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Posted 8 years 6 months ago #23464
I have never grown a tree before. Under a mature black olive tree in my yard in south Florida, I found a shoot about 8 inches high with a girth of about two millimeters. I would like to grow it indoors as a bonsai. Does this sound feasible?.
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Posted 8 years 6 months ago #23465
you may be able to make a "bonsai" out of it if you are willing to devote 20 years. It would be a lot more realistic to by an older tree to start with.
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Posted 8 years 6 months ago #23470
Not really. Trees need light. And olives need LOTS of light. Growing indoors will not be a happy endeavour. Grow it outside.
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Posted 8 years 6 months ago #23476
Thanks for the input. I might want to rethink this.
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Posted 8 years 6 months ago #23503

parker wrote: you may be able to make a "bonsai" out of it if you are willing to devote 20 years. It would be a lot more realistic to by an older tree to start with.



Just have fun and grow your tree, next year it will be better, five years from now, even better. In a hundred years from now, maybe in a museum.
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Posted 8 years 5 months ago #23553
thanks. i like your attitude. what's the worst that can happen.
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Posted 8 years 5 months ago #23565

jeffrey wrote: thanks. i like your attitude. what's the worst that can happen.


Japanese Beatles, can cover it, sucking all the life from the leaves.
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Posted 8 years 5 months ago #23568

Samantha wrote: Japanese Beatles, can cover it, sucking all the life from the leaves.

Japanese Beetles :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry:
I kill about 100 every day personally and they keep coming. I have traps filling up with them as well and they keep coming
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Posted 8 years 5 months ago #23572

Samantha wrote: Japanese Beatles

Had to look them up. Never seen them. they look a little like our "June beetles"
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Posted 8 years 5 months ago #23573

leatherback wrote:

Samantha wrote: Japanese Beatles

Had to look them up. Never seen them. they look a little like our "June beetles"


Much smaller though, and have shiny green heads. It's ironic, we're trying to do a Japanese art, and "Japanese Beatles" invade.
Spray for those things is widely available, but it kills a lot of bugs, that I sort of like.

leatherback So you have "June Bugs", too. Down in Arkansas, they have another bug they call "June Bugs". The ones we call "June Bugs", are grub worm, most of their lives, won't hurt your trees. The Arkansas ones eat bugs.
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