I would still thin a whole lot off. Even though that won't help the size at all, it might help the few left to ripen, and you might get a taste of them. Elberta should not ripen for another month or longer if you are in zone 6. And it won't stress the tree as much and it might put more into growth for next year

I used to live in Macon, Georgia, and your post got my attention. I remember the summer of 1977 because I had just graduated from high school and was doing remodeling work on the outside of my parent's home before I started college. It was the most miserably hot summer I can ever remember. I looked on wunderground.com to see if my memories were accurate. For much of that summer, both the temp and relative humidity were over 90. We had several peach and plum trees, which had wonderful fruit that summer. My mother was pealing peaches to put in our freezer, and whenever I went inside to cool off, I would eat so many peaches, she complained that she could barely peal them as fast as I ate them. I know we had one Elberta, which was our latest bearing peach, with a variety of other cling and freestone peaches. The trees were hanging so heavy with fruit, I had propped up all their limbs to keep them from breaking. I did not know then about thinning the fruit, so the limbs were so heavy with fruit they were about to rip off the trunks without support. I drove metal fence posts into the ground around each tree, and strung wire between the posts in a criss-cross star to support the limbs. Even though I had not thinned the fruit, the peaches were still good sized, ranging from tennis ball to baseball size. We had a really heavy bloom that spring, because January 1977 had been very cold. Several days in January 1977 set the all time record lows for Macon, and several days in June and July set the all time record highs. The trees were kept mulched with copious amounts of composted straw and horse manure. The summer before I had started growing organically for the first time. I had just learned about composting and was a zealous convert. I lived in Macon, just north of Peach county where the commercial peach growing belt begins, and also lived in Cordele, "The Watermelon Capital of the World" which is just south of the peach growing belt. I can testify that the summers are both hot and very humid. Maybe your peaches are just homesick and not in a "New York State of Mind". ;-) Greg

Most likely those are cabbage aphids. They tend to move so slowly that they're seldom recognized as critters. Either squish or wash off. Then repeat several days later if needed.

Busy bee - Yes, like Nair, which is what I have now but haven't used yet. I ran out of the Sally Hansen stuff after, literally, years of limited use. They aren't the same formulation as those made for your legs, which I always found too messy to use on such a large area. The face just takes a bit and wipes off easily.