Big straggly olive tree

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• borgadr Posts: 718

  June 2021

  Thanks guys for all the responses. 
  @Joyce Goldenlily the tree doesn't displease me as it is (though I must admit to some olive-envy when I see @tui34 's photo!).  It was more a case of wondering whether the tree would benefit from some pruning work - I guess from the responses that opening up the centre is probably the one thing that might help.
  
  

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• Mariam_86 Posts: 79

  June 2021 edited June 2021

  I’m no expert here but I think it depends on what you want out of your tree. 

  
  

  If you want it for ornamental value and are not bothered by olives, then you might not want to thin it out so much and just prune to a shape you like.

  
  

  If you want it for fruit, then I think you’d thin it out and time your pruning to ensure a big crop, as others have suggested above. 

  
  

  We have two small olive trees (barely 1.3 meters) and (my parents) harvest the very little olives we get. 

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