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<pre>> Hi,
> I was selling oil at a store recently and I was asked by a customer
as to why his three olive trees flowered well but did not set fruit.
> He has 1 x Sevillano, 1 x Mission and 1 x Kalamata at St Ives. According
to some SHOGA members who have table olives the Mission should be a
satisfactory cross pollinator so my suspicion is that the trees just get too
much rain in the St Ives area.
> Any bright ideas out there
> David Wilson
> Glenlee Olives

We have a choice of several reasons why there is no fruit:

trees are too young?
lack of boron / something else in the soil and poor development of viable
flowers?
strong wind at flowering?
heavy rain at flowering?
varieties are not what they are supposed to be?
just bloody unlucky!

However, I would suspect either wind or rain is the culprit this season as
much of the Hunter has fairly ordinary fruitset following the wind and rain
in September.

Mike Wilson
Hunter Valley.
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