Peach tree

crittertime

crittertime

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This is the first year that this peach tree is fruiting! I’m wondering if I should pinch some of these peaches off so that the ones left to ripen are juicier.... To pinch or not to pinch?
also, do you think those little plants at the bottom are gonna do harm in that pot?
 

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you dont need to worry about it at the moment, you will get them falling off where there too close together.
but if you see say three in close proximity, you may want to pluck the middle one out. but they look good and well spaced out to me.
nothing like your own fruit in the garden. we have to grow ours in a polly tunnel and there quite small in comparison to your butey.
we also dont have the best of wether in order to grow them.
this year we had the polly tunnel open for all the queen wasps and bees toi get there necter early on and now we have hundreds of fruit on them, so we will be removing loads off of our plants in order for them to grow yto maturity.
 
Hey. The pros up in Georgia remove about 2/3rds of the fruit so the remaining ones will be bigger. I've never done it myself though.

I had two peach tree sprouts this week. Will be at least a couple three years before they fruit.
 
It's recommended to remove the blossoms so that there's 6 inches of space between each peach. Otherwise your fruit will be on the small side due to the fact that each piece of fruit will be competing for nutrients and space.
 
Just Be said:
It's recommended to remove the blossoms so that there's 6 inches of space between each peach. Otherwise your fruit will be on the small side due to the fact that each piece of fruit will be competing for nutrients and space.
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you think there close together, heres our nectarines under iour peach tree1619748984203.png1619749012449.png1619749036318.png just a bit of thinning to do
 
oh, well fingers crossed they still have space n time to grow large enough. we would have thinned it out sooner, but weve been waiting for me to get my ass in gear to take them lol
 
You guys and your fruit trees loaded with fruit suck. :mrgreen:

I have maybe 10 peaches on my peach tree. I've been battling peach leaf curl and last year it got hit pretty bad. This year it was isolated to just a few branches which I removed. When it flowered there were no pollinators around as it was still too cold. I rigged a small paintbrush I use for pollinating cannabis on a bamboo stake and hand pollinated as many flowers as I could but it didn't take very well.

Now the pear tree bloomed a couple weeks after the peach and it was during a nice stretch of warm sunny weather and lots of bees. It looks like it's going to make up for the lack of peaches on the peach tree. I sure hope so. I'm going on 4 years and still haven't picked a single pear. Makes me want to rip them out and plant more blueberries which have done good every year since planting.
 
xtsho said:
You guys and your fruit trees loaded with fruit suck. :mrgreen:

I have maybe 10 peaches on my peach tree. I've been battling peach leaf curl and last year it got hit pretty bad. This year it was isolated to just a few branches which I removed. When it flowered there were no pollinators around as it was still too cold. I rigged a small paintbrush I use for pollinating cannabis on a bamboo stake and hand pollinated as many flowers as I could but it didn't take very well.

Now the pear tree bloomed a couple weeks after the peach and it was during a nice stretch of warm sunny weather and lots of bees. It looks like it's going to make up for the lack of peaches on the peach tree. I sure hope so. I'm going on 4 years and still haven't picked a single pear. Makes me want to rip them out and plant more blueberries which have done good every year since planting.
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i was in the process of hand polinating with the same method as it seemed like there wasnt enough polinaters around, but as i stareted i was inundated with queen wasps and bumble bees so i decided to let them get on with it. i thaught there would be at least something on it, but it ended up as you can see, weve never had so many fruit on them.

can you bring the peaches in from the weather? peach leaf curl is in the rain that falls on them and protecting them will help prevent it, you can also treat the plant with worm liquid , from concentrate watered down (it works as a fungaside or a good organic fungeside.
but a cover over it to prevent rain from falling onto the leaves and protecting it from the frost will cure it too

the berry idea sounds good though, you can never have enough of those :D
 
go go kid said:
i was in the process of hand polinating with the same method as it seemed like there wasnt enough polinaters around, but as i stareted i was inundated with queen wasps and bumble bees so i decided to let them get on with it. i thaught there would be at least something on it, but it ended up as you can see, weve never had so many fruit on them.

can you bring the peaches in from the weather? peach leaf curl is in the rain that falls on them and protecting them will help prevent it, you can also treat the plant with worm liquid , from concentrate watered down (it works as a fungaside or a good organic fungeside.
but a cover over it to prevent rain from falling onto the leaves and protecting it from the frost will cure it too

the berry idea sounds good though, you can never have enough of those :D
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The tree is planted in the ground and is around 12 feet tall. There isn't any moving it. I sprayed multiple times over the winter with a copper based fungicide. Seems to have worked for the most part. I didn't get many blossoms this year though. I think the tree was stressed after last year. It got dry and then I didn't water it like I should have. I'm going to give it another year. I keep saying that but I have a hard time killing plants so It will probably still be growing in the backyard years from now even if we don't get many peaches off of it.
 
we have the same problem with trees and shrubs, we cant get rid of them ether.
coper sulphate was the other fungaside i was going to sugest. shame its 12 ft tall as once the tree has peach curl, its very hard to get rid off, unless you can cover it up and stop the rain getting to it, the tree has it for good
 
xtsho said:
You guys and your fruit trees loaded with fruit suck. :mrgreen:

I have maybe 10 peaches on my peach tree. I've been battling peach leaf curl and last year it got hit pretty bad. This year it was isolated to just a few branches which I removed. When it flowered there were no pollinators around as it was still too cold. I rigged a small paintbrush I use for pollinating cannabis on a bamboo stake and hand pollinated as many flowers as I could but it didn't take very well.

Now the pear tree bloomed a couple weeks after the peach and it was during a nice stretch of warm sunny weather and lots of bees. It looks like it's going to make up for the lack of peaches on the peach tree. I sure hope so. I'm going on 4 years and still haven't picked a single pear. Makes me want to rip them out and plant more blueberries which have done good every year since planting.
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have you concidered chopping the tops of the trees and only having lower branches to fruit on, that way you stand a better chance of treating it and maybe being able to put a cover of some sort over it? just a thaught
 
go go kid said:
have you concidered chopping the tops of the trees and only having lower branches to fruit on, that way you stand a better chance of treating it and maybe being able to put a cover of some sort over it? just a thaught
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I've already flattened the top. I made a mistake when I bought the tree and got a semi dwarf which gets much bigger than the dwarf which is what I intended. Then I think I over fertilized when I planted and the tree shot up about 4 feet the first year.

Here is the tree in question. It didn't grow the way I wanted and I didn't trim it properly when I should have. I should probably cut it down and start over with something else but it's like part of the family now and I just can't bring myself to kill it.

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I'm up to 13 hours 33 minutes of sunlight, so I chopped almost all my spring crop last week. When I cut a Sleepy Ass Blues Boggle down so it could reveg if it's a mind to, I found a little six inch tall peach tree. (I've been reusing soil, so. . . . ) I had to rework the hole to make sure the peach tree was alright when I added more plants. I did this down at the river field a few years back. That tree is about 12 foot tall now. Really hard to get to though.
 
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