Patience is a virture, but this is ridiculous

[jackb]

Early in November Ava and I planted Megaritiki olive seeds that I received from Greece as a fun project. I had read that as olive trees can live for over a thousand years, they don't do ANYTHING in a hurry. We found that statement to be very true. I have checked the seeds every few weeks to see if there was any progress, and never found any. Today, almost four months later, I found what appears to be a root tip peeking out of the end of one of the seeds. At this rate, however, it will be Ava's grandchildren who will see the first olive, if the seed does indeed germinate.

 

[so lucky]

You have more patience than I do! That olive tree will be even more valuable to you and Ava since it is so hard to get started.

 

[lesa]

Hey, don't complain... everything else you grow reminds me of Jack in the Beanstalk. Plant it today, harvest it next week! You are bound to end up with a wonderful olive tree. Keep us posted!

 

[jackb]

Hey, don't complain... everything else you grow reminds me of Jack in the Beanstalk. Plant it today, harvest it next week! You are bound to end up with a wonderful olive tree. Keep us posted!

Lesa, you don't have time to be reading forums, you should be starting your seeds!!

Jack B

 

[vfem]

I'm happy to see any progress at all!

Goodess, I would have quit 2 months ago and moved on.

Just think about the amazing memory and story you'll leave behind when your great-grand kids climb that tree. I think of that everytime I look at my apple trees.

 

[jackb]

I'm happy to see any progress at all!

Goodess, I would have quit 2 months ago and moved on.

Just think about the amazing memory and story you'll leave behind when your great-grand kids climb that tree. I think of that everytime I look at my apple trees.

vfem,
That is a lovely thought and I appreciate it. That said however, the only climbing on these trees will have to be done by leprechauns, as I live in upstate New York. Using bonsai techniques, I intend to dwarf the tree and grow it as a house/greenhouse plant, as I have with my other olive varieties.

Jack B

 

[897tgigvib]

That'll be cool! Yes, have patience.

I've heard that Carob trees require so much patience that they take 70 years to produce from seed. Now that's a tree planted for grandkids! Actually, I saw one that was planted around 1968 producing like crazy in late 2007, 39 years.

 

[jackb]

That'll be cool! Yes, have patience.

I've heard that Carob trees require so much patience that they take 70 years to produce from seed. Now that's a tree planted for grandkids! Actually, I saw one that was planted around 1968 producing like crazy in late 2007, 39 years.

You know marshall, I tried a baobab seed one time, and finally gave up after a year or so. I am running out of patience, so I am cloning the darn olives though.

It is amazing that these actually ever grow.

"A Baobab seedling phase is truly considered from germination to 15 years! Buttress phrase: year 60 to 70 years. Bottle phase until 200 to 300 years. Aged phase: 500 to 800 years. The trunk slowly thickens to a giant girth; the heavy branches droop and get longer to form a widely spreading crown. The lower branches break from time to time and some of the trunks become hollow. Most Baobab trees die off between 500 and 800 years of age."


Jack B

 

[journey11]

I would have probably tossed it in the compost pile and found it the next spring. That bonsai is really neat.

 

[897tgigvib]

One time i was flyfishing on the big hole river in montana. Some guy walked past where i was comfortable on a rock around 10 am and said howdy and stuff, and then walked some miles upstream. Later that day almost sunset he walked by again leaving and i was at the same spot, comfortable. he asked did i catch anything and i smiled saying, thankfully no i didn't. See, I like to go fishing but i don't really like catching a fish. lol! Anyhow, this guy said, wow you must have a lot of patience, and what came out of me i don't know where it came from, but i said, i guess if you have to call it patience you don't have patience.

Those Baobabs sound like a really cool tree. that's the savannah tree from africa i think.

I'm pretty sure that carob tree was already over 10 when it was planted. it was one of the things i had to go see when i moved back from montana. Keep those olive seeds tucked somewhere. i think they'll grow. they are not in a human time zone. try not to even think of it as patience, just something to check on every once in a while.