so my Loring Peach tree has several peaches on it that are getting really
close to being ripe and I'm gonna go through this and pluck off all the ones
that I think are ready to go which is probably gonna be about a third of them
we've got some squirrel problems coming in I've lost three peaches this morning
and as these near even closer and closer we'll start losing them by the dozens
every day there's a lot of good ones on here here's a beautiful one here it
comes off the vine super easy basically there's no green
left it's got a red blush and some spotting which is normal the Loring
peach and it's about the size of most Loring peaches about two and a half
inches in diameter so and it's soft to the touch
I can bruise it pretty easily if I wanted to now they're all not going to
be as good as that one if I just pick off those that'll be good but then I'd
have these other ones that are not quite ready there's a little bit of green
still on that one in that one and I'm gonna leave those on for a couple more
days they're plucking off the ones that are
green so they don't know how good the good ones are so we're close "he" tested
it didn't like it and walked away and left it out there it'll be better for
him tomorrow he'll probably come back and finish that one up tomorrow but
anyway I'm sure there's a cluster right there of ripe ones so we'll keep
plucking away at these and I'll show you what I got
all right guys you've seen a few clips it's been a few days since the last
clips were shot and I'm trying to really push my luck on this peach tree I lost a
couple of peaches to pests looks like they were squirrels a few days ago I
lost four more yesterday I've lost six today the peaches are so close let me
put this camera around and we're gonna just pick as many of the most mostly
ripened or just about ripe peaches as we can and really limit the number of finds
that they can get and if they get a few more after that then they get a few more
but let me flip the camera around and show you this peach tree as you can see
the Peach tree is just still loaded with fruit a lot of them still have green on
them but a lot of them had a lot of dark coloring on them as well and so I'm
gonna pick off all these ones that you can see on here that have pretty good
dark coloring you got to remember with Loring peaches you don't want any green
you want the cream-colored yellows you want the oranges you want the Pink's the
blushes things like that are fine a lot of these have almost all that just
some of them still have a slight tint in some areas I gotta give you an example
from back here the bottom of that one's not in direct sunlight so it's still
getting a little bit of green I think if I take off a lot of the mostly ripe ones
the branches will kind of come up a little bit because the weight will be
reduced and maybe that will help change or alter the Sun positioning on a lot of
these but they're just loaded like here's a good example here one I mean he
got tested but he comes off pretty easily mostly yellow there's just a
light tint of green you know what he'll ripen on the counter in a few days I've
got this makeshift pouch here I'm just gonna start picking them up and record
some of it but I'll show you what I get at the end
here's a couple with a little more green than I'd like one side in the Sun is
really ripe the other side's not as much this one on the right is probably a lot
closer man this one could have used another three or four days but I'm
losing them I just was out here this morning men were lost and all of a
sudden boom four more I pulled off already being chewed at and these guys
are right there definitely getting the best of the best every single time you
see if I can grab a whole bunch more off here for you guys and we'll be back whoo
all right guys we pulled off maybe half and there's a ton more let me show you
the tree still I can't show you them all because they're kind of hidden behind
foliage but let me show you the tree and then we'll show you this monster basket
of peaches we got on this four-and-a-half five year old peach tree
let's take a look look at this they're everywhere
these are all the ones that are either really green on one side are not quite
soft enough so I didn't want to pick them a lot more over there
got a few on this cluster here quite a few more there loads of them up here
even inside down here we got a couple these are the ones behind the ladder I
was talking about they're all pretty green down here you gotta remember with
peach trees the highest peaches on the end branches will ripen first then
everything else that's high will ripen second and as you work your way down it
ripens last the only exception is peaches on the very ends even on the
lower branches and ones that get the most sunlight will ripen first as well I
end up finding a few more damaged peaches here so we've got six that are
damaged they weren't all damaged yesterday because I inspected the tree
but guys look at this basket and I know this lighting is uh is shadowed because
it's not direct sunlight so the the green looks a little more green than it
really is and honestly I've eaten them green door just a little bit less sweet
they're a little bit more tart still very flavorful but and they don't need a
lot of red the key is they don't need red to be ripe not luring peach as long
as there blush-colored they're good we've got
something here that I'm basically blushing pink this one I pulled off cuz
it had some damage it's pretty brain still in my opinion it probably won't
eat well but we'll leave it for a couple days and see what happens I'm gonna
weigh this up madness the aroma is awesome it smells like peaches but I'm
gonna weigh this up and we'll see what we got in peach wait now I've got some
in the house that I pulled off a few days ago
I've eaten probably eight or ten of them and we've lost several more but let's
get this basket weighed up we'll even add the ones from the house that are
ripe to it well there it is guys twenty-three pounds of peaches so far
harvested - the probably ten that we've eaten so call it 24 pounds and we can't
include the ones lost to pests but that's how it goes man it's hot guys but
we got 23 pounds of peaches you saw the outcome that's only probably half maybe
half of what's on that tree and still to come
probably this weekend coming up I'll harvest the rest of them see how many
more we get if not by this weekend then then pretty shortly here now that
there's less peaches on the tree and more surface area of the unripe ones
exposed to the sunlight harvesting and maturing should happen pretty quickly
I'll tell you guys you know what I've tried a lot of things to keep the pests
off the off the peach trees and they'll keep coming they'll keep coming Matt
fact there's a Mockingbird out here right now looking at the peaches but he
just flew away when I came by but I'll tell you let me put the camera around
these pie tins seem to work the best and now that I'm removed a lot of the
ripe fruit they're going to take a bite out of the ones that are the closest and
I was tempted to pull the rest of them off honestly but here's the deal
I've got a pretty good amount of peaches now and if they get some more that's
fine what I don't want to have happen is pull them off and have them go to waste
because they're not quite they'll be too tart if you like eating little sweet
tarts and I don't want to do that some of these probably will be okay if I pull
them off now they'll mature and ripen over the next few days but I want to
leave a handful up there and we'll pull off another batch of them here so
check it out guys another basket as you can see these ones are the ones that
there's a lot of ripened ones a little bit more green the lighting is not good it's
not as green as this as you'll see in the house but a slight tint of green on
some of these I don't mind there's still there's still peaches all over this tree
so we'll keep working on it every day see if we lose any and how many we get
but now I'm gonna wait I'm gonna weigh this up I would imagine it's at least
another 12 pounds but we'll check it I'll get back to you in a minute all
right guys here's the other box of peaches like I said we had 20 almost 25
pounds yesterday and another 14 pounds today plus probably a couple pounds in
loss but either way we're right around 40 pounds and I would suspect that I at
least have into the 10 pounds on the tree so this tree in picked fruit this
year is going to produce 50 pounds of peaches and that's not bad for less than
a five year old peach tree you know I think part of the success I had this
year on this Peach Tree is because of the pruning I did last year I did a lot of
summer pruning last year and then I left it alone didn't do a winter pruning at
all that's why I got a little out of control but I really think the summer
pruning helped get a lot of growth Spurs a lot of fruiting spurs and that's why
we got on a four and a half almost five-year-old peach tree while we got
such a pretty good harvest if you were to add in all the peaches I've lost man
who would've got a big one final thing I want to say is I know my peaches were a
little small and I planned it that way I didn't thin the clusters in the spring
after they set fruits because I knew I'd have some loss to the pests and I
figured I'd rather have two or three times as many at half the size just for
sheer quantity to kind of mitigate my losses anyway everyone just wanted to
give you a harvest of my lowering peach tree you can still see all those peaches
on it back there hopefully you enjoyed this video with me if you did please
give it a thumbs up and as always everyone thanks for watching
the good thing about all these peaches is I get to make one of my favorite
fruit smoothies with yogurt, orange juice, and peaches!
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