I sprayed dormant oil in Feb
Sprayed a general all purpose fruit tree spray - bonide - a few days after petal drop
Sprayed a combination of malathion and captan a week ago - ten days after last spraying. There was 12 in or rain in between. Four days after the last spraying, nectarine looks like this. One nearby peach a few leaves like this. Ten other peach trees and four crabs, and one apple look fine
Getting really sick of spending half my life in the fruit trees and fighting fire everytime I go and hardly ever getting and apple or peach
Agree with evil, not PLC. Also probably not cold damage. Cliffs lives in zone 8a. Peach leaves have to get pretty cold to sustain cold damage.
In my experience, even at 18F during spring weather, fully leafed out peach leaves don’t sustain much damage.
Is it possible there is a water issue (i.e. too much)? Also wonder if there may be a soil issue.
Captan burn doesn’t look like what your tree is showing. Malathion shouldn’t cause what your tree is doing either. But the proximity to the spray makes me wonder?
I missed the rainfall you mentioned in your first post. That much rain cause leaf issues. I can’t say definitively that is the cause, but I think there is a very good chance that’s the cause. I’ve seen peach trees around here look like yours when the drainage is less than excellent, accompanied by very heavy rains.
In zone 7a southern IL we got the 12+ inches of rain here also. I have our peaches are on high ground because they need good drainage. Surprisingly ours are looking fine, i didnt expect that at all.
I think you’ll be looking at better leaves when the soil dries out some more. I find it odd that peach trees leaves tell a story. The story is about a condition that occured a good week earlier.
