Pruning Your Olive Tree
You don’t need to worry too much about pruning your olive tree – just a trim when needed. As a rule, you should not be doing any pruning after August. If you are removing any bulkiness, this must be done in the summer months, smaller shoots should be removed in the spring. This will ensure the tree has enough time to heal before winter sets in. This is due to wintry weather potentially causing an olive tree to shed some of its leaves.
Pruning an olive tree to maximise fruit production is something that most owners of olive trees consider, although it is not a requirement. Pruning is a simple matter of reducing the length of stems by the amount that they are growing each year or as often as you want to.