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[Drevniok <colleendaly@videotron.ca>]

   Hi Toni,

Questions about your statement:

                I cut down the one that looked like
                that last year.
        
When did you cut it down ? This year (2009)? Did you cut it down because it 
was completely dead?        
Are the two trees the same variety (Reliance ?)

        
        Peter Drevniok, Gatineau, QC zone 4b
        

  Toni Pralle wrote:
> <Over abundance of fruit on the
> tree will tell Mother Nature to form  less fruit buds for the following
> year. Once the tree goes into alternate bearing it is tuff to turn around. Six
> to eight weeks after petal fall fruit buds are determined for next year.  Dan<
>
> This was a pear question but I wonder if that's what happened to my
> peach tree.........Last year lots of peaches. This year I think it
> will die.  Very few small leaves. I cut down the one that looked like
> that last year. Yesterday I pruned everything off this one that didn't
> have something green on it.
>
>