Growing peach

Trimming from Morozov
After the molding trimming of peaches (it is done immediately after flowering, and at the same time the frozen, weak twigs are removed, the extravagance is removed) in June, I also spent the restraining growth of pruning. It is needed in order for the height of the peach "bush" (it is the bush, and not a tree) was not above the elongated hand. Otherwise, there will be difficulties with the shelter in the spring, when flowering peach suits with returnable frosts. But at this time it is only worth covering the bushes by any film, spunbond, Loutrasil for 1-4 nights, and the crop will be saved. . After this restraining trimming of the sprigs (and, I shorten them from 1/3 to 3/4 of the length) begin to grow and flower kidneys are laid on the growths of this year. It happens about 1-2 months later than the bush lays flower kidneys on the already growing branches. What does it give? Usually, when frost -22 ° ... -23 ° C, peach floral kidneys are frozen and fall off. But the kidneys, "laid" on young branches, withstand freezing in -25 ° ... -26 ° C and even -27 ° C. The reason, apparently, is that the old kidneys have already been at rest (slept); And the young people just graduated from the growing season and turned out to be more vitality.
In general, by no matter how reasons it did not happen, but the opportunity to get a crop increases even without winter shelter of peach bushes. Personally, I already have no peaches at all at all. In the winter of 2005-2006, when the temperature in Belgorodchin was lowered to -44 ° C and we have extinct 15-40-year-old apple and pears, out of 9 peach trees, not at all covered, one oldest one (he was more than 20 years old) and Only one young one. True, the fruits on the surviving trees in the season after this winter was not. But after all, we and potatoes are not born every year.
By the way, the same thing happens on the June pruning of apricots - young kidneys do not freeze. After all, apricots are close relatives of peaches.

About varieties
I have weighing in 70-80 g possesses only one grade - the Kiev Early, and then I left him only because he is very early, sleeping behind the strawberry. Greensboro varieties, rahe-veins, sunshine, Donetsk yellow-class, Donetsk Bid has a weight of 130-150 g, separately reach 170 g. Last 2009, the largest peach weighed 216 g, and all the fruits were larger than usual. This happened because in 2008 I made overloaded bushes. Therefore, in 2009, the bushes laid a smaller kidney, mostly on the promotion of new shoots, but the fruits were large. This shows what the formation of a crop means for peach.
These peaches, I think, only one disadvantage - they are very tender and non-transportable. But this is already quite old varieties. But for the forest-steppe zone of Ukraine (and therefore, they will be able to grow and with us, for example, in the Belgorod region) with such newheaic varieties as Dniprovsky, oxalite, friendship, as well as jetty (they are more transportable) Slavutych, lovers, memory Grishko, The average weight of which is 150-180. There is another copy of the fruits in my collection in my collection in 60-80, but it is nectarine, rubyne-8. Nectarine - Peach without omission. I grow it because of very good taste, and because he is the latest in my collection, and this allows you to extend the time of consumption of fresh peaches.
Another advice, how to extend this period. No need to wait for the fruits from the tree, there are no such fruits, but carefully remove the slightly greenish and put in the boxes in 1 -2 layer on the lower shelf of the refrigerator. This will allow there fresh fruits for 2-3 weeks longer.

Bone or sapluette
Some are trying to grow peach from the bones. It should be noted that the most fully, although not 100 percent, is transmitted to the quality of the maternal plant to seedlings, only if the bones for their cultivation are collected from a tree growing on their own roots. Saplings, obtained from bones with graft trees, behave somewhat differently, and changes occur far from at the better. And in fruiting the tree from the bone joins the 4th - 8th year, and the graft sapling is for the 2nd year. Therefore, I advise those who want to grow peaches, it is still with landing seedlings, zoned to your conditions, or at least from places with similar to your climate, already proven varieties.