Dennis Tarry and Robert Woolley of Dave Wilson Nursery report there is little interest from growers in replanting or new plantings of peaches, plums, or nectarines. Plantings of stone fruit trees have significantly slowed down, several California-based commercial nurseries reported during telephone interviews with the Good Fruit Grower magazine. Nursery representatives cited tough economic times, poor grower returns, uncertain and restricted water supplies, and soaring costs for tree establishment as the reasons for the slowdown. Dennis Tarry of Dave Wilson Nursery, headquartered in Hickman, California, describes planting of peaches, nectarines, and plums in California as being in a “cautious” mode. […]