Why is important to have trained staff to detect olive tree plagues?

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. The early detection of diseases, pests, nutritional disorders and other management problems is undoubtedly the most useful tool and undoubtedly fulfills the classic premise that prevention is better than...

What diseases can appear on your olive trees?

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. The incidence of the different diseases and pests of the olive tree that can arise in an olive grove or even in a single individual, depends on the following factors: Variety Microclimate Macroclimate Soil...

Differences between formation pruning, production pruning and renewal pruning of the olive tree

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. In the first place, what we have to know before talking about the differences between the different types of pruning is that the hierarchical premises that govern pruning are: Adapt the structure of the...

Olive Tree Pruning and Alternate Year Bearing

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. In order to explain Olive Tree pruning and Alternate Year Bearing, we need to consider each of the yearly seasons.

Olive grove management: Mulching branches and vegetative soil coverage

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Olive tree mulch has proportionately more carbon and less nitrogen than what there is in the totally decomposed humus content of soil. Especially the wood, which is almost entirely cellulose.

Olive Tree Nutrition: Calcium and Magnesium

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Key moments when the olive tree should not suffer water stress

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. We should not think of the olive tree as a vegetable, or as a citric or subtropical tree, since those plants developed in environments where there was never any water stress. The olive tree is adapted to...

Why your olive tree leaves need maximum light exposure?

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Olive tree branches need to have maximum light exposure. The more light exposure the leaves and fruit get, the greater the production of photoassimilates, and hence, the greater the growth of sprouts and...

Olive tree pruning

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Nitrogen in the olive tree

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Apart from CO2, water and sunlight, plants need mineral nutrients for their metabolism. Without these nutrients, the plant cannot complete its life cycle. The root is the organ that absorbs mineral...

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