ripsgreentree

Thanks Matt: As a field grower I am not really into finishing trees just creating a good foundation for another artest to work upon. This is only one of many that are already potted with many hundreds comming along in the field. I am shure that if I looked I could find one or more that would fit your cryteria for trunk movement. This material has a couple of growing habbits, the first I like and that is to form fairly quickly a knobie nebari at the roots. The second is less desirable and that is to grow a five or six foot whip that is pincle thin, It takes several years to thicken this up due to the fact that this material wants to sucker so heavly. There is a third advantage and that is the way this material will pad up and give you lots of small leaves quickly.
I have seen lots of olive materials out there but not any that rewards the artest as quickly as this does. I am looking forward to spring when we start taking material out of the field in quantity, I want to take pictures of us working on roots so people can see some of our material with out soil.

juliet-of-oz: I agree that you can snap a heavier trunk on field olive. This is a sport from the european olive and I have not had any trouble bending branches. The wonder full thing about this sport is that it buds so hard that you always seem to have a bud or branch going in the direction that you are entending to go so there is little need for wiring, but I feel that it could be done succesfully. I will have to give it a go and post some practicle results.

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