AusBonsai

Great tree Ozzy!

Good to see your taste in tree's far outweighs your taste in beer!

Cant wait to see how it goes from here

The second virtual is the way to go, more powerful. Don't go taller, keep the focus near the base.

Please use wire on this tree, it deserves to be treated well! Haha

About time you posted something !!! I'll do a virt for you as soon as i have time mate !!!

anttal63 wrote:About time you posted something !!! I'll do a virt for you as soon as i have time mate !!!

I think the trunk needs to be shortened and some branches grown in a broom style. chris

Here's a virt.... give it 15 years and some healthy growth and you could have something like this

Some great virts there , its giving me plenty of ideas for this one

Wow Ozzy that is a .... cool olive. If you dont want to wire it , maybe you should just use wire on the lower branches to pul them down abit

regards Johan

Johannes wrote:Wow Ozzy that is a .... cool olive. If you dont want to wire it , maybe you should just use wire on the lower branches to pul them down abit

regards Johan

Hi, yeah I used to use a lot of wire but don't bother any more, the branches are that stiff you can only wire them when they are a couple of mm thick anyway, I just use clip and grow on olives now, I still wire the shoots sometimes where they come out of the trunk to get them pointing downwards but thats about it, this stump is great in that its already got some secondary branches to use that are in the right places, normally I'd cut everything off and start again.

ozzy is right i find olives branches more then 3-4mm thick difficult to wire with out leaving wire marks or other damage so i wire mine when young as well a mix of clip an grow an wire seems to work well

Clip and grow takes longer but produces a far superior and natural looking end result, you wiring crazy nuts out there that like to spend all day wrapping your branches in copper might be better off taking up sculpturing

ozzy wrote:Clip and grow takes longer but produces a far superior and natural looking end result, you wiring crazy nuts out there that like to spend all day wrapping your branches in copper might be better off taking up sculpturing

Nah mate! I use aloominum, wire on mine

Ken

To Quote Ryan Neil "wire is our paint brush". There is a long list of plants which can only be wired on the new growth azalea and pyracantha would be a couple of the more obvious ones.
Craigw

Pines would be another wire only tree, I have some here with long leggy branches with no low buds that have to be wired, I see a lot of wiring were clip and grow would have been better.

Can you show me some of your clip and grow olives? Love to see what you mean.

Cheers
Jarrod