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No; an Elberta will pollinate itself. if you want a better fruit set , plant another type of peach tree that blooms the same time as your Elberta. you will get cross pollination and inturn will get more peaches.

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Peaches are generally self-fertile. You will not get fruit for several years after planting, ranging from two to five years depending upon the age of your tree and what rootstock it is growing on. So, if you have two different peach trees you will get a lot more fruit, but you don't need more than one to get the fruit. However, when your tree does fruit you will most likely need to remove a significant portion of it for better fruit. Peaches in particular are notorious for heavy fruit sets. The rule of thumb is one fruit every six to eight inches should be allowed to develop to maturity.

Nearly all fruit trees are technically something like clones of each other. To 'make' a fruit tree for either the retail or commercial market, the growers grow roots to become rootstocks and then graft a 'scion' of the type of tree they wish to sell. The 'scionwood' is what they label the tree as, but the better nurseries will tell you which rootstock it is grafted on as well because it does make a difference for you soil and general location.

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Usually. Many peaches are not self-fertile, that is, their own pollen cannot fertilize them. So your 2 peach trees should be different varieties. There are a few peaches that are self-fertile, but even those peaches will make more fruit if there is another, different varietal of peach nearby.

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no, peach self pollinates

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