaker 1: from anyone who would like to have a chat out

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Speaker 1: of studio. But here's the place to find me and

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Speaker 1: dussigate to be continued next time. Keep well until then

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Speaker 1: and keep cool, Charisvillian