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Summer pruning on peach trees

 
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I broke my leg and had surgery. It put me way behind on springtime work around my property. I figured my fruit trees would be ok missing a year of pruning. Now that I can finally walk around and check, I notice my peach trees are LOADED with small peaches. Would I hurt the trees if I prune now to thin the load on the tree? At very least I'm gonna have to pick alot of fruit off now so the branches don't break. Would I be better off to just pick peaches off early, or trombone of the smaller branches off and give that energy to the other larger branches?
 
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at this point, i would just thin the fruit.
 
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If it's already warm where you are, pruning now could weaken the tree, and it'll need all the energy it can get right now to ripen its crop.

Like Greg, I would just thin the fruit if anything, and would only do that if the tree was overbearing, and may not ripen its full crop.

Good luck with your peaches!
 
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