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Old December 21st, 2002, 06:54 AM
Mike Wilson
 
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Re: Cross pollination

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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

Thanks Hartley, and by the return e-mail address of
Hartley@... can I safely assume you are in the nursery
business, and that you have some available? I'll be in touch off list to
discuss this.

Regards,

Mike Wilson.
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