Conejoy:

Do you mulch your trees? I use stable manure around mine, but you can also use shredded leaves, sawdust, grass clippings -- any organic material that you can obtain in quantity. Some towns produce shredded wood mulch that is given free to homeowners.

In addition to breaking down slowly and feeding the soil, organic mulches help retain moisture, hold down weeds and grasses, and encourage earthworm activity. I surely hope you don't have lawn grasses growing right up to the trunks. That could slow the growth of any tree.

You don't say where you live, so I don't have any way to know your soil type and moisture conditions, but in most zone 9 locations mulch would be helpful. No need for any additional fertilizers, chemical or otherwise. Bat guano or other organic material under the mulch could help to kick-start the process, but may not be the best long-term solution. It's pretty expensive for one thing. Bats are stingy with their guano.

Don Yellman. Great Falls, VA

Soybean meal, alfalfa meal, cotton seed meal, and your our urine are all "organic fertilizers". I second the mulching.

Yes I have been mulching them for about a year now,I didnt know any better before.

Im in houston our soil tends to be clay.

I would use an organic mixture of compost, manure, and low percentage fertilizer to start, then put your mulch on top. The compost and mulch will help the soil retain moisture, and the manure and fertilizer will feed your trees. Try to find a fertilizer with all the #s close to each other. This will provide complete nutrition and will not shock the trees with massive amounts of phosphorous, nitrogen, or potassium. (P-N-K)(4-3-3) Espoma Garen-Tone or Bio-Tone will do well. Make sure you mix the compost, manure, and Espoma together before use. Also, if your trees are 2-3 years old, they SHOULD be small. I have 2 cherries and 2 plum trees, all are under 5 years old and none have produced fruit. All are under 10 ft. tall. Be patient. Good Luck

This is a picture of my Peach tree the trunk still a little thin It getting bent backwards by the weight if some its fruit should I just re-stake the length of the tree?
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Bradfield Organics from PMI (Purina Mills). Hometown favorite! They have a product locator for find their fertilizers. I grabbed the Acid Adoring for my blueberries. You can pick up the Citrus & Tropical fruit. I would get a 6' tall tomato stake and tie it higher up for better support.

Here is a link that might be useful: Bradfield Organics

Conejov,

It's hard to tell how much fruit you have on that tree, but if it has so much fruit that the trunk could snap, it's probably a indication the tree is carrying too much fruit. I would tear some of that fruit off. It may be a little late this season, but proper fruit thinning will also give you bigger peaches.

I'd thin off the fruit from your peach. Probably every other peach should come off, possibly more of the peach still leans. You want it to concentrate on growing since it is still very young rather than producing a lot of fruit.

is that weeds under your peach tree? those are eating the same nutrients your tree needs.

The green leaves at the bottom of the picture are limbs from the peach tree coming from the roots. I have been cutting those off so they dont draw nutrients away from the tree should I leave them?

I staked the full length of the tree. and it seems to be doing ok. I also bought some Bat Guano and Cotton Seed Meal what do you guys think about using that,

I lightly feed my flower beds with a 12-12-12 fertilizer. Bat Guano is about a 10-2-1 & cottonseed meal about a 6-2-1. They are both high in nitrogen and with little of phoshporus or potassium. Your PH is going to drop if you use all at once. Maybe you have bone meal, it is about 4-12-0. Greensand is about 0-0-3. They say fish emulsion is a balanced fertilizer 2-4-5, but the smell last for a few days. Shot for a fertilizer balance to equal about 10-15-15.

Here is a link that might be useful: Organic fertilizers

I would still thin off sev. of the fruits. I thin my peaches to 1 per 4inches at least. That is what I have been doing all week-thinning peaches, plums, and apples. Your tree is pretty young to mature so many fruits. Besides a tree can mature only so many pounds of fruit per year. Hypothetically you could get 1000 1 oz. peaches or 100 10 oz. peaches. I like the larger fruit myself.
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