Is it true that if you plant a male and female peach tree next to each other the fruit will be larger.?
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Peach trees are self-pollinating. Which means that the male and female parts of the flower exist on the same tree. You need only one tree to have peaches.
But assuming the tree were one that needed cross-pollination - that is, pollin from a different variety to fertilize the flowers, as with some pears, some plums, and most apples.even though it's not a matter of "male" and "female", but merely "different pollen"...
...what you get when you plant them closer together is MORE flowers pollinated. A greater chance that all flowers will be fertilzed, and become fruit.
However, for larger fruit, you actually want to thin out the fruit. A tree that is trying to grow 500 fruits will not be able to grow them as large as a tree putting all its energy into developing a mere 150 fruits.
Also, rainfall and soil fertility will have a lot to do with the size of the fruits - not the pollen that fertilzed them.
Peach trees must be planted in at least pairs. They have to pollunate each other. One alone will not produce any fruit.
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