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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp

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Speaker 1: from News Talks at.

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Speaker 2: A Right Climb Pass. Good morning, sir, Hello root ah, gotcha?

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Speaker 3: Had you you?

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Speaker 4: Ha?

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Speaker 2: Wella back again?

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Speaker 3: Hello root? Yeah? Hi, how are you? You're all good?

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Speaker 2: I'm all good. I'm all good, and yourself.

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Speaker 3: Excellent, excellent, excellent, getting a lot better. I've got a

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Speaker 3: couple of interesting little things. First of all, there's been

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Speaker 3: this lovely new fundraising thing called call Yourself a Kiwi.

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Speaker 3: Did you see that in the media at all yet?

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Speaker 3: Not yet? Maybe it only I think started in Wednesday

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Speaker 3: or Thursday something like that. It's basically about, you know,

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Speaker 3: if there were no more kiwi, could you still call

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Speaker 3: yourself oh brilliant?

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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, yeah, very yes.

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Speaker 3: It's basically it's basically about predator free, so literally getting

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Speaker 3: rid of all sorts of the rubbish things that eat

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Speaker 3: our natives. Yes, if you like. But I love the

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Speaker 3: way they actually use the kiwi as an example, so

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Speaker 3: you know, the supporters reference is the kiwi ferns instant,

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Speaker 3: kiwi kiwi rail two wi. I like that. We're at

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Speaker 3: the workshop. I think it's another good one. So there's

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Speaker 3: a lot of people that are a lot of groups

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Speaker 3: that actually have the Kiwi in their name, in their

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Speaker 3: in their name of their business that have gotten on board.

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Speaker 3: And I think that's wonderful. But there's another thing, of

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Speaker 3: course we can We can, of course genuinely need more

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Speaker 3: predator control areas. We need it anyway, so we can

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Speaker 3: turn the Kiwi there. Now we work very closely, these

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Speaker 3: guys with Capital Kiwi and Corowai y Heki. That's the

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Speaker 3: Kiwi Trust of which I'm part. So I'm totally supporting this,

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Speaker 3: you know, support the predator control work by donating to

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Speaker 3: the PF Trust, the Predator Free Trust, or directly to

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Speaker 3: save the Kiwi. I think that's what we call working together.

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Speaker 3: I just thought i'd mentioned that. I just wonderful, a

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Speaker 3: stunning and for people in Canterbury. We were bird bending

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Speaker 3: yesterday and my mate Phil told me that there are

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Speaker 3: enormous amounts of hump back whales migrating around the peninsula.

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Speaker 3: That's the peninsula at Canterbury, you know.

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Speaker 2: The exponent Yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 3: So you go to the end of the of the exponentsula.

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Speaker 3: I think, isn't it isn't it lovely?

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Speaker 2: It must be the time for it, because I've seen

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Speaker 2: a number of posts people kayaking and the Watamata Harbor

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Speaker 2: here in Auckland, and dolphins and so on coming into

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Speaker 2: the harbor as well, and we get auca from time

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Speaker 2: to time as well, which is awesome.

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Speaker 3: No say so Lighthouse Road for those of you who

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Speaker 3: want to know where to go, go to the end

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Speaker 3: of Lighthouse Road which is the beginning of the a

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Speaker 3: Coroa Harbor if you like. And Phil Grutchley told me

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Speaker 3: that he saw nine on Wednesday and five on Tuesday.

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Speaker 2: And this is just obviously from land with a pair

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Speaker 2: of I mean they are pretty big, so you know, yeah,

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Speaker 2: you can't miss them as far as sea creatures go,

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Speaker 2: probably easier to spot than most exactly. So I love

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Speaker 2: that fantastic and thanks for replying to my text. I

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Speaker 2: was genuinely surprised. I mean, you know, the gardens are

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Speaker 2: all over the place at the moment, but you know

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Speaker 2: the old plum tree at the back of my place,

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Speaker 2: which is a Christmas plum, we always get plumps just

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Speaker 2: before Christmas had to fruit on it just the other

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Speaker 2: day on on Friday.

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Speaker 3: It's amazing, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: I Mean I've seen blossoms from time to time and

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Speaker 2: the occasional sort of random leaf, but in terms of

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Speaker 2: it actually fruiting pretty much. Well, Friday was sure to stay,

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Speaker 2: wasn't it all? Said they? Yeah, so yeah, I don't

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Speaker 2: know crazy things, right, let's get amongst it. Helen, good

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Speaker 2: morning to you.

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Speaker 5: Oh good morning, A.

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Speaker 3: Very good thank you. What can I do for you? Oh?

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Speaker 5: Good morning? Word, it's nice to hear you. And Ben.

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Speaker 5: I've got a naval orange tree which I planted or

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Speaker 5: about five six years ago, and finally I've got a big,

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Speaker 5: you know, whole range of a whole lot of oranges

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Speaker 5: having loveling, sweet naval oranges. But they're one very very

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Speaker 5: I'm not okay with this little borer thing that's getting

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Speaker 5: into all of them. And I can't find what it is,

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Speaker 5: but there's a little black hole and then when I

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Speaker 5: it's been. I don't know what it is because I

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 3: It could be the guava moth if they're s caterpillars

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Speaker 3: to guavas and fijoas and things like that. They also

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Speaker 3: go through some citrus species. So I can't tell you

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Speaker 3: because in Christis we do not have guava moth touch wood.

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Speaker 3: So this is the point. You might find that this

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Speaker 3: happened earlier, say in late summer early early winter, if

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Speaker 3: course indeed some sort of I suppose rotting if you

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Speaker 3: like a fungal thing, isn't.

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Speaker 5: It No, it's fungle. It's it's actually like if you

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Speaker 5: leave an orange for too long, you know, it starts

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Speaker 5: just just you know, go rotten or whatever. But I

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Speaker 5: haven't seen any caterpillars. I've chipped all over the tree. No,

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Speaker 5: in six, No caterpillars, nothing. But it's obviously some kind

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Speaker 5: of borer. Would it be in the wood itself?

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Speaker 3: Well, it is. It is probably that these guys might

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Speaker 3: have finished by now and they left the tunnel behind.

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Speaker 3: That is one. That is one possibility. Okay, that's one possibility.

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Speaker 3: The other one is that you have something called alternaria,

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Speaker 3: which is a black rot that makes small patches of

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Speaker 3: black skin which go inside the citrus as well. And yeah,

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Speaker 3: does it look more like so have a look at

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Speaker 3: alternaria pictures or the tunnels alter alternaria A L T

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Speaker 5: Okay, thank you.

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Speaker 3: It's known as black rot as well. And if you've

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Speaker 3: got that, you are much easier to control it because

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Speaker 3: you just look. Use a really good copper spray if

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Speaker 5: Okay, you've got that, okay. And I ask a question

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Speaker 5: about the avocado tree next door to it. Yeah, when

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Speaker 5: I first hunted, it took about seven years but for

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Speaker 5: it to start the fruit. But now it's not a

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Speaker 5: huge tree, but it's laden with avocados, but they're all

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Speaker 5: very tiny. That last year they were huge. This year

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Speaker 5: they're very tiny. And you've had lots of water summer.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, okay, did you did you put this? Did

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Speaker 3: you grow this from a pip?

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Speaker 6: No?

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Speaker 5: No, I bought it.

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Speaker 3: You bought it? Okay. In that case, we might have

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Speaker 3: to look at some fertilizer.

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Speaker 5: What kind of fertilizer do I use for them?

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Speaker 3: Well, basically a general fertilizer with some extra little bits

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Speaker 3: of potage. You can get it from from your local

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Speaker 3: your local stores. Sulfate of potash is got contains extra potage.

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Speaker 3: If you've got the general fertilizer, it will do everything

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Speaker 3: from creating roots to flowers to goodness, no shot, but

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Speaker 3: the potage does very good development.

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Speaker 5: Not my naval oranges. Then yeah, yeah, well I put

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Speaker 5: fertilizer around the roots. I was going to go to

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Speaker 5: the extreme of pouring a bag of sugar under the

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Speaker 5: roots to see that would sweep the.

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Speaker 3: No, it doesn't. The answer is no. I can tell

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Speaker 3: you that for free. But but yeah. The thing. The

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Speaker 3: thing with potash is you know n p K. You

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Speaker 3: know n p K. You've seen it on the bags.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure, okay. And potash is the k which is callium.

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Speaker 3: It is the lovely Dutch and let the name for

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Speaker 3: for potash. And potash does if you give that to plants,

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Speaker 3: basically it actually grows them really good flowers and also

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Speaker 3: really good fruit. And it makes the fruit a lot

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Speaker 3: sweeter than you.

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Speaker 2: And you.

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Speaker 5: Have a wonderful day.

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Speaker 3: And thank you to.

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Speaker 2: All this and ross are very good banding to you.

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Speaker 4: Hi.

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Speaker 7: Our grapefruit tree started flowering the end of May, and

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Speaker 7: some of the fruits of some of the blossoms have

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Speaker 7: been pollinated and the pedals have dropped. Normally, that doesn't

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Speaker 7: happen to the end of September and by Lay weekend

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Speaker 7: they're just a massive, massive flower. But this year they're

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Speaker 7: what three months early, which is quite extraordinary, and the

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Speaker 7: bees are working away. I saw a bumblebee on there yesterday,

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Speaker 7: quite extraordinary.

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Speaker 3: There's very little you can do about it. That happens

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Speaker 3: every now and then with all sorts of plants. Actually

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Speaker 3: three months too late or whatever. I wouldn't be too

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Speaker 3: worried at this stage ross that it might be. It

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Speaker 3: might be that it's not going to give you a

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Speaker 3: heck of a lot of fruit, or it might be

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Speaker 3: too early, you know what I mean. But this happens.

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Speaker 3: And again that little tip I just gave you about

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Speaker 3: sulfate of potash might be really good for.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I do put it in PQ on granular fertilizers.

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Speaker 7: I'm not worried about it, but it's just a point

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Speaker 7: of interest. Really. I just wondered if we get we

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Speaker 7: haven't had a decent trust in Auckland here for twenty

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Speaker 7: odd years, so if he did get a coal spell,

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Speaker 7: I was just wonderingly the fertilized, the pollinated flowers might

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Speaker 7: just drop off and we get nothing for the whole year.

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Speaker 7: So it's just better just watch the space.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right, But that's what Peter you said about

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Speaker 3: his plums as well. You know, I mean this time

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Speaker 2: Hello, it's only two so it's not exactly you know,

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Speaker 2: after a roaring start. But does the tree kind of

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Speaker 2: reset or does the tree go right? That's my lot

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Speaker 2: for this year.

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Speaker 3: It might do that, but on the other hand, it

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Speaker 3: might reset too. It depends on exactly how it is working.

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Speaker 3: And you're right, these things happen every now and then,

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Speaker 3: and when they do, everybody goes what's going on here?

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Speaker 3: But the best thing really is for for both of

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Speaker 3: you actually to chuck a little bit of self eatee

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Speaker 3: of bottish at the root zone and do that from

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Speaker 3: early spring onwards. That's when flowers are being really pushed

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Speaker 2: I'll put a note in the diary now all your ross,

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Speaker 2: thank you for you caught your is with me. If

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Speaker 2: you'd like to talk to eight hundred eighty is the

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Speaker 2: number to call. We will take a break and back

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Speaker 2: with Mary shortly. When you talk to Climb past with

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Speaker 2: us and Mary A very good morning to you.

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Speaker 8: Good morning Peter and Rube.

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Speaker 3: Hello.

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Speaker 8: I'm an ash person and I have a tamarillo about

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Speaker 8: five years old. Tiny we sing about or fifty sevent

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Speaker 8: meters when I bought it, and it's now up to

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Speaker 8: the eve. However, it's laden this fruit. May I pick

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Speaker 8: some early? I've got a cupboard, but there are only

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Speaker 8: sort of a lot of them are green and only pinkish.

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Speaker 8: Now can you help me? Please?

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Speaker 3: Can you? Can you keep it on there and keep

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Speaker 3: it off the frost in Ashburn.

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Speaker 8: I've got frost cloth over it. Yes, and they regarded

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Speaker 3: Yes, I remember trying that stuff. Tamilla is on my

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Speaker 8: You know, they may still rip them if we get

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Speaker 8: Okay, because I picked them earlier last year, they were right.

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Speaker 3: Same thing? Get some potash. Pottish potash is the stuff

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Speaker 8: Wonderful. Thank you very much, Mary, Bye, thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: All of rybis to you too, Mary, take care and.

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Speaker 4: Blaire are very good morning, good morning, Hey, hello guys.

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Speaker 4: We've got a mandarin tree. We're in the top of

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Speaker 3: So leaves go yellow, go brown and falling off.

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Speaker 4: No, just gone green and turned into like cones sort

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Speaker 3: Have you had a lot of rain in the Bay

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Speaker 4: We have had a lot of rain in the Bow Plinny,

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Speaker 3: Now. What I mean is that if you really put

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Speaker 4: Yeah, there you go, so just not there's no coming

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Speaker 3: Well, go online and see if that. I think our

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, all of this, take care, thank you very

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Speaker 2: much all this. Someone has bought an expense of Louisa

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Speaker 3: Now, now Julie has her Louisa going every year. And

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Speaker 2: Someone else wants to know how to get rid of slugs.

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Speaker 3: Ah yes, good, go out at night with the torch

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Speaker 2: Awesome digital control.

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Speaker 3: We like that exactly. Yep, we like that.

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Speaker 2: Radio very greetings.

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Speaker 6: Yes, hello, rude. Just a question on a hydranger hedge.

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Speaker 6: I've got a boundary with seventy meters of hydranger and

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Speaker 3: I was just going to say, oh, yeah, and the

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Speaker 3: you'll find that that will have a go at anybody nearby,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm a little confused. Can I just tell them

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Speaker 2: so the neighbor with the aga panthers, have they tried

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Speaker 3: I would say so, No, no, oh.

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Speaker 6: They haven't two meters deep and it goes right down

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Speaker 6: the full seventy meters and I'm just wondering whether the

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Speaker 6: with the hydrangea.

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Speaker 3: I don't, well, are they that close together?

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Speaker 6: Yeah? Yeah, just defence and between.

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Speaker 3: Well, you're no, I don't think that that should the

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Speaker 3: hydrangea should not be hassled too much like that, because

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Speaker 3: it can make its roots grow elsewhere as well. It

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Speaker 3: It depends on what it looks like, I suppose, and

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Speaker 3: I don't know. Is it is it a moisture thing again?

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Speaker 3: Was it very wet? Has it been inundated for.

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Speaker 6: Have a lot of rain? And but the rest of them,

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Speaker 6: you know, they have been healthy every year, beautiful beautiful plants.

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Speaker 6: They're dying. They're sort of following each other going down

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Speaker 6: which had just you know, you can put them out

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Speaker 3: Yeah, to me, to me, that's that sounds like a

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Speaker 6: Of things and replant some more. Can I replant them

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Speaker 3: Not likely. I wouldn't do that now if that's the case.

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Speaker 3: But the problem is we need to actually find out

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Speaker 3: at the garden center whether that looks like root rot,

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Speaker 3: then I would say be careful planting the same thing.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, thanks for your advice.

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Speaker 2: Very sorry to hear about that. Hey, just with the hydrangers.

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Speaker 2: What's your tips to pruning.

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Speaker 3: Now and pruning about third? Yeah, and pruning about the third.

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Speaker 3: If you like a node up from the ground so

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Speaker 3: can prune it as deep and as far as you like.

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Speaker 3: But you know, and Julie does it usually quite carefully,

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Speaker 3: but you can also literally give it a smack down

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Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, ours are tiny, so I got a while

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Speaker 3: Oh no, no, no, woun't no, don't worry, no stop it.

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Speaker 3: I can do that, all right.

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Speaker 2: That's a job that I can take off my list. Hey,

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Speaker 2: the good newsers it will be there next week again

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Speaker 2: to give us more advice. Thanks again, take care all day,

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Speaker 2: all of this money. Thank you very much for your company.

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Speaker 2: being back with you again next Sunday. All the best.

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