Olea europea - my first carving

[Fidur]

Bought this olive in a nursery 6 months ago (I think it was about 15$)

It's been growing very healthy, so I have made a first styling. It came with a nasty straigth cut, so I decided to make a shari plus a bit of carving to hide the scar a bit.


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It's very funny (to carve). I've been mixing my hand tools and my drilling machine, though I have to learn a lot to say I know how to.
I have to confess this is the least loved of my trees. It has big leaves and chaotic growing. Hope to learn how to tame it.

 

[maroun.c]

I love olives so tagging along to see progress on this one.

 

[Fidur]

I wasn´t too satisfied, so I have finished today the carving and styling. Next will be repotting in a couple weeks.

 

[Fidur]

Repotted . No more operations until spring.

 

[Fidur]

This olive is growing fine, but I have a question



As you can see, this olive is sprouting directly from the trunk in some places:



That is unexpected in my previous design.
Would you keep this new sprouts in the design, or elimate them?.
And if you would keep them, how do you advice to integrate them in the design?

 

[ponderingsage]

Olive seem to bud from the trunk frequently. I usually rub them off, unless you want a branch to grow out.
If that is the case you would have to grow one out, so that it is thicker than the ones above it.

 

[Fidur]

Update:

This is what it looks like today. Lots of work ahead....

 

[Fidur]

An update:
In january I defoliated it:



Today, it looks like this:



Not a fan of this olive, but I like the leaves reduction I've achived. I hope to begin to love this one in the future....

 

[It's Kev]

scuse me sir, but what's the height of that tree? i might have a short fat little olive soon (airlayer applied 3 weeks ago, hope i didnt fudge it) and have been considering a move like this to make the chop look less abrupt and obvious

 

[Fidur]

scuse me sir, but what's the height of that tree? i might have a short fat little olive soon (airlayer applied 3 weeks ago, hope i didnt fudge it) and have been considering a move like this to make the chop look less abrupt and obvious

It's about 20 cm from the rim of the pot....

 

[It's Kev]

It's about 20 cm from the rim of the pot....

yup, that's the size i'm aiming at, just waiting super patiently for my air-layer to take