Chill requirements? Are you saying that some cultivars may require freezing
weather to get synched with the season. We had no freezing weather at all
this year just lots of rain. I know some seeds like to be frozen for a
while but a tree?

I was going on the assumption that local nursuries generally sell varieties
suited to the local conditions. We have lots of microclimates but the
nursury and myself should have similar winter conditions. I should look
into where the tree was originally propagated it may be from the central
valley (fresno area) where it gets a bit colder at night in the winter but
is generally hotter in the summer. I think I still have the tree tags.

Since plants like this sell much better when in flower, I'm sure the nursury
had some sort of trick they pull just before putting them out for display.
It was afterall sold in a 10gal pot and now it is in a much larger
container.





"sue and dave" wrote in message
...
I'd have a couple of questions for the nursery where you purchased this
tree---

First would be, what are the chill requirements of this particular
cultivar
( and is it right for your location)??

Second would be if having such a full crop last year over stressed the
tree
so that no fruiting buds were set last fall.

Just 2 pennies.

Sue
Western Maine

"AutoTracer" wrote in message
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It is a dwarf and was labeled as appropriate for container growing. No
sign
that the roots have become bound at all. I must need to figure out a
more
precise fertalizing schedule.

Oh well, This would not be the first plant to skip a year of flowering
after
coming in from a greenhouse lifestyle. A year of non fruiting will give
it
a chance to increase the canopy which didn't seem to increase at all
last
year.


"escape" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 19:11:40 GMT, "AutoTracer"

opined:

Last year I bought a peach tree (I think in march) and it was covered
with
flowers which eventually fell off before the leaves started to grow.
The
tree yielded lots of fruit last fall.

This year the tree has grown lots of leaves but I never saw any
flowers.
Why did the tree fail to bloom this year? What did the nursery do to
get
it
to bloom before I bought it? Am I just being impatient?

The tree is a grafted onto a 4 foot tall standard and is planted in a
half
wine barrel. Watered regularly and only occasionally fertilized with
16-16-16. Spot is plenty sunny and I live in central CA (SF bay
area).



your problem is the barrel part. Fruit trees, unless they are dwarf,
need
to be
planted in the ground. You could never provide enough fertilizer in a
container
for it to fruit properly and set.





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