Peach tree out of control, falling over from fruit...send help
franktank232
14 years ago
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Comments (5)jitbay: There is nothing wrong with spraying your tree, but the spray you use and the timing must be effective. You might as well spit on your tree as spray it with that "Soap Shield" from Gardens Alive!, since the metallic copper component is so weak. Your tree most likely has a bacterial infection, and the only chance it has is spray it at least twice during the dormant season, beginning after leaf fall, with a copper compound that has some real punch. Kocide is one such product; there are others. Looks like you may have some shothole fungus there too. Copper would take care of that as well. Your tree should not be checking out at 10 years. I have a 15 year old Golden Jubilee out there that is healthy as horse, and full of fat peaches. Before I figured out how to head off these diseases with dormant spraying, I lost over a half-dozen peach trees. My climate is particularly bad for them. Don Yellman, Great Falls, VA...See Morepeach, out of control
Comments (9)You need about 4 purple dot on you tree 5 will slow growth down even more. leaving 2 limbs to grow they be very vegatative. Can you look at above photo and see the growth that make it spread uper growth that trying grow out from limbs. That what leave make spread. At yellow band 4 inches below it clean up trunk to ground remove all lower limbs use prune and seal in next minute after cutting limb off use paste type push sealer in to wood undercut limb first to stop peeling bark hand saw works best make cut close to trunk as possible that aliminate most new bud growth I like use prune seal only on trunks of peachtrees not needed upper part tree. You need a lot more yellow dots on photo 2 to 3 more purple = 4 or 5 total. There hot spot from pavement light pole and grass you should never have leaf desease because wind from street traffic. Keep in mind picking fruit as prune an what crop load how it lower limbs. Just fun stuff you put up 6 inch ring on rod 5 foot from ground make limb grow throw the ring by pruning. I picked five five gallon bucket of peaches off 3 year old Flordia King four year looking out bed room window watch a Doe stand on back legs and eat all peaches from that tree took her serval late evening but she got all that years crop. Second year at end growing season I cut prune 7 peachtrees and just could pile it on 16 foot trailer had put rope over top to move trailer on farm. My father and newly started county agent in 1953 prune peachtree so chicken have access to get to bugs and that little boy could climb and pick peaches this shape later called vase shape to let light in. Best way I know of to explain peach structure is to have trunk 30 inche tall at planting no limbs let grow at 45 days prune to leave 4 limbs pointing to north south east and west outward when these 4 limbs start turn upward take bud out rub all off top limb ( top limb and bud end different places). Happy new years...See MoreHelp me out -- Ivy control
Comments (9)I hate using poisons, deadly chemicals, etc., but in one area, I really needed the ivy dead NOW. It was on a rockery/retaining wall and yanking on the old ivy was making some of the rocks shift in worrisome ways (part of the reason I wanted the ivy out was that it seemed to be loosening the 50-year old rockery and weakening it). There were a lot of other plants in the area that I wanted to preserve. I got some Ortho "woody vine killer" (I don't remember the active ingredient) and mixed it according to the label. It was a very old patch of ivy -- some of the thicker stems were as thick as my thumb. I cut back the ivy with a lopper, then used an old paintbrush and painted the cut ends of the stems with the weed killer. Several months later, I went back and plucked off the few new leaves, and again, painted the weed killer on the stems that I just denuded. My theory was that the scars would suck in the poison and very quickly distribute it through the plant. It seems to have worked. A few months later there were only a small handful of new shoots. So, one major effort and two or three follow-up treatments did the job. Four years later there is NO ivy there. In most other areas of the yard, I just yank up the ivy and go back every six months or so and pull up any new shoots. It takes a couple years to make it permanently dead, but it's chemical-free, good exercise, and it does eventually eradicate the weed. On a related note, I would be very interested in working on a campaign to have ivy declared a Class A noxious weed/invasive, etc. in Washington (it is currently Class C). This would make it illegal to sell, plant, and leave unchecked -- to require property owners to work toward eliminating the ivy. Also to have it removed from public places. I just cringe when driving on I-90 across Mercer Island and see the ivy just pouring over the retaining walls. Yes, I'm sure it helps reduce the freeway noise for the people living on the other side of the wall, but it's a nasty weed. (Remember when our highways were lined with mile after mile of scotch broom?) I've heard that Oregon did this. Does anyone know how to get started on such a listing? Here is a link that might be useful: Washington State Noxious Weed List...See MoreI fear I've killed these peach trees... Please help!
Comments (12)That's too bad Logan..We've all experienced something like this at some point in time..At least I have... For what it's worth, I started my peach/nectarine trees from seed as well. Knowing that some wouldn't make it, I began with a dozen pits. They spent two months in the fridge, 37 degrees wrapped in damp peat moss. . Once they came out of the fridge in mid-February, I planted them in regular old potting mix, still wrapped in the peat moss. Here is the link to my blog, it explains everything I did. they sat outside the entire time and really all I did was keep the soil moist. Squirrels got a few of them, but 5 made it and about 6 weeks later I had this... Not sure where you are, but I certainly didn't lavish and special attention on them, other than making sure they got water. Here is one of them that I planted in the ground a few weeks ago.. If you have the space, next time try starting a few more seeds..good luck....See Morefranktank232
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