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["Mark & Helen Angermayer" <hangermayer@isp.com>]

Dennis, are you saying out of all your peach varieties, you only got peaches
from PF-24 last summer?

Mark
KS

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Dennis Norton>
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2007 6:45 PM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] growing fruit trees close to the ground


> The key with peaches in cold temps is to keep the buds from freezing.
There
> are some good charts and articles on the subject after last spring's
Midwest
> late freeze found at
> http://www.hrt.msu.edu/faculty/Langg/Fruit_Bud_Hardiness.html.  There are
> links to articles and data that cover apples, peaches, grapes and other
> fruit.  I have found the chart at
> http://web1.msue.msu.edu/vanburen/crtmptxt.htm most useful in monitoring
our
> own temperatures through last winter and spring.  We found that the PF 24
> Flamin' Fury buds withstood temps at to below -16 while all other buds
froze
> and produced no fruit.  Hope this helps someone.
>
> Dennis Norton
> Royal Oak Farm Orchard
> http://www.royaloakfarmorchard.com
> http://www.theorchardkeeper.blogspot.com
> http://www.revivalhymn.com
>