It is recently humid and above 30 degrees in Perth (WA), but the tree is watered every second day for about 20min using a sprinkler. Soil is good (bowel of about 60cm deep by 60cm diameter), well drained – mind the surrounding area that is grey poor sand
by MonsieurFubar
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Inconsistent watering. Use lots more mulch also.
Short version: When it gets a bunch of water at once it’ll dump it in the fruit and cause it to split.
If you keep the watering more consistent and make sure it’s got proper drainage, not compacted soil it’ll help.
Typically it’s from getting dry, the skin firming up, then a big wet.
Humidity can get you, too, and the tree doesn’t behave when it comes to pumping water around it
What others have said.
We had a bad drought and heatwave. Our peach was packed with fruit. But then we got hit with rain (which was really needed) and lost all of them.
Drought and heat are tough.
We got our apples at least. And the figs are coming along.
This happened to my lemons in Brisbane. I had been watering every few days, I thought deeply, but no real rain for weeks with high temperatures and then a huge dump of heavy rain… RIP lemons.
Everything that people have said is tight. But it’s mostly because it is a young tree.