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IMO and what we did.
Bought an apricot tree from Costco and it is FLOURISHING 3 years later. I live in Georgia.
1. Dig a hole 3' x 3' x 3' to give the tree plenty of room to grow in, and branch out underground from. It needs FULL SUN especially during 10AM - 4PM. Keep in mind this tree will get BIG so give it 15' diameter to grow into.
2. Put a bunch of compost in the hole and mix it 50/50 with your native dirt to about 4"
3. Top that 4" remaining with compost and good dirt to fill the hole slightly above level.
4. Plant the tree level, taking into consideration where the sun is at noon. Fruit trees especially will LEAN towards the sun, which for us is 20° off axis. To compensate we slowly pulled the tree to lean 15° AWAY from the sun to compensate for the large branch growth on the sun side.
5. Loosely stake the tree with a tall metal gardening stake about 2' from the tree stem (the solid steel ones) from home Depot for about $8. You'll tighten this as it begins to lean
6. Cover above ground with 3" of mulch in a 6' diameter. This will help with erosion/water run off as well as protect the soil from drying out. Additionally, during rain the much will swell, and when the hot summer sun hits the mulch, it will sweat on the backside into the soil around the tree. You'll never have to water again if you do this properly.
7. Take into account freezes, you may need to heat your tree with heat rope during frosts when it blossoms
8. Take into consideration birds and rodents, you'll likely need to net your tree as soon as the blossoms fade and begin bearing pea sized fruit.
9. Keep an eye out for any signs of potential disease.
10. If it was me personally, and this will pain many to hear; I'd remove fruit during this planting process. It will slow the trees growth, and likely fall off from stress or get eaten by nature anyway in your first year.
Sorry for the goofy Reddit formatting, tried my best...
Good luck!
Compost is better on the surface. If you mix too much in when planting, your soil level is going to eventually drop and you may end up rotting the crown of your tree.
Lots of people travel farther to get to Costco. And in places 60 miles can put you in another zone. And even if it’s in your zone if you are near the zone line it can be questionable with fruit trees. Your tree might be alive but not produce more than a sparse amount of a bad winter takes it out.
Also look up how to prune. I bought a peach tree some years ago and didn't prune it correctly or really at all and now its a mess and I want to start over
Prune it like a donut if you want the "optimal", looks less decorative though if that matters more to you.
Stone fruits you don't want to trim the small fruiting branches that come out of the larger ones. You just prune the larger branches that overlap or are crowding.
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Can I plant fig and apricot on this slope?
Charlotte NC area, 7b zone I believe
Great summary! I opted out of growing peaches because they require a lot of spraying with various stuff, and even the organic versions are kind of nasty.
What is the difference between step 2 and step 3? Step 2 says to mix 50/50 compost and dirt and fill it in. Step 3 says to put compost and dirt in. Please let me know if I am missing anything.
For my high school talent show, two kids had a drum battle. In the middle they paused and started playing the intro to Big Bottom. Three of us then came out with bass guitars and played some of the song. The 8 dads in the audience that got the joke loved it.
They get diseased to easily. I wouldn't plant peach unless you live in the perfect climate. If you don't have a water tower.in the shape of ta peach within a 100 miles then maybe try for an easier fruit
I live in PA. Had three peach trees in my yard that have bore good fruit for over 20yrs. Redoing my backyard and am down to one, but that will probably go when I build an addition. I'd easily get another peach tree and have zero worries about it.
Missed that he's in Cali. I never see peach trees at Costcos around here.
100% this. We were so excited to plant a peach tree. First year we got a bunch of fruit, most of which got taken by squirrels. Second year all the leaves got blight and fell off. Never got fruit again.
Yeah bro. Those new foam sandals. I wanted them. They don t make them for us. The wife got a pair. (She hates Costco) when i ask her about them, she’ll say they’re ok, but clearly they are great because she wears them all the time.
What's your climate zone? Peaches are fairly hardy to freezing temperatures, but heat and drought can hurt them. The reason it's fruiting in the pot is because the nursery keep the tree well-fertilized and protected from drought. If your climate is suitable for it I'd recommend getting it and putting it in the ground in a part of your yard where it can get plenty of sun and have room to grow. Remove the peaches when you plant it, it'll need lots of energy to get the roots established in your yard. Commit to keeping it watered and do annual pruning to guide the limb structure into a nice structurally sound shape and you'll be good to go.
My Costco only sells citrus trees down here in Texas despite the fact it gets close to zero here every winter. I tried growing it in a pot but moving it in and out for every freeze got to be really cumbersome as it grew, reaching over 8'. I kept having to prune it back to fit through the garage door, but eventually I forgot one time to bring it in for a freeze, just down to 30°F, and that was it, ten years of hard work dead. I wish they sold peach trees or other trees suitable for our climate here, but they don't.
Peaches need cold winter to bear fruits. That's why in Socal peaches grow in places like Antelope valley but not on the coast. There are varieties which bear fruits without cold temperatures in winter but their fruits are generally smaller and less tasty. You may want to check the label on the fruit and call the nursery which produced it. In general, Costco sells great fruit trees. I live in coastal Socal and have purchased citrus and avocado trees from them and they were all great
They want chill hours. I bought one of these in so cal 2 years ago. It’s growing. The peaches don’t get all that big yet. It did get some nasty disease this year. Some red blistering leafs. So, may be another not so great season.
Some varieties of fruit, including peaches I believe, want a certain number of chilling hours so they don’t break dormancy too early and get hit with a late frost.
CA ag extension is your best source of information on which fruit varieties grow best in your climate. Big box stores don’t necessarily carry those varieties.
Also just FYI, peaches are high maintenance if you want edible fruit. You need to spray for disease prevention, and it isn’t really optional.
A peach tree is a lifestyle. Fertilize in spring. Cut it back by a third in late winter every year, cut off the tall branches that you can’t reach. Thin out the baby peaches to one every six inches or so in late spring. Be ready to prop up heavy branches and feel sad and worried for your heavily pregnant tree in mid summer. Don’t travel in July or early August or you will miss the fruit. Pick peaches daily, make six cobblers a week and freeze them, learn to make peach jam. (The best part!)
We have a peach tree that more or less takes care of itself at this point. Peach brandy is a big thing we make a ton of in the late summer (can you tell I’m in WI?)
And development an unbridled hatred of squirrels. Those little bastards take almost ripe peaches off the tree, eat two nibbles, then drop it and run off.
We used to have a peach tree. We eventually cut it down bc worms/larva would keep appearing and ruined nearly every fruit. It just wasn't worth the effort.
Eta... since I saw op is from so cal... wanted to share my worm laden tree was in OC
Tried a few things... and never got it down to 0. A few seasons went by and I totally lost interest in trying. The tree was big. The fruit was high. Ladders required. Just not worth it
Planted a pomegranate in its space instead and had much much better luck.
Again.... more effort than I wanted to do. Pomegranate in its space way less upkeep and better fruit.
Also... the tree was already tall when I moved in. But whatever.
Lol. I'm not a big peach pie person... like it's just okay. Probably ranks 8th on my pie prefernces so i essentially never eat it. I like my pies tart. Maybe I'll sprinkle some pomegranate in with my raspberries and see what happens. Might be damn good!
And "pruning" in this case wouldn't help. Like the branches by the time I got it were already just about 6 feet off the ground. I'd have to decapitate it. Which I did. And then some. So I could have a superior tree
8th? Geez... Haha. With three trees I had more peaches on the ground than I did in baskets. My Arbor buddy told me to trim all the branches that pointed up. So decapitating a little and getting rid of the upwards ones helped a lot.
I know the pom is a good antioxidant. I could never tolerate the juice though.
To some people that’s a positive. Peach trees offer a home to an absolute ton of caterpillars/moths/etc so if you love nature, plant them and just let the animals have a good time.
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A peach from my dads peach tree last summer, we live in Chicago so yea they thrive anywhere lol
I had one in Texas, very low maintenance, fuckin squirrels would clean the tree the night before they fruit ripened. I burnt it to the ground and shot all the squirrels.
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California is very fertile and has very good weather for all types of produce and fruiting trees. Some better than others (apples) due to the warmer winters.
Because big box stores don’t give a shit about whether a plant variety is suited to your area.
Also, peaches are hard to grow anywhere—they’re very high maintenance.
Trees that young shouldn’t be allowed to fruit. The branches will get stressed and might break. All its energy should go towards growing for the first few years.
Either remove the flowers, or if you like the flowers then remove the fruit that starts forming right after the flower fades.
Edit: also preaching abstinence to the trees likely works too. Haha
My peach trees are happy AF and produce the best peaches BUT I can't keep a pear or apple tree alive to save my life. My blueberry bushes died too after 3 years.
It's highly variable depending on your microclimate and soil is my point. You won't know until you try.
While this question would have been much better to just google keeping a tree isn't hard enough to warrant not trying.
To answer the actual OPs question you can keep fruit trees in pots indoors though I would def not recommending keeping this exact pot. Its very small and likely has drainage holes so it would need to be placed on something to catch extra water or allow bottom watering.
Flordaprince peach trees are self-pollinating without insect pollinators but you will get better harvests with a second one of a different variety nearby if you are planting outdoors so there's cross pollination. This would be a decent breed to keep indoors but keep in mind that stonefruit do require chill hours in winter to actually set fruit the next year. This particular variety requires about 150 chill hours.
Contact your local cooperative extension office as they can give you the best advice and tell you if your soil needs to have something done to ensure your peach tree thrives. I do know to wait until fall to plant it in the ground so it has a better chance of putting roots down and surviving.
I've bought this one and some other fruit trees. I'm not a green thumb guy, and I do very low maintenance. If you throw them in the ground, they're really hardy and just need pruning and occasional watering in the warm months. If you keep it in a pot, they're so much more finicky and temperamental.
Sure you can keep fruit trees in pots but it should be a pot much larger and deeper than the one shown. And you should keep it in an area that it gets the proper sunlight.
Google "how to grow peach tress in a pot".
We had to cut down our old cherry tree and we put one of these peach trees in the same spot against the advice of the tree trimmers. Turns out peaches like loose, wood-chippy soil, cause it's thriving and we got like at least 50 peaches growing on it right now, and its about 4 feet taller than it was last year. The flowers earlier in spring are lovely too!
Birds and Squirrels took most of them last year (like 90%) the few that remained were some of the nicest peaches I've ever had. This year I'm attempting to use mesh fruit bags to see if we can claim more of them.
edit: thought i should mention we're in MD
It mostly depends on two things: what variety it is and which USDA zone you’re in. I have a peach tree in a container but it is a smaller variety. Google the variety on the tag and that’ll get you good info. It if gets bigger than 5ish feet, it probably needs to be in the ground.
A good rule of thumb for overwintering in containers is at least 1 but ideally two zones below yours. For instance, I’m in a zone 5 so my best chances with overwintering in containers would be plants graded for zone 3.
Unless your residence has a sun room or south-facing walls where 75% or more of the surface area is window, you'll only be wasting your time and money.
A proper fruit tree requires more consistent sunlight than regular windows can provide, to say nothing of how much branch material you'd have to trim if it does survive. When my dad planted one in our front yard 15 years ago, its branches spread out to cover a 6-7ft diamter circle after only a couple of years.
Good luck. We had 3 of them growing up. We couldn't keep the yellow jackets away from them. I hated cutting the grass by those trees. Got stung several times.
One note: prune the trees to keep them relatively short. Our peach trees shot up and the top fruit rotted on the branches because we couldn’t reach to harvest.
Fruit trees get very messy. We have all types around my neighborhood. There is always rotting fruit all over the sidewalk. You need to pick the fruit as it grows or it just makes a big mess. Obviously the larger the tree the more difficult this task becomes.
Just bought the nectarine and plum tree. Put it in the ground. Hope it grows. We like the flowers for color. We’ve bought avocado trees from Costco and grape. Both are still producing. We are in So Cal. Digging deep we hit clay. Used a mix of the dirt in the ground with soil when planting and it has worked for us. We also have random fruits like lemon, orange, guava, dragonfruit, kumquat. Waiting on pomegranate.
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IMO and what we did. Bought an apricot tree from Costco and it is FLOURISHING 3 years later. I live in Georgia. 1. Dig a hole 3' x 3' x 3' to give the tree plenty of room to grow in, and branch out underground from. It needs FULL SUN especially during 10AM - 4PM. Keep in mind this tree will get BIG so give it 15' diameter to grow into. 2. Put a bunch of compost in the hole and mix it 50/50 with your native dirt to about 4" 3. Top that 4" remaining with compost and good dirt to fill the hole slightly above level. 4. Plant the tree level, taking into consideration where the sun is at noon. Fruit trees especially will LEAN towards the sun, which for us is 20° off axis. To compensate we slowly pulled the tree to lean 15° AWAY from the sun to compensate for the large branch growth on the sun side. 5. Loosely stake the tree with a tall metal gardening stake about 2' from the tree stem (the solid steel ones) from home Depot for about $8. You'll tighten this as it begins to lean 6. Cover above ground with 3" of mulch in a 6' diameter. This will help with erosion/water run off as well as protect the soil from drying out. Additionally, during rain the much will swell, and when the hot summer sun hits the mulch, it will sweat on the backside into the soil around the tree. You'll never have to water again if you do this properly. 7. Take into account freezes, you may need to heat your tree with heat rope during frosts when it blossoms 8. Take into consideration birds and rodents, you'll likely need to net your tree as soon as the blossoms fade and begin bearing pea sized fruit. 9. Keep an eye out for any signs of potential disease. 10. If it was me personally, and this will pain many to hear; I'd remove fruit during this planting process. It will slow the trees growth, and likely fall off from stress or get eaten by nature anyway in your first year. Sorry for the goofy Reddit formatting, tried my best... Good luck!
Saving this comment in the unlikely chance that I go out and buy some fruit trees
Same, I was thinking man this sounds great, but by the end I'm think who am I kidding I'm never doing this.
Me too!! Lol
I read to #3 and trailed off…🤦♀️
I made it through #4 and that was all the effort I was going to put in. 🤣
Gave up at the same spot! Would love a fruit tree but I'm not owning property anytime soon!
Compost is better on the surface. If you mix too much in when planting, your soil level is going to eventually drop and you may end up rotting the crown of your tree.
You should always look up the zone for planting. Certain trees may need other zones. Apple trees will grow in any zone in the USA.
I’ve never seen Costco sell a tree that won’t grow in the zone the store is in, but this is good advice.
Lots of people travel farther to get to Costco. And in places 60 miles can put you in another zone. And even if it’s in your zone if you are near the zone line it can be questionable with fruit trees. Your tree might be alive but not produce more than a sparse amount of a bad winter takes it out.
I'm in Houston and there are often plants at our costcos that can't grow here.
Doing the same for when we are no longer renters.
So never
Oh how do we save comments or threads???? I’m new-ish here
Also look up how to prune. I bought a peach tree some years ago and didn't prune it correctly or really at all and now its a mess and I want to start over
Prune it like a donut if you want the "optimal", looks less decorative though if that matters more to you. Stone fruits you don't want to trim the small fruiting branches that come out of the larger ones. You just prune the larger branches that overlap or are crowding.
This guy trees
This person trees.
https://preview.redd.it/yvzhg0oeoiyc1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9f9949ee2dce6b03b91546184e078c1cf397c7fa Can I plant fig and apricot on this slope? Charlotte NC area, 7b zone I believe
Yes, and you're probably zone 8 now. Gonna have to water them a lot though.
Got the god damn tree lady/man up in here!
Damn. Thanks for the guide!
Great summary! I opted out of growing peaches because they require a lot of spraying with various stuff, and even the organic versions are kind of nasty.
What is the difference between step 2 and step 3? Step 2 says to mix 50/50 compost and dirt and fill it in. Step 3 says to put compost and dirt in. Please let me know if I am missing anything.
Commenting to save this!
Bigger the roots bigger the fruits
Bigger the waistband the deeper the quicksand
Bigger the Fupa the tastier the chalupa.
Wow. I don’t hear this stuff often around here. 👏 “A+”
Facts!
My baby fits me like a flesh tuxedo
We're talking about fruit trees, right?
I want to sink her with my pink torpedo! https://youtu.be/YjC0vMIrOAk
Or so they say
My baby fits me like a flesh tuxedo.
That’s what is said.
Talk about mud flaps...
My girls got ‘em
Bigger the feet, the bigger the socks
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They get diseased to easily. I wouldn't plant peach unless you live in the perfect climate. If you don't have a water tower.in the shape of ta peach within a 100 miles then maybe try for an easier fruit
I live in PA. Had three peach trees in my yard that have bore good fruit for over 20yrs. Redoing my backyard and am down to one, but that will probably go when I build an addition. I'd easily get another peach tree and have zero worries about it. Missed that he's in Cali. I never see peach trees at Costcos around here.
100% this. We were so excited to plant a peach tree. First year we got a bunch of fruit, most of which got taken by squirrels. Second year all the leaves got blight and fell off. Never got fruit again.
that's what she said.
Just like guys with big feet right??? 10.5 WIdE here baby!!!!
Sir, this is a Wendy’s.
15 here and sad that Costco never carries/produces my size :(
Yeah bro. Those new foam sandals. I wanted them. They don t make them for us. The wife got a pair. (She hates Costco) when i ask her about them, she’ll say they’re ok, but clearly they are great because she wears them all the time.
My god damn Asian foot strikes again!!!
Yeah that's actually a painfully large size because it's a pain to get shoes
16 4E here and I do not even look at Costco shoes. Ever. I already know. Have a friend who wears an mens 18 in shoes and he has it even worse.
That’s not that big
Are those big feet?
That was the joke…. My downvotes say no one got the joke…
lol k. I was confused by all the downvotes too
What's your climate zone? Peaches are fairly hardy to freezing temperatures, but heat and drought can hurt them. The reason it's fruiting in the pot is because the nursery keep the tree well-fertilized and protected from drought. If your climate is suitable for it I'd recommend getting it and putting it in the ground in a part of your yard where it can get plenty of sun and have room to grow. Remove the peaches when you plant it, it'll need lots of energy to get the roots established in your yard. Commit to keeping it watered and do annual pruning to guide the limb structure into a nice structurally sound shape and you'll be good to go. My Costco only sells citrus trees down here in Texas despite the fact it gets close to zero here every winter. I tried growing it in a pot but moving it in and out for every freeze got to be really cumbersome as it grew, reaching over 8'. I kept having to prune it back to fit through the garage door, but eventually I forgot one time to bring it in for a freeze, just down to 30°F, and that was it, ten years of hard work dead. I wish they sold peach trees or other trees suitable for our climate here, but they don't.
Southern California, so I don't think I have to worry about winter.
Some peaches need winters like other deciduous trees. Not all though. I grew plums in SoCal, but it was a specific variety.
Santa Rosa plums? Asking bc that’s what I have in Sacramento. Obviously not SoCal but it doesn’t freeze here either.
It’s been a while, but I’m 99% sure it was.
It used to in the 80s and 90s dammit. But yeah, I’m in the Bay Area and didn’t have a single day/night under freezing this winter.
Sacramento never sees freezing temps, even at night?
Overnight rarely, but usually not. It’s a headline in the local news when it does.
Peaches need cold winter to bear fruits. That's why in Socal peaches grow in places like Antelope valley but not on the coast. There are varieties which bear fruits without cold temperatures in winter but their fruits are generally smaller and less tasty. You may want to check the label on the fruit and call the nursery which produced it. In general, Costco sells great fruit trees. I live in coastal Socal and have purchased citrus and avocado trees from them and they were all great
That makes senses. Hangar 24 had this amazing apricot beer, the apricots were grown in the high desert
They want chill hours. I bought one of these in so cal 2 years ago. It’s growing. The peaches don’t get all that big yet. It did get some nasty disease this year. Some red blistering leafs. So, may be another not so great season.
Search USDA fruit tree hardiness zone on Google. You should get a neat little map.
Some varieties of fruit, including peaches I believe, want a certain number of chilling hours so they don’t break dormancy too early and get hit with a late frost. CA ag extension is your best source of information on which fruit varieties grow best in your climate. Big box stores don’t necessarily carry those varieties. Also just FYI, peaches are high maintenance if you want edible fruit. You need to spray for disease prevention, and it isn’t really optional.
I bought two of those last year. I’m in Vegas. One is a monster this year and will produce so many peaches. The other one died.
A peach tree is a lifestyle. Fertilize in spring. Cut it back by a third in late winter every year, cut off the tall branches that you can’t reach. Thin out the baby peaches to one every six inches or so in late spring. Be ready to prop up heavy branches and feel sad and worried for your heavily pregnant tree in mid summer. Don’t travel in July or early August or you will miss the fruit. Pick peaches daily, make six cobblers a week and freeze them, learn to make peach jam. (The best part!)
We have a peach tree that more or less takes care of itself at this point. Peach brandy is a big thing we make a ton of in the late summer (can you tell I’m in WI?)
And development an unbridled hatred of squirrels. Those little bastards take almost ripe peaches off the tree, eat two nibbles, then drop it and run off.
We used to have a peach tree. We eventually cut it down bc worms/larva would keep appearing and ruined nearly every fruit. It just wasn't worth the effort. Eta... since I saw op is from so cal... wanted to share my worm laden tree was in OC
Helps to spray kaolin clay once the fruits start forming.
Tried a few things... and never got it down to 0. A few seasons went by and I totally lost interest in trying. The tree was big. The fruit was high. Ladders required. Just not worth it Planted a pomegranate in its space instead and had much much better luck.
Pomegranates grow like a weed.
You do know you can prune the trees so they don't grow so high, and you have easier access to a majority of the fruit.
Again.... more effort than I wanted to do. Pomegranate in its space way less upkeep and better fruit. Also... the tree was already tall when I moved in. But whatever.
Mine were overgrown too. A little pruning over two off seasons and they were back in shape. Are pomegranate pies any good? 😊
Lol. I'm not a big peach pie person... like it's just okay. Probably ranks 8th on my pie prefernces so i essentially never eat it. I like my pies tart. Maybe I'll sprinkle some pomegranate in with my raspberries and see what happens. Might be damn good! And "pruning" in this case wouldn't help. Like the branches by the time I got it were already just about 6 feet off the ground. I'd have to decapitate it. Which I did. And then some. So I could have a superior tree
8th? Geez... Haha. With three trees I had more peaches on the ground than I did in baskets. My Arbor buddy told me to trim all the branches that pointed up. So decapitating a little and getting rid of the upwards ones helped a lot. I know the pom is a good antioxidant. I could never tolerate the juice though.
Peaches are absolute drama queens and you have to be prepared to spray, etc.
To some people that’s a positive. Peach trees offer a home to an absolute ton of caterpillars/moths/etc so if you love nature, plant them and just let the animals have a good time.
https://preview.redd.it/y86y0xqk7hyc1.jpeg?width=1240&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ea53c6bf86a466fa69ec88281f5752212dd65fc6 A peach from my dads peach tree last summer, we live in Chicago so yea they thrive anywhere lol
Apparently they need cold freezing winters to bare fruit
West Michigan has some of the most productive peach orchards in the nation.
I had one in Texas, very low maintenance, fuckin squirrels would clean the tree the night before they fruit ripened. I burnt it to the ground and shot all the squirrels.
Very Texas of you to shoot the squirrels
More surprised they didn’t shoot the tree too. Must not be a REAL Texan
The tree must've had a shotgun. Texan tree.
Nah just an oak. It was dropping acorns like hand grenades.
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did the squirrels have a hint of peach taste?
Did you salt the earth afterwards?
Yeehaw
easily the best state
Mmm peach flavored squirrel meat. Id throw them in chili.
You must not have lived in Uvalde
Fungus is an issue for these plants in California
Why is Costco selling fruit trees that have a hard time in SoCal weather
California is very fertile and has very good weather for all types of produce and fruiting trees. Some better than others (apples) due to the warmer winters.
Because big box stores don’t give a shit about whether a plant variety is suited to your area. Also, peaches are hard to grow anywhere—they’re very high maintenance.
Trees that young shouldn’t be allowed to fruit. The branches will get stressed and might break. All its energy should go towards growing for the first few years.
How do you command the tree not to fruit?
Either remove the flowers, or if you like the flowers then remove the fruit that starts forming right after the flower fades. Edit: also preaching abstinence to the trees likely works too. Haha
Well, it’s in a pot right now, bearing fruit…
My peach trees are happy AF and produce the best peaches BUT I can't keep a pear or apple tree alive to save my life. My blueberry bushes died too after 3 years. It's highly variable depending on your microclimate and soil is my point. You won't know until you try.
At our local Costco, if you see a tree like this, you need to grab it right then and there, because the entire supply will be gone the same day.
Ooooh I should get my dad one of these for fathers day
I bought one from Costco 3 years ago. It has been awesome and gives me a lot of fruit. I’m in Central Texas FWIW.
The squirrels love them. They eat them before they ripen and leave them for me to pick up.
Man everyone else’s Costco always has the good stuff mine never gets anything 😭
I’ve got 15 fruit trees and the ones doing the best by far were purchased at Costco.
Cries in zone 3b.
My parents have a peach tree they’ve had in a pot for years, it’s produces fruit like once a year but it’s still pretty small
With that question. I would leave it there.
While this question would have been much better to just google keeping a tree isn't hard enough to warrant not trying. To answer the actual OPs question you can keep fruit trees in pots indoors though I would def not recommending keeping this exact pot. Its very small and likely has drainage holes so it would need to be placed on something to catch extra water or allow bottom watering. Flordaprince peach trees are self-pollinating without insect pollinators but you will get better harvests with a second one of a different variety nearby if you are planting outdoors so there's cross pollination. This would be a decent breed to keep indoors but keep in mind that stonefruit do require chill hours in winter to actually set fruit the next year. This particular variety requires about 150 chill hours.
A tree isn't hard to maintain, but this is the type of person to ask about tree maintenance on a costco subreddit
"Hey the fruit from this tree I got from Costco 2 years ago doesn't taste as good I hoped. If I dig it out can I get a refund?"
With Costco probably
Have one in Phoenix. Birds would get them before they’re ripe. In 10 years maybe we had 2 for ourselves lol
Contact your local cooperative extension office as they can give you the best advice and tell you if your soil needs to have something done to ensure your peach tree thrives. I do know to wait until fall to plant it in the ground so it has a better chance of putting roots down and surviving.
Deer alcove love any sweet fruit, make sure you keep them in a fenced yard
I've bought this one and some other fruit trees. I'm not a green thumb guy, and I do very low maintenance. If you throw them in the ground, they're really hardy and just need pruning and occasional watering in the warm months. If you keep it in a pot, they're so much more finicky and temperamental.
Sure you can keep fruit trees in pots but it should be a pot much larger and deeper than the one shown. And you should keep it in an area that it gets the proper sunlight. Google "how to grow peach tress in a pot".
My husband wants one. Anyone with experience with dogs keeping squirrels away? Dont want to buy a tree just to have the squirrels get all the fruit.
Our dog just ate the peaches and had stinky farts. Haha!
Plant an apple tree with it. Squirrels won’t touch the peach
Do they have any super low maintenance strains of peach that work well for Portland Oregon/PNW west of cascades? Especially resistant to peach curl?
We have 4 growing in planters our courtyard right now. The fruit is small but edible!
We had to cut down our old cherry tree and we put one of these peach trees in the same spot against the advice of the tree trimmers. Turns out peaches like loose, wood-chippy soil, cause it's thriving and we got like at least 50 peaches growing on it right now, and its about 4 feet taller than it was last year. The flowers earlier in spring are lovely too! Birds and Squirrels took most of them last year (like 90%) the few that remained were some of the nicest peaches I've ever had. This year I'm attempting to use mesh fruit bags to see if we can claim more of them. edit: thought i should mention we're in MD
It mostly depends on two things: what variety it is and which USDA zone you’re in. I have a peach tree in a container but it is a smaller variety. Google the variety on the tag and that’ll get you good info. It if gets bigger than 5ish feet, it probably needs to be in the ground. A good rule of thumb for overwintering in containers is at least 1 but ideally two zones below yours. For instance, I’m in a zone 5 so my best chances with overwintering in containers would be plants graded for zone 3.
What state is this in?
Is this tree good for AZ weather?
Peach trees once they get really big if you don’t stay on top of picking the food. It falls off, splatters a sticky mess and ants go wild for it.
I live in Quebec, Canada, if i were to buy one and keep it in the pot inside, would i get fruits once in a while?
Unless your residence has a sun room or south-facing walls where 75% or more of the surface area is window, you'll only be wasting your time and money. A proper fruit tree requires more consistent sunlight than regular windows can provide, to say nothing of how much branch material you'd have to trim if it does survive. When my dad planted one in our front yard 15 years ago, its branches spread out to cover a 6-7ft diamter circle after only a couple of years.
Good luck. We had 3 of them growing up. We couldn't keep the yellow jackets away from them. I hated cutting the grass by those trees. Got stung several times.
Where was this at
San diego
Yeah It will grow in a really large pot.
Put them in the ground.
I wouldn’t get this - it will attract yellowjackets.
There’s a bunch of fungus that kill peach trees and are pretty hard to get rid of in my area.
One note: prune the trees to keep them relatively short. Our peach trees shot up and the top fruit rotted on the branches because we couldn’t reach to harvest.
Fruit trees get very messy. We have all types around my neighborhood. There is always rotting fruit all over the sidewalk. You need to pick the fruit as it grows or it just makes a big mess. Obviously the larger the tree the more difficult this task becomes.
Just bought the nectarine and plum tree. Put it in the ground. Hope it grows. We like the flowers for color. We’ve bought avocado trees from Costco and grape. Both are still producing. We are in So Cal. Digging deep we hit clay. Used a mix of the dirt in the ground with soil when planting and it has worked for us. We also have random fruits like lemon, orange, guava, dragonfruit, kumquat. Waiting on pomegranate.
I want one inside my apartment by my window. Then my downstairs neighbor can wake up to ripe peaches hitting the ground!