Where are you in zone 6? Prune hard if you want it low. North Carolina State has very good peach pruning videos. You should watch them all.
Do not bend peach branches too much. 45 degree with a good angle where the branch comes off the trunk is fine. Peach fruit are big and heavy. Fruit load will help bend branches further naturally anyway.
I have been wondering if you can turn some bushes into low single stem trees by pruning all new canes? Can you force it to grow from one stem? Will they branch off into new budding growth from that old main stem?
Can you make a blueberry tree?
Can you make a juneberry tree out of a Amelanchier alnifolia ‘Honeywood’ bush?
Can you make a jostaberry tree out of a bush?
Blueberry branches have a useful life of 3-6 years at which point you remove them complety. You can train you bushs to be vertical but you have to account for the rejuvenation. Grafting on to Sparkelberry can give you a small tree like foundation Anyone grafting blueberries? Why? - General Fruit Growing - Growing Fruit
Ribes, Gooseberry Currents and there hybrids like Jostaberry are renewed every 3-5 years. They are quite often trained in columnar form call cordons.
Amelanchier alnifolia ‘Honeywood’ bush is a Juneberry, I guese you asking if you can stop a sucker forming bush from suckering and grow it into tree form. I suppose you would just need to graft it on to compatible non suckering root stock. You actualy have lots of rootstocks to choose from as Juneberrys will graft onto Sorbus, hawthorn,
you can make a small single stemmed blueberry. By grafting onto sparkelberry.
The industy is trialing this out. For better mechanical harvesting. (less berry’s loss between the multiple stems)
the “problem” with a lot of berry bushes though is that the older wood deteriotes quickly, it gets sick, or just becomes unproductive. So you will have to renew your framework. Or just accept the shorter life-cycle.
you can probably get a decent amount of years out of a single stem pruned jostaberry. You will have to stake it for life though.
Josta and Ribes aureum / Ribes odoratum. Are used to make single stem courrant / goosberry bushes/tree’s. They call these “standard” courrants
I just got a bare root Juliet cherry. I’m hoping to plant it out tomorrow, but the leaf buds are starting to expand and we have a 22 degree night forecast for next week. Is that too low, or am I better off heeling in the bush in a pot until the weather settles a bit more? Not knowing how quickly these cherries leaf out, I’d give it 50-50 odds as to them opening before that cold night.
i dont remember the exact temps the U of SK cherries buds can handle but seeing its a z2 hardy plant, i wouldnt worry about temps like that. same with honeyberries.
If your Juliet came from a warmer zone than your own I would err on the side of caution. It is almost impossible to kill honeyberries with cold temperatures. The romance cherries are tough, but not to the same degree.
Oof. Now the forecast is for 20. I’m annoyed that I’m getting bare root plants that are breaking dormancy. Last year everything was way slowed down, so that made sense. This plant was only 2 days in transit, so I’m feeling less forgiving.
almost eveywhere in the country is warmer than here so i often get trees thats starting to leaf out, or they send it to me 2 months before i can plant it out. i have a sweet cherry that i put in a 5gal. bucket and buried in a snowbank right now, waiting for the ground to thaw so i can plant it. got it late feb.
My area is seeing typical fluctuating temperatures ranging from 40 - high 60s during the day, with a random low 30s mixed in, and 40s to below freezing at night. Is it safe to plant newly received bare root fruit trees now,?
Does anyone know if Early Blush Apricot is self fruitful?Mine is forming flowers,which haven’t opened yet,while most of the other varieties are getting past bloom.