controlling peach leaf curl

a quick tutorial to help understand peach leaf curl and how to control it effectively

[@brendar7404]

The most knowledgeable man I know, regarding horticulture! 🥰

[@healthyhorticulture]

Thanks honey!! 😍

[@charlesdevier8203]

Thanks for the comments on copper. Many of the resources that I have read say to spray copper after leaf fall. None have said to spray before the rain. Makes sense to me. Thanks again.

[@healthyhorticulture]

Hopefully that simple adjustment in timing will give you better results

[@brodierutherford3740]

Great info, thanks for explaining the timing! I love your videos!

[@jadeanderson2448]

Very thankful thank you so much

[@killjoyredux8361]

Very helpful... thanks

[@healthyhorticulture]

Glad it was helpful

[@daniloribeiro8144]

I have a very bad scab problem with my apples trees, and I have been fallowing your videos, I started already my application with fungicide. My question is on my peach trees they got infected with scab as well on my past season,should I also use the same fungicide (mancozeb) on my peach trees or can I use copper fungicide? I also use cooper for peach leave curl, what should I do? And if I can use the fungicide on the peach trees, can I use the copper for the leaf curl? Or I should not mix and wait? Thanks, really appreciate the help.

[@healthyhorticulture]

Copper can be used early in the season to control leaf curl, once you start getting small green tissue starting to form I would recommend Captan as a preventative fungicide. Mancozeb is not labeled for use on peaches. Captan will give you better control of scab than copper will.

[@user-tq1rz3gk8b]

What if it snows instead of rains

[@Sam-lk6eo]

Hi, I got a question. I brought a peach tree online the tree looked like it was in the dormant stage so no leaves. But what i didn't like is that their are lateral side branches only on one side of the tree, which makes it look lop sided. Can i graft a cutting off the good side with all the branches and apply it to the other side that has no branches to make a wine goblet shaped tree. Central leader looks like it has been cut at 5 ft high so has stopped growing. Please is it ok to do this or would it kill the tree !

[@healthyhorticulture]

Yea if you’re comfortable with grafting I don’t see any reason why you couldn’t do that.

[@Sam-lk6eo]

@@healthyhorticulture I'm not really clued up on gardening or fruit trees, But there are a number of trees now on our backyard, 4 citrus, 1 lemon, 1 mandarin 20 + yrs, and 2 new orange trees, 6 stone fruit trees, (3 peache, 1 nectarine and one dorris plumb tree, I just learnt about the plumb and peach trees not good ! . Ok cool for that ! We are mid way through summer, located Auckland NZ, very hot 26° C to 30°C Daytime, nights are like 20°C mainly, with dry very humid days. Rain events approx two weeks apart mixed with light showers to heavy down pours. Was thinking of cutting one of the bigger laterals off to save time on waiting for a small piece of new growth get to that thick girth the 3 yr old existing branch has and seeing if that would take and be strong enough to take the fruit load later. Will use a grow hormone powder by Yates or would you use a piece of (New Growth )branch section and splice that on instead ? then graft tape that etc ? Your thoughts please would be much appreciated, Should I wait till after dormant stage just before silver tip or jump in and do it now. Biggest thing I learnt was don't order online, take the time and go and view the trees in person.

[@rodrigoelgu]

Do i do 2 Sprays before the rain in spring before leaves open? Or how many times do i spray...? Las year i had peach leaf curl, I'm going to try to spray this fall too.

[@healthyhorticulture]

Yea two applications should be sufficient. If you need to control other issues like brown rot of insect issues you will need to continue a spray program later into the season.

[@rodrigoelgu]

can I still spray copper before leaves open this year or do I have to do it in the fall?

[@healthyhorticulture]

You absolutely can spray copper quite effectively in early spring.

[@rodrigoelgu]

@@healthyhorticulture thanks