I love peaches. They rate right up there with sweet cherries, perfectly
ripe pears and strawberries. Sadly, peach trees are a 5-10 year
proposition due to borers. I have a couple of questions for the
collective wisdom of the group.
Are older cultivars....white peaches in particular....any more resistant
to borers than the newer cultivars? The reason I ask is I know of a
tree that beat the odds for 20 years before slipping its mortal coil.
It was a white peach. Just luck?
Presuming I can get peaches to "take" in a Japanese-American hybrid plum
tree, how high up do I have to graft to avoid borers? I may have a
faulty mental image, but the picture in my head has most of the borer
pressure in the bottom 3' (lowest meter in Canada) of trunk. So I
wonder if I can top-work some plums at 4' (1.3 meters if your borers
measure in metric), stand back and harvest delicious peaches for the
next 25 years.
Anxiously awaiting your collective wisdom
-Joe in Eaton Rapids, Michigan....where we just got 0.5" (12.7 mm) of rain.