Bad Year For Peaches
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Comments (4)Thanks for the info fruitnut,jellyman. I did take the garbage bags off first thing in the am before sun came up, as I thought about the leaves/trees cooking. The news here says that 90% of the peach crop in south carolina is gone. I don't know what else I could have done, as the 10-20mph winds during the cold snap here, would and did prevent any heat sources near trees from keeping the air warm. I am watching the 4 peach trees to see if in next month leaves come back, and I will be careful not to overwater them. I pour 5 gallons of water each week on each tree, includes the cheeries and apples. As I said before the apples and cheeries are fine, as jellyman pointed out, I would have been better just to have not done anything, and not used the garbage bags. Thanks for all the info....See MoreFour bad pests from last year are on the run!
Comments (8)Frank, in the apricots I had to thin out some PC damage but it was overall pretty minor. Sometimes I get some OFM in them but this year there is little of that. The biggest problem I have had is brown rot shoot blight, the Hunza type cots seem to be highly susceptible to that. That plus the low yield means those guys are probably history in a few years. The pears just get cosmetic damage from the PC. A few get pretty distorted but I need to thin anyway and I can thin out all of those. But most of the remaining pears have a PC blemish on them somewhere. Pears are very hard on the larvae, I have not seen any surviving. The worst pome fruits are the crabapples, I had several PC mature in them. I should have more aggressively thinned out the bad apples before they dropped. JBs have been very minor for me the past several years. I squished them for a couple years and that was the end of it. I get a couple rose chafers every year (either that or some other very similar big green beetle), so few as to not cause appreciable damage. Scott...See Moredwaft peach tree problem
Comments (2)Hi Dan its been a bad year for peach leaf curl and that that looks like it.It can affect most stone fruits.Make sure you discard or burn the affected leaves. Peter....See MorePeach rootstocks
Comments (15)Carla: Peach, nectarine and apricot are harder to T-bud than apple or cherry because the bark is thinner and more fragile. The guy in the video was rather ham handed in my opinion. Doing the T-bud he tore up the bark on the rootstock. I open the T with my thumbnail a small amount, just enough to get the bud to slid in from the top. You don't open up the T and ploop the bud in place, you slid it in from the top. I also take the wood out of the bud. This helps the bud slid in easier but is only essential on small diameter wood where it gives a much better fit of cambium layers. Then I wrap with rubber budding strips. They work great. Key point: bark MUST BE SLIPPING on the rootstock to T-bud. If you need to remove the wood from the bud, then bark must be slipping on the scion. It takes a certain amount of dexterity to fit everything together with minimum damage to bark, cambium, and bud. If the bark isn't slipping well, things get tore up and the cambium layer isn't fully exposed. In that case I quit and give the tree a good watering. Water is the key to T-budding because that is what causes the bark to slip. I get ~95% takes on T budding even with the stonefruit and with small diameter wood, the hardest to work with. I got about 85-90% takes on whip and tongue this spring. Experience is the best teacher so keep trying. The Fruitnut...See More- 3 years ago
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