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  • From: "Jenny Ruth Yasi" <voices@maine.rr.com>
  • To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] peach thinning
  • Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 11:27:32 -0400

Once again my Reliant peach, growing just up over a compost pile and just downhill from an outdoor spigot, is absolutely covered in peaches, and I'm thinning a little bit every day, and I was doing it by looking for the weaker ones, and also the ones further out along the branch, but would love to hear any thoughts on hand thinning peaches.

Is it okay to keep them in groups of two, opposite each other along a branch? If I have a whip type branch, thumb up to pinky finger thin, and it's about three feet long, are 10 peaches too many? These peaches get to be regular big supermarket peach size peaches, and I've been growing them too thickly (broke off the whole top of the tree two years ago from the weight) but now the tree is recovered and all the main branches are trellised to the deck railing, but obviously the thinner branches are going to hang when they are loaded. Is that bending under the weight of the peaches not too hard on the tree, or is it really something people prevent?

Thanks! Going to plant a Korean Pine today!!

Yasi
Maine

Also, I have quite a few double peaches. I'm thinking of letting them keep keeping on.




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