AusBonsai

Dug this one up about 2 years ago and last year wired a few branches and tonight gave it a bit of a clean up ready for this years growing season. If I can do it right this could be a very powerful tree.. Please feel free to tell me your thoughts.


Before clean up


After

Long way to go

Get some sacrifice branches down really low to correct that reverse taper and that is going to be a cracker.

Was thinking about doing some carving to correct reverse taper

Goff wrote:Was thinking about doing some carving to correct reverse taper

I think letting it shoot around the base is a better idea, it will fatten quickly and give you a better tree IMHO. It should shoot ok from down low and with a fat base would be a very powerful tree. Either way it is great base material and should be a cracker.

Josh

Put her out in the sun, feed, feed, feed and feed and you should get more bottom shoots than you can deal with. Pick the ones that will give you them most benefit and let them grow untrimmed for a year or two. By the time you get the top to where you want it the base of the trunk should have filled in nicely.

Going to be a nice tree, if it continues to develop as it is.

Never had an olive before. But that isn't an olive, that is a wooden male sea horse because of the taper but as the others have said, sounds like it can be remedied over time.

Never had an olive before. But that isn't an olive, that is a wooden male sea horse because of the taper but as the others have said, sounds like it can be remedied over time.

Thats alot of reverse taper to correct grow ing some sacrifice branches would be a very sow process as ive got olive trees collected 20yrs ago that gained very little trunk size. A few things that could correct this is a diffrent front to hide the issue or layer it like ive shown in the picture below then use the base again for another tree you could go a semi cascade very easly as you have great branching

I had the same seahorse idea. One of the leafy sea dragons. I say keep it that way as its a unique style choice.

Olivecrazy wrote:layer it like ive shown in the picture below then use the base again for another tree you could go a semi cascade very easly as you have great branching

^^^ this

Olivecrazy wrote:Thats alot of reverse taper to correct grow ing some sacrifice branches would be a very sow process as ive got olive trees collected 20yrs ago that gained very little trunk size. A few things that could correct this is a diffrent front to hide the issue or layer it like ive shown in the picture below then use the base again for another tree you could go a semi cascade very easly as you have great branching

The photo really makes it look a lot worse than what it is. I'm thinking about growing a branch from the point of reverse taper for a couple of years then jin the branch and do some carving to help this problem.