Help with peach tree

I just planted a Reliance Semi-Dwarf Peach Tree two weeks ago and now quite a few of the leaves seem to be turning yellow so can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong and what I can do fix it.. I did remove all the fruit I could reach since I did read where for the first year to remove and that was hard since I really wanted to see them grow..The tree is about 8' or so now.
This is not a real good picture but I will try to take another since that was taken about a week ago.
Thanks so much for the help

Vickie

I grow Reliance Peach. I don't recall any of mine doing this when I transplanted them. Could be stress. Could be a lot of things. Can you post a close up of the leaves? Do you notice any of leaves being curled or rippled or a reddish purpleish color at all toward the veins? Are any of the yellow leaves stunted at all?

I will take a picture in the morning but some of the leaves do have a reddish tint to them but no curling and not sure what you mean stunted, they look the same as the others just a yellowing and some do have the reddish tint..

Still a little blurred but maybe someone can get an idea what up with my tree..It had been raining all night and into this morning and I am having a time getting a good picture.

Was this a pot grown tree? Or was this a bare root tree put into a pot because it didn't sell as a bare root tree? The former can support that large top growth, the latter can't. The latter should have been pruned after potting to compensate for the root loss. But Equilibrium is right, it could be a number of things. A pot grown tree usually transplants well without any problems, provided you didn't create a bathtub by amending the backfill, plant too deep, didn't damage a lot of roots and kept it well watered until established.

Amending the backfill is currently not recommended unless you are amending large planting areas. Removing some of the soil around the rootball allows the roots to come into contact with the native soil. Backfilling with native soil up to the original soil level on top of the rootball keeps the rootball from drying out faster than the native soil.

Check your watering schedule. Don't let the soil dry out completely. Mulch around the tree to keep the soil moist. Don't fertilize until the tree starts to put out new growth and has established itself. If this doesn't help, you may want to consider pruning some of the top off.

First I was thinking maybe Peach Leaf Curl (Taphrina deformans). Now I'm thinking along the lines of Bacterial Spot (Xanthomonas pruni) but no way can I see the leaves well enough to take a good shot at it and this could very well be nothing more than stress.

I really don't like those spots on your leaves or that red vein but I really can not see your leaves well enough.

Try this site and scroll down to peach diseases and start clicking and see if anything looks close-
http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/pp/extension/tfabp/fruitkey.shtml

Thanks, it was a potted tree when I bought it. and I did add better soil to the bottom of the planting hole since we have clay soil here I did not mess with the roots at all and planted to the soil line of the tree. SO I need to remove some of the soil I have around the base of the tree, is that right.
I have not had to water much at all since planting it has rained nearly everyday but I did water once with fertilizer so I will not do that again until I see more growth..
Should I go ahead and cut some of the top off also.

Thanks again for all your help..I have not planted any trees ever in my life so I really don't know what I am doing..
I did buy a Cleveland Pear last week and it seems to be doing great.

I will check that site out..you sure know your stuff..
Thanks again for all your help both of you...
Vickie

I did find another picture I took that shows the leaves better..But I am wondering after looking through the web site you listed was we have had rain nearly everyday since planting it. and I did fertilize it and a few days after planting it we saw a bunch of ants crawling on the branches and I sprayed it with soapy water with proxide...maybe this one will help a little more..
I truly appreciate all your help.

The tree looks fine. Peaches are like weeds. They grow fast, produce young and split apart after a few years. A properly cared for peach in a homeowners backyard can get to 20, most commercial orchards replace them at 12-15 years.

For a newly transplanted tree, your's looks great. You want new growth to be about 18in/45cm long. This will make enough leaves to feed your peaches next year. (This year's wood makes next year's peaches.) Don't obsess over a few leaves or a few branches. Unless your tree is a columnar one, prune the top out, you want a productive tree that can be picked from the ground, not a shade tree to lay a blanket under.

Although you may be getting rain (what's rain?), unless you are getting an inch/wk you still should water the tree well. Small rains of a few tenths don't go deep enough to help. Fertilizer should be applied only in the spring, unless your ground is very fertile so that it produces good growth. Growth in late summer frequently does not harden off and is killed in the winter. Good luck with your peach, it will prove to be a better tree for you and you neighborhood than the cleveland pear. That tree is an abombination and the people who propagate them should be charged with crimes to the environment, IMHO.

Thanks for the advice, but I do like the ornamental as well as the fruited tree's so I have the peach in the back to grow fruit I hope, and I wanted the other for shade in the front..They all have their place in the world..