I am looking for an italian olive tree that I can get some cuttings from. looking for table olive to process and serve. Main goal looking for a Nocellara del Belice olive. I met a gentlemen who has a family tree in a pot and stores it inside in the winter time. He was not willing to make any cuts on his tree very protective. Let me know your experiences.  how well should it work in my zone 6/7 New Jersey

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I think before I even bought the first fig from willisorchard I was thinking, it would be interesting to grow an olive tree.  After reading up on them they seem to be more of a challenge than growing citrus in the Northeast.  I honestly thought olives were edible off of the tree.  I recently was reading somewhere?, maybe gardenweb? that the olives won't set right above 50 degrees but will be damaged at 32 if I remember correctly.  Anyways you need just the right temp when it has fruited.  Still is an interesting tree.  Oh and I guess the fallen olives can really stain cement or pavement.  Then comes the processing part which is pretty intense.  Oh and who knew they don't grow with the pimento already inside them.  I'll still probably by one. Who am I kidding.

They are growing orchards of them small scale in michigan I have done some research and it looks like it could work. The guy a few towns over had a tree in a large pot and he got his own olives just does not know what variety it was from his fathers house in italy that is all he knows.

You never know till you give it a try! I hope it works out for you.

I had several large olive trees that I kept in the greenhouse overwinter, and out in summer. I no longer have them. If you're expecting to harvest olives from them, you will be disappointed. I did pick a couple of one tree one summer, but not a reliable producer like a fig or some other fruit tree in a pot for our area.

I just found where I was reading the most recent info on olives, Fourwindsgrowers.
http://www.fourwindsgrowers.com/fruit-trees-vines-and-berries/olives.html

Some grow them around here with marginal success - I can find out varieties if you like.

USDA/UC Davis has cuttings of Olea.

Jason if you could get the varieties that would be great. I figure i should at least try nothing ventured nothing gained.