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Gardening Know How Questions & Answers - https://questions.gardeningknowhow.comMy wife planted four olive trees as an experiment to see if they would survive our South Carolina winters. They have.
However, we have gotten no olives. The trees are 9 years old. We no longer know which varieties we have or if we don’t have the correct “sexes” .
Is our situation hopeless or are tests available or is our climate/soil just wrong?
Thank you for any help you might provide.
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1 Comment To "Getting olive trees to produce fruit."
#1 Comment By Downtoearthdigs On 10/16/2017 @ 6:49 pm
It seems that olives were actually grown commercially in South Carolina in the 1800s, so your climate should be fine for them. It could indeed be a problem with the varieties needed to cross-pollinate. Is the tree producing flowers? If not, first, see this article to check whether there might be any other problem:
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/plant-problems/environmental/plant-not-blooming.htm [1]
These articles have information about the varieties needed for cross-pollination. You may also want to ask a university extension agent whether there is a way to check what variety you have.
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ep515 [2]
http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=21374 [3]