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Perth: peaches, pear trees and grapes.
In previous years I haven't bothered to spray my peach tree for fruit
fly because the tree wasn't mature enough to produce sufficient fruit to justify the cost of the spray. Instead I just plucked off the young fruit to let the tree grow. Why pay $20 for spray in order to protect $5 worth of peaches? But the tree is finally big enough that it is producing generous quantities of fruit (i.e. bucketloads of it). Obviously its too late to spray this season, the fruit on my tree has already matured and given my lack of spraying lost almost the entire crop to fruit flies. (Am now cleaning up the maggotty fruit appropriately in order not to create a bigger problem for next year.) The peaches were ready for picking around about Christmas (I've now noted this in my diary), so for future reference when should I spray? (If anyone has any organic/home made recipes for fruit fly baits or sprays which really work as well as commercial pesticides I'd be glad to hear about them.) And can anyone share any tips on when and how to prune, and what level of fruit thinning, watering and fertilising in order to get good sized fruit? Also, my pear trees have plenty of small pears growing on them, will they require any kind of spraying? And finally, my grape vines have produced ample quantities of fruit but the grapes tend to go brown and wither before they ripen. If its relevant, the vines grow quite close to the ground, I've been thinking of building a taller trellis to grow them on. Is the lost fruit due to too little water or something else? Travis |
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