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Posted by bookertoo (U3655866) on Monday, 7th June 2010
I have had a dwarf peach tree in a large pot for several years. It looks very healthy, gets lots of blossom each year, it lives permanently in the greenhouse so I use a small painbrush to aid pollination.
Every year it starts producing lots of tiny peaches, and every year without fail they reach about the size of ny upper thumb joint and then all fall off.
What should I be doing that I am abviously not doing? It does get rainwater for watering, I do feed it, it does not get peach leaf curl as it lives indoors - well, in the greenhouse - help please?
Hi, The only thing that will normally cause the fruit to drop is peach leaf curl but you say you haven't got that. I can only think that wrong growing conditions may be the answer, peaches grown in containers like a well drained loam based compost with plenty of humus added and regular feeding and do not like being overwatered. If you have these conditions they should be ok. If the tree produces a lot of fruit, some should be picked off to allow the rest to grow to full size, I believe leaving too much fruit on the tree causes stress to the tree which I suppose may cause all the fruit to drop.
It sounds to me that your are doing everything right but the plant is clearly not happy.
You could try thinning but beyond that I admit I`m stumped
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