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  • From: rob hamilton <lostman_amiga@yahoo.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Hardy Peach (extending dormancy)
  • Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 05:30:42 -0800 (PST)

Dormant oil to delay flowering? Did you just discover
this by accedent, or is this a common practice. I
would be curious to see if this works for other plants
too.

Rob

--- Jim F <bonfire58_2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Several Folks are asking me about my hardy
> peach so, here goes: When the Soviet Union opened
> up, an acquaintance of mine went over there to see
> what he could find. Some of what he returned with
> was peach seed which he said came from somewhere in
> the Kamchatka pennisula - I don't remember the name
> of the locality. I was able to obtain a handful of
> the seed and I have no idea what happened to the
> rest of it, or the fellow I got it from.
> I planted the seed and two trees grew. As
> genetics would have it, one was a short-lived
> nothing and the other was the answer to one of my
> dreams - to be able to grow peaches in Northern
> Minnesota. The fruit was somewhat smaller than
> grocery store peaches, white flesh, a clingstone
> that ripened in Mid-August. But what did I know
> about growing peaches? I tended it like I do my
> apple trees; I water them during a drought and
> mostly ignore them otherwise. Anyway, I was to
> later learn that my tree probably(?) caught its
> demise from too big of a crop with too little water.
> I've been planting its generations ever since,
> trying to reproduce the original. All of the
> progeny, so far, have had the same great flavored
> fruit but somewhat smaller in size and ripening in
> Mid-September. Unfortunately for me, the fruit
> wants to ripen a few days after this area's average
> first frost. So far, I've been able to hasten its
> ripening by drowning the trees with 0-10-10. Fruit
> picked green doesn't ripen. I keep planting seed
> every year in hopes that the, apparently recessive
> trait, August ripening, will show up again.
> As with other peaches, they are self-fertile.
> The flowers produce no nectar so the only
> pollenating vectors I see on them have been Osmia
> spp. They bloom in April, just after the plums or,
> in some years, coinciding with the plum bloom. The
> flowers seem to be hardier than those of plum
> because, in some years, I've gotten a peach crop but
> no plum crop. I have learned that I can delay
> bloom, by a few weeks, by spraying with dormant oil
> when I see the first green of opening buds.
> I have been refering to my peach as "Siberian"
> to save explanations, since many folks have never
> heard of Kamchatka. Then, unfortunately, there is a
> rootstock with a very similar name that my trees get
> confused with so I think that, henceforth, I shall
> refer to it as the "Pequot Peach." Oh, and by the
> way, I have tried growing every of the "hardiest"
> peaches and they have all winterkilled. Of the
> seedlings that I sell, I always wait until they have
> experienced at least two winters because between 2%
> and 5% don't make it through their first winter
> here.
> Did I miss anything that I should have said
> about it?
>
> Jim Fruth
>
>
>
>
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  • Re: [NAFEX] Hardy Peach (extending dormancy), rob hamilton, 03/01/2004

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