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  • From: Caren Kirk <quirky@videotron.ca>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [nafex] Overgrown Peach
  • Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 08:07:11 -0500

A couple of years ago I bought a Reliance Peach as an experiment, which never survived the winter. However I left the rootstock in the ground and it grew and has now become a little tree/ bush. Last year I had one or two peaches fro the first time. They were small, hairy, very pale, but actually quite sweet and delicious.

So now I have tasted them I've decided I will be keeping the peach after all. Unfortunately I have done a bad job of pruning it, and It does look like an overgrown bush at the moment.

In order to make it more tree like I would have to trim off some very large, very low branches. The diameter of one of these is 2/3 to 3/4 of the main trunk.

Any advice on how to do this without ruining the tree?

I know I should have done it before,what can I say, we can't always be perfect!

Caren Kirk
St. Jerome, QC




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