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  • From: <dmnorton@royaloakfarmorchard.com>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Sib-C peach seed
  • Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:42:21 -0600

I just finished doing a seminar on "Growing Cold Hardy Peaches in Zone 5(4b)" at the Chicago Botanic Garden this past Sunday afternoon. The rootstocks I covered and use here at Royal Oak Farm are:

Lovell-A standard here in Northern Illinois- We had about 400 peach trees that produced for 15 years on Lovell and saw temps of -20 to -25 before we began removing them. We replaced them with:
Tennessee Natural
Bailey Seedling
Halford Seedling

If anyone would like my Power Point notes, request them off-list and I will e-mail you a PDF file. I will eventually be posting them on my blog, but am short on time right now.

Dennis Norton
Royal Oak Farm Orchard
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas Woodard" <dwoodard@becon.org>
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 11:45 AM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Sib-C peach seed


Jim, it was recognized that Siberian C was more cold-hardy than Bailey, but there were apparently other problems with it.

Maybe Minnesota is more consistently cold than southern Ontario. I was told years ago that the station at Vineland here had Sansin apricot (Manchurian, cold-hardy in southern Manitoba) for a while but that it suffered severely after our winter thaws although the historic low at Vineland is only minus 16 degrees F.

Dr. Hunter told me just now that Vineland or anyway the Ontario Fruit Testing Association has Chui Lum Tao and Tzim Pee Tao peach trees but that no seed was collected from them last year. He said that Ontario peach tree propagation has reverted pretty much entirely to Bailey seedling roots.

Doug Woodard
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada


Jim Fruth wrote:
Doug Woodard said, "Siberian C is now regarded as obsolete for rootstocks. Those who want
something more cold-hardy than Bailey........................"

Doug,
Someone told me that before so I got some Bailey Peach seed from Harrow and quickly learned that Bailey will not stand up to Minnesota Winters. Every one that grew winterkills down to the snow-line every year, even after our mildest winters - A mild Winter here doesn't drop below -25 F. Sib-C, on the other hand, stands up quite well, even through our coldest Winters. Go figure?

Jim Fruth
Brambleberry Farm
Pequot Lakes, MN 56472
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