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[Lon Rombough <lonrom@hevanet.com>]

-25 is about the same range as Reliance peach.
I had an uncle in Iowa who had a chance peach seedling that made a beautiful tree and survived -30 F, but never fruited.  Later I found out that peach flower buds aren't as hardy as the leaf buds, which was why the tree never fruited - the flower buds never made it, even though the tree itself survived.
-Lon Rombough
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On Feb 9, 2005, at 8:01 AM, Dean Kreutzer wrote:

Hello all,


I have made contact with a grower in Finland who is growing Maira, and he has doubts that it would be at all hardy to -40F, as it wasn't bred for those types of temperatures.  Southern Finland rarely gets below -25F.  'Super-hardy' may be a relative term.

I don't believe it is available in North America as of yet.

Dean Kreutzer