Peach trees - my latest obsession!

[WTNUT]

I know a lot of you are northern folk and peaches may be out of your range :), but if you can grow them plant them. I planted my first 6 trees three years ago and they are producing. It had been 35 years since I had eaten a ripe peach from a tree. OMG what a difference I had forgotten about! If you have never eaten a ripe peach from a tree put your order in as soon as possible.


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[H20fwler]

We put in two peach trees a couple years ago, haven't gotten any fruit yet but they are growing nice. They sure blossomed up this past spring.
I think they are Hale Haven and Elberta.

 

[WTNUT]

We put in two peach trees a couple years ago, haven't gotten any fruit yet but they are growing nice. They sure blossomed up this past spring.
I think they are Hale Haven and Elberta.

My advise is to look on line and figure out how to prune them. They are a little different that other fruit trees. You also need to train them to have 2-4 main scaffolds and no main central leader. Too aggressive of a head cut in late winter will toast one, but yours are young enough that you should be fine. They also take a fair amount of summer pruning once they get a little larger.


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[H20fwler]

OK...I should have looked into that earlier I pruned them to central leader in February not knowing any better...I'll stop doing that.

 

[Turkey Creek]

Open center is pretty much the standard for pruning peach trees. Maximizes sunlight to the fruit an promotes better air circulation. Peaches and other stone fruit are more susceptible to rots and spots if the interior of the tree stays humid and in the shade. My blossoms all got toasted by a frost this spring but the Colorado peaches have just hit the better grocery stores here and they are good!

 

[Merle Hawggard]

I'd love to plant a few, but here a low spray peach is next to impossible to pull off. I have a large white peach in my yard that I grew from a seed, but most years they are to wormy to get anything from them without eating a lot of "extra protien" lol.
Still, the U of A developed several white peaches I'd like to try. White County, White Rock are two I'll have to look the others up.


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