any tips on what i should do with this

Hello all Just wondering what the expert members of the forum think i should do with this plant. Is there any chance there will be some fruit ?

 

Bit of an odd question, but is it a peach?

 

Has it had any flowers this spring?

 

Looks a rather like my nectarine, got fruits on after a few years of not blossoming. Do you have a sunny spot to plant it in the ground?

 

no none just a lot of leaves

yes it supposed to be

there really is not enough soil anywhere which is why its in a container and this is the most sunniest spot

 

If it’s not had any flowers then it won’t produce any fruit this year.

 

Peaches flower early, and there would be tiny fruit on the plant if it was going to have any this year.

 

oh ok thats sad i was quite excited and hoping for fruit with all the leaves it had produced. should i just leave the leaves ?

 

Yes, you should leave the leaves, because they are manufacturing food for your tree so it may flower next spring, if you're lucky. However, the two little shoots growing from the base of the plant may be suckers from the roots. You need to remove those so they don't take goodness away from your tree.

The pot looks quite small. Was it sold as a dwarf tree? It could do to be repotted into a larger pot with good soil-based compost, I think, and kept watered and fed throughout the growing season.

 

well when i bought it it said it was a patio plant so i assume its a dwarf type. I have been thinking that the soil level seems to be going down every year but is May the right time to repot it ? it seems to be growing so i was thinking that any repotting is best done in winter time

 

I'd do it now... because it's growing fast, it will be running out of room for its roots, and running out of food and water more quickly, if you leave it in its small pot.

 

To me it looks a bit rampant for a patio plant, the shoots are the length of what you would expect on a normal peach tree.

What is the pot made of, it will be a hammer job if you want to get the rootball out in one piece, I never buy pots that are smaller at the top than they are in the middle or bottom, they might look nice but are impractical IMO.

 

I agree about the pot. That shape is no good for anything except maybe bedding plants that are going to die off after a season, unless you use a "regular pot-shaped" inner plastic pot that fits inside.

 

It was an online purchase and i cut off the suckers/shoots today though one was coming from under the soil. Is there anything that can be applied to the cut bit to stop new growth ?
it was advertised as "Dwarf Patio Mini Prunus Persica Peach Fruit "

 

The only dwarf peach trees I have seen dont look as vigorous as yours, they have shorter growth between leaves.
The "suckers" even look like the same plant, which is unusual and suggests it may not be a grafted tree.
I dont think there is anything you can apply to stop the suckers regrowing.

It actually looks healthy and is growing well, so maybe feed and water well all summer and repot over the winter, a high potash feed, like tomato feed might encourage it to flower next spring.