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["Thomas Olenio" <tolenio@sentex.net>]

Hello,

Have you considered "espalier"?

Espalier Peach image;
http://www.rarefruit-sa.org.au/Espalier/Trees/Peachcot.jpg

Tom


On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:38:49 -0400, Mark or Helen Angermayer  
<hangermayer@isp.com> wrote:

> I have a question about limb spreading (peaches and plums)I wonder if
> someone could help me?
>
> I have some young peach trees (planted this spring) that I would like to
> encourage wide crotch angles.  I've seen pictures of peach trees with  
> very
> wide crotch angles that not only look ascetically pleasing, but also  
> easy to
> harvest.  The trouble is I don't know if it's safe to train the young
> scaffolds to wide crotch angles.  I've tried training pear branches to  
> wide
> angles with disappointing results.  I've attached stiff wire to the young
> pear shoots to hold them away from the trunk, but after I removed the  
> wires,
> the branches continued to sag to the point they started drooping.
>
> But I've noticed peaches tend to grow to tighter crotch angles.  In other
> words, I have a peach tree that started out with good wide crotch angles,
> but after a couple years the angles tightened up and now it's a fight to
> keep the limbs from going vertical.   So my question is, if I train the  
> soft
> young peach scaffolds to an almost horizontal orientation, for the first  
> 18
> inches or so, will the scaffolds eventually droop like they do with  
> pears?
> Also how do plums react to spreading?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark Angermayer
> Zone 5 Kansas
>
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