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Posted: May/31/2009 1:51 PM PST
I have a peach/necterine tree, a cherry tree, and grapes. Last year the fruit was very small and had little or no taste. I had a huge crop of fruit. I'm not sure if I water to much or to little. I live in northern california and it can get very hot in the late spring and early summer when the fruit is just starting. Got any ideas? |
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Posted: Jun/01/2009 3:19 AM PST
We had a grape vine and it took an enormous about of water a week. It seems like it was supposed to be 5 inches, but I could be wrong about that. Anyway, after 3 years of drought in a row, Hubby dug them up. We couldn't keep them watered as they should have been. I'm assuming that fruits need a lot of water since they are made up mostly of water. |
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Posted: Jun/02/2009 11:18 AM PST
I don't know much about grapes, but do you know what kind of grapes they are? I ask because maybe you have wine grapes. Wine grapes don't taste good when eaten out of hand. Here is some info I found from Ohio state university: http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/1000/1423.html As for watering... all fruit trees are different. Most fruit trees that grow in my area do need lots of water because we are in a sub tropical zone. However, there are exceptions. I assume that fruit trees up north need less water since there is less annual rainfall and they survived originally somehow. Just a guess though... |
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Posted: Jun/07/2009 10:33 PM PST
When we first bought our trees (in pot) we watered twice a day. After we planted them in ground we watered with a hose once a day, sometimes twice a day. Once the sprinklers were in (we added mushroom head on the sprinklers)...we watered once a day for 5 minutes everyday for a couple weeks. Then we cut back to 3 times a week 5 minutes a day. Before I left on my trip (a month ago) I cut back to 5 minutes once a week. Now that the weather is warmer It's once a week 10 minutes a day. So far we have had no problems. The spinkler system for three of our trees( Nectarine, Plum, Cherry) is not working automatically. There has been times I did not water for two weeks in a row. They still did okay and now are producing fruit just like the others (same trees as above). I read (you should do the research also for your area and your trees don't just go out and do what we do  ) fruit trees need water once a week. A good soaking though for the roots otherwise the roots will be weak. Hose is best but "mushroom heads" are also great if you rather not use a hose.Stay away from traditional sprinkler heads!!!!! Ugh I hate those things. They waste a lot of water. Everything but the tree roots gets watered with them.  We haven't mulched our trees yet but we will soon. This should also help out with water evaporation and weeds. Hope i make sense. If I remember anything else I'll add to this.  
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