In order to produce high quality fruit, pome and stone fruits require annual thinning of the fruit set.Here are 5 reasons why you should thin your fruit.
This is very mind enrichment in terms of planting fruit trees. I myself is very anxious in waiting for my 7 month old peach tree to reach blooming stage. By the way i am growing it here in the Philippines. Happy Farming!
Great videos mate, really appreciate the presentation. Just one piece of advice: please refer to seasons rather than months. I live in Australia so June is the first month of winter - which is confusing for a second! Regardless, keep it up.
+kendo512 Thank you for this excellent point. June-drop is a common name for the process where fruit trees shed some of the excess fruit. I could not find a scientific name for it. I also attempted to find an equivalent term for June -drop in your hemisphere and could not find one. If you come across the proper term for June-drop please let me know.
Ok, I am so glad I came across your videos. I just planted a peach tree for my mother and would've been real excited to see all the fruit. I know she will be freaking out when I start pulling the extra fruit that's not ripe. But she will be so excited when the time comes and she has big delicious peaches. Wish me luck! I remember when I was a kid and my grandfather's apple trees would bear fruit every other year. Now I understand why that was happening. I only wish he was still alive to tell him.
Agreed. I have a sense that the two peaches I have in my backyard have grown taller than they should if they were purely fruit bearing trees. I've heard/read they should only grow as tall as you can reach. But that seems so short.
Thank you for this very informative video. You'd explained why my dad's mandarin tree didn't blossom many fruits this year. (Last year the same tree had hundreds of fruits.)
Thank you for this video and the PLC video. I have learned a lot. But what exactly is June Drop? I am new to growing fruit trees. I have 2 dwarf peach trees but want to do a few more different fruit trees. So I am trying to learn all I can.
+Christina Speers Keep planting. The trees are good teachers. The definition of June Drop according to Merriam-Webster - "the falling of young fruit due to improper or incomplete fertilization, disease, or environmental factors at a maximum about June."
Hello Professor :) I just discovered your two video about the peach tree disease on the leaf. I had no idea how to deal with this. I have a small peach tree 2 years old and it straggle to grow and give good quality fruits. Every year i have the disease leafs. Now i saw it and i will make sure when all the fruits will be off the tree and the leaf gone i will treated the tree then in spring when the bud are out. For the ground do it need any specific soil and what about the water ? I am ne win this and i really want to learn. I am from South island of New Zealand. Thank you again
Hello Gilles, Lucky you to live in such a beautiful place. If your tree struggles to grow, most likely it’s due to poor soil structure. The Peach Leaf Curl does not help, but if I had to guess, I’d say it’s the soil. Most governments, including yours, publish a soil profile of the country. It’s a study of how the soil was formed and what’s needed to make things grow. In NZ the site is called Te Ara-Encylopedia of New Zealand and is published in English and Maori. www.teara.govt.nz/en The first thing to do is figure out what type of soil you have. Go to this page www.teara.govt.nz/en/map/12777/soils-of-the-south-island and identify where you live. If you are to help your tree, you have to know your soil. In the beginning, it may sound difficult. Stick with it, you will learn quickly. You can then change the soil to what your tree(s) needs. Much of the good agricultural soil you see in South Island used to be poor soil that was improved by man. An easy way to learn more about your soil is to dig a hole (say 3 or 4 feet deep) near your tree and just look at what’s below the skin. If it’s rocky or hardpan, all that has to be broken, so the roots have a place to grow. The one thing that almost everyone should do, no matter where you are, is to increase the level or organic matter in the soil. It takes a long time to change the level of organic matter, and it’s very hard to over do it. If the soil around your tree is bare, get a whole bunch of dried leaves, wood chips, straw, hay, whatever mulch is available to you and pile it around the base of the tree (away from the trunk). A thick layer (say 6”) is better. Then every two or three years add some more on top. Make sure your mulch is aged (not fresh) Another thing you can do to improve the soil is to add manure. Manure is basically organic matter (i.e., grasses) that has been broken down and is in concentrated form. Each winter mix about 100 pounds of dairy cow manure with 50 pounds of chicken manure and spread it around the base of the trees. You can put the mix on top of the mulch, and the rain will wash it in. This will also give the tree a light feeding. I bet you can get sheep manure easily, That’s fine, but sheep manure is not as good. Do this every year for the next 100 years (or whatever is left on you clock :-) and you will have great soil.
Hello Professor Peach :) Thank you for the info. I had look the soil and like you said it is a bit weak. When i had plant the tree, i had put a big bag of very good soil for the tree but i had not feed the base of the tree with compost. We do our home compost at home with all the vegetables and grass in a compost box. I will get old pea straw and ad the compost on top. Is it possible to send you a photo of the peach tree then you can have a look at it. Send me a email at rumberosnz@yahoo.com and i will send you photos of the tree. Actually we are in our summer season and when all the fruits and leafs will be gone i will treat the tree with copper oxychoride and it should help then before the bud in spring will come out in spring i will treat it again and on and one every year. Yes in new zealand it is a beautiful country with a amazing floral life. Where i leave it is call the city garden because we have a huge collection of native flowers and trees it is so beautiful. Thank you again and hope to receive a email from you.
i am in search of some information about peach tree this is a very good information about peach tree but i want to know what the reason that fruit tree does not give fruit every year
Hi there. My sweet cherry tree has a leader branch the is about 6ft higher than the other branches. do I shorten the leader and to what length? another question I have is what time of year would I cut it if so?
It depends on a lot of factors. For example if the top of the leader branch is higher than you can reach, why keep it> On the other hand if your tree is short you can top the leader and develop a second canopy above the existing structure. As long as you have three feet distance between branches you can grow delicious cherries. Thanks for watching.
Grandma Pickering Any fruit can be eaten as long as 10 it has not been sprayed with some mumbojumbo chemicals and 2) it taste good :-) Dwarf refers to the type of root stock that controls the height of the tree and NOT the size of the fruit. If your fruit is small and hard there are other factors such as your soil chemistry or the type of fruit, or environmental conditions such as drought, that's causing the problem.
+Grandma Pickering The term "dwarf" refers to the root system of the tree and not the fruit. Dwarf trees are smaller in height but produce normal size fruit. If your fruit is small.you should the fruit.
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