Why I'm removing most of the peaches from my tree...
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- Опубліковано 13 бер 2023
- Removing fruit is counterintuitive until you realize that less fruit = more resources devoted to them = better fruit!
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I read this is done to ensure the fruits on the branches get the most nutrients and grow better.
thinning fruits help insure that the remaining peaches get ample nutrients to produce thick flesh. If most of the peaches were kept on the tree then those would have very little desirable flesh- just a pit with skin.
It does both. Young trees struggle to control how many flowers they create and usually make more than they can handle. But also, the more fruit, the more it has to divide up resources to go to each fruit.
Nature is pretty awesome. Im thinking maybe the tree grows extra to prevent all them from being eaten by birds or other animals. I wonder what he does with the little nubs. If i tried to grow one too would birds eat them if i placed them in a feeder?
@@ScarletFlame101786
I was wondering the same and also storms and wind that knock fruits off.
Not really, Peach trees will drop off fruit if it ends up having too much so they manage themselves with resources.
I did that for the first time last year and let all the baby peaches fall to the ground as I thinned them. After which the local squirrels tried them out finding how much they loved them and then proceeded to strip the entire tree! They had never touched the tree before. Lesson? Don't leave the thinned peaches on the ground.
Squirrel tax 🐿️ 🌰
@@AB-ff1cq 😂😂😂
Lucky they got ate cuz theres circulio? parasite thats lives there n infests your tree
Next time take a small pail/bucket with you and drop them into it along the way. I can’t wait for mine to mature and fruit.
We have pigeons that do about the same thing for our mirabelle tree every year. They usually eat all the blossoms before they get a chance to pollinate, but the few that survive are picked off before the stones harden.
We were on vacation the first season our peach tree produced. I remember going into the backyard in June in NM. The buzz of insects was loud and our tree was ridiculously loaded with ripe fruit with every struggling branch being supported by anything our neighbors could find. Ladders, scaffolding and a twin bed frame😄 The whole backyard smelled like a thick peach syrup in the summer heat.
Next spring he removed about a third of the fruits.
Great neighbour
Cute to imagine your neighbours trying to save it.. Insightful neighbours ❤
@@nacenimu They were awesome neighbors. Like family😊
Wow I’d love to have neighbors like that!
Should have told neighbors to help themselves to some peaches to lighten the branches.
My parents had a peach tree in their backyard but they never pruned the baby peaches To give the branches support and prevent breakage my dad would just tie the branches together with strips of fabric. we picked the peaches as they ripened and made SO MUCH peach preserves.
ugh this sounds like such a dream!! ☺️
If only they would grow in the desert 🏜
What was the bird and squirrel population like? One of the problems I've seen locally is that we are losing birds due to tree loss from borers.
@Katie Cottingham we had lots of different birds visit the backyard because my dad put out a bird feeder but I don't remember there being many squirrels. A few from time to time, maybe.
That's exactly what I was thinking if that's the big reason to do it then any form of suspension should yield much more fruit in the long haul without pruning
My dad used to just prop up heavy branches using stakes with a v-shape at the top. It seemed to work well, and we still got fruit even after the Squirrel Tax.
Ahhaha squirrel tax, good one 🐿️
This is what I do as well.
Squirrel tax..😂😂..sounds legit..
Haha, squirrel tax. Oh I have to steal that, my grandma will "love" it.
She wared with squirrels for years till she just set out feeders round outside her yard. An a guard dog to also help keep them honest. Irony? Figs are apparently delicious to dogs as well and he eats all her figs now. But her stone fruit trees are at least safe now.
@@seigedrakonera5689 Lol
If you left different sized ones on every branch it would almost be like succession planting
Different sizes is due to the high amount of fruit. Thinning produces fewer but bigger and better fruit. Otherwise you'd get smaller peaches with less flesh. To get succession planting you need to plant varieties with different ripening periods
@@gcc2313 yes, that is what thinning and succession planting are and why we do them, thanks for clarifying
@@gcc2313 No. That's a peach tree that ripens over time, and not all at once. Leave some of the smaller fruit so you can have fruit ripen later, and not all at once.
I work in stone fruit orchards and the fruit becomes ripe at the same time, so keeper smaller fruit instead of the largest will just give you less and lower quality fruit, all at once. Stone fruit has a short ripening window. Same would go for apples and pears, and almost all fruit trees. Very different than growing annuals.
@@kevintempleton1644 what do you do to keep the moths/worms out of them?
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Appreciate this comment so much Brandon!
@@epicgardening hardy?..where is this?...can u layer and give me one plant? deer ate my peech...now i got 6ft fence to protect.
Yeah, this also avoids diverting the tree’s resources so many different ways. Instead of hundreds of mediocre fruits, you want just a few really great ones.
Exactly
It's called water it and give it it the proper nutrients bud. Doesnt matter HOW MANY you have. It's so funny that people on UA-cam think they know it all.
@@epicgardening wrong. Just water it and give it the proper nutrients. My dad used to be a peach Farmer. He would have never done anything like this. What a waste of perfectly good fruit.
@@HeadHoncho727 okay, settle down and grow your peach trees how you want.
@@bustedkeaton bad information is bad. This is a huge waste. Let the birds eat them.
My family grow peach trees. Every year we prop up the heavy branches with 2x4s . Later we harvest and can jars and jars of peaches.
If you prune your tree and train the branches you can grow a million peaches , no breakage.
Really? How is that done?
@@deborahm9393 by supporting the branches same as weed
@@deborahm9393 prune center branches out, lightly bend and train outer branches downward. The tree will look a bit like the shape of a weeping willow . I wish I could show a picture!
There are different techniques to prune and train your trees. One method to keep your tree slim is called Espalier. It really is amazing how much there is to learn about pruning and growing fruit.
@@jam_is_jammin Agreed. It's a fascinating topic.
I removed none. The tree was absolutely full of wonderful big peaches. No branches broke because I supported them.
We do the same as well
Finaally sombody just supports the branches instead of killing pound of harvest i commend your intelegence
How do you keep the insects out of the fruit?
Hey, you could probably leave some smaller ones as well, so you don’t have a bunch of peaches ripening at the same time.
He’s an idiot. You should not do this in the first
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I was thinking the same thing. I felt his method seemed a bit extreme and risks ending up with little to no fruit that survive through to harvest time, especially if you experience a poor growing season because of too much/too little rain, severe weather that causes damage or other adverse conditions that can cost you your highly anticipated yield before it's mature. Getting overconfident of expected results can cost you more than you planned for in the long run, so be cautious when doing something like he suggested. I'm not saying it's wrong to do. Just to do it sparingly, if you do. At least, that's my thoughts on the idea. Everyone has to figure out what works best for them depending upon the kind of soil, plants and weather they have where they live. What works well for someone in San Diego for instance, isn't necessarily going to be useful for someone who lives in Texas and vice-versa. So try things when you want to, but keep in mind that the idea is to grow as much as you can for a good harvest. There's ways to support our plants and tree's without diminishing the yield so drastically. I believe that when it comes to growing food, or just plants in general, there's a multitude of ways to do it and have a wonderful outcome. Wishing everyone a great and healthy growing season and a bountiful harvest! 🌞🌦🍑🍓🥕🌽🍅🍉🙏
Or you could meticulously build supports for every branch! Is that realistic? No. Do I want it anyways? Yes.
They sell plants like this. So it's possible
same
My grandparents build branch supports each year for their trees, they get SO much fruit they literally cant give it away/use/preserve all of it
I would like your grandparents
You can definitely support these
Millions of peaches, peaches for free, millions of peaches, for the compost heap.
Kitty on ma foot and I wanna touch it
President of the United States!!!!!
hahahahaha
Peaches come from a can, they were put there by a man, in a factory downtown.
Do not do this yet if you're in an area with an expected late frost the late frost should make your tree drop a majority of the flowers and or young peaches. I've found if you do it before it causes all of them to drop
This guy just does this content and has a garden to sell products not actually help people grow food
@@jettyeddie_m9130 I figured. Greedy capitalist. ┐(￣ー￣)┌
My mom leaves the tiny peaches alone and gets sooooooo many mini peaches that are super sweet. Yes her branches do break, but she actually ties them to each other and then to her fence. Looks crazy, but she insists she likes the tiny size
We just give the branches extra support if needed.
I worked at a peach farm they left them in groups of 3-5 and maybe 2 on each branch, it worked fine
Don’t throw out the green ones that you picked - a friend of mine has a peach tree that fruits but never ripens and she did some research and found that she could pickle them! Says they’re good!
They're also delicious to just eat as well, as long as u don't mind the fluff
I had to do thinning on our cherry trees in the past. I feel your pain.
Just planted some peach trees! Thank you
I’m hoping to get a hold of some and planting this year. I love peaches but never knew they could grow in my climate. Sadly I might not get any fruits this year, and the trees/saplings are so expensive where I’m from. I’m trying to find some cheaper apricot and nectarine trees aswell. Completely inexperienced in growing/planting but hopefully I’ll learn and it’ll all go well. I’m so excitedz
Tie down the branches with garden tie and a stake stopping them from rising up it will make your branches stronger and you could prune the tips of branches to not let any part of the tree get too much taller than other branches keeping the tree short and stalky with nothing but strong and equal size and strength branches allowing equal nutrient flow throughout the whole tree
You could also remove the lower three sets of branches and keep the top uniform it’s easier to start young
I have a giant peach tree I thin it out every year and still have some branches break on me. Every 6inches is the go to! I was told this by my Uncle as well...but my husband said not to to leave as many as you want we will just prop up the branches with towels and large 4x4. It worked! Although, I did have to thin out most..1,000 after 14 years. I also removed peach leaf curl every year. I want it to be only organic is why. I am not too aure if copper sulfur is organic.
It’s just like growing anything else you eat or medicate with. If you can grow a medicinal plant, you can grow anything
I never have to thin mine... I live in Illinois where is gets very windy, so the wind will often knock a bunch of them off and then others that aren't as strong and healthy will wilt and fall off. If I have to do any thinning, it's usually after everything has grown a decent size and I can tell they will invade each other's space.
A way of earning income back in the '60s in Yakima Washington for teenagers, was to "thin" apples in the Summer (just as you see him doing here with peaches). I did a lot of it, but wonder if teenagers do that any more.
I worked a few summers thinning kiwifruit. This thinning is the reason why the fruit gets to the size it does and they all look the same as we would choose the different ones as part of the thinning. Kiwifruit has clumps of five flowers/fruit and we would reduce the number to two or three
What do you do if you have a huge stone fruit tree with branches too high to reach? I guess the bigger branches are less likely to break under the weight?
Wow , great information! Thank you! If I ever get a peach tree I’ll remember this great advice . I love peaches and being from Georgia .. well ya know! ❤️
I love peaches and I have nothing to do with georgia, so, no, I don't know
We had to do this with my mums apple tree last year, it put out more fruit than it ever has before, and 1 of the branches was so weighed down, it was almost touching the table under it. It was kinda sad, but she left them until the last possible minute and harvested half ripe apples. No wasps were getting them! (They got the figs instead) We were eating apples that she stewed all winter! From one 7 foot tall apple tree!
You can put supports under some of the branches if you want to get more fruit. They will be a little smaller but not by much if you up the watering and fertilizer when the fruits are growing. My dad had to do that for our Japanese pear tree.
Would branch/treet supports help or would having too many peaches make for slower growing due to nutrients?
Get a lot of small OR get some large ones. There is a certain amount of energy stored so you can thin it out to make larger healthier fruit. Broken branches hinders growth for years so it makes sense especially if you want fruit each year. If possible.
Is also done with grapes, thinning the clusters for good growth and air flow is very important
We just use 2x4’s planted underneath. Takes a while to set up properly but you’d be surprised how much fruit can be grown that way
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What type of fruit do 2x4’s give?
@@rubyoro0 he uses them to support the branches.
@@rubyoro0 sit on a stick and find out
@@rubyoro0 Depends on how long you leave them planted, grow them long enough and you could get full fascia boards
I've thinned a lot of peaches and it does my heart good to remember working in a peach orchard. Thank you for posting this.
We didn't do this and our plum tree split in half.. was a sad day. Recently moved there so had no idea we would have that many plumbs!
What do commerical peach growers do? There is no way they remove all those peaches on each tree.
They most likely employ thinners to remove fruit.
They prune trees down to a "saucer" shape so light gets all the way down to the middle of the tree. So if anything theyre doing a more extreme version of this. Cutting off whole branches instead of individual fruit.
They spray the trees with a hormone that causes them to drop the excess fruit. That or they just wait and the trees do it themselves. At the same time though, they have automatic water systems, get soil analyses done to evaluate nutrients, and have access to and proper guidance on when to use pesticides, all of which make the trees capable of producing more fruit than the typical backyard grower.
We just braced/supported the branches and gave a lot to friends and neighbors.
I don’t remember my granny ever pruning her trees we lived in the foot hills of East Tennessee and had peach🍑trees apple🍏 🍎trees plum trees a long fence with a grapevines🍇 cherry trees different red ones and multi colored ones they all tasted different and sometimes we’d get cherries and sometimes the birds got them and sometime no one got them pear trees which was her neighbor and the nectarine trees but half was our land and the other was on her neighbors most was on hers so it was her trees my grandma also had a strawberry patch every year, mint,other herbs and the berry bushes black, goji rasp, brambles and blueberry persimmons tree walnut trees fig trees pecan trees some kind of cane or bamboo I think it was sugar cane though sun flowers and her garden was beautiful different veggies and fruit grew in it throughout the year I hate that I didn’t listen more when she tried to teach me about gardening because now I can barely grow tomatoes 🍅 hers was always big and tasted really good everything in the stores now taste like trash compared home grown ☹️ and now that’s what I’m stuck with buying because I told my grandma that it’s too much work doing all of that when we can just buy everything from the store now she even tried to show me canning and how to turn the fruits into jams and jellies she had chickens and some goats cats and dogs and donkey that I was terrified of I miss the home I grew up in and all the land that produced such good and delicious foods I remember all the different trees because me and my friends would climb them and pick the fruits for every big ass bucket we filled we would get between 2-5 dollars from my grandpa it’s like my granny knew gardening like the back of her hand certain things can’t be planted be side each other and everything was used even scraps for the and animals and garden egg shells for t garden and we would go find wild greens and different veggies in the woods along with mushrooms roots I think that’s what we would dig up and also their was an area where these berries called goose berries and currant berries grew we had the best neighbors and everyone cooking was good my grandma’s was the best though😋 and Mrs. Eppi made the best apple pie though and pecan cookies and Mrs. Anne would make these pies mixing plums cherries nectarines and the wild berries me and my friends would pick that was a better time now neighbors and neighborhoods aren’t worth having people only look out for themselves and they don’t share the community’s aren’t like family and most importantly your kids aren’t free to just go wherever and you know they’ll be safe I hate the now because my kids can’t experience how I grew up not right now anyway I am trying to change it so when I become a grandmother my grandkids will have somewhere magical to visit and hopefully I’ll get the hang of what my aunt has been trying to share so I can pass it on🥰 I know this is a lot but I really love my Grandmother I even called her momma sometimes RIP momma(granny) and momma Louise(great granny), great grand aunt Caster great grand aunt Hildred and uncle Thomas, great aunt Lucille and Mr. and Mrs. Julian who were also like my aunt and uncle🕊
Would you be able to externally support the branches? Like with forked stakes or something?
I remember seeing a plum tree in a botanical garden with its branches tied out along a fence
My mom smacked me for lobbing off the strawberries on her new plant and I said “trust me, you’ll have twice as many in a month.” Now she has tons of strawberries. Always cut the first fruits off. 😂
I've never done this and haven't had a problem with breaking branches
I used to just put some support wire on the branches. Not enough to limit growth of the branch but enough to support an extra 10-20 pounds without the branch breaking.
I had a peach tree in my yard when I was a kid I destroyed it but that thing grew hundreds of peaches my main memory of it was a peach war between me 10yr and my cousins 16 n 17 full force chuckin peaches at each other
Do you only do this for peaches, or is it advisable to do it for other fruit trees as well, like apple?
I would. My grandparents never do and they have always had branches overloaded, trying to break. And then the apples turn into more core than fruit. But they're insistent on getting as many of them as they can. 😒
Definitely thin apples too, but wait until after the first week of June because apples spontaneously drop the weakest fruit in June.
I has a friend who’s parents never did this. Their tree overproduced and the branches were literally leaning into the streets, dropping piles and piles of peaches to rot. I’m glad I wasn’t their neighbor lol
My mom and I had an apricot tree that was a volunteer in our yard. We just let it be, the limbs were pretty flexible. I don't remember ever having them break on us.
Why can’t you just support the branches? I am not a gardener, just interested lol
The more fruit you leave on the tree the smaller thy will be…it’s best to thin them out.
Dude thank you so much I've been growing a peach tree for eleven years now, and for the past four years I've been getting the peaches but none of them growing big. I'm going to start knocking off peaches
I am relatively new to peach trees but planted 2 Saturn peach trees 3 years ago (bought 2yo saplings). I thinned enough to make sure no peaches were touching each other, netted my trees(more than squirrels tax here), and had a decent harvest, say half a bushel or so. Lost one branch, will probably thin more this year as tons of flowers have developed.
Haha! That little thing looks like our native Desert Peach (Prunus andersonii). Get to working on it. :)
We did the same but left more and did Y branch support poles of the branches that the peaches where on . This is to help distribute the weight and support the growth weight of the peaches on the branch. Our peaches where always big and juicy
we do fruit farming on a large scale, so what you can do is provide a little support to the branch if you feel like it will get too heavy, don't have to decrease the number
I forget to take off most of the peach babies so I end up with lossing at least one branch a year but I have 100+ peaches that taste great due to the area I live in. I have to make sure I find a way to either preserve them this year or take off about 300 baby peaches.
I don’t take off any of my peaches and I just support the branches while feeding them more nutes during their growth cycle and I have had no issues. Just an idea for you 🙌
You can use Steel wires for plant branches support so branches doesn't break while peaches grow
I have just binge-watched every video in this link!!! Such good advice and content!! Thank you and can't wait for the next videos! ❤
This video was just timely! This year I am expecting to get peaches here on Maryland eastern shore already in bloom and they are heading to turn into peaches. Thanks !
Why not tie the newer scaffolding branches to the main branch or add a support stake to support it so you can enjoy the productivity and not worry about branch braking.
Always great content, just curious
You can put up supports to hold up the branches, I understand that you want bigger and sweeter fruits so I totally get it!
It's the same thing with Mary Jane plants gotta trim off all the flowers below the canopy to allow good growth for the good bits
My grandmother had a similar problem with pairs but she just put out a large wooden structure are built around it that held up the branches
I just planted my very first tree. Yep it's a peach tree. I didn't know to do this. Thank you.
We had all on the peach tree that came with my parents house. Some planks under the branches kept them from breaking. But we ended up with about 100kg of peaches where we removed the stones and froze them. Filled a whole chest freezer🤣
We prop ours with stakes. And got to keep all the fruit and they done amazingly!!!
I had a very short peach tree growing up and we never had an issue with branches breaking. It would always bear like crazy and we could have as many as we wanted the whole late summer and still can them for the rest of the year. We lost that tree to a fungus that only kills fruit trees. I miss that tree along with our pear tree and plum tree.
I love how I saw this exact video 3 weeks ago when it was posted and now im seeing it again from the same account
Build a frame around all the plants, run strings from the rafters, and tie the branches up
This gave me flashbacks to being a teenager and working in my uncle's peach orchard in the summer. We spent many days just doing this one chore! But the harvest was so worth it.
I've never done this and always get good produce from my tress. It's the fall and spring purning that makes the difference
Didn't know this. Just learning about gardening actually. Thank you!
Pickle the little ones you pick off, and use them to make killer sauce for fish and chicken. That's what I used to do when I was younger. There's too many insects on Maui to grow peaches to maturity. So we'd harvest ours when they were half size or smaller, and pickle them and make killer sauces, and salad dressings
I can relate when my Apple tree with three different grafted varieties started producing. I knew I was going to have to pop some of the buds off because it was too much for how young the tree was. I hated doing it, but I got a good harvest out of it sometimes a little discipline makes the difference.
Our stuborn peach tree fell over from its own weight a few times. It kept growing even after we had cut it down. It refuses to die. Baseball sized peaches every year it doesnt fall.
Same thing for growing good wine grapes. Concentrate the nutrients to less bunches for better grapes that ripen better and more evenly, have better chemistry, etc.
I pruned my tree and trained the branches. I did not want my tree too tall. So far, no branches broken and tones of peaches.
Yea its not just about the branch breaking cus you can always support the branch its also to ensure the peaches get big
I’m from coastal South Carolina and we catch hell growing peaches 🍑. Our trees are beautiful and put off crazy amounts of peaches, but pests ruin the peaches every single year. We started spraying them, but we aren’t big into spraying chemicals anymore than we have to, but looks like we’re going to have to start a spraying process year round just to harvest some 😅
I cant wait to have a garden again
Yeah! Did this as an americorps job for a nonprofit in SLC. The tree doesn’t have enough energy to grow all of those to succulent beauties either, and it’s fun kinda going bonsai with it imagining how the fruit will grow best
I try to remove the excess at approximately the same size and make pickles with them. No waste! And a curious pickle that is great for charcuterie boards. At that stage of growth, the pits are so undeveloped they become tender in the pickling process.
Thanks for sharing this information. I have never heard this before but when I get home from work tonight I am going to do that.
Learned this first hand last summer with a differen't kind of peach, our peach tree had had its first massive harvest cause it had grown quite a bit (about 3-4 apple boxes worth) but the branch hadnt grown enough to support it.
Just a day before i was contemplating adding a branch brace, but the next day it broke off one branch and split a Y shape between the too major branches from the stump.
I quickly harversted what i could and filled the crack with some tree healing putty(idk what its called in english) and pulled it together with a large velcro strap.
I managed to save it but lost one branch, not gonna make that mistake next time it blooms. 😅
I usually let the hail thin them out then i get about a dozen quart sized peaches.
We (my grandpops farm) supported the branches and the yield was unbelievable. We had Cherry trees, a variety of apples, peaches & nectarines. And tomatoes. We had a lot of tomatoes.
I thin out only about 1/3 of the small peaches. . I then use landscape ribbon/ tape to support the limbs to support poles.
I never do this to mine, the branches to bend, a lot, but never had a branch break yet. Transplanted at 6 foot tall and had it for 4 years.
Good and bad advice at same time.. good if you are a lazy gardener one time thing you gotta do.. active gardeners should should inspect every few days. When there little and green like that after a few windy day a few will get knocked off on there own.(note I am in south Texas) selectively and progressively drop your peaches. As they get bigger select peaches that are deformed and are not gonna grow properly drop those then has a little bit more time goes by you’ll notice some insects in my case wasp like to pick at the peach and then progressively eat that area and then other insects especially butterflies will go and eat at it. Kick those off. And if you have a branch that’s just doing well and is starting to pull down just pick the least developed to lighten the load. Be a active gardener 😊 it very relaxing! Have fun enjoy learn what’s happening to your plants.
Consider a netter awning. Arches run along your plot, used to support a taught netting above. Then tienthe branch to the netting. Branches weight will be supports by the awning as yhe peaches grow and you can apot the ones that are still too heavy as the netting sags. You can usually get thebpeaches to grow to the point where you can make sour peach pickle or preserves instead of just those lil tiddles. Then you can keave the rest to fully ripen or pluck some more to encourage more nutrients to thw remaining peaches.
I did this with my grandpa for five years. We had over 300 peach trees and the massive holes I would have to dig to bury the amount of peaches for thinning and the peaches that went to waste when they fell to the ground and got squishy. But me and peaches are the best, the only caveat is that they take a extremely high amount of water. We would give each of our peach trees 25 gallons of water a day each from our wealth system.
You can leave More on the Branch and Just Use a Fallen Branch or Pole to Hold up the Heavy Tree Branch!!
Only leaving 1 Peach Growing every several Inches is extremely Overkill!!
Oh this is so true! I had a drawf peach tree that would grow so many peaches it’s little branches would snap. It eventually died because of my ignorance! Sad.
I would have left some of the smaller ones so that while i would get most of them for harvesting at one time for processing, i would still have some for a longer harvest span for fresh eating. I would also leave them every 4-5 inches, depending on how thick, because while there may be more you are mixing heavy and light fruit so branches wont get weighted as severely. Once you pick the larger fruit you will still have all the smaller fruit mature with no danger of breaking.
On mine trees I never take off. And I always have a nice harvest and never break.
Have you ever thought of doing some clippings and splicing them into the trunk of the tree to get more fruit? Try a few and see what happens. That is one way to take some of the load off the branches without losing a lot of peaches
One of apple trees put on thier first full fruiting last year. We have fought deer to the point of putting up an electric fence. Those babies were so beautiful but we took 75 percent off and still had a beautiful crop leaving the young tree intact. If the weather will hold up this year I hope to have the same problem with our pears and plums.
love the vid and these comments, learning new stuff everyday
Very clever! Never thought of it like that
Just support the branches and take good care of it
tip: When branches get long you'll know before they fruit. on the bendy parts of the branch, cut small slices pericing the skin but never get too close to the core. do this in large spaces not in small-spaced multiple slices. the plant will recover on those areas and the product will he a firm, hardy branch and possibly better fruits.