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Re: olive tree 12 years 2 months ago #3786

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Thanks for posting an update, Hein. That tree is going to be amazing.

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Re: olive tree 12 years 2 months ago #3794

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Nice work Hein! wow that is looking fantastic what an improvement

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Re: olive tree 11 years 15 hours ago #8497

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Nice work Hein! wow that is looking fantastic what an improvement


Thanx for that nice reply man. I deeply apologize for my disappearance. Things went bad quick, but its all better now. I apologize to the other members as well.

The tree is coming along very nicely and its filling out nice. Its just growing a bit slow for my liking. I had to cut back the top cause it grew wild for a tad bit.

I will post pics tomorrow when I get chance.

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olive tree 11 years 9 hours ago #8501

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Things went bad quick, but its all better now


they usually do ...glad everything alright now nice to have you back

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Re: olive tree 11 years 3 hours ago #8505

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Thanx for that nice reply man. I deeply apologize for my disappearance. Things went bad quick, but its all better now. I apologize to the other members as well.

No problem. The web is not an 'need to attend' kind-a thing. Hope whatever went bad didn't give you too many problems. Good to hear things are better now!

Its just growing a bit slow for my liking. I had to cut back the top cause it grew wild for a tad bit.

I will post pics tomorrow when I get chance.


That would be awesome! I love it when people show progressions over long periods of time! And as for growing too slow.. Aren't all trees too slow growing when developing? Just remember: once you have the basic structure of the tree, and the foliage is filling up, you actually WANT to growth to slow to a crawl :D

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olive tree 11 years 1 hour ago #8509

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Manofthetrees, thanks for the welcome

Im so happy to be back.

Leatherback, not to much but enough to keep me occupied for a LONG time

The tree also had a bit of a bump in the road. I forgot to label my spray bottles and accidentally sprayed the plant with (a container that wasnt rinsed out) weed killer. :ohmy:

The tree was hurt and a lot of growth died. I honestly thought that it was gonna die, but thank goodness it survived. It is showing beautiful new growth which i love but ! branch is still far behind.

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olive tree 11 years 1 hour ago #8512

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OK; Good luck with the problem then..

As for the tree being sprayed with herbicide.. It seems to do well for a recently almost killed plant. I cannot read what you wrote next to the small sprout at the bottomg. I suppos eyou will let that grow out and use as a sacrifice branch?

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olive tree 11 years 45 minutes ago #8515

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I am actually gonna grow another mame bonsai on the tree. Then I'll just air layer at a later stage.

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olive tree 10 years 11 months ago #8524

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this looks to be a good parent tree to develope branches into eventual trees. i have done this on my large ficus. i trained the unwanted branches and rooted them ...instant tree ;)

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olive tree 10 years 11 months ago #8585

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Very nice idea man.

Almost like a mother tree for future ones. Kinda what I had in mind with the extra growth on the tree. Will check if I can create more gems

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