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These hardy peaches will do much better on their own root stocks, so plant 
your own seeds from your hardy peach trees. After eating the peach, 
immediately plant the seed 2-4 inches deep in good garden soil, mark the 
spot, and wait for the sprout next spring. Plant many seeds and share with 
friends.  Peach seeds normally need several months of cool weather to 
sprout. I recently learned that you can gently crack the shell (without 
hurting the kernel) and it speeds germination and the cool temperatures are 
not needed.

Dennis Norton
Royal Oak Farm Orchard
http://www.royaloakfarmorchard.com
http://www.theorchardkeeper.blogspot.com
http://www.revivalhymn.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Douglas Woodard" <dwoodard@becon.org>
To: <dmnorton@royaloakfarmorchard.com>; "North American Fruit Explorers" 
<nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 11:04 AM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Reliance peach


> Dennis, if you have not already done so you might want to try Harrow 
> Diamond which is about 9 days before Garnet Beauty here, of good quality 
> for an early peach, and reported hardier than most although not quite as 
> hardy as Reliance.
>
> The description from the Ontario government publication "Fruit Cultivars: 
> a guide for commerical growers" for 1985 says:
>
> "This 1975 Agriculture Canada introduction (Redskin x Harbinger) ripens 
> with Candor. The medium-sized fruit have an attractive red blush over a 
> bright yellow background. The deep-yellow, non-browning flesh is of good 
> quality and is nearly freestone. It has few split-pits."
>
> For others, regarding Reliance, remember that a peach you can grow 
> yourself and ripen properly before picking will likely be of better 
> quality than anything you can buy in the supermarket. I recall that 
> friends in Kingston Ontario (at the eastern end of Lake Ontario, 250 miles 
> by road from the commercial peach growing area of the Niagara Peninsula) 
> were very pleased with the fruit of their tree of Reliance, short lived 
> though it was.
>
> Doug Woodard
> St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
>
>
>
> dmnorton@royaloakfarmorchard.com wrote:
> > Herre is a list of Cold Hardy Peaches that we grow here at Royal Oak Farm 
> > in Zone 5(4b) that have survived -25 below zero and fruited:
> >
> > Cold hardy peaches: (Ripe date: +/- from Red Haven)
> >
> > *Contender* (+18) - has high chilling
> >
> > requirement (1050 hrs) & very hardy
> >
> > fruit buds.
> >
> > *Cresthaven *(+24)
> >
> > *Garnet Beauty* (-11)
> >
> > *Harcrest* (+26)
> >
> > *Madison* (+24) - buds very hardy, but fruit
> >
> > is tender & does not pack/ship well.
> >
> > *Redskin* (+29) - bloom (& harvest) is
> >
> > spread out, providing more frost
> >
> > hardiness.
> >
> > *Reliance* (+3) - reliable cropping, but poor
> >
> > quality fruit
> >
> >  Here are two new varieties that we have not tried yet:
> >
> > *Summer Serenade* (sport of Garnet Beauty)
> >
> > *Autumn Star* (+ 45) - new cultivar, 2003;
> >
> > very hardy fruit buds, but very late!
> >
> > Dennis Norton
> > Royal Oak Farm Orchard
> > http://www.royaloakfarmorchard.com
> > http://www.theorchardkeeper.blogspot.com
> > http://www.revivalhymn.com
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Ernest Plutko" <ernestplutko@wiktel.com 
> > <mailto:ernestplutko@wiktel.com>>
> > To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org <mailto:nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>>
> > Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2008 1:36 PM
> > Subject: [NAFEX] Reliance peach
> >
> > Jerry:  I'm really impressed that you were able to fruit a peach tree
> > in Warroad.  How big was the pit you had the peach tree in?  How long
> > did you have it before it fruited?  I've been thinking about your
> > accomplishment and I will try it myself. Are there more hardy
> > peaches? I bought a Reliance peach years ago but it died the first
> > winter.  I was going to keep working but last October I was fishing
> > in the Rainy River, hit a log and my boat sank. I swam to shore,
> > stood up and had a heart attack.  Fell back into the river and
> > floated down stream in the dark for three hours in a daze.  Finally
> > came around and swam to shore again.  Decided it was time to retire.
> >
> >
> >
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