MartyB
Yamadori
Hello,
I was given this by someone who knows it has always been an ideal of mine to grow an olive tree as my father living in the Mediterranean has a dozen or so full grown, magnificent trees. When I go visit I am always smitten by them. In any case this one I now have is a first-year cutting, the mother tree is grown locally, 6 or 8 feet tall and fruiting apparently.
As can be (hopefully) seen by the pictures, its about 4.5 inches high and branches laterally at that height. I am looking to grow this as much as possible and hopefully, within a decade(?) I start to have a decent looking tree. What can I do in the future to help it grow vertically? Second picture I brought it inside to get a less busy background to see a bit better how the branches are currently growing.
I am currently living in what I believe to be 5a/5b zone, so summers can get hot and humid but winters are dreadfully cold on occasion so I am lining up a suitable winterizing home. My question is related to when to prune, how and where, in order to hopefully have some upward motion on this trunk and find the potential it can have.
chopsticks are currently being used as tutors to help with the light winds we sometimes get. I bring sheltered spot when winds get bad.
thanks in advance!
I was given this by someone who knows it has always been an ideal of mine to grow an olive tree as my father living in the Mediterranean has a dozen or so full grown, magnificent trees. When I go visit I am always smitten by them. In any case this one I now have is a first-year cutting, the mother tree is grown locally, 6 or 8 feet tall and fruiting apparently.
As can be (hopefully) seen by the pictures, its about 4.5 inches high and branches laterally at that height. I am looking to grow this as much as possible and hopefully, within a decade(?) I start to have a decent looking tree. What can I do in the future to help it grow vertically? Second picture I brought it inside to get a less busy background to see a bit better how the branches are currently growing.
I am currently living in what I believe to be 5a/5b zone, so summers can get hot and humid but winters are dreadfully cold on occasion so I am lining up a suitable winterizing home. My question is related to when to prune, how and where, in order to hopefully have some upward motion on this trunk and find the potential it can have.
chopsticks are currently being used as tutors to help with the light winds we sometimes get. I bring sheltered spot when winds get bad.
thanks in advance!