difference b/w male and female Olive tree (forum)

ak starts with ...
Hi
I have 8ft tall,stem size 2inch and its umbrella size is 3.5ft olive tree but there are no fruits growing some one said that may be your tree is male.
How I recognize my tree that it is male or female tree?

Time: 11th November 2011 10:43pm

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Brendan says...
Hi ak,
Have a look at this.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Determine_the_sex_of_an_avocado_tree

Now the 'B' type is the female, and the 'A' type is the male. I know this sounds like voodoo, but mum showed me this over 50 years ago, and it works.

Time: 12th November 2011 9:25am

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ak says...
Hi

I have OLIVE tree not Avocado tree.

Time: 15th November 2011 10:53pm

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Brendan says...
Same difference ak. It works on pawpaw trees, olive trees, avocado trees etc.
Give it a go and see what happens.

Time: 16th November 2011 7:26am

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Grant says...
Works with a piece of cotton and a needle too on animals and people of questionable gender ;-).
Our vet showed us this. We thought he was having a laugh but as long as you have a reasonably steady hand it DOES work.
Must have something to do with the differing magnetic fields on Mars and Venus. LOL!

Time: 16th November 2011 7:46am

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Julie says...
I have no idea how this works either, but have been using it for about 30 years to determine gender and viability of seeds.

Viable seeds the weight goes around - non-viable it goes back and forth.

It doesn't matter what you use, any small weight on a cord that will swing when you hold it steady.

Time: 16th November 2011 9:21pm

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Phil@Tyalgum says...
Hey Julie what about gender as opposed to viability?

Time: 16th November 2011 9:33pm

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Julie says...
Sorry, didn't write that very well. I meant gender of plants and viability of seeds.

You already know a plant is viable - it's alive! So you only want to know the gender.



Time: 17th November 2011 8:00pm

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mezz says...
Hi Julie,

I was watching a program the other night from Italy and apparently they prune each season the branches from the olive trees that grow upwards (they are the males) and the branches that hang down are the female..... How s that !

Time: 23rd February 2013 8:28am

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Speedy says...
Olives have bisexual flowers, so they're both.
so do Avocados
thing with avocados is that they have two typer of flowering sequences
in 'A type' Avocado trees the flower opens in the morning of the first day for a few hours and is funtionally female (can receive pollen) then closes
It then opens on the afternoon of day 2 and the stamens release their pollen for insects to transfer it to a female flower (opening on it's first day)
so pollen has to havd been on an insect overnught for effective pollination.

In 'Type B' Avocaco trees, the flowers open in the afternoon of the first day and the female parts are active.
and the male parts are active on the morning of the second day.

so, if you have a tree of each type there will be male and female parts of flowers working at the same time and better chance of a good fruit set.

thats why two Avocado trees (an A and a B type) planted in close proximity will yeild more than twice as much as one tree in isolation.

some trees eg. almonds, plums etc. need another tre to cross pollinate because of inbiult self-incompatibilities.
they still have fully functional bisexual flowers.
Hazelnuts and pecans are monoecious and have seperate male and female flowers on the same plant, but still set better with a few individuals with which to exchange pollen, so still not separate M & F trees.

some conifers eg. Junipers are dioecious
Carobs are generally M or F
Date palms are Male or female

Time: 25th February 2013 1:42am

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