Peach tree trainning to Quad V

[blueberrythrill]

Perpendicular V trees in Colorado last year. The trees are a lot taller than open center so some of the fruit must be picked from a ladder.

Perpendicular V peach tree pruning

Took this picture in a big peach growing area in Colorado. Trees were planted about 6 feet X 18 feet . Just two main scaffold branches per tree rather than the four scaffolds on my trees. The top of the trees were about 12 feet from the ground so a lot of the fruit must be picked from a ladder. I have also seen trees pruned this way in Va and PA, but growers in my state (NC) still focus on open center trees where all the fruit can be picked from the ground without a ladder. [peach pruning]