{"id":1007,"date":"2011-04-26T09:54:36","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T16:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olivetrees.ca\/?page_id=1007"},"modified":"2023-11-11T15:34:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T23:34:34","slug":"2011-offering-how-to-order","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/olivetrees.ca\/?page_id=1007","title":{"rendered":"Choosing Your Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>CHOOSE YOUR VARIETIES<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\"> <strong>First, please consider these questions<\/strong>:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\"> <strong>1) \u00a0Do you want to grow olive trees for their fruiting capability (with potential for table use\u00a0or oil)<\/strong>?<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>If so, you need at least two\u00a0trees of two different varieties\u00a0to ensure pollination. For example, one Leccino and one Maurino. For best results, buy more than two trees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>2) \u00a0Do you want to grow one olive tree only, but want it to bear olives<\/strong>?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\"> Then you buy a Frantoio or a Taggiasca (aka Cailletier). Both are self-fertile and won&#8217;t need a partner to produce fruit (but you will get more olives setting fruit if you have another pollinator).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>3) \u00a0Do you want to grow olive trees because they are beautiful, but you don&#8217;t want the fruit<\/strong>?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\"> Then choose any number of any one self-sterile variety \u00a0(i.e. any variety other than the self-pollinating\u00a0Cailletier, Frantoio or Taggiasca).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">4) If you want to keep your tree(s) in pots you should read my recommendations for doing so here: <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/olivetrees.ca\/?page_id=2141\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Olive trees in pots<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>\u00a0THEN . . .<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>DECIDE HOW MANY TREES YOU WANT<br \/>\n<\/strong>Space and access to the right microclimate will dictate\u00a0how many olive trees you can grow in an area. See <a href=\"https:\/\/olivetrees.ca\/?page_id=56\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Planting Instructions<\/span><\/a> for details.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHOOSE YOUR VARIETIES First, please consider these questions: 1) \u00a0Do you want to grow olive trees for their fruiting capability (with potential for table use\u00a0or oil)? If so, you need at least two\u00a0trees of two different varieties\u00a0to ensure pollination. For example, one Leccino and one Maurino. For best results, buy more than two trees. 2) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1007","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3BZxh-gf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivetrees.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivetrees.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivetrees.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivetrees.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivetrees.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/olivetrees.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4602,"href":"https:\/\/olivetrees.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1007\/revisions\/4602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivetrees.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}