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[–] 6 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Agreed also, peach trees only produce viable fruit for like 8 years or something. Are one of the most pia crops to grow. And once new ones are planted, they will be producing crop in 2-4 years. This isn't as tragic as these people are making it out to be. If the price to grow the peach and harvest the peach is 100$ per ton to break even. but because there is to many peaches on market and you can only sell for $80 a ton, how the fuck is the farmer going to sustain the farm? Pay for the ungodly amount of pesticide that peaches need, and stupid amounts of water for next year. You gota make the cut sometimes to protect next year's crop.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago* (6 children)

    were we lucky? ours were viable more like 15 and then the tree split in half. we had so many on that one damn tree we just gave them away.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Yeah typically backyard trees can infact produce for much longer, I don't know why. At one point I was interested in having a peach orchard... then I looked into it. Quickly changed my mind.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    i just want to get me a tree's worth of peach wood for smoking but the local orchard is not selling

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    @HugeNerd@lemmy.ca this ⬆ is how random people can keep 420000 peach trees going.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago*

    yeah. ours probably would've kept producing had she not split in half. we brought our arborist neighbor (best kind of neighbor to have) over and he wept with us because our tree was his tree's pollenation buddy. spouse if you will.

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