Fruitless Olive Tree Roots

The tree has a dark gray rough bark and it grows with a twisted open canopy.
Fruitless olive tree roots. To grow healthy and disease free a fruitless olive tree needs a spot that gets at least eight hours of sun a day. If water does not drain quickly root rot is a potential problem. Continue to water container plants regularly. Choose your site wisely because fruitless olive trees can live for several hundreds of years.
Water deeply and regularly during the first growing season to establish an extensive root system. This allows olive roots to collect water from soil that typically dries fast ensuring the tree. This fruitless variety does not produce fruit eliminating any messy fruit drop maintenance and possible allergic reactions to pollen produced by the flowers. It also requires well draining soil because it can be susceptible to root rot if the soil remains damp for prolonged periods.
Feed with a general purpose fertilizer before new growth begins in spring pruning time. Reduce frequency once established in the landscape. Once established most fruitless olive tree varieties are drought tolerant but they need regular water until a good root system has developed. With very little water requirements once established this resilient medium sized tree can grow with a widespread making this a great tree for use as a canopy tree for shade or as a silhouette.
Fruitless olive trees crave full sun and are able to tolerate poor stony shallow soils so you can plant this tree on a variety of landscape styles.