Announcing a new arrival

[SprigOfTheLivingDead]

Congrats on the new one It's beautiful.

 

[jackb]

Congrats on the new one It's beautiful.

Thanks, I found a Callitier olive cutting has also rooted today. I may be finally be getting somewhere with cloning olives.
jackb

 

[valley ranch]

Greetings Jack, Cloning Olive, I'm impressed. You can keep Olive alive in New York? Do your heat your greenhouse?
I cloned tomatoes, Olive would be wonderful. What kind of temperature do you have there during winter, that you can keep these trees?
I'm happy for your success.

Richard

 

[jackb]

Greetings Jack, Cloning Olive, I'm impressed. You can keep Olive alive in New York? Do your heat your greenhouse?
I cloned tomatoes, Olive would be wonderful. What kind of temperature do you have there during winter, that you can keep these trees?
I'm happy for your success.

Richard

After the trees have had a chill period of about three hundred hours, I move them indoors to indoor greenhouses with artificial light. That is usually in mid to late November, as they can only tolerate temps to about 32F with out damage. I keep them cool, about sixty or so, until winter solstice; then I increase the light and the heating. The greenhouse itself is closed and covered with ice and snow right now, and will not be useable until mid to late March.
jackb

 

[valley ranch]

Jack, As they get larger what will you do with them. Will you be continue as you have when they become trees or do you plan to keep them down as miniatures?

Richard

 

[jackb]

They will be container grown, as our climate in NY is far to cold for them, and our growing season is far too short for them. Growing in containers will drastically slow down their growth, and root pruning every few years will serve to keep growth restricted, much like you would a bonsai.
jackb

 

[897tgigvib]

A lot of the vineyards in this part of California are also putting in rows of Olives at the perimeters and down driveways of their vineyards. Seems to becoming the popular thing.

Olive trees are beautiful, and make a soft airy kind of shade that does not seem to affect the nearby grape vines.

 

[ninnymary]

Marshall, why are they doing that? Is it for aesthetics or do they provide some type of disease protection?

Mary

 

[jackb]

There is also a new oil boom underway in Texas, this time it is olive oil. Parts of Texas have ideal climate and soil for olives. Also, olives are replacing some citrus in Florida and being grown in Georgia, and also in the Northwest. That said, climate change will really have to move quickly before I capture the market in New York. The cutting at the beginning of this thread is at the point that I am removing the growing tips to encourage branching. It will make a very nice plant, as olives make great house/patio plants also.
jackb

 

[897tgigvib]

Mary I can ask the Martinellis and the Yandells why the growing popularity of planting Olives around vineyards is happening.
Meantime I'll venture guessing.
They look to be getting planted around the more wealthy vineyards, and also look to be planted as landscape beauty and in good numbers. My guess is that Aesthetics has a lot to do with it.
They want the plantings to look good. These vineyards are beautified most especially when they are in view of a highway. Hiway 101 or hiway 12 or a major road like River road.

Also it keeps the Olive tree suppliers in business. Urban tree farm along with the vine supplier, Nova Vine, top notch millionaire type places.

Some varieties of grapes have their leaves turn bright red in late fall. It used to be that those varieties were planted preferentially near the hiways. There are fewer of those now days.

Cherry trees and Italian Cypress are also planted at perimeters of vineyards.

Aesthetics is my main guess, but I also know some like to use the Olives.