What happens if one wires the branch in a way that all leaves are upside down?

[hemmy]

New shoots sprouting:

notice your branch tip appears to be lower than the middle of the branch. This is known hormone response in some trees to back bud when the auxin filled tip is lowered. In the olive bonsai book by Font, Arnaud, and Jeker, they use it as a training technique.

 

[Clicio]

I'm sorry I missed this post the first time around. Obviously the solution is simple - you must export the tree to a country on the other side of the Earth.

Exactly where I am right now!

 

[Clicio]

notice your branch tip appears to be lower than the middle of the branch. This is known hormone response in some trees to back bud when the auxin filled tip is lowered. In the olive bonsai book by Font, Arnaud, and Jeker, they use it as a training technique.

I didn't know that, and I'll be watching to see what happens then. Interesting, thanks so much!

 

[hemmy]

I didn't know that, and I'll be watching to see what happens then. Interesting, thanks so much!

Why yes! Mine is bigger than Adair's!

Awesome tree! There is an interesting branch training technique for olives documented in the one of the Mistral Bonsai magazines. It is online from various sources, just search Mistral Bonsai and "olivos que parecen olivos" (olives that look like olives). The idea is to wire branches tip...

www.bonsainut.com

Link referencing book.