Sick Peach (forum)

Farouk starts with ...
Hello,

My seedling peach tree grown from seed about 3/4 years old.

Produced some peaches (first bloom)last year but was way out of season by the time they grew & ripened (slow).

This year second bloom, it flowered & set fruit but all dropped & cannot see/spot any fruits (we had strong winds in sydney?), I noticed there is this opening (pictures attached) at the back bottom and braches near by are dried up no leaves, could you please provide some tips/help to cure my poor peach tree.
Thank you, Sorry for bad camera work.
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Time: 13th December 2013 12:26pm

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jakfruit etiquette says...
Tree looks ok, the bad areas look like wounds, not sure what, physical damage or infection ??
I would cut the dead branches off, but leave a bit in front of the live growth.
Also I would paint the wounds, and cut surfaces with a copper oxy chloride paste.
(1part Cu Oxy Cl,+ 1 part milk powder + 1/2 part water,add more water if needed)

Seedling peaches can have v good fruit, but may ripen at different times to the original parent type


Time: 14th December 2013 6:45pm

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AC1 says...
I would use a flashlight to look inside scratch bark for signs of borers/termites .The other thing it could have "dead arm virus"

Time: 14th December 2013 8:24pm

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Farouk says...
@jakfruit etiquette
Thank you for your reply, I will try this.

Time: 19th December 2013 7:57pm

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Farouk says...
@AC1
Thank you for your reply, I will look out for these, it seems like something might be inside the outside bark is soft in this dead dark colour part.

Time: 19th December 2013 7:59pm

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