If you’ve ever grown peaches, you’ll know they can be extremely productive – sometimes to their own detriment. Today we’re talking about peach thinning which is something I missed doing with this tree this year. We’ll cover what happens if you don’t thin your peach tree, the benefits of fruit thinning and how and when to thin peaches on your tree.
I’ll also show you a creative way to use up a big harvest of peaches at the end 🙂
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0:00 Seed-grown peach tree
0:45 What went wrong?
1:50 Benefits of fruit thinning and tasting
4:36 How to do fruit thinning on peach trees
6:08 What I’m doing next – harvest, prune, fruit leather
7:17 How to grow peach trees from seed to harvest
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I’ve shared the full fruit leather tutorial here (free for everyone to watch) https://www.patreon.com/posts/how-to-make-roll-150533350?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
I wish your video was longer. Love seeing your content and that last 10 seconds 😉 keep up the great work it makes us excited about all our fruit trees we have planted.
Too many peaches? Let's eat them together 🥰
wow and mostly indonesian never eat peaches only apple fruit
Those purple leaves are insane!!!
Thought you had a twin for a second there lol.
Great summer video!
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Id be glad to help you w those peaches.
We Nepalese don't prefer peach as fruits but other continent loves it. Actually we don't know about it's benefits.
Move in to the country, gonna eat me a lot of …
❤ Love a good peach 🍑 there can never be too many to hold!
Would you say you have millions of peaches? Peaches for free??
I lost three main branches when they broke under the weight of the fruit.
So happy to wake up to a new video by our favorite gardener…
Alternative title: When life gives you peaches…
Kia ora Kalem, as well as Namaste 🙏 from Nepal. I love watching your YouTube videos because your contents are the source of inspiration for gardening and protecting ecology and I also want to support you on patreon but it requires an international card so I wouldn't be able to be a member, I am really sorry for that. And I also wish to see a youtube video of your lavenders tips, use and decorations. But I don't know whether this comment will be reachable to you or not. However, thank you for sharing your heavenly garden and always love watching your YouTube videos.
Lmaoo, the name of the video is absolutely hilarious and funny 🤣
lower angle peach branches after heavy fruiting can help you train your tree to have lower branches. Head it back to encourage vigorous growth.
i'm not a gardener yet, but aren't you kindof missing the
forestpeaches for the trees?i may be missing something here, but why prioritize the tree itself, rather than the amount of yield? it's not like the smaller peaches are underdeveloped or bitter…
For those bigger cuts it's a good idea to use a saw so you get a nice clean cut
You handled the peach fuzz very well haha
You obviously live in the perfect climate with excellent soil. Where i am in NSW, near Braidwood its a battle with frost damage, poor soil & watering. Love your editing – great visuals.
I love peaches
Wow! I’m in the Waikato and my nectarines have been in the ground 7 years and I’ve never had a single fruit! Constantly battling leaf curl, split fruit, rotten fruit, shrivelled fruit, etc. I keep thinking next year will be better. Everyone keeps telling me the waikato is only good for citrus 🤦♀️
Moving to the country gonna eat a lot of peaches 🍑
Love to see the progress in eating the peach skin too 😁
I live South of you, how do you stop the brown rot?
Sorry to be picky but the word fruit can also be plural, no need to add an ‘s’. It’s like the word ‘sheep’, we don’t add an ‘s’ when there are more than one sheep 😉
Lots of people do it, you’re not alone but thought you might like to know.
I really enjoy your videos as they are about growing here in NZ. Very informative and interesting.
No need to ask if you're "an ass man, or a boobs guy?"'
Dud! You don’t want us thinking about your peaches 🍑 😮!
Wow! That's a lot of harvesting for a young tree!
Wow, I see why you made the fruit leather, that really is a lot of peaches 😋🍑 and some super good doggie kisses besides 🐶💗😅 Lucky you to get so much love from your furry friends along with your heaps of fruits!
When are your Louisa peaches going to ripen? They looked so juicy and delicious in the video you did last year and I remember you saying that they are heavy croppers besides 🤤🧡 How much have you got on that tree since you didn't thin them out 👀?
Also well done on your revelation of how to eat a peach with zero goosebumps! I've all sorts of hilarious jokes coming to mind about the peach eating skills expected of a man your age, however I'll keep them to myself for the sake of public decency 😂
Pruning and shaping a peach tree is super important. I have two peach trees, the first two years i removed all the fruit, year three i removed most of it. I prune my tree back about 45% each spring, still produces a ton of fruit but no risk of branches breaking.
0:22 in , what a great shot 👍
Since years I love watching your canal! – it is so nice to see what the other side of our beautiful earth offers currently if someone with a gardener's heart is working, producing and having fun in the garden. Greetings from Vienna/Austria/Europe, Susanne
Should peaches be fruiting atm in nz?
I would try two things, peach sorbet and peach wine/mead.
If you rinse the peach and just kind of lightly rub the skin with your thumb while you rinse the skin looses all the fuzz and is much easier to eat without the goosebumps. ❤ from 🇿🇦
what is the variety of the dark red leafed peach ?
Excellent! Good to know!
You are so blessed to have those fruits 🤍
I live in the South of France in the biggest region for peach orchards (600,000 metric tons). We prune them when in flower and later we discard on average 8 out of 10 per branch. The flowering starts from now mid February until April, but by the beginning of March, all the valleys are covered in pink blossom against the snowy Pyrenees mountains, stunning!. The region is so similar to the Japanese Fujiyama with cherry blossom that both regions are officially twinned. Go check online peach blossom Pyrenees Orientales 😃
I was gonna say just make a simple trellis, but then I saw you strap the tree which is prolly a better idea 🧐
Millions of peaches…
Kalem, so glad to have found your channel very recently. Enjoy it so very much!!! 72 and have long dreamed of visiting NZ. It appears my nephew may be heading to the north island to attend college within the next year. I'm most envious. It must be an incredibly beautiful place to live and to visit. 😊In just this short time watching your videos I've learned so much and also enjoyed your trip to Sumatra…WOW!!
Always beautiful seeing your luscious garden 🙂 peaches are one of my absolute favorites
Just support them with a stick or tie them to the other branches. You are wasting fruit if you remove them earlier, and tree knows best. I was always against modifications if not needed. You have more than enough fruit and you turn that into a problem. Talk with people who have not enough fruit on their trees.