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<blockquote data-quote="Old McDonald" data-source="post: 3287258" data-attributes="member: 47276"><p>Hopefully there will be a small crop in the third year (3rd leaf as the Yanks call it - being the 3rd time the tree has come into leaf since planted) with enough for our own use - about 50kgs a year, but the trees were just grafted onto the rootstock this past summer, so it might be another year. The 3rd fruiting season should see them covering variable costs with increases up to about the 8th to 10th year when they level out for 20 to 25 years - subject to the possibility of biennial on and off years, or good and not so good yields. They continue to yield after that but with slightly decreasing quantitities. </p><p></p><p>Prolonged rain at flowering can devastate expectations and it is possible to have no fruit set. That happened with the olives this year, but being in leaf the side of the tree sheltered from the rain events did bear fruit.</p><p></p><p>After all, it is farming, and as we all know there are numerous sayings to explain why we never harvest everything we might expect in any year.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Old McDonald, post: 3287258, member: 47276"] Hopefully there will be a small crop in the third year (3rd leaf as the Yanks call it - being the 3rd time the tree has come into leaf since planted) with enough for our own use - about 50kgs a year, but the trees were just grafted onto the rootstock this past summer, so it might be another year. The 3rd fruiting season should see them covering variable costs with increases up to about the 8th to 10th year when they level out for 20 to 25 years - subject to the possibility of biennial on and off years, or good and not so good yields. They continue to yield after that but with slightly decreasing quantitities. Prolonged rain at flowering can devastate expectations and it is possible to have no fruit set. That happened with the olives this year, but being in leaf the side of the tree sheltered from the rain events did bear fruit. After all, it is farming, and as we all know there are numerous sayings to explain why we never harvest everything we might expect in any year. [/QUOTE]
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