What Happened to My PEACH & NECTARINE TREE?!? 😱🤕🌳 | Peach Leaf Curl -Why It Happens & How To Prevent 

I don't think removing the foliage from the tree is necessary (but removing fallen ones from the site is a good idea). You could always just see how your trees do next year. I'd only pull them up if a) they died, or b) if I wanted to plant something else in their place. I think heavier fertilizer is a good move, as this'll create more foliage for the current season, providing vigor for the tree.

I do that as well and, if I'm consistent with eliminating nearly all the leaves exhibiting curl (whose culled, infected portions then get doused in lime-sulfur--a dangerous substance if you don't know what you're doing, especially having your eyes protected), I find that it stimulates more green growth which is less and less infected after about two months of doing this. I let an infected tree just continue on its own years ago, and it never made it past the first season.

Yes and no, Lamar. Agree on some fronts, but increased concentration in the soil depends on what you use. Copper builds up, but other methods do not. Also, healthy trees can develop leaf curl, but the degree to which it affects the tree has to do with its health.

@@TheBusyGardener First I’d like to say I really love your channel very informative. I have over 50 Fruit trees in the ground here in New York. 10 years ago I had peach trees with heavy curl and I was fertilizing them like you. 15-9-12 & 16-16-16. ect. Like you I thought the younger trees needed a kick of N to get big. I suffered big time with Curl, insect’s, molds ect. Trees would die in the Winter. Not good. I have a degree in Biology. I knew that these inputs were having a negative effect on my trees. I changed every thing. No more Chemistry in my garden. Biology only. Your chemistry use is what is making you have problems. For example copper fungicide kills all fungus in your soil and on your tree but there are many fungi like Mycorrhizae that are beneficial.If you keep using copper fungicide you will not only kill the fungus that causes Leaf Curl you will also kill mycorrhizae which will give you more problems in other areas. The wood mulch that you use in your orchard its main function is nutrition moisture retention and creation of fungus in your soil. It’s the fungus that breaks down the wood chips but it’s also the fungus that releases the nutrition for your trees, using a fungicide will only stop this process leaving you with deficiencies. I Have not seen Leaf curl in my Orchard in 10 years and I use NO NPK no chemical inputs straight biology. I’m going to recommend a copper treatment for your trees that will not kill your soil. Once the curl stops you will not need to uses this input anymore. The company is called advancing Eco agriculture. ‘AEA Rebound™ Copper’ This is not the inorganic blue copper poison that you have been spraying. This is organic copper the nutrient plant available Micro nutrient. If your soil had to right microbiology it would be producing this copper macronutrient sufficient amounts that your tree would not be getting leaf curl. This product will help you get there faster with out killing your soil microbes. This is a copper vitamin for your tree so that it can fight off Leaf curl with his own immunity. The flower N Bloom that Dave wilson Nursery uses is the only thing that you should use and you should use it very lightly. Less is more.!! I look forward to your next video. Happy gardening!!

​@@AquaRightLLCwow that was incredible info. Love "root cause" gardening because I love the healthcare version too! Thanks for the tips.

That's great! Looks like that was a wise move this year! Fire Blight is a little different, in that it's bacterial, and transmitted to trees through their flowers by pollinators. I'm not sure if either the copper or oil help with that.

@@TheBusyGardener Liquicop is labeled to fight fire blight. Good point about it being transferred by pollinators. Using it as a dormant spray may not help at all with that.

Normally we're way more dry, but this year we had PNW weather LOL!

BUMMER!!! From what I've read, pulling off the leaves may not make a significant difference. It's just so disheartening to see these trees struggle like this

the way to stop leaf curl is buy the consentrate copper add 2 big spoons to 1 gal water start spraying about mid nov after all leaves have fallen off t wait 2 weeks spray again that fungus will winter over in the bark of the tree this copper will kill it next spring leaves will nice and green do note use the ready to use copper its not strong enough to kill it buy the pure (stuff) mix it yourself i stoped mine 3 yrs ago if you have an insect problem use neem oil spray lat nov into dec get on the buds then stop never spray after blooms open saves the bees.

I made the mistake of skipping the winter spraying. When it's invisible during dormant times, it's easy to overlook as non-urgent/important. Well I'm paying for it now! lol

It's good to have you here! Peach leaf curl is one of the more dramatic things our peaches face, and so sad to see

Sorry to hear about the flower loss in the cold snap! I would use copper spray without reservation

You don't need to! Let the tree be this season, and be sure to spray each winter with a a copper fungicide. Even if you replace the trees, new ones can easily get peach leaf curl.

72tubedmiaz Mine the same, I went and used copper spray, all leaves fell off. The new ones coming on seem better, will treat it in the autumn and next spring again. You just have to be patient.

Yeah, it feels like it came out of nowhere!

hello Luisa how cold was you winter that kill you mangos? I wan to try mango and avocado again

maria mahr Hi! I live in SoCal ,and this year we have a week that was surprisingly cold ( around 39 F) followed by a late rain . Between the two my poor mangos die . They were too young, no even a year old. But on the other hand my one an two year old avocados did fine.

Losing a tree is always tough... Hoping these pull through! On a side note: my dad had really bad freezing on his young mango. It pulled through, and looks 10X better than mine!

@@cochambre62 😱 i am in kansas i get 20 and 18 degrees sometimes lol

Hi Julie, only the tree(s) you spray will be treated. It's possible they wouldn't have had an issue this year either way, but treating them will give you a better chance of avoiding curl. You could offer to spray your neighbor's tree if it's close, just to smush out another location for the pathogen.

@@TheBusyGardener thank you so much! 😊

Lol my tree is the same right now

You'll want to spray before the buds break next year. Leave it alone this year. No need to specifically remove anything, except for regular thinning of fruit. Any extra thinning you did WILL help the tree not over-expend resources

Possible! Or brought in by the wind or birds/insects

We're absolutely BEAT UP this year too. You need to hit this right now with copper fungicide spray so the leaves that continue to emerge aren't as affected as the initial flush of leaves. Your tree will be fine, and the fruit will be totally unaffected. 😊 amzn.to/41opNFj

Hello from SoCal! Generally, you should proactively spray for peach leaf curl before you see it, mainly because it's doing its damage to the leaf nodes before the leaves are visible. Especially true in areas where you know it's an issue.

It's sometimes hard to time overwintering spray. You generally want to reapply shortly before buds open up as well.

I hate to say it but it's likely that the fruiting wood is dead and may be growing from buds on the rootstock. If it is suckers from the rootstock, you'll need to start over. Check this out for more on suckers. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qqo77oeDm5c.html

It's dramatic when this sort of thing happens, especially after a very rainy season like we had here in SoCal. You can still spray with a copper fungicide, even if you've got fruit. But if you've got decent new foliage emerging, let that foliage grow and spray your tree well next season just before the flowers bud

I mean when did you prune the nectarine tree? Ones the leaf curl?

I prune a couple times a year, typically. Once in summer to maintain height, and again in winter when I can clearly see the structure

Spraying with organic copper fungicide made all the different on those! amzn.to/3zbjytg

Sorry to hear it! Don't cut off the branches! You WILL want to spray with an organic cooper fungicide when about 90% of the leaves have fallen at the end of the season, as well as before they break bud next season.

I'm nowhere near organic cult status 😂. The main issue is my not spraying ANYTHING in time to prevent this.

Sorry to hear about that! Often times tree leaves turning yellow can mean overwatering. how often are you watering it? How well draining is your soil?

YES! the fungus just messes with the bud. You may consider spraying with an organic fungicide just to lessen the possibility of fungi affecting the fruit themselves

get you some neem oil then spray at 2 week intervals spray in dormant season after leaves have fallen off stop spraying as bud start to open so nsver spray the blooms this an insect killer if you have a fungus prob use copper spray at same rate as the oil spray

It's so annoying when this happens 😢

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Thanks! ☺️

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