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Olive tree grafting on established trees in Australia

These trees were from 35 to 70 years old with an unknown parentage but now suspected to be verdale. Originally possibly planted as a windbreak for the student vegetable plots, they had for years been picked for a flat sum by a contractor. Although the school now received a percentage of the oil instead, it was felt that with regrafting, a lot more income could be generated.

Over the following years much work was put into these trees in order to maintain the newly growing grafts and to cut down the regrowth from the stumps as they tried to put all the root strength back into growing, anywhere.

It was from this position that the decision was made to pollard the trees to a height of 1.2 metres and thin them out to a 3-5 metre spacing.

If you are seeing this as a web page please excuse the amount of graphics used but it is the easiest way to show the techniques that have been used in grafting.

Copyright Matt Starczak 2001