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["Kieran or Donna" <redherring@tnaccess.com>]

Gianni,
    Maybe the reason we don't hear about the doughnut peach has something to
do with chilling hours.  Did someone say they crop in Mississippi?  Didn't
Dave Ulmer say something about 400 chilling hours?  400 chilling hours in
Tenn translates to blooming about the end of January.  I've got a seedling
peach right now, a volunteer apparently from some grocery peach from further
south.  It blooms about 2 weeks before my local seedlings, and has zero hope
of cropping.  Which reminds me.  It's a monster, having popped up in the
garden about 5 years ago, and I'm thinking about whacking it back and
putting both my European plums on it.  Can I bark graft them?  It's WAY too
big to think about budding on it.  What do you think?  My first grafts ever
were bark grafts of plum on plum, and I got 1 out of 2.      Donna TN z6
P.S.  If we don't start having some winter here pretty soon, maybe 400
chilling hour peaches will be the way to go.