Portuguese Wild_olive

Hello to all from Portugal!

In the last three years I have been more dedicated to the hobby or "addiction"
depending on the degree of dedication LOL. Initially I decided to train characteristic
species of the region, olive, arbutus unedo, rosemary, etc ...
Right now I have around 20 trees in training,and hope to have more in the near future .
This topic will show the development of my first wild olive yamadory colected in 2008...



One year later

Picture of this first year some weaks after i repotted the tree.



This tree has evolved quite well and it-s silhouette is getting closer to what i virtually imagine .

Greetings
Cumprimentos.
Leonel

Olá Leonel

Belo Zambujeiro.
Também comecei este ano a trabalhar num que colectei em Barca de Alva (Douro).
Também gosto muito dos Medronheiros, mas não tenho tido muita sorte com eles.
De que zona és? Algarve?

1 Abraço
Mário

No olive fan´s online ?

Well, olive or not, it's going to be a great tree for sure!

And I have no idea what Liserd said....

Liserd wrote:Olá Leonel

Belo Zambujeiro.
Também comecei este ano a trabalhar num que colectei em Barca de Alva (Douro).
Também gosto muito dos Medronheiros, mas não tenho tido muita sorte com eles.
De que zona és? Algarve?

1 Abraço
Mário

Russell ,

Mario says:

Beautiful Olive.

This year I also started to work on one that I collected in Barca de Alva (Douro).

I also like Strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo/Medronheiros), but I have not been sucessful with them.

Where did you collect it? Algarve?

Kind regards,

Mario
Kind regards,

Jose Luis

Great start. It's going to be a nice little tree soon enough. My first and only olive looks like a sprouting potato, so I'll have to enjoy yours until mine decides to get a life.

leonel

Nice job, I like the way its progressing. I have a Mission Olive. Are they related The leaves and trunk look much the same but your internodal spacing looks closer than mine.

Thanks for posting you have given me direction on mine.

Mitch

Thanks for all your comments.
In only 3 years i think this tree has evolved greatly, olives are a rewarding species to work with.

A little update on the development of this Olea that started it´s activity a little late this year because of the constant attacks of the caterpillars that greatly slowed its growth:, but it´s better late than never .

Nice development! Great piece of material to start with...

Chris

Nice tree. How tall and wide is that?

Hi!
Thanks for the replys, this tree will be a sumo shohin, about 25 cm for the nebari and the height will be up to 25/30 cm more or less ...

Great muscular trunk and what i like in the olive bonsai is the flare at the base, i was lucky earlier in the year to be landscaping a lifestyle block where they were removing olive trees most nights i had three stumps in the van. Now my garden is full of triffids, great trees to research you can chainsaw them through the trunk at or about soil level and they will develop a new root system .One tree that i have indoors and tried this on is producing great fibrous roots and foliage take Dugz olive tour.

Hi!!

I'm also from Portugal and also training a very similar tree. However the caterpillars are always attacking pretty bad. I use perfheckthion to control them but they always reappear and are destroying my work. How do you manage to control them?

Hi Capo_regime,

How do you manage to control them?

I believe that the best way is through Bacillus thuringiensis, a bacteria that causes disease and death of the caterpilars. There are a number of insecticides in the Portuguese market containing Bacillus thuringiensis, for example Dipel (pardon the advertising). To succeed, you need to apply the product at least once every two weeks. It is a biological insecticide, the risk to the the trees, the envoriment, pets and yourself are quite minimal.

Boa sorte!

Pedro

Looking very promising Leonel ! And in a very short time as well ! They are a great species to work with ! Looking forward to the updates !
Cheers,
Hans van Meer.

Hi,

Thanks for the reply Pedro and Hans. Pedro as you said there are a big list of product against those annoying bugs , lots of pacience are required , (PS:aparece mais no forum Literati)!
Hans first of all i love your work in Bonsai, some of your trees are in my top 10 list ! As you said this species are really very nice to work with, you get a lot of budding even with minimal care . That´s note the case for this one , so the budding is even better. Our good weather is also in our favor to obtain that kind of growth and not only with this species .
Abraço

Tree ready for the next season, general reduction of the vegetation and light defoliation.Hope to have a a good overall growth of this plant this year !


Abraço
Cheers

Leonel_78 wrote:Tree ready for the next season, general reduction of the vegetation and light defoliation.Hope to have a a good overall growth of this plant this year !


Abraço
Cheers

SWEET! Looking very promising! Make sure to show it after this growing season!
Cheers,
Hans van Meer.

Very nice!

I would love to see how this progresses too.