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Ozark Lady
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Apricot and Peach trees, summer pruning?

I can't find the thread, but I pruned both the peach and apricot, back last winter.
Maybe, I didn't prune enough off?
I have limbs that are about to break with fruit, and I can't reach them to prop them up!
[img]https://i728.photobucket.com/albums/ww281/Ozark_Lady/000_0333_phixr.jpg[/img]

The apricot has never had fruit before, and I have never seen an apricot tree before.
It looks like this:
[img]https://i728.photobucket.com/albums/ww281/Ozark_Lady/000_0334_phixr.jpg[/img]
and over all:[img]https://i728.photobucket.com/albums/ww281/Ozark_Lady/000_0335_phixr.jpg[/img]

I am concerned that limbs are going to break. Should I react and remove some fruit?
Should I prune in summer?
Help! This can't be good! Look at those bending limbs.
I hope the photos are large enough that you can see them.
Yes, I know the peach tree is missing some leaves, but I got the bag worms who ate them!

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soil
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have you thinned the fruit at all? it usually helps with the weight issue and it also helps the fruit you didnt thin to get bigger.

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Ozark Lady
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Isn't there normally a fruit drop. June fruit drop? I called myself waiting till after the natural fruit drop, but looks like I really need to do something, or get some damage!
Is it too early to thin the fruits? How close do I thin them?
I have always killed peach trees, this is unexplored territory for me!
And I haven't even ever seen an apricot tree, except for sale at the store.

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our young peach tree does its fruit drop as usual. but still the tree holds way too much fruit and needs to be thinned at least a little( where two fruits are growing right next to each other for example). when the tree is older its not as much of a problem. our older peach tree produces hundreds of lbs of fruit with no thinning except what the tree does itself. the branches are at least 5x thicker on the old tree though.



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