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If you are planning on a weekend away it is going to be a scorcher tomorrow in Melbourne, make sure you have watered everything well and put the recently repotted into the shade. Even a little seaweed solution would not go astray :whistle:
34 is the predicted top with light winds, bye bye azalea flowers :crybye: see you next year :cry:
The end of next week is predicted to be similar, a nice prelude to summer.
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Yep decided tomorrow is the day i'm going to get my watering system in. Nothing beats hand watering but having a water system set up will help. I'll have it on a timer to water early morning and late evening. I'll check each day to make sure it has covered everything but will make a difference. I was hoping for a good day as I'm chasing snapper for most of the afternoon/evening :tu: :tu:

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mid next week is meant to be 30, 35 and 34, will be a tough few days for my tree's, being new to it all i am slightly worried about this weather with work all day.
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Good luck on the snaps Josh! Where are you heading out from? Your boat?
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Welcome to WA weather, just a normal week for us auto water systems and hand held hose the order of the day. good luck.

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Jarrod wrote:Good luck on the snaps Josh! Where are you heading out from? Your boat?
Heading out from Carrum on a charter. A few mates booked it. Leaving at 2;30 coming back about 8:30pm. They have been on the bite so we're hoping. I've got a hobie pro angler so I'm heading out on tuesday chasing snapper again :fc: :fc:

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Heard they areon the chew so should do alright. Want to get my self a yak but no time for it at the moment!
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Great growing weather in Melbourne today gave trees heaps of water this morning and last night before day light
Got heaps of buds for it .... All trees budding everywhere
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Jarrod wrote:Heard they areon the chew so should do alright. Want to get my self a yak but no time for it at the moment!
Let me know if you get a yak sometime, looking for someone to fish with. Heres something to wet your appetite
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G'day Josh.

How many of you guys were responsible for that haul?

I was out on Friday morning up the top end of the bay.
Great session with 7 good fish (Snapper) and around 20 odd flatties.
Awesome session.

Then off to work!
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Boics wrote:G'day Josh.

How many of you guys were responsible for that haul?

I was out on Friday morning up the top end of the bay.
Great session with 7 good fish (Snapper) and around 20 odd flatties.
Awesome session.

Then off to work!
There was 30 guys all up. 3 boats organised. Our boat got that haul, one of the other boats got 4 and the tird boat got 1. We were pretty happy. There were heaps of boats out there. I'm going out on Tuesday in the yak but not sure where yet.
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Good luck!
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Loving this tropical Melbourne weather, so are my plants :hooray:
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Yes Damian.

Rain water just has those secret herbs and spices doesn't it!?

Hopefully we get some good storms out of this system..
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If you had been under a rock (which sometimes I am :lol:) for the past 5-6 months and just crawled out you would swear it was the longest sleep peppered with dreams of spring-early summer work on your trees and the odd nightmare about extremely hot days.
It is however mid summer and that's right, with one hand I am reaching for the tissues to stop my runny nose while turning up the heater with the other.
A top of 22 deg with showers. It is the 3rd of Feb right :lost:
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