Peach Orchard

[roller]

Sounds very nice be sure to post some pics for us. Your ahead of me my citrus trees are still sitting in pots waiting to be planted and I don't have any peach trees

I am sure that you have other things to do also..I do not...Not to much to take a pic of now just sticks sticking up out of the ground with white marker flags next to them...

 

[roller]

I checked 35 of my peach trees today and the ones that I checked are all putting on little buds where they will be sprouting new limbs this year...so far so good...

 

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These pics are part of my peach trees. Like I said can`t see much but white flags..

This last pic is of one of the 30 grafted peach trees that I ordered they are Relience, Hale Haven and Sam Houston...

 

[pineywoods]

Looks good what kind of row spacing and tree spacing did you go with?

 

[roller]

I went with 18ft.on some and 20 on others. The reason I went with 18 and  20 was because of the way that I will be trimming them. I am going to trim them so I can pick the peaches standing on the ground..One guy told me to trim them so I could pick them sitting in a chair...That would be nice..lol 

The below picture is some of the growth that I have had already this year..

 

[roller]

Put 10-10-10 around all the peach trees the other day and Fire Ant elimator on all of the mounds. Trees are looking good . I have also planted 9 plum trees . Some red some yellow.

 

[alblancher]

Normally we don't fertilize the first year.  It causes the plant to outgrow it's roots.  Good luck I'm curious to see how they do for you.

 

[pineywoods]

I'm looking forward to seeing your orchard grow your well ahead of me.

 

[thoseguys26]

Good luck to you! I had a hard time keeping up with 1 peach tree and 5 plum trees! My neighbor taught me how to make plum liquor and canned peaches... soo good!!!

 

[roller]

Normally we don't fertilize the first year.  It causes the plant to outgrow it's roots.  Good luck I'm curious to see how they do for you.

I am just following the instructions from the LSU Ag Center..

 

I'm looking forward to seeing your orchard grow your well ahead of me.

Me too...Like I said before you have a full time job...I don`t...
 

Good luck to you! I had a hard time keeping up with 1 peach tree and 5 plum trees! My neighbor taught me how to make plum liquor and canned peaches... soo good!!!

Thanks ! I know that one day I will be real busy..I have also started a Plum Orchard  12 trees so far...
 

 

[alblancher]

Yea, their instructions change all the time.  A professor with LSUAG gave me the no fertilizer advice.  He said compost or some other very low nutrient combination will work.  Same thing with the Pecan nursery where I bought my pecan trees.  Dig a hole two to three times the size of the root ball or container,  break up the dirt removed from the hole, combine with enough well cured compost to slightly loosen, then backfill.  Mulch well to retain moisture and retard the weeds but do not fertilize the first summer.     

That's why I am so interested in seeing how your trees do this summer.  I want to try and find out which instructions are the best.  My peach trees are 8 years old now and I need to be prepared to start replanting winter after next. 

 

[viper1]

Well I planted 2 peaches,2 plums,2 pears ,2 cherry 4 apple,n20 raspberry,20 blackberry, and recovered a old 75 foot line of grapes. The grapes were over grown with brambles and poles and all was rotted just a pile of briar's mainly. So My dad (81 years old who moves like 18) Said lets clean it up. Forgot to tell you dads a nursery man or was for over 50 years. I spent may first 30 or so years from starting when I could walk. LOL Well after removing all the briars and cutting a lot of vines we were finally left with a lot of good strong vines we thought might produce in a few years. So we left some starter shoots and the next year looked good. The following year even better.
My fruit trees where just whips and very few lived. I have three left. They have seen to take hold good but was hell fighting off the deers. I hope you have better luck. But i got ill after planting and didnt keep the eye out i should have. Like they say lot of work pruning and spraying.

 

[ice daddy]

Put 10-10-10 around all the peach trees the other day and Fire Ant elimator on all of the mounds. Trees are looking good . I have also planted 9 plum trees . Some red some yellow.

Just curious about your fire ant eliminator.  Does it work well,  I have a ton of fire ants.   

 

[venture]

That looks like a lot of pruning in your future.  But if you need something to keep you busy......?

Good luck and good smoking.

 

[roller]

Just curious about your fire ant eliminator.  Does it work well,  I have a ton of fire ants.   

I will let you know in a few days. This is the first time that I have really been after them. Right after I aplyed the first go around we got a frog strangler and it packed them all down good and tight. I checked them yesterday and most have not recovered but a few have and a few new ones have popped up but very small aplyed elemitator to them yesterday..I have to check with my Parish Agent to see if there is anything that i can broadcast and keep them out after I get rid of them. I know that it is going to be a battle..I am going to stay with it...I will keep you posted.
 

 

[roller]

That looks like a lot of pruning in your future.  But if you need something to keep you busy......?

Good luck and good smoking.

I do need that.. That`s one of the reasons I am doing this...I feel like when the trees start producing I will be able to keep up with everything until it comes picking time then I will have to hire help..I visited a guy not to far from me that has 100 peach trees and he does it all himself with a full time job until it comes picking time...I am going to prune mine to where they can be picked without using a ladder .
 

 

[roller]

Well I planted 2 peaches,2 plums,2 pears ,2 cherry 4 apple,n20 raspberry,20 blackberry, and recovered a old 75 foot line of grapes. The grapes were over grown with brambles and poles and all was rotted just a pile of briar's mainly. So My dad (81 years old who moves like 18) Said lets clean it up. Forgot to tell you dads a nursery man or was for over 50 years. I spent may first 30 or so years from starting when I could walk. LOL Well after removing all the briars and cutting a lot of vines we were finally left with a lot of good strong vines we thought might produce in a few years. So we left some starter shoots and the next year looked good. The following year even better.
My fruit trees where just whips and very few lived. I have three left. They have seen to take hold good but was hell fighting off the deers. I hope you have better luck. But i got ill after planting and didnt keep the eye out i should have. Like they say lot of work pruning and spraying.

 Sounds like a good combo....Thats the same size mine are that I got from a couple of buddies. The ones that I ordered were all 3 ft tall and all branched out but when I planted then I just cut them off 14 to 16 in. tall and they looked like a stick...I will post a pic of what they look like now and they have just been planted for 2 mo.

 

[roller]

Yea, their instructions change all the time.  A professor with LSUAG gave me the no fertilizer advice.  He said compost or some other very low nutrient combination will work.  Same thing with the Pecan nursery where I bought my pecan trees.  Dig a hole two to three times the size of the root ball or container,  break up the dirt removed from the hole, combine with enough well cured compost to slightly loosen, then backfill.  Mulch well to retain moisture and retard the weeds but do not fertilize the first summer.     

That's why I am so interested in seeing how your trees do this summer.  I want to try and find out which instructions are the best.  My peach trees are 8 years old now and I need to be prepared to start replanting winter after next. 

The 31 Peach trees that I ordered I used a posthole digger and a shouvel and mixed all that dirt up and spread the roots out real good and put this root stablizer all over the roots of each one. The ones that I got from my buddies I just planted them like they plant Pines here in Louisiana...I figure if I loose any then I will replace them next year..I have learned how to sprout them from a seed in the frig...May even start potting some using the frig method and sell some...
 

 

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[pineywoods]

Looking good glad to see all the new growth