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.