1 00:00:06,815 --> 00:00:10,615 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp 2 00:00:10,895 --> 00:00:13,335 Speaker 1: from News Talks. 3 00:00:12,815 --> 00:00:15,855 Speaker 2: Said, you're awfully dressed up, and I said, well, actually, 4 00:00:15,895 --> 00:00:19,015 Speaker 2: I've got a speaking engagement. I've got to talk at 5 00:00:19,055 --> 00:00:21,455 Speaker 2: a Father's Day breakfast after this. So there you go. 6 00:00:21,615 --> 00:00:24,255 Speaker 3: God, really I do. That's nice. 7 00:00:24,455 --> 00:00:25,775 Speaker 2: That's nice, It'll be awesome. 8 00:00:26,855 --> 00:00:29,055 Speaker 3: I'll be going to the solf it's just for Father's 9 00:00:29,095 --> 00:00:31,295 Speaker 3: Day at the at the end of this month, on 10 00:00:31,335 --> 00:00:33,335 Speaker 3: the twenty eighth, I might be in the studio with you. 11 00:00:33,415 --> 00:00:38,535 Speaker 3: How's that? Oh fantasticas if everything is going well. It's 12 00:00:38,575 --> 00:00:41,455 Speaker 3: their Peter Blake Trust for two weeks usually in. 13 00:00:41,415 --> 00:00:44,335 Speaker 2: Auckland and this is school whole days, isn't it? This 14 00:00:46,135 --> 00:00:47,375 Speaker 2: literacy and so on? 15 00:00:47,775 --> 00:00:50,255 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's Actually I'm looking forward to that this 16 00:00:50,335 --> 00:00:53,615 Speaker 3: year because it's we're totally booked out for quite a 17 00:00:53,615 --> 00:00:56,895 Speaker 3: long time now. It's good. So we're taking thirty teachers 18 00:00:56,935 --> 00:01:01,695 Speaker 3: for a week into a really nice hotel and and 19 00:01:01,855 --> 00:01:04,055 Speaker 3: then take them to all sorts of wonderful places like 20 00:01:04,135 --> 00:01:08,175 Speaker 3: Stardom but also outside Nui and things like that. Beautiful 21 00:01:08,535 --> 00:01:11,415 Speaker 3: and and boy, the stuff we see this stuff, it's 22 00:01:11,535 --> 00:01:15,815 Speaker 3: lovely to see eyes go open. Last time we found 23 00:01:16,055 --> 00:01:20,215 Speaker 3: a sleeping kiwi and that was that was for me, 24 00:01:20,335 --> 00:01:23,815 Speaker 3: that was brilliant. It was one of those days when 25 00:01:23,895 --> 00:01:26,775 Speaker 3: everything rained and it was awful and things like that, 26 00:01:27,335 --> 00:01:29,815 Speaker 3: and and and I thought, oh gosh, it's going to 27 00:01:29,855 --> 00:01:31,935 Speaker 3: be a disaster. And in the end we found this 28 00:01:32,015 --> 00:01:35,495 Speaker 3: kiwi and nobody talked about the rain anymore. That was it. 29 00:01:35,575 --> 00:01:36,735 Speaker 3: That was such a good point. 30 00:01:36,975 --> 00:01:38,855 Speaker 2: And so I see the other day, I think they've 31 00:01:38,855 --> 00:01:42,815 Speaker 2: reintroduced to Atara Torri Martgui. 32 00:01:43,615 --> 00:01:48,015 Speaker 3: Tardy has had to for a long time, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 33 00:01:48,135 --> 00:01:52,055 Speaker 3: that's that's fantastic. Yeah yeah. And and kiwi as well, 34 00:01:52,055 --> 00:01:55,295 Speaker 3: a little spote and things that I remember. I remember going. 35 00:01:55,615 --> 00:01:58,015 Speaker 3: I remember flying in a chopper with those with those 36 00:01:58,095 --> 00:02:00,535 Speaker 3: kiwi when I came off the radio because there was 37 00:02:00,575 --> 00:02:02,775 Speaker 3: no time for me to drive there, so they just 38 00:02:02,815 --> 00:02:03,415 Speaker 3: picked me up. 39 00:02:04,135 --> 00:02:08,455 Speaker 2: How brilliant, brilliant. And you know, because sometimes I think 40 00:02:08,495 --> 00:02:11,255 Speaker 2: when we look at nature and the environment, it's easy 41 00:02:11,295 --> 00:02:13,495 Speaker 2: to get a bit downheartened. But like I saw the 42 00:02:13,495 --> 00:02:18,335 Speaker 2: other day, like the little local ecological restoration group that 43 00:02:18,375 --> 00:02:21,735 Speaker 2: I've had some association with, they're doing like an open 44 00:02:21,815 --> 00:02:25,175 Speaker 2: day at the nursery, giving away seedlings. And I've noticed 45 00:02:25,175 --> 00:02:28,295 Speaker 2: this across the country and councils are supporting this as well, 46 00:02:28,295 --> 00:02:32,055 Speaker 2: that as these groups grow and their capacity to produce 47 00:02:32,135 --> 00:02:35,375 Speaker 2: new seedlings, new native plants, they're also being really generous, 48 00:02:35,495 --> 00:02:37,455 Speaker 2: just going, hey, folks, if you need them, come and 49 00:02:37,455 --> 00:02:39,455 Speaker 2: get them. You know, we're open today, Come and grab them, 50 00:02:39,495 --> 00:02:41,495 Speaker 2: and then take those and go and plant them and 51 00:02:41,695 --> 00:02:44,655 Speaker 2: restore your own native habitat. So there's some really exciting 52 00:02:44,695 --> 00:02:45,295 Speaker 2: things happening. 53 00:02:45,815 --> 00:02:48,495 Speaker 3: Absolutely, and that's the one, isn't it. That's exactly what 54 00:02:48,535 --> 00:02:49,215 Speaker 3: you should be doing. 55 00:02:49,255 --> 00:02:51,095 Speaker 2: Anyway, say something quite. 56 00:02:50,815 --> 00:02:53,455 Speaker 3: Different and it's a bit more towards your thing. I've 57 00:02:53,455 --> 00:02:55,615 Speaker 3: been We've put a new garage in at home and 58 00:02:56,135 --> 00:02:57,895 Speaker 3: took a long time and all this sort of stuff. 59 00:02:58,255 --> 00:03:00,975 Speaker 3: But around there we put, you know, we put if 60 00:03:00,975 --> 00:03:04,615 Speaker 3: you like, regret and the stone around there for their 61 00:03:04,735 --> 00:03:08,895 Speaker 3: entrance off the garage. I came across this little company 62 00:03:08,975 --> 00:03:13,495 Speaker 3: in christ which is called Gracetone Screening and crushing. What 63 00:03:13,575 --> 00:03:17,855 Speaker 3: do you normally pay for a cubic meter of let's say, 64 00:03:17,895 --> 00:03:22,535 Speaker 3: you know, fourteen mil stuff that you can use on 65 00:03:22,575 --> 00:03:26,095 Speaker 3: your It's unbelievable. There were so cheap these people. There 66 00:03:26,175 --> 00:03:29,255 Speaker 3: was just unbelievable. I couldn't believe you could get a 67 00:03:29,335 --> 00:03:33,375 Speaker 3: ton of that stuff for thirty thirty five bucks. 68 00:03:33,095 --> 00:03:36,295 Speaker 2: That's actually pretty sharp price. Look, a lot of it 69 00:03:36,335 --> 00:03:38,735 Speaker 2: depends on things like how far they have to travel 70 00:03:38,735 --> 00:03:41,335 Speaker 2: from the quarry, and that's an issue for Auckland. For example, 71 00:03:42,255 --> 00:03:45,095 Speaker 2: when I first started building, right, the first house we 72 00:03:45,095 --> 00:03:48,295 Speaker 2: did was in Saint John's and when we needed some scoria, 73 00:03:48,575 --> 00:03:50,935 Speaker 2: you hocked the trailer on. You drove down Lane AV 74 00:03:51,055 --> 00:03:53,935 Speaker 2: into the quarry at Mount Wellington and they loaded up 75 00:03:53,975 --> 00:03:57,175 Speaker 2: the trailer and you drove out. Right Now that quarry's gone, 76 00:03:57,215 --> 00:04:00,815 Speaker 2: that's housing three queens has gone. Now, if you're looking 77 00:04:00,815 --> 00:04:04,855 Speaker 2: at quarried material, talking about Drury or Rama, rama, no, 78 00:04:05,855 --> 00:04:08,975 Speaker 2: because there's no quarries in Auckland. People don't like quarries 79 00:04:09,015 --> 00:04:12,255 Speaker 2: next to their backfits, no, I can imagine. So hence 80 00:04:12,295 --> 00:04:13,095 Speaker 2: the cost goes up. 81 00:04:14,015 --> 00:04:14,415 Speaker 3: Wow. 82 00:04:15,815 --> 00:04:18,215 Speaker 2: But yeah, that'll that'll be a large part. The other 83 00:04:18,455 --> 00:04:22,335 Speaker 2: really cool thing is that obviously we're now reasonably engaged 84 00:04:22,375 --> 00:04:25,535 Speaker 2: with being able to recycle concrete waste, so you know, 85 00:04:25,655 --> 00:04:28,415 Speaker 2: rather than that going into hard pill, it'll go get 86 00:04:28,455 --> 00:04:30,375 Speaker 2: crushed and recycled as phil. 87 00:04:30,695 --> 00:04:33,575 Speaker 3: Yeah, that makes total sense. Yeah, yeah, the guy, the 88 00:04:33,615 --> 00:04:35,775 Speaker 3: guy of Graystowe. He told me also about something that 89 00:04:35,815 --> 00:04:38,255 Speaker 3: he was looking at in the Rakaia River and things 90 00:04:38,335 --> 00:04:42,495 Speaker 3: like that, and mucking around there with literally creating new 91 00:04:42,575 --> 00:04:46,455 Speaker 3: habitats at the same time. So it's it's almost like 92 00:04:46,495 --> 00:04:49,215 Speaker 3: a quarry of a river, if you like, made it 93 00:04:49,375 --> 00:04:52,695 Speaker 3: made back into a wonderful place for creatures to live 94 00:04:52,695 --> 00:04:56,455 Speaker 3: and birds to live and plants to live. And I 95 00:04:56,495 --> 00:04:59,175 Speaker 3: love that when I see this. By the way, did you, 96 00:04:59,255 --> 00:05:06,135 Speaker 3: by the way, did you see this this week's dock advertisements? 97 00:05:06,935 --> 00:05:10,015 Speaker 3: You know, it's the conservation week if you like. Right, 98 00:05:10,815 --> 00:05:14,655 Speaker 3: So the idea was that we are not just with 99 00:05:15,215 --> 00:05:19,815 Speaker 3: what do you call it, five point three million New zealanders, 100 00:05:20,495 --> 00:05:25,175 Speaker 3: We are basically with something like six hundred and ninety 101 00:05:25,335 --> 00:05:29,655 Speaker 3: five billion residents in New Zealand, right, and twenty eight 102 00:05:29,695 --> 00:05:33,775 Speaker 3: thousand species of those are endemic and only live in using. 103 00:05:34,135 --> 00:05:37,055 Speaker 3: I love stuff like that. Do the maths and talk 104 00:05:37,095 --> 00:05:38,975 Speaker 3: to the kids and the teachers at schools and talk 105 00:05:39,015 --> 00:05:41,535 Speaker 3: about these sort of things. Well done, Doc, I think 106 00:05:41,575 --> 00:05:44,015 Speaker 3: that was a great week we just had. I just 107 00:05:44,055 --> 00:05:45,655 Speaker 3: thought i'd, you know, make that point. 108 00:05:46,575 --> 00:05:48,975 Speaker 2: And you know, the numbers are great, and the numbers 109 00:05:48,975 --> 00:05:51,935 Speaker 2: make you feel proud. Wow, Yes, that's kind of how 110 00:05:51,935 --> 00:05:52,375 Speaker 2: I see it. 111 00:05:52,775 --> 00:05:55,695 Speaker 3: Yeah, so we're looking after a lot of different creatures. 112 00:05:55,735 --> 00:05:58,815 Speaker 2: Yeah, we've talked to a few people like Helen. Good 113 00:05:58,815 --> 00:05:59,495 Speaker 2: morning to you. 114 00:06:00,695 --> 00:06:05,335 Speaker 4: Yes, good morning Helen, from my very point happy father 115 00:06:05,455 --> 00:06:10,375 Speaker 4: stage in to thank you. I just wanted to know 116 00:06:10,615 --> 00:06:16,895 Speaker 4: when is the correct time in Auckland to prune tamarillo trees. 117 00:06:18,695 --> 00:06:22,255 Speaker 3: I think that should have happened in winter, so you 118 00:06:22,295 --> 00:06:26,215 Speaker 3: could still have a go with that, right, okay, but 119 00:06:26,815 --> 00:06:29,375 Speaker 3: make it make it reasonably quick, I. 120 00:06:29,335 --> 00:06:33,255 Speaker 4: Would say, okay, before it warms up too much. 121 00:06:33,815 --> 00:06:40,735 Speaker 3: Do you have good Do you have good fruit coming 122 00:06:40,735 --> 00:06:44,575 Speaker 3: off your tree? Is it large enough to to live properly? 123 00:06:44,615 --> 00:06:44,935 Speaker 5: There? 124 00:06:45,655 --> 00:06:46,215 Speaker 3: You know what I mean? 125 00:06:46,455 --> 00:06:52,055 Speaker 4: Is they got beautifully here? Yes, that's all lovely virgin soil, 126 00:06:52,135 --> 00:06:53,575 Speaker 4: and all the fruit trees. 127 00:06:53,295 --> 00:06:56,535 Speaker 3: Too, well nice, that's really lovely. 128 00:06:57,455 --> 00:07:01,855 Speaker 4: So I have many varieties of the tamarillo, you know, 129 00:07:02,015 --> 00:07:05,815 Speaker 4: the golden ones and the red ones and just. 130 00:07:05,975 --> 00:07:09,295 Speaker 3: Lessa yeah, good good, Now, this is a good time. 131 00:07:09,335 --> 00:07:12,695 Speaker 3: You can still do it, but but be reasonably smart 132 00:07:12,735 --> 00:07:15,095 Speaker 3: with it, because of course this thing starts to flower 133 00:07:15,175 --> 00:07:18,015 Speaker 3: soon and you need some you need some good good 134 00:07:18,095 --> 00:07:18,575 Speaker 3: wood for that. 135 00:07:18,815 --> 00:07:21,215 Speaker 4: Yep, yep, I'll do it today. 136 00:07:21,335 --> 00:07:23,175 Speaker 3: Thank you. 137 00:07:24,415 --> 00:07:27,255 Speaker 2: You take care it quick. Tikest as well. So do 138 00:07:27,335 --> 00:07:30,175 Speaker 2: I need to fertilize a young avocado tree? 139 00:07:30,735 --> 00:07:35,615 Speaker 3: Yeah? I wish this person would ring up, because of 140 00:07:35,695 --> 00:07:39,175 Speaker 3: course you fertilize a young ever garda tree. You fertilize 141 00:07:39,415 --> 00:07:42,215 Speaker 3: every plant if you like that you've got in your garden. 142 00:07:42,615 --> 00:07:45,615 Speaker 3: But I was wondering if there was another story behind that. 143 00:07:46,495 --> 00:07:48,855 Speaker 3: So the answer is yes, I would, and what I 144 00:07:48,855 --> 00:07:51,295 Speaker 3: would do from now on is do a little bit 145 00:07:51,455 --> 00:07:55,135 Speaker 3: of general fertilizer with a little bit of sulfate of 146 00:07:55,215 --> 00:07:58,415 Speaker 3: potash to make sure that they will start to flower 147 00:07:58,495 --> 00:08:01,255 Speaker 3: as soon as they can, and that means also having 148 00:08:01,295 --> 00:08:05,535 Speaker 3: fruit going right. Yes, good time to do it. 149 00:08:05,575 --> 00:08:07,815 Speaker 2: I've got to get that round my place as well. 150 00:08:08,415 --> 00:08:10,295 Speaker 2: Now someone sticks through as well. Is it normal to 151 00:08:10,335 --> 00:08:13,015 Speaker 2: be infisted by ants at this time of year in 152 00:08:13,455 --> 00:08:14,055 Speaker 2: christ Church? 153 00:08:14,695 --> 00:08:17,655 Speaker 3: Good news and bad news. Good news is yes. The 154 00:08:17,695 --> 00:08:22,135 Speaker 3: bad news is they're not native right. In other words, 155 00:08:22,255 --> 00:08:24,615 Speaker 3: what I've noticed is we are getting more and more 156 00:08:24,655 --> 00:08:28,095 Speaker 3: introduced ants in christ Church, and they have an ability 157 00:08:28,215 --> 00:08:32,255 Speaker 3: to literally keep going despite the fact that it's quite 158 00:08:32,295 --> 00:08:36,055 Speaker 3: cold in christ Church in the wintertime. They keep going 159 00:08:36,055 --> 00:08:37,975 Speaker 3: and they will come into your house. That's right. Yeah, 160 00:08:38,615 --> 00:08:42,815 Speaker 3: many different species now, okay, and it's really it's unbelievable 161 00:08:42,815 --> 00:08:46,455 Speaker 3: how these things travel and getting to do southern places 162 00:08:46,495 --> 00:08:48,335 Speaker 3: now with I suppose climate disruption. 163 00:08:48,815 --> 00:08:53,855 Speaker 2: Yeah wow, okay, well right, hey, grant a very good 164 00:08:53,855 --> 00:08:56,135 Speaker 2: morning to you at. 165 00:08:56,095 --> 00:09:00,895 Speaker 5: Top of the morning, gentlemen. A cross collination of fruit trees. Yeah, 166 00:09:00,895 --> 00:09:05,495 Speaker 5: I have two feo trees. One's the small fruit bit sweet. 167 00:09:05,735 --> 00:09:08,895 Speaker 5: One's the big fruit that's sweet. And they seem to 168 00:09:08,895 --> 00:09:11,855 Speaker 5: be they seem to be happy as my free the 169 00:09:11,935 --> 00:09:14,855 Speaker 5: feature of fruit are now big and sweet. Okay. My 170 00:09:14,895 --> 00:09:19,335 Speaker 5: problem is with my lemon tree. It's doing something with 171 00:09:19,375 --> 00:09:23,255 Speaker 5: my mandarin tree. Because now I've got easy peel lemons. 172 00:09:24,575 --> 00:09:25,295 Speaker 5: Does that happen? 173 00:09:26,215 --> 00:09:26,455 Speaker 6: You know? 174 00:09:26,855 --> 00:09:30,415 Speaker 3: I don't maybe, but I hadn't heard about that. Yeah. 175 00:09:30,455 --> 00:09:32,695 Speaker 3: I like that. I like the way you describe it 176 00:09:32,815 --> 00:09:35,895 Speaker 3: easy peel lemons. Are you sure? 177 00:09:38,055 --> 00:09:41,855 Speaker 5: Yesterday? As a lemon tree, as a maya lemon, and 178 00:09:41,895 --> 00:09:45,415 Speaker 5: I have an easy peel menda in the sanumi one 179 00:09:45,455 --> 00:09:46,335 Speaker 5: whatever it's called. 180 00:09:48,735 --> 00:09:51,095 Speaker 3: Ah, you got a different variety there, okay, got you? 181 00:09:51,295 --> 00:09:54,415 Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, okay, Now the problem with the lemon 182 00:09:54,655 --> 00:09:57,295 Speaker 5: is the lemons. The lemon is fruits all of the 183 00:09:57,375 --> 00:10:00,415 Speaker 5: time because I am singing you bother it twice a year, 184 00:10:00,495 --> 00:10:02,495 Speaker 5: once in the autumn and once in the spring, because 185 00:10:02,495 --> 00:10:05,135 Speaker 5: I've heard you talk about that before, so I've done 186 00:10:05,135 --> 00:10:10,295 Speaker 5: it an autumn and s yeah yeah. But the freedom 187 00:10:10,255 --> 00:10:14,455 Speaker 5: inside the lemon is like really small and appeals off 188 00:10:14,495 --> 00:10:16,775 Speaker 5: and sigmas. That's why I'm thinking of doing something with 189 00:10:16,815 --> 00:10:18,175 Speaker 5: the menda entry at night time. 190 00:10:18,695 --> 00:10:21,095 Speaker 3: I don't I wouldn't think that that would be the case. 191 00:10:21,135 --> 00:10:22,975 Speaker 3: But what I would do if I were you, and 192 00:10:23,015 --> 00:10:25,655 Speaker 3: that is probably a good idea, is to have a 193 00:10:25,735 --> 00:10:30,255 Speaker 3: second mayor lemon, because mayor lemon has this stability, has 194 00:10:30,335 --> 00:10:33,735 Speaker 3: ability to go on for one year and the next 195 00:10:33,775 --> 00:10:38,135 Speaker 3: year going like nap, and then the next year. Oh yeah. 196 00:10:38,375 --> 00:10:41,255 Speaker 3: So if you want constant lemons, you know what I mean, 197 00:10:41,295 --> 00:10:43,455 Speaker 3: I usually say, get two or three, put them together. 198 00:10:43,575 --> 00:10:46,735 Speaker 3: In fact, plant them in the same hole if you like, 199 00:10:46,895 --> 00:10:52,335 Speaker 3: because by having three different lemons, if you like lemon 200 00:10:52,375 --> 00:10:55,575 Speaker 3: trees in one hole, you treat them like one. But 201 00:10:55,695 --> 00:11:02,335 Speaker 3: their genetic one off, one off year system will change. 202 00:11:02,255 --> 00:11:05,175 Speaker 5: Yeap. When I bought the when I bought the two 203 00:11:06,015 --> 00:11:08,135 Speaker 5: such trees, I bought them at the same time I 204 00:11:08,215 --> 00:11:10,695 Speaker 5: heard you. When I bought them because you're about three 205 00:11:10,815 --> 00:11:17,535 Speaker 5: years old. Yeah'd you say? Yeah, the lemonitary they do 206 00:11:17,655 --> 00:11:21,215 Speaker 5: everything perfect, everything's perfect. The sept for the lemon, it's 207 00:11:21,255 --> 00:11:23,535 Speaker 5: the fruit inside the lemon is actually quite small. But 208 00:11:23,575 --> 00:11:26,215 Speaker 5: I was thinking about planting another lemon tree beside it. 209 00:11:26,735 --> 00:11:27,095 Speaker 3: Yeah, I do. 210 00:11:27,575 --> 00:11:31,095 Speaker 5: Yeah, because because when I first bought them, you go 211 00:11:31,415 --> 00:11:35,495 Speaker 5: to go no, yeah, fish for them. Okay, when I 212 00:11:35,735 --> 00:11:37,735 Speaker 5: when I first brought them, I did cut the flowers 213 00:11:37,775 --> 00:11:40,095 Speaker 5: off the first lot of flowers that I saw as 214 00:11:40,095 --> 00:11:41,895 Speaker 5: soon as the start of flowing, because I heard you 215 00:11:41,975 --> 00:11:44,055 Speaker 5: say something that they need growth in the first year 216 00:11:44,375 --> 00:11:46,015 Speaker 5: or something like that. So I just topped all the 217 00:11:46,015 --> 00:11:48,095 Speaker 5: flowers off and I did that on both of them, 218 00:11:48,535 --> 00:11:52,295 Speaker 5: and the second year they fruited. Like wow, look at this, you. 219 00:11:52,215 --> 00:11:54,335 Speaker 3: Know, yeah, you got it. Yeah. You got to give 220 00:11:54,375 --> 00:11:56,935 Speaker 3: them time, and you've got to give build a cut 221 00:11:57,655 --> 00:12:00,415 Speaker 3: and if you like, build a body for those things 222 00:12:00,615 --> 00:12:02,855 Speaker 3: so they can actually then have fruit later on. Yeah. 223 00:12:02,895 --> 00:12:05,815 Speaker 3: Now that's a good idea. But the ideas of having 224 00:12:05,895 --> 00:12:10,735 Speaker 3: different the same variety, like the maya in one one 225 00:12:11,015 --> 00:12:13,535 Speaker 3: finishes one year and the other one doesn't do that 226 00:12:13,695 --> 00:12:17,855 Speaker 3: very well, and they swap bases if you like. Yeah, 227 00:12:17,975 --> 00:12:21,375 Speaker 3: it's no. But you know, from now on, yeah, go on. 228 00:12:21,455 --> 00:12:24,135 Speaker 3: From from now on, what I would do is is 229 00:12:24,575 --> 00:12:27,895 Speaker 3: fertilized your lemon trees from now on. Absolutely have a 230 00:12:27,935 --> 00:12:29,135 Speaker 3: good go with them. 231 00:12:29,415 --> 00:12:32,015 Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, Copas, thank you very much for. 232 00:12:32,575 --> 00:12:36,095 Speaker 3: Hey morning, welcome g very ground. 233 00:12:36,415 --> 00:12:38,615 Speaker 2: You have a great day. Take care of rightio. We 234 00:12:38,695 --> 00:12:40,895 Speaker 2: might take short break. We'll be back. Actually we've got 235 00:12:40,895 --> 00:12:43,495 Speaker 2: some spear lines, so if you have a question for it, 236 00:12:43,535 --> 00:12:45,655 Speaker 2: call us right now. Wait one hundred and eighty ten 237 00:12:45,735 --> 00:12:59,975 Speaker 2: eighty righty oh, now we're now, we're flat out. Let's 238 00:12:59,975 --> 00:13:02,615 Speaker 2: get into it. Temarillos Barbara, Hello. 239 00:13:03,855 --> 00:13:04,335 Speaker 5: Good morning. 240 00:13:04,855 --> 00:13:08,495 Speaker 6: Right, I'm the complete opposite of the lady that you 241 00:13:08,615 --> 00:13:12,895 Speaker 6: had on earlier. I'm in Papamoa Beach and we have 242 00:13:13,095 --> 00:13:19,055 Speaker 6: no luck with our tamarillos. We've put two in last summer, 243 00:13:19,655 --> 00:13:22,775 Speaker 6: put them tucked in nice and warm behind the starpoole 244 00:13:23,255 --> 00:13:26,655 Speaker 6: and over win truck's had frost cloth around them. We 245 00:13:26,855 --> 00:13:28,975 Speaker 6: trimmed them when they got to sort of that meta 246 00:13:29,415 --> 00:13:34,815 Speaker 6: meter ten height to encourage branching. But nothing's happening. And 247 00:13:35,095 --> 00:13:39,455 Speaker 6: my red tamarillo, just the whole stem has gone sort 248 00:13:39,455 --> 00:13:43,135 Speaker 6: of brownie black and looks like it's dying. And the 249 00:13:44,255 --> 00:13:48,095 Speaker 6: orange one no growth, no leaves, nothing, What are we 250 00:13:48,215 --> 00:13:48,815 Speaker 6: doing wrong? 251 00:13:49,295 --> 00:13:52,215 Speaker 3: Oh my god? You had them. You bought what do 252 00:13:52,255 --> 00:13:58,495 Speaker 3: you call it, tamillos that were sorry, avocado, no tammrillosalize 253 00:13:58,535 --> 00:14:02,735 Speaker 3: you for you did get some stuff that was already grafted. 254 00:14:04,975 --> 00:14:08,775 Speaker 6: I don't know that they're from a reputable supplier. 255 00:14:08,295 --> 00:14:12,135 Speaker 3: At the garacine. Okay, well, look, to be quite honest, 256 00:14:12,135 --> 00:14:14,255 Speaker 3: did you fertilize them. I'm sure you did, Barbara. 257 00:14:15,415 --> 00:14:16,095 Speaker 5: Absolutely. 258 00:14:16,175 --> 00:14:19,695 Speaker 6: We use sheep manure and chicken manure and comfrey. 259 00:14:19,775 --> 00:14:25,135 Speaker 3: K okay, chicken manure and sheep manure. Is there anything 260 00:14:25,215 --> 00:14:28,375 Speaker 3: there to actually get them to flower because chicken menu 261 00:14:28,455 --> 00:14:31,975 Speaker 3: and cheap manure makes them give leaves? 262 00:14:33,095 --> 00:14:35,295 Speaker 6: Okay, no, well that's that's all. 263 00:14:35,295 --> 00:14:35,815 Speaker 5: We're yours. 264 00:14:35,855 --> 00:14:37,815 Speaker 6: But they haven't even got leaves. 265 00:14:38,215 --> 00:14:42,215 Speaker 3: Oh, cheapest creepers. I can't believe that they should be. 266 00:14:42,255 --> 00:14:43,735 Speaker 3: They should be okay where you are? 267 00:14:45,455 --> 00:14:49,175 Speaker 6: Yes? Yeah, And like we said, we bought these two 268 00:14:49,255 --> 00:14:52,255 Speaker 6: new ones and touched them behind the spark Paul thinking 269 00:14:52,415 --> 00:14:56,135 Speaker 6: nice and warm, sunny, the bullish shells. They don't get 270 00:14:56,175 --> 00:14:56,935 Speaker 6: any one. 271 00:14:58,215 --> 00:15:01,215 Speaker 3: Look I don't it's hard to see. And you say 272 00:15:01,255 --> 00:15:05,055 Speaker 3: they don't even have leaves at the moment. None. 273 00:15:05,575 --> 00:15:09,375 Speaker 6: No, so they orange timbrilladhead one leaf over winter, which 274 00:15:09,495 --> 00:15:12,495 Speaker 6: got more miserable looking as it went and it dropped off. 275 00:15:14,015 --> 00:15:16,255 Speaker 6: So there's just nothing on this, and I maybe just 276 00:15:16,295 --> 00:15:19,695 Speaker 6: try a little bit of We did all our citrus 277 00:15:19,695 --> 00:15:23,055 Speaker 6: and fruit trees the other day with citrus and fruit fertilizers, 278 00:15:23,255 --> 00:15:24,815 Speaker 6: pot some of that on there as well. 279 00:15:25,215 --> 00:15:28,495 Speaker 3: Absolutely, absolutely, but also ask the people you bought it 280 00:15:28,575 --> 00:15:30,655 Speaker 3: from to see if they've got a really strange batch, 281 00:15:30,695 --> 00:15:32,775 Speaker 3: because I don't know what's going on with this. That 282 00:15:32,855 --> 00:15:33,895 Speaker 3: should not happen like that. 283 00:15:35,975 --> 00:15:37,095 Speaker 6: No, awesome, thank you. 284 00:15:37,975 --> 00:15:41,375 Speaker 3: Sorry, Barbara, I have I'm actually stunned because I thought 285 00:15:41,415 --> 00:15:43,615 Speaker 3: that they were quite easy to grow to Marilla's there 286 00:15:43,615 --> 00:15:45,495 Speaker 3: you are, boom, especially where you were. 287 00:15:46,775 --> 00:15:51,015 Speaker 6: Yes, we've got thirty five fruit trees. They's are the 288 00:15:51,135 --> 00:15:54,975 Speaker 6: only fruits that we cannot get even let alone, let 289 00:15:55,055 --> 00:15:55,695 Speaker 6: alone fruit. 290 00:15:56,655 --> 00:15:59,535 Speaker 3: Oh gosh, that's weird. Sorry, I can't help you with 291 00:15:59,575 --> 00:16:00,135 Speaker 3: that any. 292 00:16:00,855 --> 00:16:02,775 Speaker 2: The no leaf thing is a bit of an issue. 293 00:16:02,495 --> 00:16:04,895 Speaker 3: Isn't it. Yeah, giveaway. 294 00:16:06,135 --> 00:16:08,655 Speaker 2: The fantastic David. 295 00:16:09,055 --> 00:16:11,815 Speaker 7: Good morning, Good morning guys. 296 00:16:13,975 --> 00:16:17,895 Speaker 3: Hello David, what are you going to do with your avocados? 297 00:16:19,255 --> 00:16:25,135 Speaker 7: We're driving to odorings right now to buy to buy 298 00:16:25,455 --> 00:16:26,975 Speaker 7: a reed and a bacon. 299 00:16:28,535 --> 00:16:30,495 Speaker 3: I see, okay, Yeah they're good. 300 00:16:31,495 --> 00:16:34,495 Speaker 7: We're out of morac, alcohol and hastings. 301 00:16:34,775 --> 00:16:35,015 Speaker 3: Yeah. 302 00:16:35,135 --> 00:16:38,135 Speaker 7: So it gets quite gets quite frosty, quite cold. 303 00:16:38,935 --> 00:16:39,855 Speaker 3: Yeah, so. 304 00:16:41,215 --> 00:16:44,295 Speaker 7: He eats tips for planting. 305 00:16:45,975 --> 00:16:50,175 Speaker 3: Yes, go to a higher elevation when the frost can 306 00:16:50,255 --> 00:16:54,655 Speaker 3: drip away down below. Believe it or not. In christ 307 00:16:54,815 --> 00:16:58,735 Speaker 3: Use where I live, my neighbor is growing fabulous avocados. 308 00:16:59,015 --> 00:17:01,255 Speaker 3: And we are one hundred and five meters above sea 309 00:17:01,335 --> 00:17:04,535 Speaker 3: level in the port Hills and it can freeze, but 310 00:17:04,695 --> 00:17:07,615 Speaker 3: not where we are. We're usually okay in terms of frost. 311 00:17:07,935 --> 00:17:09,855 Speaker 3: So the frost might be a bit of a trouble, 312 00:17:10,135 --> 00:17:10,775 Speaker 3: you know what I mean. 313 00:17:11,895 --> 00:17:14,615 Speaker 7: Yeah, Yeah, we've got covers on them as well. 314 00:17:15,135 --> 00:17:18,055 Speaker 3: Yeah, there you go. That's the way I would go. Yeah, 315 00:17:18,095 --> 00:17:19,895 Speaker 3: that's what I would do in the in your case, 316 00:17:19,935 --> 00:17:24,255 Speaker 3: it's interesting that so this is well known here on 317 00:17:24,295 --> 00:17:27,255 Speaker 3: the porthills that you can have these uh these plants 318 00:17:27,295 --> 00:17:31,375 Speaker 3: and doing quite well and so far south. Yeah. 319 00:17:32,255 --> 00:17:32,655 Speaker 5: Now, so. 320 00:17:34,255 --> 00:17:38,975 Speaker 7: Yeah, when planting, shall we put any fertilizer or. 321 00:17:40,855 --> 00:17:44,175 Speaker 3: Fertilizers on the absolutely from now on certainly to get 322 00:17:44,215 --> 00:17:47,015 Speaker 3: those trees going. And if you can't do them on 323 00:17:47,055 --> 00:17:49,775 Speaker 3: the north side, the north side of your section or 324 00:17:49,815 --> 00:17:53,735 Speaker 3: of your if you like garden, so that you get 325 00:17:53,775 --> 00:17:55,935 Speaker 3: a little bit of warmth, a little bit more warmth, 326 00:17:55,975 --> 00:17:56,735 Speaker 3: that's what you need. 327 00:17:57,935 --> 00:18:02,055 Speaker 2: Okay, all the best Now odorings are they only in 328 00:18:02,135 --> 00:18:02,655 Speaker 2: Chrst Church? 329 00:18:03,135 --> 00:18:07,855 Speaker 3: No, they're not there in Hawk's Bay too. Yeah, I 330 00:18:07,855 --> 00:18:08,095 Speaker 3: know there. 331 00:18:08,255 --> 00:18:10,015 Speaker 2: I was just a little confused because I know you've 332 00:18:10,015 --> 00:18:12,295 Speaker 2: talked about going to odorings and it's yeah, it's a 333 00:18:12,335 --> 00:18:13,375 Speaker 2: neighborhood and I'm. 334 00:18:13,215 --> 00:18:17,655 Speaker 3: Thinking family, I know quite well, Yeah they live here. 335 00:18:17,735 --> 00:18:18,775 Speaker 3: They started all. 336 00:18:18,615 --> 00:18:22,815 Speaker 2: This awesome huge With that, I can go to the break. Right, 337 00:18:22,895 --> 00:18:26,895 Speaker 2: we're back after the break your talks, bigger climb past 338 00:18:26,975 --> 00:18:29,815 Speaker 2: with us as always on a Sunday, Elizabeth. 339 00:18:29,335 --> 00:18:34,855 Speaker 8: Good morning, Oh, good morning. I have got two passion 340 00:18:34,855 --> 00:18:38,575 Speaker 8: fruit trees find whatever you call them, because they're climbing 341 00:18:38,615 --> 00:18:42,455 Speaker 8: up a brick fence. They've just gone crazy. The branches 342 00:18:42,615 --> 00:18:46,255 Speaker 8: just went around the corner and it's now the right 343 00:18:46,335 --> 00:18:48,895 Speaker 8: time to cut them back. And how far do I 344 00:18:49,055 --> 00:18:50,055 Speaker 8: cut them? 345 00:18:50,975 --> 00:18:52,135 Speaker 3: One third? 346 00:18:54,015 --> 00:18:58,735 Speaker 8: Only a third? Yeah, it's gonna leave a lot of branches. 347 00:18:58,775 --> 00:19:02,335 Speaker 3: That's right. But look, you can go even further if 348 00:19:02,375 --> 00:19:05,775 Speaker 3: you want to. But generally speaking at about one third 349 00:19:05,895 --> 00:19:09,055 Speaker 3: of the mines overall growth should be could be cut 350 00:19:09,495 --> 00:19:13,575 Speaker 3: to encourage, to encourage new shoots for the upcoming season. 351 00:19:14,055 --> 00:19:19,495 Speaker 3: And you know when you do that pruning, yes right now? 352 00:19:19,495 --> 00:19:20,695 Speaker 1: When right? 353 00:19:20,935 --> 00:19:21,095 Speaker 5: Well? 354 00:19:21,375 --> 00:19:24,095 Speaker 8: I had you see at the moment they're covered with 355 00:19:24,215 --> 00:19:27,935 Speaker 8: frost class and frost thing coming tonight. 356 00:19:28,575 --> 00:19:34,415 Speaker 3: Where oh where are you in? Oh gosh. Look. The 357 00:19:34,415 --> 00:19:37,175 Speaker 3: big standing joke of client past on the radio is 358 00:19:37,215 --> 00:19:39,575 Speaker 3: that I have never been able to grow a passion 359 00:19:39,615 --> 00:19:44,455 Speaker 3: fruit in my life, and this year, don't I've got 360 00:19:44,495 --> 00:19:47,655 Speaker 3: about a meter and a half and it started about 361 00:19:48,335 --> 00:19:50,215 Speaker 3: last summer when I planted them. 362 00:19:50,255 --> 00:19:50,655 Speaker 5: Brilliant. 363 00:19:51,055 --> 00:19:53,535 Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm actually I'm really excited. 364 00:19:55,655 --> 00:19:59,255 Speaker 2: Restraint to you know, no sounds of chainsaws in the background, 365 00:19:59,375 --> 00:20:00,615 Speaker 2: no joke. 366 00:20:03,775 --> 00:20:06,575 Speaker 8: We've had a lot of passion fruit off the please 367 00:20:06,615 --> 00:20:10,015 Speaker 8: find you know the season. But I do need to 368 00:20:10,055 --> 00:20:12,375 Speaker 8: come back because okay. 369 00:20:12,295 --> 00:20:15,535 Speaker 3: Look, go but we might get a bit of frost. 370 00:20:15,575 --> 00:20:18,495 Speaker 3: But if you can stop them getting frost, just give 371 00:20:18,535 --> 00:20:21,015 Speaker 3: them another week or two before you do the pruning. 372 00:20:21,295 --> 00:20:23,535 Speaker 3: I suggest you do that. If you can do that, 373 00:20:23,575 --> 00:20:27,295 Speaker 3: you'll be fine. I reckon and together you and me, babe, 374 00:20:27,335 --> 00:20:28,775 Speaker 3: we can do this. 375 00:20:28,775 --> 00:20:32,055 Speaker 2: This is awesome. This is breaking news, folks. This is 376 00:20:32,175 --> 00:20:38,415 Speaker 2: this is like thirty years of having a cred honestly is. 377 00:20:38,495 --> 00:20:41,815 Speaker 8: Full of rhymes and that never happened before either. 378 00:20:42,575 --> 00:20:44,895 Speaker 3: No, but then again we had even had quite a 379 00:20:44,975 --> 00:20:47,215 Speaker 3: strange winter enough you noticed. 380 00:20:50,455 --> 00:20:53,535 Speaker 8: The limited lime trees well and truly covered with frost 381 00:20:53,575 --> 00:20:56,375 Speaker 8: cluff too, been very first. 382 00:20:56,135 --> 00:21:01,735 Speaker 3: Claf This is what breaking uses. 383 00:21:02,055 --> 00:21:03,535 Speaker 2: This is, This is just awesome. 384 00:21:04,655 --> 00:21:07,255 Speaker 3: I'm looking first lovely. 385 00:21:06,935 --> 00:21:09,535 Speaker 2: To talk to you, Elizabeth. Have a great day, take 386 00:21:09,575 --> 00:21:12,775 Speaker 2: care and to you again. Happy fathers and happy is 387 00:21:12,815 --> 00:21:14,095 Speaker 2: it all pass day today as well? 388 00:21:14,175 --> 00:21:18,815 Speaker 3: Yes, oh, don't worry, I'll do everything with don't worry. 389 00:21:19,575 --> 00:21:21,895 Speaker 3: I'll tell you about my twelve year old grandson once. 390 00:21:22,695 --> 00:21:23,375 Speaker 5: Look forward to it. 391 00:21:23,415 --> 00:21:25,215 Speaker 2: And if you are coming up, maybe we're going to 392 00:21:25,295 --> 00:21:28,655 Speaker 2: breakfas stuff towards let's do that. Yeah, okay, let's do 393 00:21:28,695 --> 00:21:31,135 Speaker 2: that boy, right o. Folks, Hey, have a great day 394 00:21:31,255 --> 00:21:35,095 Speaker 2: and happy Father's Day and certainly remembering my dad today. 395 00:21:35,215 --> 00:21:35,815 Speaker 2: Take care. 396 00:21:57,055 --> 00:22:00,015 Speaker 1: For more from the Resident Builder with Peter Wolfcamp. 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