How to Grow Yellow Peaches: Planting Methods and Precautions Explained
Yellow peaches are, I believe, very familiar to everyone. They are a fruit we commonly eat, with a crisp and sweet taste and rich nutrition, deeply loved and sought after by food lovers, standing out among the many peach varieties to become one of the best-selling varieties. In fact, growing yellow peaches also has its particular requirements, so how exactly should yellow peaches be planted and managed?
How to Grow Yellow Peaches
For a yellow peach nursery, it is best to choose a sandy loam plot with convenient drainage and irrigation and loose, fertile soil, and never plant on land that has previously grown peaches. For the peach seeds, use wild peach or small mountain peach collected in the same year. Planting can be divided into autumn sowing and spring sowing. For autumn sowing, sow before the soil freezes; soak the sun-dried peach seeds in clean water for 48 hours and then sow directly. For spring sowing, the seeds should undergo sand storage treatment before the soil freezes, and can only be sown after dormancy is broken. Sand storage method: soak the peach pits in cold water for 48 hours, take clean river sand and mix it with water until it is moist; the right consistency is when it forms a ball in the hand and breaks apart as soon as it is touched when released. Mix 1 part seeds with 3 parts wet sand, dig a trench in the open ground in a shaded place, with a trench depth of 60-70 cm, and the length and width depending on the amount of seeds. First spread a 10 cm thick layer of wet sand on the bottom of the trench, then place the seeds mixed with sand on top, piling until 10 cm below the ground surface, then spread a 10 cm thick layer of wet sand on top, and finally cover with 15 cm of soil. Sow in late March, with two rows per ridge, sowing about 30,000 seeds per mu, and strengthen fertilizer and water management in between to promote plant growth.
Yellow Peach Planting Methods and Precautions
1. Planting time
It should be arranged for late winter and early spring, and it is best to finish planting before the end of February.
2. Planting spacing
Adopt a high-density planting method for high and stable yields, that is, on flat land a plant spacing of 3 m × 4 m or 2 m × 5 m, planting 55-66 trees per 667 sq m; on hillside land a plant spacing of 3 m × 3 m, planting 77-83 trees per 667 sq m.
3. Seedling selection
Use grafted seedlings, with wild peach commonly used as the rootstock. The standard for a robust grafted seedling is a seedling height of 80 cm, a thickness of more than 0.7 cm, a well-developed root system, and no pests, diseases or major mechanical damage on the root crown and leaf buds.
4. Seedling planting
The length, width and depth of the planting pit must all be more than 80 cm, and the topsoil and subsoil should be placed separately on the two sides of the planting pit. When backfilling later, use the subsoil first. Before planting, apply base fertilizer first, with 20-30 kg of decomposed organic fertilizer and 0.5 kg of phosphate fertilizer applied into each planting pit. Before fertilizing, mix the excavated subsoil evenly with the fertilizer, then backfill it to the bottom of the planting pit.
Precautions: When planting, place the peach seedling in the middle of the planting pit and hold the peach seedling upright. After filling in part of the topsoil, gently lift the seedling upward so that the root system of the peach seedling spreads out. After all the soil has been backfilled, water thoroughly in the tree basin. Check the survival of the peach seedlings after 15 days, and promptly replace dead plants.
What to Know When Buying Yellow Peach Saplings
When planting yellow peach saplings, choose robust seedlings with a well-healed graft union and a diameter of more than 0.5 cm, requiring a well-developed root system, uniform and complete main and lateral roots, no mechanical injury, no root nodules and no flood damage. As far as possible, buy yellow peach saplings from the main production area of the yellow peach variety being planted, because only with large areas of fruiting mature trees can the use of high-quality yellow peach scions be guaranteed, thereby ensuring the purity of the yellow peach saplings. Many nursery bases only grow seedlings, and there are no fruiting peach trees locally; the scions have to be purchased from yellow peach bases elsewhere, so the purity of the peach saplings simply cannot be guaranteed.
In addition, if the scions of peach saplings use node buds from peach trees that have been grafted and propagated multiple times, the quality will decline, so try to choose first-generation grafted yellow peach nursery stock and avoid using peach saplings that have been grafted for multiple generations. Do not blindly believe in novel varieties advertised in some promotions. Some seedling traders introduce a variety from elsewhere, then casually give it a name and maliciously hype it as a new variety, misleading growers. This issue must be taken seriously, and as far as possible plant seedlings of varieties with stable traits identified by authoritative agricultural science departments.
Which Month Yellow Peaches Can Be Planted
What we call planting here generally refers to the “field planting” of yellow peach saplings. The field planting time for yellow peaches should be arranged for late winter and early spring, and it is best to finish planting before the end of February.
It is best to choose grafted seedlings, with wild peach commonly used as the rootstock. The standard for a robust grafted seedling is a seedling height of 80 cm, a thickness of more than 0.7 cm, a well-developed root system, and no pests, diseases or major mechanical damage on the root crown and leaf buds.
The length, width and depth of the planting pit must all be more than 80 cm, and the topsoil and subsoil should be placed separately on the two sides of the planting pit. When backfilling later, use the subsoil first. Before planting, apply base fertilizer first, with 20-30 kg of decomposed organic fertilizer and 0.5 kg of phosphate fertilizer applied into each planting pit. Before fertilizing, mix the excavated subsoil evenly with the fertilizer, then backfill it to the bottom of the planting pit.
From the above content, I believe everyone has gained some understanding of the planting methods for yellow peaches. As is well known, yellow peaches are delicious and extremely high in nutritional value, and there are also relatively many ways to eat them. Seen in this light, growing yellow peaches is also one of the relatively promising planting projects!