Help with Peach Tree

CandyB101_2

Hi,

The leaves on my new peach tree a starting to look a little bumpy.
Any ideas what is wrong?

http://s527.photobucket.com/user/CandyB101/media/Garden/PeachTree_zps81c80923.jpg.html

CandyB101_2

Oh no, looks like it's peach leaf curl!!!

http://apps.rhs.org.uk/advicesearch/profile.aspx?pid=232

So I should remove the effected leaves but not spray until the autumn ???
Is this right ???

DaftyDuck

It is peach leaf curl. However, it doesn't look anything like as bad as mine do... It's lunchtime, and I might pop out and then I can post a sad picture

Certainly been a bad year for it. Prevention is better than cure (yeah... helpful, aren't I...:p). If you look up Bordeaux mixture peach leaf curl on Google, you'll turn up what you should have done earlier.... Which equally isn't helpful....

All the more because I did do it, and you'll see (if i remember piccie) quite how little good it did me!!!


Tidying up the leaves is good, but it's a hard line to draw as to what you should remove from the tree...

DaftyDuck

See... mine is horrible... and sprayed!



Still not helping, am I? Sorry!

Should add; that's a nectarine, but still peach leaf curl!

Farway

It arrives on the winter rain, and as RHS advise, try & cover tree before then, plastic sheeting maybe, depends just how practical this is of course

Luckily my peach is in the greenhouse and no rain, but personally I would pick off the affected leaves in case the transmit the spores to rest of the tree, assuming you will not strip all the leaves off the tree of course

tim_n

You'll probably still get peaches though.

DaftyDuck

tim_n wrote: »

You'll probably still get peaches though.

They normally come out pretty mankey, unless the infection is isolated and mild.

I'm not expecting any... and not just since mine is a nectarine tree, anything that comes will probably be 'orrid.

tim_n

We've had a few last couple of years. As long as you keep up with the leaf cleanup it's usually not too bad.