You can leave in place longer if you like, but a tree with no leaves or viable leaf buds at this time of year is generally dead. Bare root trees often have difficulty emerging from dormancy and the failure rate is high.

btw, green under the bark or along branches is not necessarily a sign that the tree is still alive. It takes considerable time for that tissue to dry out and brown after the root system has died.

can i did it up to repot with fresh soil ?

That's not going be of any help and will just stress it more if it is still alive. Just leave it for a while, if you wish, to see what happens but I don't hold out a lot of hope at this stage.

i took a couple photos of the tree today .

Is my bare root peach tree still alive ?

Rub off one of the buds that are showing. If they are brown and as dry as they appear to be, chances are very good your tree is dead. Or well on its way to being so.

I have had one bare root tree, an Asian pear, that didn't want to leaf out. Try hitting it with a high nitrogen fertilizer at half dosage. I used plain old miracle grow. The tree started showing bud swelling and the beginnings of green leaves within a few weeks. I do disagree with gardengal that bare root trees often have failures like this. I have had no failures in my small 28 tree hobby garden in the 5 years I have been planting it out. I have had some trees that I needed to coddle and lost some to insects and/or gophers that I didn't catch.

Well, I am a professional gardener and have overseen the planting of hundreds of trees, many of them bare root, and the failure rate is often as much as 50%. Much depends on the source of the tree and how they were harvested and stored. If the roots were allowed to dry out at all, even a little, chances are excellent the tree will fail.

The failure rate for other bare root stock, like perennials and small fruits/berries is even higher. YMMV

I concede to your experience. I'm still a fairly new gardener. I however haven't had those failures, getting my trees from multiple sources including mail order.

Talencat...Every tree we have planted has been bare root, that's all we could ever afford. This will be our 4th house with fruit trees and we never have had a failure rate described above. I am sorry but I think the tree maybe a goner. Some of the branches look dried out and dead. I believe the yellow branches will turn brown. If it happens to survive after cutting off all the dead branches, down the road it will not have a very good shape. I think maybe its time to go to tree heaven.

If you bought the tree from a reputable nursery and it fails to grow, they should replace the tree. I've planted several hundred bare root trees from many different nurseries, and have yet to have one not leaf out. A 50 % failure rate seems rather excessive. You're either buying poor nursery stock or planting the trees incorrectly

A 50% failure rate on bare root stock and you'd see large nurseries going broke rather quickly.

I'm with you here Ray, I've planted countless bare root trees and shrubs and I can count on one hand minus three fingers how many failed over the years.

Thanks for all comments about my tree , I bought them from Oschard supply store , bought 3 bare root plants , a plum tree is growing great , a white lilac is great , only this baron peach tree i like the most is fail

You folks may not be that familiar with the wholesale nursery trade - the growers of most bare root trees - but they churn these things out by the truckload. Their production fields are acres in size with thousands of trees. They expect a good many to fail........that's part of the cost of doing business. The better ones do take care in their harvesting and storage methods but once it gets to the end retailer, all bets are off!!

All I can say is if you have never had a bare root failure, you just haven't planted enough of them. It is one of the riskiest methods of plant production/sales. Ask any commercial grower.

My failure rate with bare root fruit trees over 45 yrs is nearly zero. That's what I hear regularly from other experienced home fruit growers like rayrose, iowajer, fireballsocal, and campv. Anyone experiencing a 50% failure rate with bare root either has an unsuitable planting site, poor cultural practices, or is buying very poor trees. Commercially failure rates aren't anywhere near that high. If they were those orchardist would go broke along with the nurseries that sold them the trees.

Failures with bare root trees are usually the result of grower error. Often involving wet soil or improper fertilization.

The tree is still green. So leave it as is and see what happens.

If bought at a store, the rate of failure will be greater, especially if they were stored inside. Bare root trees bought through the mail have a much higher success rate. If I had a 50% failure rate from a place I bought the trees I would never buy there again.

Bare root trees do grow better than container trees long term. Container trees tend to be root bound and do not grow as well. Potted berry plants also seem to suffer more than bare rooted. I have much better first year growth on bare rooted berry plants than ones grown in pots. The main thing is to plant the trees or bushes as soon as they arrive. If they are sitting in a plastic bag for a couple of weeks the death loss goes way up.

I would try cutting off the laterals and the main trunk back to a 30 inch whip. That should force it to break dormancy and start putting out new laterals.

My expertise is a bit limited although I have been trying to grow peach trees in my back yard about 12 years. My expertise mostly centers on losing peach trees to a devastating cold snap in the winter.

I received a mail order tree like this one several years ago. It did not start to leaf out until late in July. I complained before that to the nursery, and they correctly said it can leaf out late.

I kept it about 4-years. It never bore fruit. It hardly grew. If this happened to me again, I'd shovel prune by next year and order new so I didn't have to wait 6-7 years for it to be shoveled, replaced, and for fruit.

Thanks for your useful comment , this is a red baron peach , it has beautiful red flowers in spring but the fruit is not good tasting fruit . I hope it will survive if not i will return to the local store , they have 1 year warranty on the tree .

Talencat,

who told you Red Baron is not a good eating peach?

accounts from those who grow and eat Red Baron fruit all said it is a beautiful tree that produce very good fruit.

By the way, I do not see the graft union ( an area lower on the tree where a Red Baron was grafted to a rootstock. Did you bury the graft union? In most cases, fruit trees should be planted with a graft union 3-4" above soli.