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<pre>Mike,
The easiest way to solve the problem for your next planting of olives is to
plant the self fertile variety Signore(FS17).This
will give you superb quality oil of the Frantoio parentage with at least 2%
higher yields compared with Frantoio,earlier to yield(after the second full
winter in the ground),the ability to fully mechanize after the second year
all pruning and harvesting and not have the on going problems of worring
about pollinators.

The tradiional pollinators for Frantoio are Pendulino and Leccino planted as
10% of the grove.
Regards
Hartley Lewis
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Wilson [mailto:mike.wilson@...]
Sent: Wednesday, 18 December 2002 1:21 PM
To: Olives Groups
Subject: [OliveOil] Cross pollination


Dear all,

The olive groves of the Hunter Valley of NSW have suffered quite badly from
poor pollination. This we feel is due largely to some unseasonably hot, dry
winds during flowering in September.

However, we are also wondering if we have the correct mix of trees to
effectively cross pollinate the varieties we have planted. In one grove I
have a block of 500 Frantoio and a block of 500 Nevadillo Blanco, with a
small stand of eucalypts in between. The NB flowered bout 2 weeks before
the Frantoio, so there seems to have been little cross pollination.

Does anybody have any information about which varieties flower at the same
time and have pollen sufficiently different to enhance dross pollination.
This last part is based on my assumption that as Frantoio, Paragon &
Correggiola are all closely linked genetically (or the same thing?) then
there would be little to gain my planting one to cross pollinate the other?

Any information would be gratefully accepted, as I have a new 5000 tree
grove to plant in September, and I'd like to get it right the first time!

Regards,

Mike Wilson.



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