BLOSOMING AND FRUIT HEARING SEASONS

The flowers begin to bloom from ends of March, but hte real flowers appear in April and May, though the most abundant blooms in the first month. His period of fructification is included between September and December but in Juen we already have formed the first olives with a very small size. During the summer and the autumn, the fruits are increasing of size and and changing the greeen color to the black. The fruit size that it can obtain depends on the quantity of rains of this year.


Depending on the species, we can find trees that can bie collected from November. The withdrawal of the olive is produced normally from November until February. Formerly, when they were retiring to hand, it was extending until March.

Traditionally, the olives were maturing in the tree until they were falling down in the soil. Then they were retiring by hand or with the thorns roller, they were transpoprted to home where they were cleaned to take from them the leaves, branches, stones and land. Today, those works are in use for pichk up them. These methods are too long and it alter the acids and the acidity of the olive, producing oil of minor quality. Nowadays there is tried that all this process realizes in one only day.