Peach Thinning 101 (No Pain No Gain!)

It may seem counterproductive to remove fruit from a tree in order to grow better fruit, but a little pain now will lead to big (sweet!) rewards. Watch to learn the reasons I thin my peaches each spring, plus tips on exactly when and how to do it.

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LEARN MORE:
Thinning peaches blog post

How to winter prune a peach tree

Other helpful peach-growing articles and recipes

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[WeCareWithMona]

Iam late at thinning peaches i did today and i have bunch of small green peaches. What do i do with them? Texas zone 8a

[VonFej]

I thin my peaches to aproxmetly 6 inches apart at the size of a nickel. It was painful at first 😂

[jeremiahsworkshop]

I started 13 trees from seed 4 years ago. Redhaven, contender, harmony....variety peaches that i saved the seeds. Wanted to see what kind of quality would come about from seed grown.
Hands down last year the quality was the best tasting and juicyness of any known varieties weve had. I thinned heavily last year (year 3). The peaches were massive and the flavor was uncomparable.
The amount these things produced was nuts! The one had, and im not exagerating...close to a thousand baby fruits. If i didnt thin im pretty sure the tree wpuld have snapped.
So since these arent grafted varieties we named the one tree which was the best, 'Halfys Eye'.
We named our stray cat we took in Halfy (missing part of an ear).
Shes got herpes of the eye and it oozes and turns red occasionally. So we named the juiciest peach after that. Lol. Not the greatest name if you know the story. But their ours.
Good video 👍

[christinecotton-vzyu]

Last year we didn't get around to thinning, and we had a gazillion *tiny* peaches that were such a pain to can! Heading out today to do the painful work of thinning.

[LauraMcBride-px]

Great information. I am going to do this next year. Thank you

[jmaiatrader]

I should of watched this video many years ago! I've got a peach tree that i barely look at it! This yr with the heavy rain, i got tons of small peaches! I'm just now figuring out why they were so small and not as sweet.

[livingbytheway]

Perfect! Gonna be thinning out my apples, nectarines, and peaches today. Well put together.

[carolmalignaggi]

Thanks for the information. It's very helpful. What is that growing and flowering on the fence? It's very pretty.

[MANNY]

My little galaxy donut peach I planted earlier this year somehow produced several little peaches but the tree is barely 3 or so feet tall and the branches are so very skinny! xD

[sandybetts]

Thank you, I do need to do that asap! I also noticed the beautiful climbing plant on your fence, what is it called?

[benc]

Thank you for this wonderful insight from such a beautiful young woman. The information you provided answered a lot of things we was curious about with our peach trees. We had a hail storm the other day here in Austin Texas and we lost a bunch of young peaches (and plums). I had already thinned some before the storm so I think now we are all set, looknig forward to a big harvest!

[combatveteran]

I found your channel thank you for the great information. I am an Iraq combat veteran and have chronic PTSD along with TBI and working around my fruit trees and plants. I find extremely soothing. You could say it’s my happy

[dirkjanrulez]

my peach tree did well first 2 years. but past few years had really wet springs so now they are very heavily sick with the scary leaf curl fungus. trying different stuff to control it. lets hope it works soon.

[HaanaTukdi]

Thank you for the information. It is really helpful. We are in Sugarland close to Houston and our peach tree is in its 4th year and still no fruit.🥲🥲😥😥. We did put 10-10-10 fertilizer earlier this year. Do you have any other suggestions to help us ? We did prune it a little aggressively last year.