Yes, some maintenance pruning can help your olive tree produce more.
Jul 04, Shearing of Tea Olive can be performed any time of year, however, to avoid damaging new growth that emerges after pruning, I recommend ceasing pruning two months prior to the average first frost date in your area. Heavy pruning to reduce the size or to tree form your Tea Olive should be performed in late winter, while the plant is treenotch.clubg: Blairstown.
Sep 21, Fragrant tea olive, or sweet olive (Osmanthus fragrans), can bloom off and on nearly year-round, so time pruning to follow peak bloom, which is fall through early winter in most cases.
Tea olives generally develop a strong, treelike structure with branches off one to three trunks without much help, so it's fine to skip an annual pruning if your plant is lush and a suitable size. Trim back branch tips in late winter or early spring to shape the tea olive shrub. Make the pruning cut 1/4 inch above a lower pair of leaves, dormant buds or branch twig junction. Where branch tips encroach on a building facade, fence or other garden plant, trim the branch back farther so regrowth doesn't quickly put the branch right back into the wall or nearby plant.
A: I’d do it after the spring flowering period.
Tea Olive are very easy to tree form.
Tea olive, Osmanthus fragrans, blooms on twigs that grew in the last six to nine months. By pruning in spring, there’s plenty of time for new growth that will perfume the neighborhood. Pruning Tea Olive. Growing Tea OliveMissing: Blairstown.
The best time to prune on a Tea Olive is right after it finishes its spring bloom. This spring pruning is all I ever do each year on a Tea Olive. That being said, you can lightly prune the canopy (top of the tree) any time during the growing season to keep a more formal shape, though I would cease pruning about two months or so before the first frost date in your treenotch.clubg: Blairstown.