Hey there. I have this big beautiful peach tree that was growing from seed. It's about eight years old. I don't even know what variety it is. Anyway, I noticed that the tree has been dropping quite a bit of fruit. I know all about June drop and that the tree is thinning itself out naturally, but it seems that there's an excessive amount of little fruits on the ground this year. So much so that I whipped out the wet dry vac to suck them all up off the grass. I usually have to do additional manual thinning, but I'm wondering if that's even going to be necessary this year because of all the drop.
I must say, that the tree was loaded with fruit this year prior to drop - more so than ever. I'm wondering if that's perhaps the reason why the shedding seems awfully high this year. The only other thing I can think of is perhaps the fact that it's been quite rainy and wet the past month. At any rate, it seems like within the past week the tree has been dropping a lot of fruit. I'm talking a couple hundred. The dropped fruits seem healthy so there's no justification for any pests or worms.
Ever since 2015 I've been getting great yields from the tree. Last year was a bit less because of the early freeze that we had an April after early bloom in late March.
Just wondering if any other members that have peach trees are seeing the same thing. There still a lot of peaches on the tree it seems. I was just taken aback by how much I found on the ground already.
Below is a picture of the Peach tree.