Bought this today from Costco. Love the scaffolding of this particular one. Girth is measured against the scion and not the root stock which is very thick.

Metrics:

• Height (inches only): 1'5"
• Girth (inches only): 1.8"

First image is of the scraggly Moringa that I removed before planting this today. Double looped the existing emitter ring of 6 x 0.5 GPH emitters every 12 inches for a total output of 3 GPH.

Spread Fertizona Furst Class 15-15-15 around the trees today. Used a handful for small trees and up to six handfuls for the larger trees. In total used 100 lbs.

A splash (about 0.5 fluid ounces) of Southern Ag Chelated Liquid Iron in 5 gallons of water and poured at base.

Very crowded out by the marigolds planted at the base. While the marigolds will rob the tree of water when there are low water conditions I don't believe that's the case and I think that the shade that they'll provide will greatly benefit this tree.

The marigolds around this are providing a ton of shade.

Leaves just starting to drop.

Metrics:

• Leaf Shed Start: ✔

Spread Fertizona Furst Class 15-15-15 around all the trees today. Used a total used 200 lbs of which about 25 lbs went on the grass.

Used 20 gallon Chapin lawn sprayer to spray Southern Ag Chelated iron on these trees. I did not dilute the solution for these trees.

Sprinkled 15ml (cap) of Vigoro's Azalea, Camellia & Rhododendron Food (10-8-8) on the trees tagged in this note.

First blossom.

Metrics:

• First Blossom: ✔

Looking really good. I'm going to need to work out how to protect that fruit.

Sprayed with Polymer AG Anti-Stress 550. Made 4 gallons at a 2.5% dilution ratio and used the backpack sprayer. That amount perfectly covered the trees listed in this note. I was using a fairly course spray and I'm wondering if this product would perform better with a fine spray setting.

A lot of peaches but the birds are loving them. Enough left though so I'm okay not covering this for now. Also they are fairly well hidden and the Longbeach Peach next to it is acting as a decoy tree.

Harvested all of the peaches. They're probably still 1 to 3 weeks away from being ripe but I'll let them ripen on the shelf to protect them from the birds. Of the 47 harvested 17 of them had bird damage and the other 30 were good. They are a lot smaller than I was expecting.

Metrics:

• Harvest Count: 47
• Harvest Weight (lbs only): 2 lbs 7.5 oz
• Harvest Start: ✔
• Harvest End: ✔
• Average Weight: 0.8 oz

It's struggling with the extreme heat but still alive. Shade cloth added today with an airflow window under it.

Removed the shade cloth today. It survived the summer remarkably well.

Showy flowers

Fruit is starting to get some color.