Never to late to start. I go over the first first year sharing how to INCREASE the LIFE & HEALTH of your PEACH TREE by Pruning in Back to Eden permaculture food forest garden.
Thank you so much for the lesson! Very helpful! We bought a peach tree this year and have no idea what's next... but we make sure we learnt from every mistake that we made each season.
Very nice and informative!! Thank you for sharing your expertise. I’m going to prune my 3 year old peach tree in February so I can have bigger and sweeter fruits comes summer 👍
Thanks for the tips. I planted 4 peach trees a few weeks ago in my back yard hoping for peaches in a few years. I am going to plant a few tress every spring. Watching videos like yours will definitely help me.
Thank you Mark for the useful information. I will recheck my pruned peach trees (year old) and may have to make a few more cuts. My pruning saw leaves such a smooth cut on my apole trees. It looks like I used 800 grit sandpaper its that smooth! As always, very informative video. ❤️
Thanks man I let mines go and one died. But back to the basics. Started pruning my life and now back to everything around me. If no growth, no need of it. And good consistent pruning always brings growth
It's a miracle that the peach tree that my Mother planted in 1992 is still producing. I didn't pay close attention to the tree as it was growing. Then one day in 2015 as I was sitting in the living room I saw a peach on the tree. The tree had peaches on every limb. So many until we had to tie the tree back to keep the branches from hanging to the ground. I still didn't cut one limb from the tree until 2021. In 2022 and 2023 frost got to it. This year I am treating that tree like a BABY! lol I will cut a few more of the thin branches next year. I am afraid to cut anything off now because again every limb has peach buds. Lastly I was under the impression that peach trees only lasted 8 to 10 years. I think my tree has proven that not to be true. I had so many peaches in 2015 until I bagged them up and stood out in front of my house and waved cars down and handed them bags of peaches. I live in rural North Carolina where everybody knows everybody. Thank You for your great advice.
Have you ever tried bud-notching to bring what appears to be a dormant bud back to life? Notching involves making a small cut above a bud to stimulate growth. I am working with a newly planted peach and want to push out some limb growth below the existing scaffolds (which I think are too high). No branches are very large at all yet. I have some confidence with this technique for apples but not sure how it will work with stone fruits.
I'm living in my parents home now and my father planted a peach tree that's been pretty neglected since his passing 7 years ago. I looked at it today and wondered, how can I get this tree in better shape and growing bigger peaches? Now I know I have a lot of pruning to do, thank you for your knowledge!
Good instructions. Much appreciated. Just bought a reliance peach tree. Going to prune it today. My neighbor has a tree and never pruned it. Branches flopping over. He has 2x4s supporting it up.
Mr Paul G. From back to Eden prunes that branch going straight up causes more fruiting on side branches and because of the weight of the fruit his trees branches bent downward and as tree got thicker those branches were permanent making it easy for him to get to.
Just moved into a new house that had a peach tree that's a few years old and never was prunned. Started pruning and looking forward to next year's harvest.
Wow. . This is the best video ive seen on pruning.....i have never pruned my daughters peach tree. .hopefully its not too late..its 8 years old..have to wait for fall weather now..😒
This was an excellent video. Do you have one on how to prune Italian prune trees or would you prune it the same as you did this peach tree? I just planted my Italian prune this spring. So should I prune it next year? Thank you.
Very helpful step by step demonstration. A miracle has happened in our townhouse community where a sector behind our homes was cleared and we all pitched in and bought fruit trees. Two are peach. After the first year we are going to prune them per your guidance. We are south of San Diego which I think is zone nine...?
THAT is REALLY GREAT NEWS. I am so glad to hear that it was a community type idea. Wishing you all fun and fantastic harvest in the future for many years to come. THANK YOU for sharing.
You did great job on your tree. Now on my tree, I leave most of the short pencil thick branches and also make a heading cut at a outward facing branch, not a bud. The little hairy limbs give best fruit.
Good video. I have a new bare root 3 in 1 peach tree that I just planted and it’s thick with foliage in the middle. I won’t do anything this year but I’ll thin it out in the winter this year
Very good video. lots of great tips clearly detailed. I am sure you planed it, but in the end, it looks like you removed all of the 1 year old fruiting wood, so you will not really get any fruit next year, but will have good shape. I would have left a few of the 50cm red fruiting wood segments, like the fist cut after the central leader removal (4:30) looked good to keep.
By the way I am affected by the dreaded fruit fly, gorgeous peaches in year one, riddled with maggots and inedible ( unless you like maggots)year two tried all sorts deterrents including locel custom of tying individual paper bags round the fruit, and still ended with fruit fly, year three picked before ripe and made delicious chutney. Also had to pick off all leaves with the red blobs on. Trust year 4 will be the best so far.
I like your videos because you know what you're going to say. Good work. Also, I'm sure your readers know you shouldn't leave a stump when you make a large cut because it may cause witches broom sprouts. Best site for this info.
Thank You. You caught what my future video ( in a few months ) is going to be about. Yes, it can happen that way. But also I can develop a new scaffold branch. But I am not sure. so I decided to test and show the results. I can always go back and cut again. THANK YOU for sharing.
I just want you to know you made me feel SO MUCH BETYER .. I pruned my tree SAME as you but I felt guilty like I did too much .. but I think I did ok thanks!!
The timing of this is amazing! I'm zone 6, have a 1 year old peach tree that is starting to bud up, and I was suspecting that I might need to prune it, and now I know how!!!!! Thank you
Just bought 7 from HD and planted in July. Zone 6 as well. Should I wait for a little after planting them in the ground to prune? Also, what if I can't cut to make my scaffold that low, say I could do 4ft? When I bought them, they already have a semi long trunk. Thanks for anyone's advice
this was the most helpful and step by step ive been needing to see. can I ask though...when is it too late to prune? I have a 2 year peach tree thats not been pruned its got a ton of branches I know should go and buds all over it now. much larger than the ones on your tree. should I wait?
I have a peach tree that's in its second year with me and I have five fruit total on it. The tree itself is 8 feet tall. One of the fruit already looks ripe- nice and soft- but it's only golf ball sized. Is it because I didn't trim it down enough? It's pretty full of leaves and there are even leaves just growing out of the stalks as well as on individual tiny branches.
After purchasing a one gallon potted peach this past winter, I transplanted it into a big barrell type pot. It is growing nicely but had lots of shoots growing down the trunk. It is early summer in Florida now, can I still prune the tree back?
Hey, thanks for your great explanation! It's been a very helpful guide. I do have a question; I was told to protect my whole (new) peach tree during winter with a special bag, that covers the leave and branches. Could you tell a little more about that? For example what material would be good to use (bubble plastic, nylon-bag, anything?). Thanks, I'm looking forward to more feature videos.
GOOD INFO, I APPRECIATE YOU TAKING THE TIME TO EDUCATE US WITH YOUR EXPERIENCE....I WAS WONDERING IS IT TO LATE TO PRUNE MY TREE I BOUGHT FROM HOME DEPOT AND IT ALSO HAS FRUIT ON IT ALREADY
Question: Do you need 2 peach trees to produce fruit? I only have 1 tree which had numerous flowers this spring, but I'm concerned it won't have fruit later on. I'm learning so much! Thank you for taking the time to teach.
Great info...we live in NW Florida and planted a dwarf peach tree earlier in the spring. My tree is growing well...maybe too well.? I have two very tall single branches shooting straight up. We are in hurricane season now and my fear is that this tree may just bend in half during a storm. Can/should I prune it back now or just let nature take its course?
Just watched your video, very informative ! My peach tree is almost two years old now. I have not pruned because I wanted the tree to get established...I'm finding out now from the video I made a mistake. The tree really took off, it's about ten feet tall and bearing a lot of fruit. All that being said....can I prune it now ? I'm in South Jersey and it's June. Thank you and I hope to hear from you.
Great video. I had a peach tree from Costco from new year( 9 months ago) but know I have a lot branches I wonder should I trim some to make it look good or wait until February? Pls help
I live in Palm Springs (zone 9b) and have seen beautiful peaches growing here that usually ripen in the late spring. Two years ago I planted two peach trees that are doing well but a little whacky. Last year I pruned in the spring, sadly without the help of your great video, and for a time I thought I had killed them as it took them a very long time to recover and finally bloom and then leaf out for the summer. I didn't think they were going to fruit as they are both early varieties (Elba? I think...) and June, July, and August produced nothing and I saw no small fruits on the branches. Then all of a sudden toward the end of September the tree seemed to explode with very small, but very sweet and fully ripened peaches! Do you have any idea if that was a result of my hack job in pruning or do you think it could be a matter of the wrong variety for this special climate? That is to say--very late fruiting, very small fruit, very many fruits for the small size and young age of the tree. Any input you can offer would really be appreciated as it seems you know quite a lot about taking care of these lovely trees. Thank you for the very informative video!
