The Tropical Fruit Forum
Temperate Fruit & Orchards => Temperate Fruit Discussion => Topic started by: Janpol on March 22, 2020, 10:31:17 AM
-
Hi,
I have grown peach tree since 2015. Now It measuring three meters height. In my opinion it is too high and dense. How prune it for abundant fruiting? Please mark places of cut in photographs.
From the front :
(https://i.postimg.cc/zygNVQmL/DSC-2321.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/zygNVQmL)
From the second side :
(https://i.postimg.cc/PN6nKw1Q/DSC-2320.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/PN6nKw1Q)
(https://i.postimg.cc/18DR3rjr/DSC-2326.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/18DR3rjr)
From the first side :
(https://i.postimg.cc/rD4b6hPM/DSC-2327.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/rD4b6hPM)
-
Here is a link on the method to be used on the peach tree.
https://plandejardin-jardinbiologique.com/taille-trigemme.html
( Use a translator because it's in French )
-
I thought rather of rejuvenating cuts.
-
Not too strongly ?
(https://i.postimg.cc/gxWhscKb/DSC-2155.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/gxWhscKb)
(https://i.postimg.cc/R675cRCB/DSC-2156.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/R675cRCB)
-
Cut all the branches leaving 3 buds.
Your tree is not that big and if you do a rejuvenating pruning it may not give much fruit this year.
Don't forget that the peach tree produces on the branches from the year before.
-
Thanks
I wanted to lower it crown, because I don't imagine to use ladder to harvest.
-
On my stone fruit trees I remove all the inward facing branches so the center is open, leaving a few short stubs with flower buds to preseve a few fruit inside. And I cut off anything above 7-8ft because anything taller is hard to spray and requires a ladder to pick.
If the limbs are still flexible you can force them outward with spreaders
-
Here's one of my peach trees, I think I planted it two summers ago.
(https://i.imgur.com/VufS2Zw.jpg)