PUSHING THE BORDERS

We had two peaches in one of our polytunnels, I am embarrassed to say they have suffered because of something I did to them! Following a pretty bad scale and mealybug season I decided the organic vegetable oil I had been using as an emulsion sprayed in winter wasnt really up to the job so I went over the trees by hand using the stuff neat and using a tooth brush, took hours but did seem to get rid of the scale - however both trees failed to come into leaf in the spring and had clearly died! later that year the stocks started throwing up shoots one looks more like a plum than peach not sure what they have used? I have grafted on some bits from sons peach so should be able to regrow that one in time, the second peach however seems to have been grafted onto a peach seedling question is is it a waste of time waiting to see what fruit if any this tree produces?

Our ignorance is confirmed.

“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent”.

Chad

If by some miracle I get fruit I will let you know, but I may well use one of the shoots to graft on another bit of peach!

Although no sign of the scale returning I suspect it will only be a matter of time so I will have to have a much better strategy for dealing with them!

charlie wrote: ↑Sun Sep 21, 2025 1:28 pm I will have to have a much better strategy for dealing with them!

Nematodes are supposed to work, but need a very diligent application.

Chad