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  • From: Lee Reich <leeareich@gmail.com>
  • To: nafex mailing list at ibiblio <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] Olives
  • Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 08:12:45 -0700

I've had a few fruit set every year on my potted olive tree (Zone 5, NY), but
the fruit never really ripened well.

Lee Reich, PhD
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On Jan 4, 2013, at 4:12 AM, bassem samaan wrote:

> I got a fruit set on one tree, but only a few matured. It doesn't produce
> well in a container.
>
>
> On Dec 28, 2012, at 3:28 PM, mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Bass, have your container trees set olives?
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 8:51 PM, bassem samaan <bassgarden@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Mature olive trees will tolerate freezing temperatures into the 20's with
>>> minimal damage if fully dormant, however 10ยบ F seems too extreme. I grow
>>> olives in pots and they tolerated frost, but I wouldn't plant in the
>>> ground in my area.
>>>
>>>
>>> Bass
>>> Zone 6, Pa
>>>
>>>
>>> On Dec 13, 2012, at 7:31 PM, Elizabeth Hilborn <ehilborn@mebtel.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I see that One Green World nursery is selling Italian Olive trees they
>>>> represent as hardy to 10 degrees F.
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone trialed these plants in the mid Atlantic or humid/hot
>>>> southern areas?
>>>>
>>>> Betsy Hilborn
>>>> 7a central NC
>
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