First Year Peach Pruning - the Right Way!

Peaches are a popular, but not necessarily straight forward, fruit to grow - especially here in the Pacific Northwest! Fortunately Laura was able to bring in an expert to demonstrate exactly how to prepare a peach tree for a successful start in your backyard!

[@barb24427]

I love Raintree Nursery. My yard is FULL of their wonderful fruit trees, berries, grapes, etc. I buy from them every year and we now have quite the food forrest.

[@Chris-sd4nb]

Great video. I need to be more aggressive in my pruning. Thanks. What a great team.

[@winrockywin331]

I’ve been gardening for a few years and watched tons of pruning videos on KZbin. This was, without a doubt, the best well explained and informative pruning video for new fruit trees! Please make more for second and third years trees! Vining plants, bushing plants and so on!!!!

[@marklee2846]

This is far and away the most helpful video you’ve done, thank you!

[@user-jk1sl7eu7g]

Great video. Especially with someone that has been with company for over 30 years. Great!!!! Pleas keep up the good work. I love Raintree!

[@lauracoussens6207]

Peach trees bloom and fruit on second year wood, so prune accordingly in subsequent years.

[@gtromble]

If you don't do this upon planting, can you prune like this now after the tree is leafed out?

[@RaintreeNursery]

Absolutely!

[@icyravens]

Hi! I purchased a 5-in-1 "Fruit Salad" tree (actually got 6 varieties! Peach, nectarine, 2 apricots, plum, plum/cherry hybrid) but now I realize I'm not sure how to prune when each branch is a single grafted variety. I took the top a little bit back so it matched the root ball, but some varieties/branches are significantly slimmer than others, the crotch angles might be very narrow or too horizontal, etc. yet I can't just remove scaffolding branches because then I just took away a whole graft. Any advice? I planned on letting it grow this year, then staking/supporting branches this winter and next spring as needed to see if I can get the crotch angles corrected. And pruning as I can as I go along. (I've looked for videos specifically about the combo grafted trees on your channel and didn't find any, so please correct me if I missed them!)

[@RaintreeNursery]

This is a longer conversation. Please put in a Help Center ticket and we can set you up with someone to talk you through everything.

[@plainsimple442]

What, no open center trees?

[@laurasweany7635]

First year pruning is to establish strong roots, which is why central leader should never be removed first year.