Thinning peaches

[benthegirl]

I found this post really useful for figuring out how to thin this year. It is also my first year thinning!

Peach thinning details

In a heavy crop year, we clean out all the peaches in the crotch angle first. Those peaches grow into the shoots and get damaged easily when picked. Next, we thin are any doubles (Siamese twins), catfaced or otherwise damaged fruit. Then we thin off one of any pairs of twins. Twins are where there are two peaches at one node. Sometimes there will be three at one node. More than one peaches at a node results in smaller peaches, so we thin those nodes down to one peach per node. We also try…

@Olpea

Everyone in the area, including me got froze out this winter. We had basically zero bloom on peaches.

Oh no, I am really sorry. You have been so helpful to me in learning to grow fruit. My area seems to be doing well this year and I was hoping your area would do well too.