I think that second olive is brilliant. never seen the painitng trick. great video

Our coastal Southern California club has summer repotting sessions, particularly for olives, of course, but also bougainvilleas, ficus, and any other tropical trees, because these recover best in the warmest weather. As for your olive issue, I agree with Bhilipe's comment. I also concur with Liam and Hilton's comments on olive's moisture sensitivity. We get barely 23cm of rain a year and fairly low humidity, but give olives extremely good drainage and don't water daily.

Good luck ! and lovely olive trees. One must always look at their trees , they depend on us to get it right for them ..Wish your trees a speedy recovery , now i am going to check mine ;)

Great vid Jelle. I will have to try taking early summer cuttings and see if I can get them to root next year. 👍👍

Hello Jelle, Very good and clear presentation, as always. Thank you for that. 🙏 Cool, because I too have an olive on the table on Friday.... 😉 Many greetings!

Hope your olive 🫒 trees make a full recovery 🙏 I am sure they will bonce back after your expertise and experience. Great video Jelle...

Great demonstration and explanation as usual Jelle. I hope this tree recovers for you. Thanks

Love your videos Thanks for sharing I deal with root problems very often Most overwatering problem Very good help with hydrogen peroxide root-rot solution. Maybe could help your olive too That's my just 2cents 👍

Beautiful olives! I found this helpful being new to bonsai. I just bought my 1st olive today. 👍

I think overwatering causing root rot fungus, maybe? Love your videos

I've got a few olives of various sizes (mostly small but some from seed 1 - 3 years) and from my experience so far they're very sensitive to overwatering. I'm in quite a hot, dry environment and even then found they respond better with watering every 2nd day versus every day like most of my other trees. Summer's been hot your side this year, but generally your climate (in Germany?) is much cooler and wetter I'd guess so possibly just too much moisture for them.

given that olive trees are extremely resistant to temperature variations, including frost, I would bet on insufficient drainage during the winter, with the death of part of the roots, followed by a water/oxygen imbalance caused by maintaining the usual spring watering level in your region, in a plant that was extracting less water from the soil, given the previous problem of the roots and the fact that its foliage had not developed enough to transpire.

Hi Jelle, First time watching your vids and enjoying them. I live in Switzerland and have similar issues with my two olive bonsai. One is thriving while the other stays waterlogged and isn’t doing well. I also repotted that one this summer. Since then I try to let the soil dry well between waterings. When it’s cloudy that can take up to a week… Looking forward to the see the progress of your trees and keeping my fingers crossed that our trees will recover 😊

Olives prefer the soil on the dryer side, they can survive serious droughts here in the south of Spain, so it's better to not keep them in moist soil

Thanks for this hint to repot olive trees in summer. I will repot mine, too. What kind of soil mixture do you use? Regards

Fortunately they grow easily from cuttings, so i guess they will recover soon.

Hi Jelle, I enjoy your videos alot, I watch them all. Thank you. In the case of the 1st tree: You planted it in what looked to be a small, ceramic bonsai pot. When you mentioned you planted it without considering the front view of the tree, at that moment I thought to ask you... Did you consider planting the tree in a training pot, even better an air pruning pot, especially considering how much olives love airy soil/roots. If you did consider this why did you opt for the small bonsai pot?

Hi Jelle, I've a question about olives in general. Do olives backbud?

Foist!

Interestingly, there's a school of thought here in Australia that Australian natives prefer repotting in summer. I haven't yet, but I have done very hard pruning on acacia that is supposed to kill them (people say you shouldn't prune more than a pencil thickness), but they loved it and grew like crazy. I found this is true for New Zealand Mirror Tree too. It sulked after I pruned in spring, but exploded in new growth being pruned in summer. I just avoided really hot days in the few days after pruning.

Hello Jelle recently I got a Prunus cerasifera from my neighborhood, they need to get rid of this. Because it has a good potential for a shoin, the soil is pretty sandy and it falls off all, is good to make a repotting or try to keep as much old soil as possible? if it is good to make a repotting how should I do the aftercare?

yes olive trees don't like wet feet. need extremely good drainage. winter should be dry with barely any moisture. frost is a no no.🌲🌲🌲

I have a small shimpaku not doing too well. Is in pretty bad soil. Would you suggest re potting to full APL soil with this summer heat? I think it will do kuch better in Apl

If they are from seeds they show different traits due to the variation in the gene pool. Just a thought.

Hey Jelle, can recommend some websites for importing olive trees jn Europe? I would love to start my first olive bonsai, but I find it hard to get good material in my country. Thanks 😉

Hello there! I was wondering how the olive tree are doing?

hoi ,ik ben de nieuwe eigenaar van de eerst bonsai die je verpot in dit filmpje.. het gaat nu goed met de olijf en hij gaat weer uitlopen ... mocht je meer willen weten laat maar weten mvg Marvin Zwart

Why summer,why not spring time repotting?