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I'll be dipped! That really does look like an olive. I
don't know anything about propagation. Any information about the size and
quality of the fruit? With global warming, we should be able to grow them
in many places although I know they don't like high humidity. I have a
correspondent in Croatia who told me about a hardy olive they had, but he
couldn't remember where he had seen it. Maybe in Bulgaria?? That's a
great find, in any case, Mark. Must be something, somewhere on propagation
- California Rare Fruit Growers should have some info.
Hector Black, zone 6 middle TN
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 9:45
AM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] olive trees found in
Bulgaria at -4'F
I'm halfway suspicious that it might be Russian Olive
(Eleagnus), but I can't tell enough from the picture. Hector Black?
You can probably tell.
Even if it is an olive, that
doesn't mean it will bear. I had an uncle who had a peach tree in Iowa
where peaches shouldn't grow, but this one did. But it never bore
because the fruit buds are more tender than the leaf buds and they froze every
year. The result was a beautiful vigorous, non-bearing peach tree.
Might be the same with the olive - it would grow, but the flower buds
might be frozen out.
As to the fig, I have a Desert King
that has survived 0 F without freezing off. The trick is to grow it in a
dry location to force it to harden off well.
-Lon Rombough
Grapes, writing, consulting, my
book, The Grape Grower, at http://www.bunchgrapes.com
From:
"Mark Lee" <markl@nytec.com>
Reply-To: North American Fruit Explorers
<nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 08:54:16
-0800
To: "North American Fruit Explorers"
<nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [NAFEX] olive trees found
in Bulgaria at -4'F
http://members3.boardhost.com/HardyPalm/msg/42578.html
The
link above is by a person in Bulgaria that has found olive trees
growing
at a local agricultural university. There are two picures
given. One is a
fig tree that died in a previous extremely cold
winter. The other is of an
olive that survived under the same
conditions. The olive tree appears to be
thriving, from the photo.
Recent temperature in Bulgaria is near 0'F. I
did some
research recently that indicated that the hardiest olive trees
could only
survive down to about 10'F. This is proof that there are a
few
olive trees that are even hardier than that. No mention was
made of the
fruit it produces, if it happens at all. I hope this
guy can propogate it
and start sharing it with others.
Postings at
this message board are not archived, and in a couple of weeks it
will be
gone. I have made a copy of it for my own reference
at
http://home.earthlink.net/~piper3/HardyOlives2.htm.
-Mark Lee,
Seattle,
z7b/8a
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