You need to put copper fruit tree spray on it. You can mix a small batch a little strong and just paint it on. I did that to one of my trees that got a canker. To be honest If it were me I would replace it. Peach trees need to be sprayed with copper to prevent canker even if it was a rabbit. You need to protect your tree trunks with something like black plastic drain tile so the rabbits don't do that. You could do something simple as cutting house wrap like Tyvek so its loose around the trunk and tape it to make a tube. That's what I do, but I have lots of Tyvek.

Omni, if this branch is sprouting from below the graft, then it is the rootstock trying to leaf out. Not helping your tree at all and snap it off. You don't want branches sprouting from the rootstock, or suckers coming up from the ground from the rootstock. Even if it's from the graft (above the graft line), you may not want a branch that low, so again, just take your thumb and rub it off. That's called "thumb pruning". Patty S.

Deborah: Peach scions are normally grafted to a species of plum rootstock, and if you allow it to grow it will end up as a type of plum bush, usually with poor plums or none at all. If this is what you want, then leave it. I wouldn't. Michigan Bulb Co. is part of a group of 3rd rate mailorder nurseries that sell cheaply, but you get what you pay for. These outfits are not really nurseries at all, but warehouse clearinghouses that buy stock from various sources, then resell it. They send out a lot of flyers with one-cent and half price sales, and that is the tipoff. For example, compare a few gladiolus bulbs from Michigan Bulb with those you can buy in spring at Costo Warehouses. Costo bulbs are about 4 times larger. That's where I buy my bulbs. Stark Brothers Nursery also carries the weeping peach you purchased, and I am betting that they would send you a much healthier specimen, although at a somewhat higher price. Time and effort are factors that are at least as important as price. You have obviously put some effort into planting your little weeping peach, and you have been let down. Stark Brothers Nursery has lately gone though a corporate reorganization, but nurseries like Stark at least obtain their stock from contract growers where they have some control over quality. I checked the Michigan Bulb site, and they are indeed sold out of your Pink Cloud peach. Don Yellman, Great Falls, VA

Where are you located? Location is helpful. Anyway, I suspect peach tree borers boring holes into the base of your tree, very common and can be deadly issue. If I were you,. I would take out the weed around the tree first. Then, look for holes at the base of the tree. Dig down a bit. If you find holes, you have borers. I cut wire from a coat hanger and poke around the holes,making sure I stab dead the worms/borers inside. They may be back. Keep the base of tree clear of weed and check often.