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<pre>Good morning all!

I have just finished picking 6 trees of some green, some heading toward
black, some full black olives for pickling. 25kg from 2 UC13A6 trees, and
40kg from 4 Manzanillo, all 4 year old trees. Only 394 to go!

I therefore claim to have the first olives of the new millenium (or the
first olives of the last year of the old millenium if you prefer). Can
anybody beat that?

Mike Wilson.
Twin Tree Cottages
Hunter Valley
Australia.
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<pre>Plenty of olives on show at Olives Australia on Sunday, both picked and on
the tree. Please send spare rain.
Peter Wilson

At 02:35 PM 3/9/00 +1100, you wrote:
>From: "Phil Bramley" <bramleyp@one.net.au>
>
>And today I was about to pick my Chambourcin wine grapes and turn them into
>delicious red wine - unfortunately the heavens opened up (a good thing
>because all dams and water tanks were nearly empty) and dumped over 100mm of
>rain in less than 24 hrs. Maybe on Saturday?
>
>Our olives show no sign of ripening at this stage Mike. You must have had a
>very different growing season then.
>
>Regards,
>
>Phil Bramley
>
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<pre>And today I was about to pick my Chambourcin wine grapes and turn them into
delicious red wine - unfortunately the heavens opened up (a good thing
because all dams and water tanks were nearly empty) and dumped over 100mm of
rain in less than 24 hrs. Maybe on Saturday?

Our olives show no sign of ripening at this stage Mike. You must have had a
very different growing season then.

Regards,

Phil Bramley
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<pre>>
> And today I was about to pick my Chambourcin wine grapes and turn them
into
> delicious red wine - unfortunately the heavens opened up (a good thing
> because all dams and water tanks were nearly empty) and dumped over 100mm
of
> rain in less than 24 hrs. Maybe on Saturday?
>

Shiraz was all picked 3 weeks ago ... up to 13.4 Be ....not a drop of rain
since12 Feb, and that was only 11mm. It finally rained on Wednesday ...
55mm. Still a drought, but not quite as severe as it was last week!


> Our olives show no sign of ripening at this stage Mike. You must have had
a
> very different growing season then.

80% of them are showing no signs of ripeness, it was just some isolated
trees in the grove. No, I don't know why either! The poor, sad Kalamata that
I have had so much trouble with are starting to colour up now, but there
wouldn't be 50 kilo of fruit on 40 trees.

Mike.
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<pre>Mike, How are you pressing your olives?

Phil
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<pre>> From: "Phil Bramley" <bramleyp@one.net.au>
>
> Mike, How are you pressing your olives?
>
> Phil


Phil,

The ones we have picked so far are for pickling, the pressing will be done
by the Hunter Olive Co-Op ... if they manage to get their shed & machinery
finished in time. Otherwise, I'm open to offers....

Mike.
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<pre>You don't want to ship them down to me Mike? Use Fasso's refrigerated
trucks, I will pay freight. Paying $5000/tonne for the oil extracted.
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<pre>>From: "P Caird" <caird@hitech.net.au>
>Reply-To: OliveOil@onelist.com
>To: <OliveOil@onelist.com>
>Subject: Re: [OliveOil] First Olives of the Millenium?
>Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 19:24:13 +1100
>
>You don't want to ship them down to me Mike? Use Fasso's refrigerated
>trucks, I will pay freight. Paying $5000/tonne for the oil extracted.
>----- Original Message ----- >
>
>
Hello, how many litres of olive oil in a tonne?

Do you pay any premium for particular varieties?

How much delay is acceptable from picking to pressing?

Keith Jordan-Smith
Canterbury NZ.

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<pre>What quantity do you estimate for oil pressing?

Regards,

Phil
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<pre>>
> What quantity do you estimate for oil pressing?
>
> Regards,
>
> Phil


Its a bit difficult to tell with this being my first crop. My initial
estimate of "about 5kg on that tree" was well out ... I picked 12kg off the
tree ... so with revised estimates I should have about of 800kg of
Manzanillo, 400kg of UC13A6, 400kg of Azapa, 200kg of Sevillano available.

There are also a few Hardys Mammoth and Kalamata which will probably go for
pickling (50kg of each) , and next year I should have my Corrigiola start to
bear too.

Interestingly, the Hardy's Mammoth and UC13A6 went in at the same time, I
have trees groaning under the weight of fruit with the UC13A6, but hardly an
olive on the Hardy's. The Kalamata went through some serious problems but
seem to have recovered fairly well, but I have some serious pruning to do to
get them back to bearing properly. The Azapa look promising, but nobody
seems to know much about them. They were recommended by Delphine Archer, and
have grown well, but I don't have a single bit of info about them. Can
anybody help?

Regards,

Mike Wilson.
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