3 wild olives

[boguz]

Hi mates
I got 3 wild olives from a friend. He bought those yamadori trees from a bazaar last year.
They are not so green, so they need some time for root development i guess.

First 2 ones have nice nebari. But they have bad grafting scars I am not sure if i can hide them by carving.

You guys have any ideas for the trees.

Thanks.

 

[Vin]

I've never worked with olives before but the first and second one look like good candidates for Sumo Style trees. Unless there's something hidden under the soil on the last one, I wouldn't waste my time with it.

 

[boguz]

And i got 2 more with more movements
I'll cut them back in late winter.

 

[boguz]

Update of my 3 olives

 

[Soup Dragon]

Why do you say that they have grafting scars? These wouldn't be grafted.

 

[boguz]

Why do you say that they have grafting scars? These wouldn't be grafted.

Here wild olives are grafted by the farmers/villagers for higher yield. Also, they are much more durable.
If grafting fails, it is a trash for them, but still a gem for us

 

[Shibui]

Olives can look good with dead wood as part of the style. Some of the oldest natural olives have more dead than living and tell a real story of age and endurance. We can transfer that to our bonsai to tell a similar story.
I see one in particular that you could add shari on the trunk.


Carving and dead wood could also add lots of taper to a couple of the others but maybe they still need to get stronger before further work.

 

[boguz]

Olives can look good with dead wood as part of the style. Some of the oldest natural olives have more dead than living and tell a real story of age and endurance. We can transfer that to our bonsai to tell a similar story.
I see one in particular that you could add shari on the trunk.
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Carving and dead wood could also add lots of taper to a couple of the others but maybe they still need to get stronger before further work.

It looks nice, ty so much

 

[Soup Dragon]

Here wild olives are grafted by the farmers/villagers for higher yield. Also, they are much more durable.
If grafting fails, it is a trash for them, but still a gem for us

Oh, so they attempt to graft "productive" olea Europea onto the wild olive rootstock? So these are wild olive trees that they tried to graft, but the grafts failed and the trees have continued to grow out as natural wild olive?

That makes sense. I thought you meant that they were grafting wild olive onto wild olive.

 

[boguz]

After 3 years i take pictures of my 3 wild olives.
2 of them i defoliated. It seems i am not so good at adding some green on them