I only have houseplants to prune, but I read somewhere that you can use Elmer's Glue on the freshly cut branches to help scarring. Is that true? If so, maybe that will help? I did it often on my Jasmine (indoor housplant), and once last summer on one of my outdoor veggie plants and it didn't seem to harm it at all.
Could be,,won`t hurt anything but fruit trees are not treated with anything after pruning. They will heal fine in cold weather.
http://www.clemson.edu/extension/hgic/p ... c2209.html Read peach tree short life and see if it sounds like yours.
I don't know Mart. I mean it did die back like it said. I guess I could check to see if it has that odor. And we did have a crazy winter. Sounds like I didn't do enough prep work before planting it getting the ph level right. Last year it did get some kind of mildew or fungus on the trunk and the branches. But it doesn't appear to have affected the lower third. I did trim out all the dead branches, and I'm tempted to cut off the one long branch sticking up that's barely alive. I mean... it's not going to do anything this year, so I might as well get rid of it, right? Also, my plan for when I get home this evening is to mix up another batch of that fungicide and give it a good spraying. I wanted to do it this past weekend, but it was cold and raining. Hopefully it will survive, but if not... oh well... I know I tried.
I think I would leave it alone till regular time to prune. This damp and soon to be warm weather would open it up to more problems if its a fungus. My peach trees started some leaf curl due to the cold and rain. They will be fine as soon as the weather warms a bit. But this weather is causing a lot of odd things.
I was so tempted to lop it off this evening, but couldn't bring myself to do it. I did give it a good spraying.
That's all I am doing too. Just wait till fall. You are lucky that the lower part has peaches and it will grow. Could have been below the graft then you have to plant a new tree.
