First ripe pit fruits of the season
How it’s grown in those few years!
It’s already time to start thinning! These are about chickpea size.
It seems you have some PLC, did you spray copper while dormant?
I fertigated with copper about 4 months ago but did not perform a copper dormant spray. My peach and nectarine leaves are showing about 10% PLC.
Not sure what you mean by fertigate (dictionary says it’s to fertilize and irrigate together, so I take it you applied copper in conjunction with irrigation, but not sure how that is possible). Anyways, is that your usual practice? and do you usually get that much PLC?
@Ahmad - I have Dosatron injectors coupled with my irrigation system. I use them for fertilizer and soil drench pesticide as needed. Our soil is notorious for anaerobic bacteria, hence the copper application. For PLC the proper treatment is dormant spray which I missed this winter. So far the outbreak is minimal and acceptable.
Wow! So beautiful!
Wow, that’s a beautiful tree!!!
@Richard - what is the diameter of the circles(edging) around your trees?
Thanks!
I also have Desert Dawn, but in zone 9b. It looks exactly like yours, however the birds eat 90% of the fruit since they are the first fruits available in my garden. By the way I also have Desert Delight, which is in full bloom right now (started late January).
I have bubbling fountains so the birds don’t peck at fruit for moisture. I remove fruit as it ripens and damaged fruit as it occurs. Very little is lost to wildlife.