I am familiar with are doing but even though it helps a small tree it hurts a little bit to do that.
You have to be careful taking them off, but how does it hurt the tree?
Here is the tree and one of the remaining branches to be pruned.
It has at "least" 23 peaches on the Y-shaped branch. Probably some I couldn't see.
They also prevent some new leaves from growing.
All these peaches left on would produce small fruit, and could risk branches breaking.
Last year none of the peaches in the area did good.
Don't know if a frost hit or what, but the few that were on it were large.
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A little off topic BUT how do you control brown rot?? I have numerous stone fruit trees (plum n peach) but the fruit always rots and falls off before ripe.
Regular “fruit tree spray” from the big box stores does not work. And you can’t find the chemical “captain” any more.
Any advice appreciated
I have no idea.
Only moved in a couple years ago so growing peaches, as well as the pears, and apples is new to me.
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Wonder how much of it is peach and how much is pit when they are that small
Here is one cut in half. Not best picture, but you can see what the pit looks like.
