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no fruit on peach tree
hi all, I have a puzzling problem: my 5 year old peach tree has
carried fruit for the last 2 years. This spring it flowered but no peaches developed. I wonder how this is possible, somehow fertilization mustn't have occurred. It looks healthy otherwise. I can't work out how it didn't fertilize when the flowers were there... very strange. if anyone has an idea, let me know. Thanks, Barb. |
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no fruit on peach tree
"freebird" wrote in message ... hi all, I have a puzzling problem: my 5 year old peach tree has carried fruit for the last 2 years. This spring it flowered but no peaches developed. I wonder how this is possible, somehow fertilization mustn't have occurred. It looks healthy otherwise. I can't work out how it didn't fertilize when the flowers were there... very strange. if anyone has an idea, let me know. Thanks, Barb. not enough bees? |
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no fruit on peach tree
Where are you as far as cold weather is concerned? Peaches will not produce
if it is exposed to minus 16 degrees F for more than 40 minutes during the winter. Temps that low for that long will kill the buds that are blossoms. Next, if your tree is blooming and you get a frost, that will kill any potential peaches. That not being the case, do you prune your peach trees correctly? Peaches, apricots, and nectarines need to have their centers exposed to the sunlight with pruning. Have you done a soil test? If everything else is OK, but your soil is low on phosphate, it will affect the blooming and fruiting. Because it bloomed, this is probably not the case, but it is something you might want to have checked. I use a super phosphate on my plants that bloom and/or produce fruit. It is the fertilizer that is 0 - 52 - 0. Maybe someone else will have some ideas also. Good luck. Dwayne "whiteMemphis" wrote in message ... "freebird" wrote in message ... hi all, I have a puzzling problem: my 5 year old peach tree has carried fruit for the last 2 years. This spring it flowered but no peaches developed. I wonder how this is possible, somehow fertilization mustn't have occurred. It looks healthy otherwise. I can't work out how it didn't fertilize when the flowers were there... very strange. if anyone has an idea, let me know. Thanks, Barb. not enough bees? |
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no fruit on peach tree
"Dwayne" wrote in message ... Where are you as far as cold weather is concerned? Peaches will not produce if it is exposed to minus 16 degrees F for more than 40 minutes during the winter. Temps that low for that long will kill the buds that are blossoms. Next, if your tree is blooming and you get a frost, that will kill any potential peaches. That not being the case, do you prune your peach trees correctly? Peaches, apricots, and nectarines need to have their centers exposed to the sunlight with pruning. Have you done a soil test? If everything else is OK, but your soil is low on phosphate, it will affect the blooming and fruiting. Because it bloomed, this is probably not the case, but it is something you might want to have checked. I use a super phosphate on my plants that bloom and/or produce fruit. It is the fertilizer that is 0 - 52 - 0. Maybe someone else will have some ideas also. Good luck. Dwayne "whiteMemphis" wrote in message ... "freebird" wrote in message ... hi all, I have a puzzling problem: my 5 year old peach tree has carried fruit for the last 2 years. This spring it flowered but no peaches developed. I wonder how this is possible, somehow fertilization mustn't have occurred. It looks healthy otherwise. I can't work out how it didn't fertilize when the flowers were there... very strange. if anyone has an idea, let me know. Thanks, Barb. not enough bees? Could be lack of bees...... wouldn't be frost because last Melbourne winter/spring was mild enough. I don't prune the middle of the tree since it's supposed to be ornamental as well and i don't like it with the "hole" pruned out in the middle. I'll have a look at the soil again, it might be phoshate poor. thanks, Barb. |
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no fruit on peach tree
"freebird" writes:
hi all, I have a puzzling problem: my 5 year old peach tree has carried fruit for the last 2 years. This spring it flowered but no peaches developed. I wonder how this is possible, somehow Some fruit trees (many apples and plums, I know) require flowers of another tree, even another variety, to properly fertilise. A search of google should turn up whether this is true for your peach. If so, it might be that the other tree, from which bees had been pollinating your tree for the past couple of years, has died or been pulled out by its owner, oblivious to your dependency on it. You might need to either plant another peach seedling, or have a branch grafted onto your tree. Just a thought. -- John Savage (newsgroup email invalid; keep news replies in newsgroup) |
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