Content
- Cut a column peach properly
- The right time for the cut
- Distinguish true and false fruit shoots
- Column with volume
- Tips
A column peach should be cut regularly
Cut a column peach properly
Pale fruit is not only suitable as a productive screen in the garden, but also for growing fruit in a pot on the balcony or terrace. In order to be successful in the culture of column peaches, you should cut them regularly.
The right time for the cut
As a rule, the pear peach is advised to cut either shortly before flowering or directly after harvesting. Ideally, the two times are combined so that the main shaping, rejuvenation and maintenance cut is made after harvesting. In the process, about two-thirds of the branches that have borne fruit in the current season are heavily cut. The cuts on the branches heal at this time of year particularly uncomplicated and fast. In the spring, the eyes should then be placed especially on the fresh buds: Based on the buds should be decided which corrective cutting measures are made in the spring.
Distinguish true and false fruit shoots
On a peach tree, in addition to the main stem, the following types of branches or branches can be distinguished:
Wood shoots are called if there are no flowers and therefore no fruit to be discovered. If wood shoots are not needed to build the tree, they can easily be shortened to about two pairs of eyes. False fruit shoots are involved if, in addition to the roundish flower buds, no pointed leaf buds can be detected in spring. The true fruit shoots should remain as undamaged as possible on the tree: in these, a pointed leaf bud is bordered by two round flower buds. However, the ends of these shoots can also be shortened to obtain the compact shape of a column peach.
Column with volume
Even if some glossy catalogs like to promise it, without any lateral branching, no pillar peach on its stem can produce a variety of fruits. Therefore, columnar peach should be punctured regularly with a shaping cut to promote branching. At the same time, these lateral shoots are shortened to give a decorative columnar shape.
Tips
To preserve a columnar peach from aging and to provide a steady supply of one year old fruitwood, well-developed true fruit shoots are cut back on about eight bud-triplets (the combination of two flower buds and one leaf bud.) Rather poorly developed, weak fruit shoots may open three to four bud-triplets are cut back.