Peach tree
Plant Bio
Name – Prunus Persica vulgaris
Family – Rosaceae
Type – fruit tree
Height – 6 ½ to 16 feet (2 to 5 meters)
Climate – temperate and warm
Exposure – full sun
Soil – ordinary, well drained
Foliage – deciduous
Harvest – summer
Planting a peach tree
Our recommendation is to plant your peach tree in a sunlit and wind-sheltered spot so that dominant winds don’t sweep through.
Once the spot is chosen, plant your peach tree in fall or in spring.
Prepare a blend of soil mix and garden soil, which will make the soil lighter and add nutrients that the tree needs to grow well.
If your soil is clay and loamy, add about ⅓ sand to your blend of earth and soil mix.
Spread mulch to protect it from frost spells in winter, and it also adds organic matter and avoids weed growth.
Planting, pruning, and caring for a peach tree
Peach trees tend to not have apical dominance, which means that after pruning, they will sprout new shoots from the base rather than from the top.
Every year, it is important to prune your tree at the end of winter just above a well-formed wood bud. Don’t prune if there’s still a risk of freezing.
Check that the pruning is well balanced.
In most cases, there isn’t a dominant central stem, but rather a number of evenly-sized branches, jutting out from knee-height.
You’ll have to remove any shoots emerging from the trunk.
However, you can leave select shoots that come out from the scaffold branches. Eliminate any branches that crossover and that grow straight up or inwards. Only keep those climbing out to an angle.
It is important to perform a fruit-inducing pruning to trigger the appearance of many beautiful peaches.
A peach tree is very vulnerable to peach leaf curl, and, clearly, proper pruning will give your peach tree vigor and make it more resilient.
Can I prune peach trees when fruits are already forming?
Only prune out of season for the following cases:
suckers shooting out from the base
deadwood
infection or illness of certain branches
One last possibility is to perform summer “tip pruning”. For a peach tree, this means pinching or snipping off the last 2 inches (5cm) of as many stems as you have the patience for.
This slightly increases the size of fruits on the tip-pruned branch.
The main goal is to trigger more branching out from both main scaffold and secondary branches. This makes it easier to choose which branches to leave or remove during the following end-of-winter pruning.
Plant Bio
Name – Prunus Persica vulgaris
Family – Rosaceae
Type – fruit tree
Height – 6 ½ to 16 feet (2 to 5 meters)
Climate – temperate and warm
Exposure – full sun
Soil – ordinary, well drained
Foliage – deciduous
Harvest – summer
Planting a peach tree
Our recommendation is to plant your peach tree in a sunlit and wind-sheltered spot so that dominant winds don’t sweep through.
Once the spot is chosen, plant your peach tree in fall or in spring.
Prepare a blend of soil mix and garden soil, which will make the soil lighter and add nutrients that the tree needs to grow well.
If your soil is clay and loamy, add about ⅓ sand to your blend of earth and soil mix.
Spread mulch to protect it from frost spells in winter, and it also adds organic matter and avoids weed growth.
Planting, pruning, and caring for a peach tree
Peach trees tend to not have apical dominance, which means that after pruning, they will sprout new shoots from the base rather than from the top.
Every year, it is important to prune your tree at the end of winter just above a well-formed wood bud. Don’t prune if there’s still a risk of freezing.
Check that the pruning is well balanced.
In most cases, there isn’t a dominant central stem, but rather a number of evenly-sized branches, jutting out from knee-height.
You’ll have to remove any shoots emerging from the trunk.
However, you can leave select shoots that come out from the scaffold branches. Eliminate any branches that crossover and that grow straight up or inwards. Only keep those climbing out to an angle.
It is important to perform a fruit-inducing pruning to trigger the appearance of many beautiful peaches.
A peach tree is very vulnerable to peach leaf curl, and, clearly, proper pruning will give your peach tree vigor and make it more resilient.
Can I prune peach trees when fruits are already forming?
Only prune out of season for the following cases:
suckers shooting out from the base
deadwood
infection or illness of certain branches
One last possibility is to perform summer “tip pruning”. For a peach tree, this means pinching or snipping off the last 2 inches (5cm) of as many stems as you have the patience for.
This slightly increases the size of fruits on the tip-pruned branch.
The main goal is to trigger more branching out from both main scaffold and secondary branches. This makes it easier to choose which branches to leave or remove during the following end-of-winter pruning.
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140cm -160cm |
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Default plastic pot |