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| Double and triple peaches |
Q. I have small peach fruits now on my newly planted peach tree and some of the fruit are like Siamese twins; there are double fruits coming from the same spot. In some cases there are three fruits.
A. Double peaches are thought to be from drought stress at the time of flower bud formation which would have been from last July or August (2011).
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| Double peach mature |
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| Double apple |
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| Double fig |
I usually remove one of the “doubles” so that, when possible, only one fruit remains. You have to do this when the fruit are young and small and they can still recover. The remaining fruit will heal if the damage is not severe. If the double fruit cannot be split apart then remove the entire fruit.
At this stage of your tree’s life I would probably leave only a handful of fruit on the tree depending on its size. I would estimate that about 50 leaves are needed to support one fruit. I am not asking you to count the leaves but just estimate it when determining how much fruit to leave on a branch.
Hi,
Is there any artificial way such as by using chemicals or any other methods to produce double/tipple (fused) fruits? Elaeocarpus ganitrus (Rudraksha) having such shape has highly demand i mean it is so expensive in my country (Nepal) so if you have any idea to produce such shapes and bigger fruit size could you suggest me?
I dont know of any way to do that using chemicals. Some varieties of fruit it is more common than in others. I think it is by selection of trees that produce these types of fruit more often. I dont know this fruit. Maybe it is possible but I dont know how.
Anyway, thank you so much for your suggestion.