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Post by johninfla on Mar 12, 2012 10:08:20 GMT -5
This may not be a big deal for you west coast folks, but recently people have begun growing olives here in FL. www.ocala.com/article/20070428/BIGSUNHOMES/204280307 Over the Christmas holliday, we spent an enjoyable Sunday afternoon with this gentleman in Citra (about an hour and a half south of us) ![]() [/img]and ended up purchasing three small Arbequina trees. About a month ago we planted them out and they are really starting to take off. So now I'm trying to sprout some seeds and later when the trees are a little bigger I'll try to root some cuttings. Has anyone had luck with propagating olives? I've looked at the websites and most of them recommend misting the cuttings....we don't have a misting system but I imagine there must be a more low tech sollution. John |
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Post by 12540dumont on Mar 12, 2012 12:48:19 GMT -5
Regarding low tech misting, Leo found a "mister" made for cooling your self/patio on hot days at the hardware store. When I need it I just set it up in the green house. I think it was at Lowes (because I refuse to shop at Home Despot). They had ones that were on stands and just plugged into a hose. Also one without stands.
For begonias in the summer, I just use a 79 cent squirt bottle. Good luck with the olives. My brother has them. His wife is killing them. She never waters anything....
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Post by cortona on Mar 12, 2012 14:38:04 GMT -5
if you find olives just plant the seeds and after this graft some scions from your plants on it, is the fastes way and the one the professional grower use here in italy(and we have lots of olives ;-) )
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Post by templeton on Mar 12, 2012 16:29:08 GMT -5
Cortona,
any special treatment for the seeds? And will the olives cross much?
There are a whole range of wild olives growing in parks and waste ground here, with very different taste characteristics, and it would be fun to propagate some.
(I do a wild olive harvest every year, should be a good one this year.)
T
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Post by johninfla on Mar 13, 2012 6:40:44 GMT -5
That's why this board is so great....people with vast experience and from all over the world readily help each other!
Thanks Cortona!!!!
John
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Post by cortona on Mar 13, 2012 11:24:27 GMT -5
ok, i wil tell about my reality, here the almost totality of the olive trees are cultivar's plant so every place have is special cultivars(rastrellino, leccino, corgiano are some name here) so we choice one and propagate it as we want, in the past people collect sprouts from the roots and so a lots of old plants here are not grafted but this is a really sloooow proces, no special treatement forolive pits, but i think that sow it wen you arvest the fruit is better,the plants resulting from the seeds have strong possibility to be poor fruiters so we graft it
thanks to all the people that are hungry about knoweledge!
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Post by steev on Mar 13, 2012 11:37:59 GMT -5
It never occurred to me to graft olives since they seem to sprout from the roots so much; I figured it would be a constant battle to prune off the less desirable growth. However, I think I'll be trying it, since I just realized that I can stool a fruitless or distinctively-leafed variety for use as a rootstock. It's always good to re-assess one's practice, in case there might be new insight to gain. May all our gardens be as fertile of new growth as this forum is!
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