When should you prune a peach tree?
Winter which is the dormant period is the best time to prune peach trees. There are a number of reasons for this. It gives enough time for the wounds to heal before spring when the leaves will appear and the fruits will start to grow. Besides, it gives time to the tree to blossom fully in spring and summer. The next is pruning during summer when the fruits have arrived and hence you can see and avoid sawing off productive branches. You should also prune branches with a lot of fruit. This will make the limited fruits you are left with very well-fed and of top quality. However, old or diseased branches of peach trees can be pruned any time – in fact sooner the better.
When is the proper time to trim orange trees?
One rule of thumb for pruning a fruit tree is that they should be trimmed when the flowering buds are dormant it means that either after the flower fades or during late winters/early springs.For citrus fruits (like Orange) pruning done before growth season (late winter/early spring) will lead to vigorous growth of shoots but not much flowers and fruit. If your goal is a more controlled and maintained canopy rather than fruit, than trimming your tree twice (one in autumn and one in early spring) will do the thing.If your goal is high yield then trim your tree but leave a year old branches and leaves. These parts contain flowering buds ready to bloom. One more thing if you are growing orange trees in desert or dry area like Arizona (sorry i just peeked your profile) regular trimming should be done in spring between February and April.Hope this helped…
How and when do you trim a small Apple tree? Can you trim it from the top when it gets top-heavy?
The answer is not to wait for your tree to become poorly structured, which happens when from very young their structure is not formatively trained. A fruit tree can have a dominant trunk and depend on the room available, it can have a structure that’s trained as an espalier, vase formed, or completely natural. In each case, you need to determine what form the sister branches take. Even to me, this sounds too simple, therefore, please do some research and for those who are close to orchards, take a good look at what’s done.Many apple growers limit the amount of fruit by reducing growth (i.e.,) buds and limiting the numbers of fruit buds – structural branches support fruit growth and structures might be 10-times the diameter of fruit growth. In that situation, branches don’t fracture, but also, I would encourage you to halve the crop by removing fruit that might be small, thus allowing higher quality fruit to develop.Follow the principles of structure, form and function, as they are attempted by many fruit tree pruners. From young, your tree should have twig size growths cut with sharp secateurs. Any cuts that are over 1” in diameter are harmful to the tree. Working from the top down is not good husbandry, rather, when setting the structural framework, cut twig growth and progressively use that as a principle of best practice. Those who claim “it’s okay; the tree will recover” are patiently misguided and immersed in incorrect fruit tree pruning dogma. Naturally, a fruit tree that has thick branches hacked off will produce numerous shoots, but that’s at the cost of wrecking a structure, loss of fruit and onset of major wood decay.Those who professionally grow fruit for cropping usually make small wounds. Many remove fruit trees that are 25 to 30 years old and replant as by then there are many decays through natural events and trees are not as productive, or harvest is difficult. You most probably will not follow that system of culture. This venue is not the most conducive to showing how to prevent working from the top down, as depending on how much is removed you may have more growth forming and less fruitwood. I usually work from the inside out to the tips removing the non-structural growth and then I limit the numbers of tips and trim remaining tips to the last three buds. To do that you need to be able to distinguish last year’s bud scales and carefully identify buds produced on last year’s growth.Did I say not to climb ladders? Now I have.
Can I bring a peach and an apple tree back to life?
If you haven't done any trimming on them, that could be the problem. Fruit trees need to be kept trimmed to let sunlight in. Wouldn't do anything now but do some light trimming to open them up a little, and keep them watered. Next winter, in late february or early march, trim all the sucker growth off, try to just leave good strong main branches. Contact your state forestry department, to get the best tips on how and when to prune your fruit trees.
Anyone know how long it takes for an apple tree and a peach tree to bear fruit from the time of planting?
I've heard seven years if grown from seeds, but it should only take about 3 years for a grafted tree. Your tree may never fruit if it's grown in unfavourable conditions [eg; bad soil, insufficient sunlight, insufficient water etc. etc.] .
What is the best way to bring back apple trees?
Wow, with 15 trees you have the makings of a science fair project. If you get 15 answers you could try them all and become your own expert on the subject. Years ago a friend bought some property in Virginia with 200+apple trees that hadn't been touched in 20 yrs.(great morel mushroom patch every spring). With the sometimes conflicting advice from the owners of surrounding orchards we tried a little of everything. First we removed the badly damaged and diseased trees and spent three years doing remedial pruning, pest and disease control. Then we 'top worked' (grafted) 50 trees with new varieties. What we ended up with was about 150 trees producing 8 varieties of apples. It could never compete with a commercial orchard but we had fun and learned allot. It also put his daughter through college.
When should i prune my peach tree??SPRING OR FALL??
Peach trees should not be pruned before February, and young trees should be pruned after mature trees. There is a great deal of research information and grower experience to indicate that pruning peach trees in the early winter can reduce their cold-hardiness. Avoid pruning within several days of predicted cold weather. During winter, pruning will reduce the cold tolerance of the tree for about two weeks. Trees that are pruned just before severe cold weather may have poor flower bud survival, dieback of one-year-old shoots, and injured bark on the trunk and major branches. Even just before bloom, when the flower buds are swollen and pink tissue is showing at the tip of the buds, pruning can make the flower buds less tolerant of frost. Pruning peach trees during bloom or shortly after bloom is not ideal, but it will not adversely affect the growth of the tree or the fruit. It is better to prune a little late than too early.
How can I tell if an apple tree is dead?
No leaves in early summer is not a good sign, but scrape a bit of bark off down to the cambium (the inner bark next to the wood. If the cambium is white or green and moist the tree is alive. If it is brown or black and dry the tree is dead. If it is alive about all you can do is keep the soil moist and hope for the best. Feeding it won't do any good if it doesn't have leaves.