Does Pruning Accelerate the Bloom Date of Peaches

[Olpea]

Thanks for doing that experiment Alan.

We talked about it in this thread:

Proper time to prune peach in North-East?

I usually did it around March, sometimes early April. But to do dormant spray after pruning I prefer to do it earlier. Can I do it on Saturday?. But some rain expected on Sunday… And Saturday may be too breezy for spraying, but I a least can get pruning done. Here is the weather for weekend and next week, would you do it in this weather? Any other considerations other than weather? [Capture]

As I mentioned then, I’d never experienced it, just read about it. Glad you had time to do the experiment. I’ll accept your anecdotal experiment as evidence that pruning really doesn’t advance bloom. Good to know.

As I mentioned in the thread, I think pruning peach during bloom does decrease the hardiness of flowers.