The best time to prune is late winter to early spring—typically before the buds break dormancy ... and allowing the tree to ...

Q: I have three peach trees that have more ... Light summer pruning involves thinning branches to allow some sunlight to reach the limbs to help form fruiting buds and to control the size of ...

They grow from latent, invisible buds beneath the bark that ... who gardens in Downey sent a picture of a peach tree with seemingly healthy branches that has neither leafed out nor flowered ...

As a result, new lateral buds will develop ... branches above the fruit spurs that are farther down the branch. Peach trees bear fruit almost entirely on one-year-old branch growth (last year ...

After last year's devastating harvest with no peaches or cherries across most of Green Bluff, those trees are now filled with ...

But it appears that most peach tree buds – the fragile ... reported 22.5 degrees eight feet off the ground – at higher branches where peach blooms are the most vulnerable.

Today, the farm work is nearly constant. In the winter, the peach trees must be pruned. In the spring, buds on the branches must be picked off by hand. In the summer, peaches must be picked within ...

Now the branches look diseased – the bark is coming off and the tree just looks sad. What can I do? A: Peach leaf curl is ... it is still dormant and before bud break (when you can see pink ...

Question: Our peach tree produced a good crop this year ... Your plants should have produced one very attractive tall flower spike with buds that some say resembles little dolphins.

Although the branches, bark ... Warm winter weather spurs early bud development and flowering on peach trees, and then just one day (or night) of cold temperatures can kill the flowers ...