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I know, but not all the new growth will be in the form of water spouts
and it will be the new shoots which will produce the fruit next year. I have nothing to lose by trying this rehab project. The tree is producing beautiful baseball sized fruits with rot. I may have to wait two seasons to really reap the benefits of doing this hard prune, but I truly believe it's the only thing I can do. In the meanwhile, when the fruit trees go on sale in February I'll buy some and plant them in other spots. On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 00:53:39 -0500, sherwindu wrote: Not sure where this summer pruning is taking place, but heavy pruning in the summer encourages the tree to put out lot's of new growth, usually in the form of water sprouts that grow up vertically and our not desirable. Better to wait until the tree goes dormant in late fall or early winter. Sherwin D. cat daddy wrote: "jangchub" wrote in message ... On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:35:56 -0500, Victor Martinez wrote: I'd wait until February to prune them. Let the leaves produce energy now. I agree, but peaches set fruit on new wood. So, my line of thinking was that if I cut out all the largest and oldest limbs I'd encourage new growth. Then, in February prune it back into the scaffold I have it pruned into now. An article in the Statesman yesterday about the impact of the rain had this: "....says Bill Psencik of the Psencik Peach Farm in Fredericksburg "The foliage on the trees is so dense that we will have to do a lot of summer pruning to allow adequate sunlight to enter the inside of the canopy of the trees," Psencik says. "This can have a great effect on the amount of next year's peach crop." So, apparently pruning in Summer is not a bad thing. I'm going to go take a look at Dromgool's peach orchard at the store. |
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jangchub wrote: I know, but not all the new growth will be in the form of water spouts and it will be the new shoots which will produce the fruit next year. I have nothing to lose by trying this rehab project. The tree is producing beautiful baseball sized fruits with rot. I may have to wait two seasons to really reap the benefits of doing this hard prune, but I truly believe it's the only thing I can do. Why not wait until the tree goes dormant? You may have to trim off most of the additional growth the tree puts out because it is not growing in a favorable direction, that is straight up. Branches should go off at an angle for best fruit production. In the meanwhile, when the fruit trees go on sale in February I'll buy some and plant them in other spots. Try and buy a semi-dwarf peach tree, or even a full dwarf for other fruits like apples. Then you won't have to hack the hell out of them later. Sherwin On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 00:53:39 -0500, sherwindu wrote: Not sure where this summer pruning is taking place, but heavy pruning in the summer encourages the tree to put out lot's of new growth, usually in the form of water sprouts that grow up vertically and our not desirable. Better to wait until the tree goes dormant in late fall or early winter. Sherwin D. cat daddy wrote: "jangchub" wrote in message ... On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:35:56 -0500, Victor Martinez wrote: I'd wait until February to prune them. Let the leaves produce energy now. I agree, but peaches set fruit on new wood. So, my line of thinking was that if I cut out all the largest and oldest limbs I'd encourage new growth. Then, in February prune it back into the scaffold I have it pruned into now. An article in the Statesman yesterday about the impact of the rain had this: "....says Bill Psencik of the Psencik Peach Farm in Fredericksburg "The foliage on the trees is so dense that we will have to do a lot of summer pruning to allow adequate sunlight to enter the inside of the canopy of the trees," Psencik says. "This can have a great effect on the amount of next year's peach crop." So, apparently pruning in Summer is not a bad thing. I'm going to go take a look at Dromgool's peach orchard at the store. |
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On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:25:33 -0500, sherwindu
wrote: jangchub wrote: I know, but not all the new growth will be in the form of water spouts and it will be the new shoots which will produce the fruit next year. I have nothing to lose by trying this rehab project. The tree is producing beautiful baseball sized fruits with rot. I may have to wait two seasons to really reap the benefits of doing this hard prune, but I truly believe it's the only thing I can do. Why not wait until the tree goes dormant? You may have to trim off most of the additional growth the tree puts out because it is not growing in a favorable direction, that is straight up. Branches should go off at an angle for best fruit production. My reasoning is that I am either going to remove the tree completely, or I'm going to prune it hard. The tree will send out new shoots, of course there will be water spouts, there already are. The foliage on the tree is prolific, as is the fruit production, but only because we had a cool winter. I'm going to give it an intermediate prune this week and this way the tree will give me new shoots for fruit in spring and in Feb (when we prune our fruit in Texas) I'll do a heavier prune. I do know I will have to use some type of fungicide, but it won't be anything toxic to insects or animals. I have some research to do. Thanks for your patience with my notions. victoria |
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