Pruning a Two-Year Old Peach Tree 

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paige Burns I have a six year old peach tree that was pruned last year but the center leader is still intact. How do I take it out without drastically harming the tree. I want to bring it down to size as well. We brought it down to about 10 feet last year.

Thank you, I just bought my first peach tree at Home Depot, here in February 2021, and wanted to know if I should be pruning it now. I think so! These vios are great, very informative, good emos too!

@@lrigdrenlrigdren2147 Yes indeed, now is the time to prune your peach tree! Good luck! Glad the videos help.

What do they look like now, 10 years later?

I sold my house in March of 2022...But at that time, one of them was thriving, the other never really grew. The thriving one bore tons of fruit, but they were always full of caterpillar frass, though.@@chetgallaway

what's a bushel?

1.24 cubic feet, generally considered for peaces to be roughly 48-50 lbs

don't be. You need to be a savage when pruning. I was like you the first year I pruned - scared to cut too much fruiting wood. After seeing how much these trees grow in a season though, the next year I released the savage inside of me.

late winter

Prune lower branches

Dear Ms. Thomas, Google "Pruning Nectarines, Peaches, and Plums - Family Plot" on RU-vid. Mike Denjison prunes an Old peach tree. I think you will find Exactly what you need! Roger Swain, from The Victory Garden said you should prune a fruit tree so "a bird can fly through it." Good luck and best wishes.

It happens, I did it many years ago and you wanna kick yourself for it, but you live and you learn

The good news is, it's not too late to work on it! When you planted the whip, did you cut the whip back to 30-32"? If not, when buds begin to swell next spring, go ahead and do that. That action releases the buds beneath the cut to sprout and develop into scaffold branches. Sometimes whips aren't tall enough to cut that high - if it's a small whip, just try to remove the tip of the whip, which removes the apical bud which is suppressing the release of buds found below. Here is a very good booklet on pruning which may help:content.ces.ncsu.edu/training-and-pruning-fruit-trees-in-north-carolina. Keep in mind with the peach trees you're going for the "open vase" shape, as opposed to the "central leader" shape of a apple or pear tree. Let me know if you have other questions!

@@lindaburns7477 I was wondering about cutting the tip off the trunk, whether it was feasible, and when I should do it. I planted the whip in the ground, and cut it off about 23 inches above the ground, last Spring. The cut I made, where I chopped the whip at 23" , is half healed over already. Just below the heal is a branch that is almost vertical. It is a vigorous branch. Opposite of this branch is a bump on the trunk about the size of a half walnut. Growing out of the bump is 3 branches, all at the same elevation. The middle branch is vigorous and juts up towards the vertical. On either side are smaller branches, but these branches have a nice angle to them of about 45 degrees from vertical. So, that's a more detailed description of the 4 branches at the top of the trunk. Then there are 2 vigorous branches 4" above the graft. I probably should have rubbed those buds out in the beginning. These 2 branches are about 30 degrees from vertical. I'm certain I'll have to prune them to the trunk....but I'll read your pamphlet first, before I do anything rash. Thanks the for info.

mu99ins how do you treat your peach’s that have the gel like substance coming out of them?

Yes Edna! All fruit trees are grafted.

Yes, if you know how to pronounce 'espalier.'

naomi chambers it's right

Curious how your tree is doing now? Are you still letting it go natural?