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Post by GO30 on Oct 30, 2022 11:19:01 GMT 12
Kids or someone came to rural and brought us a wee Pohutukawa as a paddock warming. We weren't home so they left it. A few days later we got back to find it out in a paddock looking seriously beaten up, chewed up to be more precise. Thought it was possums but they couldn't move it like that so it had to be a bovine. e didn't hold out much hope of a recovery.
Anyway we put it into ICU and keep it inside under a big skylight when we are not here. But in the last week I have left it out 24/7 as the bovines are in cow jail for annoying me so can't get to it and the possums seem to have zero interest in it. All of that has been working a treat so we can now declare it is alive and now thriving again.
Due to a recent thread our pet Pohutukawa has now been named 'Fish'.
I thought possums loved Pohutukawas yet I watched one walk within 300mm of it the other night and stopped had a 1sec look and moved on. 4m later that possum ran head first into a small piece of lead, how unfortunate. Even though we are not short of possums, far from it, yet Fish seems to have zero appeal to them. Anyone got any ideas what that's about?
Sitting here looking at some very soggy Murray Greys, some red and black Herefords, a couple of Devon reds and a pile of Angus. Can't see the Speckle Parks, maybe they are smarter and headed for the trees.
Oh we have flooding on the flats and the neighbours lost a paddock. Yesterday we got 5mm mostly in-between noon and 1:30pm. The gauge is saying we've had 23-25mm (binos at 25m) of rain in the last 14hrs. No sign of it stopping for a while. ___
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2022 11:52:19 GMT 12
Fish can answer that.... The leaves are like veges to under 5s?
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Post by GO30 on Dec 1, 2022 17:30:48 GMT 12
Fish Update
Fish was moved outside as the herd was locked up the front of the farm.
Arrived the other day and WTF? Fish was naked, only the smallest leaf left. What fucker has tried to assassinate Fish I thought. I hopped out of the wagon into a nice freash pile of processed grass that's had the money removed. Ah ha, roving bovines.
A dude making some silage left a gate open and the roving bovines found Fish and had a hell of a munch.
So Fish is back in ICU but the good news is Fish has been here before, is tuff and is showing signs of recovery. But I doubt Fish will be in flower this Xmas.
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Post by em on Dec 2, 2022 5:59:54 GMT 12
We have been here 9 years and most of our trees outside of grazing areas are stunted from stock misadventures . As soon as it dries out a bit we are going to make a small orchard “paddock “ . Highly electrified and within air rifle range of the living room for parrot and possum control
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Post by GO30 on Dec 3, 2022 21:03:29 GMT 12
Parrot control???
Explain please
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Post by em on Dec 5, 2022 8:54:30 GMT 12
Parrot control??? Explain please Rosellas , they strip unripe fruit and flowers off most fruit trees and even buds on some . They are very very flighty so wandering out to shoot them doesn’t work . |
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Post by GO30 on Dec 5, 2022 9:58:34 GMT 12
Ah yeap we have a few down the city. Cute but a flying gang.
In sad news I have to report what little foliage left on Fish got nailed by a possum last night.
We have hope Fish can come back...for the 4th time, it is now in ICU.
I sprayed a seaweed fert over the hay paddock on Sat evening and gave Fish a splash. Shit does it stink, the Fert not Fish.
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Post by GO30 on Jan 4, 2023 7:55:45 GMT 12
Holy crap, Fish is going off big time since I gave it that seaweed drink.
It's sprouting leaves everywhere and in massive numbers which is very impressive considering only a few weeks back is was back to a bare stick again.
If it does the same for the hay paddock we'll have chocker barns in a months time.
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Post by sloopjohnb on Jan 4, 2023 9:07:43 GMT 12
Seaweed is the best for the gardens.........growing up in Howick the old man was a keen gardener and after every NE blow we would be down to Howick beach with the trailer gathering all the seaweed, not only that we (my 2 brothers) would be of to the local dairy farmer just out of Howick to the area that is now called Somerville and load up shit from the milking shed floor into those 2 or 3 gallon square tin cans and bring them back to spread on the vegie garden........you can see why I am not a keen gardener, if I had it my way the section would bee green concrete.
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Post by GO30 on Jan 5, 2023 13:15:14 GMT 12
Rather than bang out the bigger leaves in a few of the expected places as it has been doing on it's previous resurrections this time it's sprouting shit loads of smaller ones at near every joint so to speak, the bit where branches etc come off. It's weird and maybe something to do with the fert I gave it.
Any Pohutukawa specialists out there that can tell me if Fish has been triggered or if it's nothing to be concerned about?
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Post by sloopjohnb on Jan 5, 2023 15:11:14 GMT 12
Now that definitely looks like a plant and I will go further and say its tree type plant but definitely not a fish.
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Post by GO30 on Aug 12, 2023 10:13:58 GMT 12
Ok so some varmit or critter breaching a barbed wire barrier and stripping Fish to the bones yet again. This attack was a shocker in intensity, stripped every single bit of green of it no mater how tiny it was. It was coming back with vengeance and looking so good, now just a sad stick.
The Wa reckoned Fish was deceased but I said Nope it's hibernating so
Fish I ensconced outside in max sun complete with a varmit/critter proof enclosure.
I had a suss yesterday and there are strong signs of new shots appearing so Fish is waking up and is strenuously denying it's dead or even close to.
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Post by jim on Aug 12, 2023 19:28:59 GMT 12
Stray goat? or possum ... either one needs "counselling" with some lead
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Post by GO30 on Aug 13, 2023 8:22:39 GMT 12
Haven't seen any stray goats around but any possums I see I give them a free hole or 2. Some seem to be that thick they don't know they are dead.
Had to have been a possum to sneak thru to the center of a huge pile of barbed wire we've pulled off some old fencing.
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Post by fish on Aug 13, 2023 19:44:14 GMT 12
Not a slug, snail or caterpillar* problem?
Those caterpillars can be sneaky, flying in on a moth / butterfly thing and laying little eggs. Nekminnit something's going munch munch
*referring to the variety of insect that gets laid by a butterfly, grows as a slug like worm thing and then metamorphisms back into a butterfly. Not the large lumps of diesel engine and steel with tracks used for pushing mountains around.
PS, it is good to know you are trying to grow cows and not get into market gardening. I wouldn't recommend market gardening as an investment proposition based on the issues this poor tree sapling thing is having.
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