We buy most from Stark. I brace the trees as soon as they show any sing of sagging from the increasing weight. We also in a typical year remove about 65-75% of the fruit set. I still lose a tree at about 10-11 years. We plant 2-4 new trees (in peaches) every year. Since my earlier post I've counted how many peach trees we have, at present 11. Of those 5 are from some unknown pits we've planted as an experiment (we grew them but only know one parent). They were planted in the center of a half acre high fence garden (deer fence 7' high) but the soil there is fantastic and they grew too fast and created too much shade, so my wife had me pull them with the excavator, buy reaching over the fence and using a chain, they were then replanted outside the fence and 5 of 7 planted survived and are loaded with peaches this year. They will be thinned this week.
Dave Klish, I recently ordered a 2x6 wood fired evaporator from A&A Sheet Metal which I will be converting to oil fired
Now have solar, 2x6 finish pan, 5 bank 7x7 filter press, large water jacketed bottler, and tankless water heater.
Recently bought another Gingerich RO, this one was a 125, but a second membrane was added thus is a 250, like I had.
After running a 2x3, a 2x6, 3x8 tapping from 79 taps up to 1320 all woodfired, now I'm going to a 2x6 oil fired and a 200-425 taps.