Peach Harvesting Tips and Tricks

[@najwaseiya]

Great sharing👍👍👍👍Very interesting, here happy watching

[@UncleClaysOrchard]

thanks for subscribing!

[@MattyDemello]

Awesome. My red Haven this year was amazing. Best quality I've had growing.

[@UncleClaysOrchard]

I agree with you, redhaven really impressed me this year as well

[@GardeningWithCoffee]

Veteran peach is an early producer. I have 3 of those and last year before losing my battle to the Squirrels I tasted one and it was like a bite of honey. So incredibly delicious. I loss my battle with the Squirrels this year again but next year I'm fighting 😅 you gave me an amazing tip, I'll plant peaches that ripen in succession. Great video like always.

[@UncleClaysOrchard]

ok ill do some research on the Veteran. What zone are you in and when do think they would normally be ripe?

[@GardeningWithCoffee]

@UncleClaysOrchard our first crop last year ripened in late June. This year mid July. I'm in Virginia.

[@UncleClaysOrchard]

@GardeningWithCoffee ok thanks

[@ThomasCummings-el1to]

For early peaches up in 6a I really like Desiree and garnet beauty both have great flavor!!!

[@ThomasCummings-el1to]

Desiree is approximately 28 days before red haven !!!

[@UncleClaysOrchard]

wow that’s what i am looking for! thanks

[@ThomasCummings-el1to]

Your welcome learned a lot from you! Would love another video next year on spraying peach trees

[@UncleClaysOrchard]

@ThomasCummings-el1to no problem

[@meraychilds7209]

Sounds like the boys need to get their nerf guns out and help out their Uncle Clay!

[@patblack2291]

Hope you win the battle against the squirrels!

[@UncleClaysOrchard]

thank you!

[@suttonsplash14]

Peach fed squirrels probably taste pretty good lol

[@MattyDemello]

Shockingly, I didn't get any deer or squirrel damage this year. I hung bars of Irish springs soap bars from my trees, and the deer and squirrels didn't like the soap. I'm actually shocked it worked, but who knows if they'll get used to the soap by next season. But I was lucky. I left my peaches on until they were very ripe and soft everywhere.

[@UncleClaysOrchard]

i’m desperate so i will try anything! Irish Springs Soap ?!?

[@MattyDemello]

@UncleClaysOrchard I'd get like 2 bars per tree, but i would cut the Irish Springs bar soaps in half. So, 4 halves per tree & drill a small hole for string. They lasted me almost an entire season without needing more. The deer stayed completely away, and squirrels too. And deer can get to mine "fixing that," but the soap I believe has worked. Even the honeybees took a few days of not wanting to polinate, but then after, like a day, they'll go polinate. Hey, if you try it. Let me know how it worked. Obviously, feel free to share if it works for you

[@UncleClaysOrchard]

ok sounds good thanks!

[@MattyDemello]

@@UncleClaysOrchard I pray that it works for you as it does me.

[@afrocraft1]

How did you hang the soap, please? The squirrels and chipmunks are driving me crazy!

[@maicarecord]

Loring peach is a early fruiting peach tree

[@UncleClaysOrchard]

ok cool thanks

[@l0tus4life]

👍👍👍

[@UncleClaysOrchard]

my man

[@jacobwhite953]

What’s up Uncle Clay! I’m a gardener here in Gainesville, Florida Zane 9a/b. I’ve been growing bananas in ground for the past 3 years. This past Spring I put in a Florida Prince peach and a Spalding pear tree. Both are supposed to have super low chill hours (around 250) and take our extreme heat and humidity. I struggled with aphids on the pear tree this entire Spring and Summer. Made most of its leaves curl and look funky. I began spraying insecticidal soap every 5-7 days and finally cleared them up. Ants were farming the aphids so I spread ant bait around and haven’t had a problem since. I’m excited to get some more fruit trees in the ground this fall. Maybe a Chinese Honey orange tree, and a Scarlett Beauty plum. Do you think a Methley plum would survive down here? It would have to have very good disease and fungal resistance if so.

[@jacobwhite953]

I’m planning on spraying the trees a couple times with a horticultural oil and copper fungicide a couple times during the dormant season. Do you think that will help as well?

[@UncleClaysOrchard]

Wow i’m always jealous of people in the south who can grow bananas and other citrus! The methleys that i have get some sort of weird leaf spot really bad compared to my other fruit trees. The leaves look complelty destroyed every year by mid summer. But it might do completely different in your area. Does anyone around you or any orchards have plums around you that you could go see what types they have?

[@jacobwhite953]

@@UncleClaysOrchardif anyone grows plums around me they are either the native Chickasaw plum or Japanese hybrid plums created by the University of Florida to combat our disease and fungal pressure due to the heat and humidity. I’m not the biggest fan of the Japanese hybrids because all of them have a sour skin unfortunately.

[@jacobwhite953]

@@UncleClaysOrchard Also, should I prune my trees in the winter before or after spraying dormant spray?

[@UncleClaysOrchard]

@jacobwhite953 you will spray copper at the end of the fall for peach leaf curl before you prune, then you will prune when the tree is dormaint then you will spray copper and dormaint oil right before spring

[@danielmurray9249]

Just planted my first peach trees this spring, came with peaches, harvested a couple already, I'm more concerned that black bears will smell my ripening fruit and smash my caged up tree

[@UncleClaysOrchard]

yea that’s one problem i do not know about! good luck

[@silentsmysound4040]

[@cruz1742]

How did you control pest? I LOST ALL PEACHES. I WAISTED A LOT OF MONEY ON PESTICIDES and don’t work

[@UncleClaysOrchard]

Seven insecticide which used to be carbyral but is now zeta-cypermethrin and Copper fungicide …… but if your ok with a non organic fungicide then Captan works well

[@alexw890]

Looking forward to the preservation video! Have you tried that Liquid Fence stuff?

[@UncleClaysOrchard]

@alexw890 yea it seems to work well for deer but not squirrels