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[Amelia Hayner <abhayner@gmail.com>]

There's a wonderful old book in the NAFEX library that describes how to
renew peaches yearly-- forgot the title but it was an old fat book.
that man even kept peaches as tall narrow trees, trimming off branches as
they bore, letting new ones take their place.
I haven't had nerve enough to try that one.
before you completely cut off an older branch, esp. this time of year, would
it be feasible to nick it in a few places, in hopes that you might get a new
sprout?
then cut it off past that point.
Amy

On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 8:27 PM, James A Cooper <JCooper@lewistonschools.net
> wrote:

> I would not try to prune the old wood on a peach. I tried it once and no
> new sprouts started, just killed the branch.
> I think that you must leave some of last years wood, on each branch that
> you prune. So it has something to feed itself.
> I do tip the new growth, to reduce the overall height of the tree. But they
> do just get taller even if you try your best.
>
> I have heard that a peach will only live about 8-12 years. We have one that
> was  tired when we moved here and that was 15 years ago.
> It looked sad and I thought it was dying but the previous owner said that
> it looks better than it has for years!
> I thought oh, well we'll take it out later. But then we harvested some
> wonderful peaches Labor Day and decided to keep it!
> It is still providing us wonderful peaches, we must thin it ruthlessly. It
> is maybe an Elberta. We also have a Red Haven, both great peaches.
> The Elberta better canning of the 2, both great eating., the Red Haven best
> table peach, fresh.
>
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> behalf of jerrydana5@aol.com [jerrydana5@aol.com]
> Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2011 5:03 AM
> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [NAFEX] peach tree trimming
>
> My peach trees are developing dead limbs, especially at the lower levels,
> which makes picking difficult.  I have not done much trimming on them.  I've
> heard peach trees "run out" and die after 6-8 years.  Should I just trim the
> main branches and let it start new ones lower?  They are probably 10-12
> years old.  Jerry in southern Indiana
>
>
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