Let me introduce this situation with this point : I am not a professional peach grower , and I have only lived in Lower Alabama for less than three yr .
But from my conversations with other gardener and growers , I have come to the preliminary close that arise peaches down here is a pain in the neck .
If you care for your peach Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree well , it will grow . But they seem to be plagued with many issue , from dropping yield , to chewing and boring louse , to random dice backs , to squirrel fire , to late frosts demolish the blooms , to deer pressure , to insects drilling in the fruit , etc .
Yesterday I visited a peach U - Pick in the Florida panhandle , about twenty minutes to the south of our placement .
Despite there being many hundreds of Tree , the return were not telling and the fruits were small and lacking a full peach feel . The possessor told me that they had issues with cervid and previous frosts . Many of the peach were small and misshapen , with very few – very , very few – of commercial quality . A few on the trees were decent , but they were few !
The two variety were Flordaking and Gulf Crimson . Neither seemed to be produce well . The trees were 7 - 8 age old and pruned short .
I do n’t know if they had more peaches before in the time of year , but there were a few still on the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree . I was told that many were mislay due to our former rime , though the remaining ripe yield were mostly golf - nut sized .
Though I was print by the layout and the huge amount of workplace that went into the mental process , it did not show well .
It seems that our peach growing here is still miss expert locally adapted varieties , or perhaps they simply are n’t in a good location in general . I noticed the soil was sub - par , and the interplanted pecan tree looked effective than the peaches .
Sometimes it ’s a subject of “ right industrial plant , right place . ”
In North / Central Florida , south of Gainesville , we had some excellent peach , with my seedlings also perform well , provided they were well watered , mulch , and yield compost .
But the yields I see here are n’t so hot , even in that nicely laid out U - Pick . The dependable thing about it was the pecans planted in between the peach .
Interestingly , the proprietor severalize me that none of the pecans had been worth keeping , despite the trees looking good .
Perhaps micronutrients were pretermit ?
We had a couple of peach Tree at our last shoes but despite them bearing fruit , we lost most of them to rot / louse wrong .
It ’s possible that a well - protect and excellently cared for Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree would do well , but I have not been impressed with the production thus far .
Peaches seem to be quite necessitous , rather like growing respectable promontory lucre here . Not a tree diagram for beginners or casual nurseryman .
Plums do well , as do Japanese persimmons and guts pears . But peach ? Whew . count like work to me .
We ’re going to constitute all the pits and see if we can get some to do better . Perhaps we ’ll strike on the proper polish and/or genetical compounding for one that fly high . It ’s hard to say whether planting a peach orchard is really worth doing here , especially when better option – such as muscadines , blueberry , figs , persimmons , etc . – might bring unspoilt issue with less workplace .
