\u201cThose candles we actually imported from France.\u201d<\/p>\n
The candles in action. Photo \/ Richard Brimer Photography<\/p>\n
He said the main reason they used them was the shape of the 3ha Omahu vineyard.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a really odd-shaped block. It is a long rectangle.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo to cover it with wind machines is not cost-effective, like we\u2019d have to put in two wind machines for [only] 3ha to cover it.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said they did not have access to large amounts of water either, so could not use water to avoid frost damage.<\/p>\n
He said the candles, which they purchased in 2022, were not common because they were so labour intensive.<\/p>\n
It took three staff about 45 minutes to light all 600 candles, during the middle of the night.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo one is going to put these things out on 100ha.\u201d<\/p>\n
The candles have a cardboard wick. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n
The candles themselves are made of plant-based wax with a cardboard wick, and are moved around in steel buckets, and can be stored away when not required.<\/p>\n
Paulin said the vineyard had alarms that trigger when the temperature drops to 1.5C, and staff are kept on standby.<\/p>\n
If temperatures reach zero, it can seriously damage the crops, so prevention is required.<\/p>\n
MetService recorded the temperature in Hastings dropped to 0.5C on Friday morning, and 1.3C in Napier.<\/p>\n
The Smith and Sheth cellar door is located in Havelock North village.<\/p>\n
Police called over frost helicopters<\/p>\n
Two people were so concerned by the sound of helicopters flying over Hawke\u2019s Bay early on Friday morning that they called the police.<\/p>\n
A police spokesman said reports of the helicopters came in from Hillary Cres in Maraenui at 12.30am and Ulyatt Rd in Meeanee at 2.20am.<\/p>\n
In both cases, police made inquiries and determined the noise was from helicopters working to keep frost off fruiting plants, the spokesman said.<\/p>\n
It was a busy night for orchardists, with this time of year crucial for keeping vulnerable fruit from getting frost damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThose candles we actually imported from France.\u201d The candles in action. Photo \/ Richard Brimer Photography He said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[70481,8831,1228,17094,1561,128955,22510,36000,1976,42,302,36193,43,7805,5006,8205,65162,1305,9882,24388,40,38,41,39,810,3382,21538,102],"class_list":["post-612064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-70481","tag-an","tag-art","tag-avoid","tag-bay","tag-candles","tag-damage","tag-frost","tag-hawkes","tag-headlines","tag-its","tag-lit","tag-news","tag-no","tag-not","tag-rare","tag-relatively","tag-show","tag-spectacular","tag-technique","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-up","tag-using","tag-vineyard","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}