Report From The Field - 6/6/05 Coke Ranch Corning Ca.

Here is a shot of the latest development of olives at the Coke Ranch. These are the same Ascolana Variety Olives that are shown below in the last post from this ranch. In general, the olives are developing nicely.

Here you see the tiny proto-olives developing. They are beginning to develop their pits currently and the pits should be full developed by the end of June. This event is called pit hardening and after pit hardening, these proto-olives will be fully fledged olives and will continue to develop and grow until harvest.

Notice also that there are some yellow, dried blossoms still present. These will blow off in time. In fact, the recent rains that we have experienced may have washed these blossoms off since this picture was taken.

It looks like we will have decent crop from the Coke Ranch this year.

Sincerely - Brian - The Classicist, Sales and Marketing Manager