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<pre>Mike,
Your olive industry levy is working for you!! We just finished a PhD
project supported by AOA funds variously.

I don't know if you got to the olive conf. in Adelaide or not but I think
that report may have been presented by our group. I was away in NZ and did
not go.

No matter. I dont have the info you want to hand right now and I don't
know which parts of it are yet public so I will need to check. I presume
that you have ordered the trees anyway? If you have then I would like to
defer a reply to you until after Xmas. Is that possible? No time before for
me. I'm setting up next years courses, bookings and printing, etc.

That would also give me time to get right what I think is the case. The
bits that are embargoed are not that important but will be thus so that we
(or AOA) do not release info that MIGHT be wrong because we have not done
sufficient testing. We have got caught (internally) by thinking that a
couple of years data was giving a good picture on a few things. Not
serious, but it makes us very, very cautious. Its your money, not mine.

Could I ask where you got your trees from and where you will be getting
the new ones from? Useful so I can compare what the seller thought it was
versus what we think it is (both may be wrong!). That would help with the
x-poll suggestions to you.

Harass me with another email (to me) every 2 weeks please.

Regards, Bob

At 01:51 PM 18/12/02 +1100, you wrote:
>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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