Thinning Peach Trees

My peach trees have so much fruit the branches are in danger of breaking.
In this video, I will explain my thoughts on thinning some of the peaches to protect the tree and my late spring/early summer peach harvest.
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[@mykanda27]

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[@JessicaHolmes]

Thank you for making this video! I have a dwarf white peach tree that has SO many peaches on it! None are anywhere being ripe, but I’m going to do some serious thinning.

[@AustinTexasGardening]

Very cool, do you have land? Or are you in new construction? Most of my friends that have backyard peach trees have an issue with squirrels if they have established live oaks in their neighborhood.

[@SlackerU]

I'm having a similar issue but mine is storm-winds. I almost want to make some Texas-size fruit-tree cages out of electrical-conduit. I was even thinking of trying out those clamp style spot-welder that are used to make tomato-cages, they also can weld cage-wire or metal-screen to thick-metal so quite creative possibilities.
To keep the birds away you might be able to just play some hawk or eagle noises in the mornings & evenings, or you might need some rodent-hotels full of blood-thinning breakfast & dinner.

[@AustinTexasGardening]

Good thinking Bob, I think an unintended side effect of planning my trees so close to the fence was that they shielded from most of the wind in my backyard, a few days after I filmed this video we got hit with a big storm on Thursday, I thought for sure I’d be finding some broken branches, but somehow everything held up

[@AriSalsarii]

Try a red haven peach. They are extremely hardy and one of the most sweet peaches on earth.

[@AustinTexasGardening]

Thanks for the advice, I’ll plant one if I find one

[@kingquesoIV]

why dont you thin all fruit off your tree until your tree grows some more structurally?

[@AlenAbdula]

I agree with you. For first 2 years, I remove all the fruits and let the tree establish, using that time to form tree structure. This would avoid all the tie downs he's using on the fence. Doing it that way doesnt allow tree to strengthen the roots. It needs to sway. All I ever do is use green stretch tape to tie down branches to lower the angle.
But still that tree is loaded and can be harvested some. And later he can hard prune it and use some notching to form the tree branches and overall tree form.

[@AustinTexasGardening]

Not bad advice, I’ve been really excited to get a crop of peaches, and so I let the fruit just grow, but the trees that have not put out fruit have the most green new wood growth on them

[@ericduncan2191]

I would personally remove 95% of the fruit from that tree. That tree needs to focus on development instead of fruit. Grafted fruit trees while they put on fruit fast, they really are not developed enough to support that fruit. Nice video, I'd suggest some bug /bird netting when things start to mature up.

[@AustinTexasGardening]

Agreed, I just did a big harvest yesterday, but I wish I had picked more fruit earlier in the season, at least at the point that I had filmed this peach thinning video last week, I should’ve picked more fruit. That being said, if you take a look at my recent video, you can see how much growth we’ve had in the last year, I’ve got some comparison footage from last year’s harvest, and the trees put out a lot of fresh shoots