{"id":1015,"date":"2013-08-04T23:15:49","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T09:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/?p=1015"},"modified":"2013-08-04T23:15:49","modified_gmt":"2013-08-04T09:15:49","slug":"the-buds-are-on-the-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/?p=1015","title":{"rendered":"The Buds Are On The Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1021\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=1021\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1021\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1021\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1021\" title=\"swollensundropbuds\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/swollensundropbuds.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/swollensundropbuds.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/swollensundropbuds-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1021\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sundrop Buds Almost Ready to Pop!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I hate unseasonal weather!<br \/>\nEspecially when that unseasonal weather is warm weather in late July that causes the buds on the trees to move!<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right folks, thanks to a couple of weeks of warm weather here in Roxburgh the buds are getting set to burst.<br \/>\nNeedless to say I&#8217;m not very impressed.<br \/>\nIf the weather keeps up the way it has been then we could have blossoms on the Apricot trees within the next week!<\/p>\n<p>So in between pruning, mulching and other winter maintenance I&#8217;ve been running around getting the frost fighting system all good to go.<br \/>\nThis involves checking sprinklers, flushing lines, cleaning out filters, getting the tractor and pump serviced, doing a full test run, etc.<br \/>\nThankfully I&#8217;ve had the assistance of my 2IC (Ruby) so things have been going smoothly!<br \/>\nRuby may be small but she&#8217;s certainly a little worker!<\/p>\n<p>On the pruning front I&#8217;ve been making steady progress.<br \/>\nAt this stage I hope to finished the stone fruit in around\u00a02 weeks and then I&#8217;ll be into the pip fruit.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s the thing about pruning, it&#8217;s all about finding the perfect balance of speed and quality.<br \/>\nYou can go really fast but end up doing a substandard job. Likewise you can go\u00a0the other way\u00a0and over analyse every cut and end up moving down the row at a snail&#8217;s pace.<br \/>\nOnce you can move along at a good pace but still be doing a good job then you&#8217;re away laughing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate unseasonal weather! Especially when that unseasonal weather is warm weather in late July that causes the buds on the trees to move! That&#8217;s right folks, thanks to a couple of weeks of warm weather here in Roxburgh the buds are getting set to burst. Needless to say I&#8217;m not very impressed. If the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1015"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026,"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions\/1026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}