date:Jun 21, 2021
particularly when it is stressed from dry weather and heat. A mature peach tree may have 12,000 flowers or 10,000 little peaches but only need 500 to 600 mature large fruit.
We are fortunate in New Jersey to be able to irrigate our fruit to supplement natural rainfall, said Dr Gohil. Some areas of our peach producing states are very dry, making irrigation for supplemental moisture a greater challenge.
Labor is a big expense for growers and peach trees are pruned by hand labor as well as thinni