• Mpatch@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    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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      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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        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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            Huh, is peach good for smoking? Little did I know. New to the smoking thing. Also it could be to prevent the spread of diseases. Peaches have all of them and are stupidly susceptible to them.

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          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.