you think there close together, heres our nectarines under iour peach tree
just a bit of thinning to do
I think it might be too late to thin those. The thinning should be done somewhere between when the tree has blossoms and when the fruit is roughly the size of a grape/olive. I think that thinning with fruit that size might stunt the growth for the remaining fruit.
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.You guys and your fruit trees loaded with fruit suck.
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.
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.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
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 thaughtYou guys and your fruit trees loaded with fruit suck.
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.
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.
