UMass Fruit Advisor -- Easy Peach Pruning

UMass Fruit Advisor -- Easy Peach Pruning: 4 steps to easy peach pruning, young peach trees, open-center peach. Demonstrated by Wes Autio, Professor of Pomology, UMass Amherst, at the UMass Cold Spring Orchard, Belchertown, MA, January 2008.

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Education

Tags:

• peach
• pruning
• tree
• fruit
• umass
• home
• orchard
• horticulture

[jmcext]

Prune in April. Prune hard to grow new wood, but you need to have light.

[jmcext]

I would suggest no it is not advisable. The problem is there may be no viable buds if headed-back too low and what's left of the tree will die. The bigger the diameter of the trunk the more likely this is to happen (and vice-versa). Good luck. JMCEXTMAN

[magprob]

This helps greatly. Thank you.

[WallsBeeMan]

It sure would have been helpful if the expert had verbally explained what he was doing instead of the music.

[porkasnork]

Thank you for this tutorial! Out to my high desert home to prune my peach tree.....and will be awaiting results in Spring and Summer.

[gsusned]

very helpful thanks!

[happinesson]

very enriched instructional video..Thanks!

[susanmcgillicuddy]

Please also show how to espalier a peach, apple and pear tree. This is a great video. Thanks.



[MsRedneck57]

My question is " WHEN". It is an older neglected tree. And will I get fruit this year. Last year I found it in some bushes at an 1850 old homestead. It had one peach on it. When do I trim and when do I furtilize. I live in central Ma.