Did you fertilize your peach tree with high-nitrogen fertilizer?
Was the winter unusually cold or were there any sudden frosts at the end of winter?
Was the winter unusually warm?
Is your peach tree younger than three years old?
Was the previous years' yield abundant?
Fertilization with high-nitrogen fertilizers encourages a peach tree to focus its attention on producing new shoots and leaves at the expense of fruit. If a peach tree is growing well and the foliage and new shoots look healthy, it may not need any fertilizer. The addition of phosphorus can help offset this problem.
Peach trees begin forming flower buds for the year’s crop during the previous year. This means that the buds are already formed when winter arrives. Unusually cold winter temperatures or warm winter temperatures followed by a sudden drop can damage the buds so that they will not open, resulting in few or no fruit on peach trees.
Peaches need a period where the air around them is below 50 degrees Fahrenheit. This dormant period is when a lot of inner growth develops inside the budding peaches. If the peach doesn't receive enough chilling hours it can result in deformed fruit or even no fruit at all.
Peach trees need at least three to four years of growth before they begin to produce fruit.
When the year’s yield is very heavy, it takes all of the tree’s energy to support the crop. In this case, the tree doesn’t have the resources to produce flower buds for next year’s crop, resulting in no fruit on peach trees the following year. You can help the tree distribute its resources evenly by thinning the fruit during years of heavy yield.
Some types of pruning can affect how much fruits will the tree develops. Removing an entire branch encourages fruiting while removing a part of a branch, which is called heading back, encourages new growth at the expense of fruit. Not pruning at all, however, can cause the branches in the middle to become overgrown, and shade out the spots below. Prune your tree so the middle part receives as much sunlight as the outer edges.
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/fruits/peach/tree-with-no-peaches.htm
https://homeguides.sfgate.com/peach-tree-not-producing-25300.html
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Hi! I’m Sreten Filipović. I graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Belgrade, with a master's degree in Environmental Protection in Agricultural Systems. I’ve worked as a researcher at Finland's Natural Resources Institute (LUKE) on a project aimed at adapting south-western Finland to drought episodes. I founded a consulting agency in the field of environment and agriculture to help farmers who want to implement the principles of sustainability on their farms. I’m also a founding member of the nonprofit organization Ecogenesis from Belgrade whose main goal is non-formal education on the environment and ecology. In my spare time, I like to write blog posts about sustainability, the environment, animal farming, horticulture, and plant protection. I’ve also published several science-fiction short stories.
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