Olive air layer and cutting or leave as it is

[giventofly]

I did in the summer, by coincidence I saw a video of Ryan talking how Olives should be moved in the hot season/summer and I thought, yeah I can do it now. You are indeed in a cooler place, I would wait until spring at least

 

[Deep Sea Diver]

Good to see some folks have warmer weather than us right now. (Not so sure would love the summer there though! )

The thought about the Olive’s response to the cutback has mainly to do with how much active top hamper the tree has. This foliage photosynthesizing and hormonal signals above the air layer are what fuels the new root growth. From the last image it seems a moderate amount of young growth.

Is it possible to make an image as a baseline to show later on?

cheers
DSD sends

 

[giventofly]

Yes, I will try to take a picture today if I can go out before the sun goes down otherwise tomorrow morning i'll post it

 

[giventofly]

It is still growing during the winter, at a slower pace but top/bottom growing

 

[Catagonia]

Seed grown olives develop a swollen lignotuber but cuttings don't seem to do that for many years.

THANK you, I have been wondering why my (nursery-grown) olive looked like a mutant! I came to this thread for info on air layering olives because the lignotuber is kind of enormous, and I think I might get 2 ok trees out of it.