Year 2 for this Loring. Transplanted it last early spring. Dave Wilson tree. Last year and this year it starts off looking good then toward the end of summer yellows all over. I probably should remove the grass but been so dang busy I haven’t had time. My soil is very good here. Everything else does great.
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What’s the rootstock?
I can’t remember and honest may have never known. I got it from peaceful valley December 2015.
Everything that I’ve received from Peaceful Valley has been on Citation.Brady
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I have a Kaweah peach from Peaceful Valley ( Dave Wilson) and looks just like that. I planted it last February and it grew well, but now looks like yours.
TFN
How strange they are the same.
I have the same affliction on a PF Big from Adams. I don’t think that variety comes from Wilson although Adams now gets lots of trees from them. I also have it on a couple of my nursery TangO’s peaches, only scattered in the tree with half the shoots suffering while the rest are green and still growing. I really should have a pathologist look at it.
I think the issue may well be the citation rootstock. That’s what trees look like on a citation runted out tree IME.
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I have a nectarine on Citation that looks like that every
year, but it fruits and performs well. I always thought it
was a natural post fruiting reaction. Kind of like the tree
shutting down at the end of the season.
I’m having similar looking problems on 3 trees from the same supplier, same rootstock. Trees of Honey Kist, Arctic Glo and Arctic Jay all look this way. However, they all put a lot of growth, around 5’ this year.
I have a nect on Citation, it got yellowed and dropped some leaves early, but it’s now strong and green after fruiting for the first time.
I bought several Dave Wilson peach trees on Citation 15 years ago, all are dead now. Some of them did that yellows thing; they also spotted really badly. The last one recently died, O’Henry. It never got the yellows but it slowly declined in the last 3-5 years. None of my older peach trees have declined like that, the only non-CIT ones that died were due to borers or they never got established (deer munch etc).
Only my French Prune is left, its been doing great on citation.
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Wow how interesting this is. So I have to assume that eventually mine will decline further too. Maybe I’ll go ahead and replace it.
I know you’ve already mentioned it, so I’m hesitant to mention again, but that is some really thick sod up close to the tree. Young peach trees are pretty adversely affected by sod that thick. Saying that, I think the issue may be Citation, but clearing the sod away may help quite a bit.
I hate that DW uses citation so much. It’s not like you can’t keep peaches and most plums reasonably small on more vigorous rootstocks, and only certain E. plums benefit from fruiting earlier on it.
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Ya I’ve been lazy about it. So many other projects. not that I would expect a turn around this late but I will try and get to that this weekend. Dang Bermuda is so aggressive.
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