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Posted by sara7worthington 5 (My Page) on
Tue, May 28, 13 at 23:49

Hi i bought this peach tree at walmart last summer. this tree has been giving me nothing but problems. first there was the slugs and borers. i get that taken care of. now it is doing it again. leaking sap and the bark seems to be splitting up the trunk in places. we have had a lot of rain in the last two weeks. i have three other peaches and a nectarine and those trees are fine. the tree was labeled o henry peach so i googled this type of tree and the websites all say this tree grows in zone 7 - 8. could this be part of the problems i am having. Is there any chance this tree will live or should i dig it out and replace it. The tree really shot up this year. almost a foot of new growth this year. but i've had to trim out halve of the branches because of the gooy oozing stuff. the sevin and slug bait seemed to work for awhile but then it just started to get worse.

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If you have sap oozing from the limbs, then you have tip borers, and you need to deal with them. Is the tree planted in a low spot that receives poor drainage ? If so, and you're receiving a lot of rain, I'd move the tree, but I'd wait until it goes dormant. You might also have purchased the wrong tree for your area.
Sevin is not the proper insecticide for borers. Tiazicide or a borer miner killer is what you should be using.

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Thanks. The ooze isnt in the tips but along the main branches. What i want to know is this tree worth saving because i dont know if this tree will make it through a cold michigan winter. i am in zone five and this tree says zone seven to zone eight. This winter wasnt that cold. We didnt have that many below freezing temps. the tree was mulched like the rest of my trees. By the way the ground has really good drainage. Also could the rain be doing it. It has been raining alot the last two weeks. This didnt start until last week. None of the other trees are being bothered with this. Thanks again for any light you can shed on this

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  • Posted by olpea zone 6 KS (My Page) on
    Wed, May 29, 13 at 16:41

I wouldn't give a lot of credence to the zone 7&8 information you read on O'henry. It's possible you've got some winter damage on the tree, but if that's the case other peach varieities probably would have suffered the same.

The O'henry in my backyard survived the winter before last just fine. That winter was the coldest here for a long time (minus 8F). I know it gets colder in MI, but your O'henry should survive to at least minus 15F (although temps that cold may kill all the fruit buds).

The main thing is the tree needs to be in a well drained spot. Too much water on the roots is death to a peach tree.

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Thanks again. The tree is a well drained spot. I will try the other borer pesticide. Do moth balls work around the base of the tree? What works best for borer? I try it this weekend unless you have a better solution.

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If the ooze is coming from the branches, then you have tip borers. Moth balls will not control tip borers. Get the Triazixide.
It will kill all borers. If the tree is in a well drained spot, there's nothing you can do about the rain. Please send it my way, because I haven't had any in 3 weeks.

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The borer damage is at root level as well. Dug up and killed a few of the eggs. Plus there is damage from the stinking slugs as well. I put slug bait around the base of the tree. but wet weather brings out more of the nasty things. they can range from a half inch to two inches long. they invade our basement as well and the bait works as long as the rain doesnt melt it all away. so will moth balls help the borers around the roots. sorry about the tirade about slugs. hate those things.

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If you have borers in the branches and at root level, then you have both peach tree borers and tip borers. You need to get the borers out of the tree by probing for them with a wire coat hanger or thin screw driver. Then drench the limbs and the trunk and roots and the ground with triazicide. Forget the mothballls. You're way past that stage. If you find more orange gel, then you haven't gotten rid all of the borers, and you must probe some more.

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Thanks i do it this weekend. Do i use the would sealant on the bigger wounds or just leave as it when i coat with the triazicide?

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Thanks i do it this weekend. Do i use the would sealant on the bigger wounds or just leave as it when i coat with the triazicide?

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If you expose the cambrium, seal it with Spectricide pruning sealer, after you spray Triazicide.

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Thank you for helping me out again.

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Mail order a new peach tree (not from WalMart). You can try and keep this one, but I would start a new one, too.

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Thanks. Was thinking of ordering something else because i already have five peach trees but i think this tree is finally starting to heal . No sap or goo oozing for several days and with all the rain it has put out six inches of new growth. But i am keeping a close watch on it.

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