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Comment on Pollinating Your Avocado Tree by Catherine

Catherine — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 23:41:48 +0000

1. That is awful, Donna. Violent garbage like that should not be repeated as humor just because he was old. I like the elderly and wish everyone can live longer. But the benefit is when they die, so do their nightmarish outdated *sensibilities*. Same will happen to us.

2. How long does an avocado flower? My Hass has been flowering for about a month. I put a potted Zutano next to it (flowering also). It has been there for weeks. How long does it take? The Hass flowered last year but it did not fruit. But I also did not monitor it. This year I have the time to pay attention to progress. I am going to try the brush method, too.

3. How long does pollen’s efficacy last? If I swathed male flowers from both the Hass and Zutano and drove to my dad’s Hass 20 minutes away, will the pollen be alright? I figure I can use his own pollen on his own tree, but I figured what-the-hey, it cannot hurt. And it is something I have always wanted to know.

Thanks to anyone who can answer.

Comment on Pollinating Your Avocado Tree by kennia

kennia — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 16:41:07 +0000

Hi… I read that you said we can help pollinating by hand and a brush … but what exactly do I need to do? do I mix a concoction of something and brush it on the flower? I just bought a house with an Avocado tree in the backyard… all new to this … again – I read that we can help pollinate – but I am confused as to with what??? please help !!! thank you

Comment on If you don’t pay to promote your Facebook posts no one will see them. by Lucas

Lucas — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:04:56 +0000

I don’t think Facebook is a very good organic marketing tool. If you want people to see your content get it published on a blog with a big readership. For people doing PPC it can be very effective in terms of ROI, but I think for the most part people don’t like seeing people promote ads or services on their newsfeeds.

Comment on Ford EcoBoost Engine: When Good Hype Goes Bad by Lucas

Lucas — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 14:58:51 +0000

This is the first I’m hearing about this. i’d like to know what conditions Ford tested their cars under. If they lied about the real fuel economy it could be a crime. That being said, as time goes on hybrid engines will become more and more efficient.

Comment on Who to Vote For in the 2013 New Plymouth Council Elections by Lucas

Lucas — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 14:54:31 +0000

The biggest problem I have is that lots of the new spending is going out of town. If they wanted to give some money to local artists and designers I wouldn’t be so opposed to it. I agree that we need to reign in unessential spending and reallocate spending to more efficient channels.

Comment on Who to Vote For in the 2013 New Plymouth Council Elections by Murray Chong

Murray Chong — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 09:40:50 +0000

It would also be good to know that those that support where our PIF fund is are basiclly the same as the spenders list.
And those that are concerned about our PIF are basiclly the same savers listed.
Our PIF is the money that we had from the sale of Powerco in 2004.
This fund was worth $260 million back then and now it is only worth $216 Million
This is because the council takes money from this to subsidise rates, but unfortunatley it has not been performing to what it should be, but they still took the same amount of money out.
If the carry on like this then there will be no money left in years to come, and this will be another factor in our rate being increased.
The problem is that we have been investeding in farms in Tasmania (we should be investing it in NZ farms or other NZ firms.
But more importantly we should be paying off our debt with it first.
We have over $110 million in loans, so why the heck are we no paying this off rather than investing in Australian Farms the are not performing to their expected return.

Comment on Who to Vote For in the 2013 New Plymouth Council Elections by Ian

Ian — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 07:40:45 +0000

In the past I have gloated that I didn’t and would never vote for Mr “Does Nothing” Harry Duyhoven. But I did vote for some of the other big spenders Maurice Betts and Phil Quinney and boy have I been taken.
The Len Lye centre is the last straw for me.
Many of the things that have happened over the last 10 years have been good, (Coastal Walkway for example) but I have a vague recollection of seeing a paper that set out the built in increased rates these developments created?
This society of ours is definitely two tiered, those that work for the council, the Oil& Gas Industry, Real Estate or in Dairy and those that don’t.
How anyone can live on a basic wage and pay rent and live is beyond me and rate increases over the 2% wage increases is utterly criminal.
All I can say is time to vote as this society needs and ditch the old guard and the spenders.