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[Ed & Pat Fackler <rocmdw@aye.net>]

"J. Rosano II" wrote:

> Wow!, Thanks Ed!
> You mean if you receive a stick mebbe 3/8ths diameter from a nursery, in the
> following season you'll possibly see fruit setting from yearwood????
> If so... Lordy, that's swell!
> An even dumber question follows...
> So Stark bros claim to dwarf peaches would be? Now ya lost me? So these are
> short lived trees?

     My response---------

     Re: Jim Cummins extensive comment on "dwarf" peach/nectarine.  Or, 
better yet, call
Stark Bros. and ask--then post their response!!

     You wrote---------------

>
> Ed can you kill a standard peach by cutting it back too much. I don't mean
> by hacking it away to nothing but to the main butt or trunk but keep lopping
> off the topgrowth and holding a small compact short habit. Will this effect
> the mortality in a standard, even if the roots are free to move along 
> ordinarily.
> Thanks for the wisdom from the reaches of heaven over there.

     My response---------

     If this severe pruning is done after danger of sub-freezing temps (say 
late April at
your locale), it will not hurt the tree.  For that matter, it will radically 
invigorate
it.
     Down south, I've seen peach/lovell held to 8' for years..

Ed, Heaven , etc.

>
>
> Best wishes,
> Gianni
> Ed & Pat Fackler wrote:
>
> >      My response-------------
> >
> >      John, firstly there exists no "good" or reliably long-lived dwarfing 
> > stock for
> > peach.
> >
> >      Secondly, most all peach/nectarine bear incredibly quick as 
> > flower/fruit buds
> > form on one-year wood.
> >
> > Ed, So. Indiana, heaven, etc.
>
> > > wsm311@aol.com wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Doughnut peach
> > > > http://www.davewilson.com/fruit_pix/doughnut_pch.html
> > > >
> > > > This peach is out of this world
> > > > http://www.insidevc.com/lifestyle/food/331802.shtml
> > > >
> > > > Donut Peach
> > > > http://www.ewbrandt.com/ewb/varieties/whitedonut/
>


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