I have two 5-year old peach trees, and this is the first year they produced fruit of any significance (last year, late frost killed 100% of the buds). This is also the first year I was introduced to the infamous plum curculio. When fruit began dropping left and right, I did research, but it was too late. I tried bagging individual fruits, but they would just drop, and I would find a curculio larva(e) trapped in the bag with the fruit. They devastated every. single. plum. from both of my plum trees and all but a *singular* peach on one tree, literally one peach. We're talking hundreds of fruits without exaggeration. 5 years of waiting, and I was so excited just to have those hopes crushed little by little with each fruit drop until there were [effectively] none. Seriously, what preventative measures do you undertake that allow you to have all of those beautiful peaches just sitting out unprotected?
I live in PA and just got a basket from the last white peach harvest and in the middle it was sprouted already so I put it into moist soil in a pot. These peaches are so sweet and juicy so I'm hoping I'll at least get one tree out of them. When I was a boy my grandmother had two peach trees and the harvest was insane, she would get me a little red wagon and we'd fill it to the brim. Peach pies, peach jelly, all kinds of stuff. There was nothing like eating it from the vine, no pesticides.
Well yes but not necessarily because they pick at the fruit all harvest I’ve had them eaten when they just turn green and right now mine are being eaten and they are red but still hard so it’s almost that time
My peaches are hard as a rock, but they’re pretty much almost all red with a little bit of yellowish green here and there so I don’t understand when to pick it cause me it’s not ready but you guys are saying pick it when they’re yellow. I don’t understand lol
Such a small tree with so many peaches. My daughter's peach tree only have 4 or 5 on it this year. Lol. It's an 7 year old tree but never grew more than 8 or so a year.
@@carrasco2011sc very odd, does she have good topsoil around it? I have a very young peach tree producing a lot of fruit and to my knowledge that’s what’s normal for any healthy peach tree.
This year the Ghopher enjoyed my peach, and fig trees and made me cry.
I have two 5-year old peach trees, and this is the first year they produced fruit of any significance (last year, late frost killed 100% of the buds). This is also the first year I was introduced to the infamous plum curculio. When fruit began dropping left and right, I did research, but it was too late. I tried bagging individual fruits, but they would just drop, and I would find a curculio larva(e) trapped in the bag with the fruit. They devastated every. single. plum. from both of my plum trees and all but a *singular* peach on one tree, literally one peach. We're talking hundreds of fruits without exaggeration. 5 years of waiting, and I was so excited just to have those hopes crushed little by little with each fruit drop until there were [effectively] none.
Seriously, what preventative measures do you undertake that allow you to have all of those beautiful peaches just sitting out unprotected?
I live in PA and just got a basket from the last white peach harvest and in the middle it was sprouted already so I put it into moist soil in a pot. These peaches are so sweet and juicy so I'm hoping I'll at least get one tree out of them. When I was a boy my grandmother had two peach trees and the harvest was insane, she would get me a little red wagon and we'd fill it to the brim. Peach pies, peach jelly, all kinds of stuff. There was nothing like eating it from the vine, no pesticides.
Here in Michigan I like
Picking mine late for more sweet tasting
You'll know when you should have picked them after critters have eaten them.
Well yes but not necessarily because they pick at the fruit all harvest I’ve had them eaten when they just turn green and right now mine are being eaten and they are red but still hard so it’s almost that time
My peaches are hard as a rock, but they’re pretty much almost all red with a little bit of yellowish green here and there so I don’t understand when to pick it cause me it’s not ready but you guys are saying pick it when they’re yellow. I don’t understand lol
the peaches are cute
Such a small tree with so many peaches. My daughter's peach tree only have 4 or 5 on it this year. Lol. It's an 7 year old tree but never grew more than 8 or so a year.
Does it get enough sun?
@@MichaelRay380 yes it does
@@carrasco2011sc very odd, does she have good topsoil around it? I have a very young peach tree producing a lot of fruit and to my knowledge that’s what’s normal for any healthy peach tree.
@MichaelRay380 this year it does have a lot of peaches.
@@MichaelRay380 I think the snow messed it up last year.
Ants eating my peaches is a problem
That was not helpful at all