Peach Trees’ Unique Structure: How They Grow, Bloom, and Fruit

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UC Santa Cruz Center for Agroecology

2 жыл бұрын

Peaches are like no other deciduous fruit tree. Orin Martin, expert orchardist, details the differences and how to annually prune the fruiting lateral branches.
Don't miss Orin Martin's award winning book, "Fruit Trees for Every Garden: An Organic Approach to Growing Apples, Pears, Peaches, Plums, Citrus, and More". His book won the 2020 American Horticultural Society (AHS) Award, recognizing outstanding gardening literature. You can purchase the book here: www.amazon.com/Fruit-Trees-Ev...

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@WCRMcG 26 күн бұрын

The paused text explanations are great, thanks for adding them.

@user-qc5ps2ee5s 4 ай бұрын

Good information. I read where a peach tree's life is normally 7 to 10 years. My mother who just passed at 102 years old a few months ago planted a peach tree in 1992 that still produces PLENTY of peaches if we don't get a late frost. You are the proof that my tree is still healthy because you pointed out how new limbs are going to produce more peaches. My tree is full of new growth. Thank you for your video.

@ucscagroecology 4 ай бұрын

10-12 years is the average lifespan for peaches, but the tree in this video is about 20 years old and still a good producer. Don't miss Orin Martin's award winning book, "Fruit Trees for Every Garden: An Organic Approach to Growing Apples, Pears, Peaches, Plums, Citrus, and More". His book won the 2020 American Horticultural Society (AHS) Award, recognizing outstanding gardening literature. You can purchase the book here: a.co/d/glwePid Best of luck with your trees!

@dbbdeb2327 Жыл бұрын

Don't know what I'd do without you! Been cussing our peach tree for years and it was my fault it wasn't fruiting!

@ucscagroecology Жыл бұрын

Peach trees are unique in how they set buds on one year old wood and the bud only fruits once and dies. Apple trees can produce tasty fruit for 8-15 years from the same fruit bud before they lose vigor and need to be pruned off.

@tekmachine 5 ай бұрын

Seems similar to grapes and cordons.@@ucscagroecology

@derekcheng6974 Жыл бұрын

OMG, this is the video exactly what I need!!! Thank you so much.

@ucscagroecology Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful! Below is a link to several dozen more fruit tree care videos. Scroll down to the section called: “Getting Started with Fruit Trees Organically”: agroecology.ucsc.edu/resources/instructional-videos.html Don't miss Orin Martin's award winning book, "Fruit Trees for Every Garden: An Organic Approach to Growing Apples, Pears, Peaches, Plums, Citrus, and More". His book won the 2020 American Horticultural Society (AHS) Award, recognizing outstanding gardening literature. You can purchase the book here: www.amazon.com/Fruit-Trees-Every-Garden-Approach/dp/0399580026/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3N8Y1MP3KB6DZ&keywords=orin+martin&qid=1650397395&s=books&sprefix=orin+martin%2Cstripbooks%2C522&sr=1-1

@bigtomatoplantslover6205 2 жыл бұрын

WOW~ Lovely Flowers ^^ Thank you for good sharing~ Like 39 My friend, have a good day

@brandyjean7015 2 жыл бұрын

Always informative.

@Realdavidart Жыл бұрын

I had no idea. THANK YOU 🙏🏾

@familyman8439 Жыл бұрын

Going to try this today

@StickybeakHomemade 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much ☺️

@marcusbreuer874 Жыл бұрын

These videos are great. Would love to see some videos where you trim back and rehab trees that have not been pruned properly. Like a fruit tree rescue. Dealing with it in the house I just moved into.

@ucscagroecology Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Here are a couple of videos on reducing the size of plum trees: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fplon6Z6tbbQZY0.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y75pm92g0dC8qqs.html Here's a video series on rejuvenating apple trees with poor vigor: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g6tnYK2dt53VeHU.html Below is a link to several dozen more fruit tree care videos. Scroll down to the section called: “Getting Started with Fruit Trees Organically”: agroecology.ucsc.edu/resources/instructional-videos.html

@saadullahkhan9433 Жыл бұрын

Well explained, what a good knowledge sharing .

@ucscagroecology Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@missouriplantmom1769 Жыл бұрын

Wow best most common sense, easy to understand, short and efficient video. 🥰🥰

@ucscagroecology Жыл бұрын

@markhull9156 Жыл бұрын

Very useful - thanks again. I really see how this works on neglected apricots - always have the fruit at the ends of the branches (and the trees get too tall to tend!)

@ucscagroecology Жыл бұрын

Hi Mark - all stone fruit are vigorous growers. Plums trees on non-dwarfing rootstock can reach 30+ in a few years of growth. As the tree grows, the fruit will "migrate" upwards until most of the fruit will require a ladder to harvest. Here's a video on old plum trees that were reduced in height to bring the fruiting wood lower to the ground: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y75pm92g0dC8qqs.html

@nhiexianpark9550 Жыл бұрын

Ah That's great. Thank you for the information now i know how to grow a peach 🌳

@ucscagroecology Жыл бұрын

@hanh9981 5 ай бұрын

wow, thank you so much.

@ucscagroecology 5 ай бұрын

You're very welcome!

@philadelphiagardener Жыл бұрын

Appreciate the info this my first year getting flowers, so I wasn't sure what to do 👍🏾

@ucscagroecology Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful. Below is a link to several dozen more fruit tree care videos. Scroll down to the section called: “Getting Started with Fruit Trees Organically”: agroecology.ucsc.edu/resources/instructional-videos.html Don't miss Orin Martin's award winning book, "Fruit Trees for Every Garden: An Organic Approach to Growing Apples, Pears, Peaches, Plums, Citrus, and More". His book won the 2020 American Horticultural Society (AHS) Award, recognizing outstanding gardening literature. You can purchase the book here: www.amazon.com/Fruit-Trees-Every-Garden-Approach/dp/0399580026/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3N8Y1MP3KB6DZ&keywords=orin+martin&qid=1650397395&s=books&sprefix=orin+martin%2Cstripbooks%2C522&sr=1-1

@sanskritiscreations9373 Жыл бұрын

Please also do videos on pruning of fig, mandarin, lemon, lychee trees if possible. These videos are exceptional!

@ucscagroecology Жыл бұрын

We don't have fig or lychees trees on our farm, so no videos on those species. But we will be producing a video on pruning citrus later this year. Thanks!

@groundingtechniques2585 Жыл бұрын

Love all these videos. Got a question. I'm here in Southeast Iowa. I have two peach trees. Scaffold branches, several laterals per scaffold branch. Pruned them this summer already per instructions but neglected to wait until late summer. Now I'm getting laterals all up and down where I thought there would be flower buds (as most of this, most secondary scaffold growth is this year and will be second year wood next spring). Do these new laterals have time to form fruiting buds by next spring, or did I mess up and have lost what would be fruit bud growth by triggering new growth with my summer pruning. Thanks for any advice.

@user-ki8sk3jn5w 3 ай бұрын

I normally don't cut branches unless I am filling up the oxycloner. I will usually pull the flowers off to prune, but really my trees prune themselves for me! The small fruitbuds will abort themselves selectively as the tree deems fit, and I remove them by running my hand through the branches. The strong buds will stay on. 16 peaches from my little four foot tall Elberta peach. I pray this tree will grow to 30 feet

@AAHomeGardening 6 ай бұрын

Very detailed video - thank you

@ucscagroecology 6 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@AAHomeGardening 6 ай бұрын

@@ucscagroecology I am praying mine will fruit this year

@reneej6579 Жыл бұрын

Thank you, Orin, this is my second year with peaches & nectarine trees in my garden. May I ask, does one prune a nectarine in the same way as a peach? Another keen follower from Perth, Australia.

@rosarcom8908 5 ай бұрын

Simple,clear,perfectly explained. What else

@ucscagroecology 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for the kinds words. Best of luck with your trees.

@user-op2ev6bh9w 3 ай бұрын

Verry good

@ucscagroecology 3 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@sunmartinez1 11 ай бұрын

Leave one stub one, leave one stub one. Got it 😮

@cutthecord1 Жыл бұрын

This method looks very easy and different than publications from other universities. Using this method can I have say 50 branches on my tree stub a set of 25 (Set A) and let 25 (Set B) to bear fruit in season 1. During Season 2 Stub Set B and let Set A to bear fruit. Keeping the tree size pretty much fixed. Similar to renewing fruiting wood on fig tree. Is my understanding correct? also, how many such stubs can be done on a branch before the stub becomes unusable.

@monster87024 Жыл бұрын

What time of year do I do this to my tree? Thanks

@rockin-74ron39 Жыл бұрын

I have just planted a Ranger peach 🍑 tree. I pruned off branches which had rusty leaves gather it was fungus. It has peach growing on when purchased. But on bottom of peach just noticed look like insect may have eaten into and like real light tan color spot about 1/2 inch . Is the that tan area fungus or slightly damaged from insect. Should I let.peach ripen or cut off and throw away peach ?

@sanskritiscreations9373 Жыл бұрын

So should I prune after it blooms? Or just before? And did I get it right- I will prune those older laterals which will no longer produce fruit, and in doing so promote new growth from them, for them to give fruit in the 2nd year? Also do you (or will you) have a video on pruning a peach tree for reducing its height ? Help would be much appreciated!

@ucscagroecology Жыл бұрын

Pruning/renewing lateral on peaches should be done when the tree is dormant ( in the winter when most or all of the leaves will have dropped off). We don't have any peaches trees on the farm that have grown too tall and need to be reduced in height, but we do have a video on how to reduce the height of a plum tree and you can use this method on a peach tree: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fplon6Z6tbbQZY0.html

@WCRMcG 24 күн бұрын

Does this go for all stone fruit or JUST peaches?

@l.dschick-inn-palacecrafts6174 4 ай бұрын

I'm not finding a video here, on how to pick off the cluster of fruit from peach trees to give specific fruit all the energy to grow. You have a video please?

@ucscagroecology 4 ай бұрын

I assume you mean thinning that reduces the number of fruits? If yes, when the fruit reaches slightly bigger than pea-size, carefully pluck off all but the largest fruit on each cluster of blossoms. Be careful not to damage the remaining fruit or pull so hard that the bud is damaged or pulled off of the limb. You can also use a needle nose pruner like this one, being careful not to damage the remaining fruit or bud: a.co/d/3HcGvnr Don't miss Orin Martin's award winning book, "Fruit Trees for Every Garden: An Organic Approach to Growing Apples, Pears, Peaches, Plums, Citrus, and More". His book won the 2020 American Horticultural Society (AHS) Award, recognizing outstanding gardening literature. You can purchase the book here: a.co/d/glwePid And here’s the playlist for all of the tree care videos on this channel: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/b8-fesadnM2sl5c.html

@DW-sd8ix 11 ай бұрын

👍👍👍

@sahmadi1000 5 ай бұрын

That was a secret! Thank you.

@ucscagroecology 5 ай бұрын

You're welcome!

@014_sabirahmad2 8 ай бұрын

Please answer my question... Like apple & pear grow fruit on 2 year old wood and peaches grow on 1 year old wood.. Can anyone please tell me the case about cherry,apricot,almond...

@mypreciousgarden 5 ай бұрын

Thanks, would you apply this technique to a dwarf peach tree ?

@ucscagroecology 5 ай бұрын

Yes. Works with any size peach tree.

@kamaljeetsingh1859 Жыл бұрын

please suggest me how to prune new peach orchard in espallier training system

@kamaljeetsingh1859 Жыл бұрын

please suggest book how peach can be pruned or trained in espallier or trellis form

@ucscagroecology Жыл бұрын

Sorry, but can't recommend a book on espalier. But, there are lots of videos on KZfaq showing how to do it. We don't use that form at the UCSC farm because with 30 acres we have ample room to use a fuller form for our fruit trees. But at home, I have an espalied apple tree with 6 varieties alongside our house in a narrow planter bed. It produces a lot of delicious apples.

@hanh9981 5 ай бұрын

Do we need to wait until it blooms to determine which to be cut and which to be left to produce fruit?

@ucscagroecology 5 ай бұрын

Yes. That's the safest way to determine the buds are fruit buds and not vegetative buds.

@barryminbiole6199 10 ай бұрын

Does this apply to other stone fruit such as plum, pluot, nectarine??

@geeyoupee 6 ай бұрын

I think only peach and nectarine.

@cangel201 6 ай бұрын

What if I start with the "prune one, leave one" technique on the one year branch, and then I am cutting all of the second year branches off and leaving one year branch? If that makes sense.

@ucscagroecology 5 ай бұрын

That's it!

@XxBloggs Жыл бұрын

Does this apply for nectarines too?

@ucscagroecology Жыл бұрын

Yes. Nectarines are a type of peach bred to have a smooth, fuzzless skin. Below is a link to several dozen more fruit tree care videos. Scroll down to the section called: “Getting Started with Fruit Trees Organically”: agroecology.ucsc.edu/resources/instructional-videos.html Don't miss Orin Martin's award winning book, "Fruit Trees for Every Garden: An Organic Approach to Growing Apples, Pears, Peaches, Plums, Citrus, and More". His book won the 2020 American Horticultural Society (AHS) Award, recognizing outstanding gardening literature. You can purchase the book here: www.amazon.com/Fruit-Trees-Every-Garden-Approach/dp/0399580026/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3N8Y1MP3KB6DZ&keywords=orin+martin&qid=1650397395&s=books&sprefix=orin+martin%2Cstripbooks%2C522&sr=1-1

@jjfash83 6 ай бұрын

@@ucscagroecology I've been going down this page watching every video, but a couple so far have been 404 (link not found). I think the video exists, you may just need to fix the URL. Thanks for the videos!