Olive tree

With olives you should give it time to develop the root base. I've done this to some trees in the beginning of the year and it only started to throw stronger buds in September or so. Some times it lasts a year or so.
But with olives collected from the wild its a necessary process to hep it develop a good nebari in the future. Olives tend to develop big "potato" roots (like we call it here) and this helps to develop those lateral roots necessary for a good root base.

Hi Nunovsky,

In this case it was the root base that attracted me to this Olive, here it is:




I envision something like this in time:




When the tree is growing well i will select branches and carve the top to get more taper, I know what you mean about the 'potato' base under the soil, i had to use an electric saw to cut out more than half the root bound mass and a thick ball of wood. I saw Nellie doing this on an old thread which gave me a plan of action. anyway tree is indoors and warm recovering, ill start a thread as it develops, thanks buddy

Bobby its Awesome!  Or is it Yvonnes tree?

I know of at least two wild olives in my  garden that is going to meet the saw today.  If I were them, ill pick up my skirts and run....

Thanks for the inspiration!

Love Light and Awakening

Andre Beaurain wrote:Bobby its Awesome!  Or is it Yvonnes tree?

I know of at least two wild olives in my  garden that is going to meet the saw today.  If I were them, ill pick up my skirts and run....

Thanks for the inspiration!

Love Light and Awakening

Hi Andre, the fourth pic is just an image of an Olive bonsai I pulled up from the internet. I dont often look to other bonsai trees for inspiration unless they look like real trees in nature and i feel this would be an achievable direction to take my tree in..

Here is an Olive tree in nature that has a similar look to it:



another:

I can'r believe how cheap these trees are in Portugal! I should drive there one day.

Bobby, I started a simialr project in 2012. I do not have an end-of-summer image yet, which is much more mature:
2012:

Jun2014:

Thats looking really good Leatherback, i think i may have came across this image during my researching, i have a few Olive threads bookmarked on eurobonsai