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My peach tree has fruit, but they r all small and have stopped growing,what am i doing wrong?

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it gets plenty of water and has a lot of growth just small fruit which seems 2 have stopped growing

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  1. You need to prune much more aggressively


  2. If there is vegetative growth but the fruit is small I can only think of one reason:  the fruit is crowded out and can't grow any bigger unless you thin the young fruit early on.

    It's too late this season to "thin out" your fruit as peaches, depending on location, peak between now and late August.

    Some varieties "self-abort" their excess fruit but not all trees do that.  (Apples don't).

    Next year fertlize and prune your fruit trees in early March.

  3. The key to large fruit is to thin the crop to about one every 6 inches apart.   You can pull them off or hit the tree with a stick if they are really thick.  I hit the tree and follow up with hand thinning most of the time.

    If you prune the tree when it's dormant it will help reduce the size of the crop too.

    The fruit will swell a lot in the last week before it gets ripe too.  Make sure it has water then.

    Some trees have larger peaches too.  The early ones tend to be small and split pits are common because they grow so fast.

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