Cynthia Chapman Feb 21,

Tips on pruning your Olive Tree. Pruning. Like most evergreen trees Olives respond very well to pruning, in fact the more you prune, the happier they grow. It is best, however, to prune your Olive after the last of the winter frost (March onwards) and before the first autumn frosts (late October early November) If you prune back your Olive tree ‘hard’ it will result in a dense growth or a light ‘formative’ prune Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins.

There are many indications on how to prune olive trees, but some technical advice seems to prevail over others; the simplest way to manage this tree and its habits is to allow the development of three or four branches, leaving the center of the olive tree rather open, to allow it a good exposure to light in the lower portion of the tree. Sep 21, Most of the pruning required for olive trees are thinning cuts designed to open up the tree. After planting, remove all side branches within 3 feet of the ground.

If the tree is small, allow it to grow for a year before this initial pruning.

This keeps the tree off. May 16, The pruning of the olive tree is carried out during its first years of life, and what you should do is, in the first years, leave only the main branches to the tree and prune its secondary shoots, so that you give it the base structure on the that later the tree will grow. Apr 02, During the first 3 seasons, it will be enough to keep the tree’s shoots at a height of between 80 centimeters and 1 meter, which is the most common to mark the ramification of the olive tree.

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Afterwards, up to 6 years of age, training prunings are applied to the tree, although they are not as important as in farm olive trees. Here it is only a matter of leaving about three main branches well.