This has been lifted and potted into its new home , 1 of the collected trunk from our club dig . The tray is a 560mm oval , base is 500mm wide , trunk is 250mm .It will be trimmed to around 850mm tomorrow and get wired for the growing season .
Cheers Alpineart
Sumo Olive
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Re: Sumo Olive
thats got a great taper Alpine. My olives are coming along well too. We dug them together about 18 months ago.
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Gday Brian , mate I was talking to The Hacker earlier , his are going great guns as well . Any chance of a pic or topic on them , I remember those trunks well , be keen to see them now .Brian wrote:thats got a great taper Alpine. My olives are coming along well too. We dug them together about 18 months ago.
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Re: Sumo Olive
I think its time for a rest then I get an idea , just one more 
. This has had 6 thread grafts applied to the naked cut section . A quick trim down to 750mm and some wire . This will do until some shoots appear that can be wired or utilized as more thread grafts 
. Definately time for a break 
Cheers . Alpineart
. This has had 6 thread grafts applied to the naked cut section . A quick trim down to 750mm and some wire . This will do until some shoots appear that can be wired or utilized as more thread grafts . Definately time for a break Cheers . Alpineart
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I just wish t was mine!...Are you keeping all that long leader on top or just fattening it?
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Hi Neli , the leader is to keep the energy flowing to the top and I will use the shoots for grafting lower down . There is a couple of buds up there that could be useful .
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OK it makes sense. Thanks.
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Re: Sumo Olive
What an absolute beast!
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Hi Biocs , in about 10 years time it will be a real beast , it is impressive and bloody heavy .
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