nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: North American Fruit Explorers mailing list at ibiblio
List archive
- From: "Mark Angermayer" <hangermayer@isp.com>
- To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [NAFEX] peach crop
- Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 21:47:49 -0500
Toni Pralle wrote:
"My one surviving peach tree not only had the 27 baby peaches I counted
earlier in the summer..........it produced over 50! I know the chickens/birds
got some because I saw the pits on the ground. I had planted two different
varieties, Reliance and Contender but one struggled so this spring
leafing out and flowering I cut it down about 2 feet off the ground. I had hoped
It would shoot some new growth but it didn't. Now there is growth coming from
the root. Are those grafted or should I let this new growth turn into a tree? I
think the survivor is the Reliance and the cut down one is the Contender. I am
SO tempted to plant another Reliance. My gardening success for the past 2 or 3
years has been dismal. Between the rabbits and the late spring blizzards all my
trees resemble bushes."
Hi Toni,
Typically peaches won't grow new shoots from
beheaded wood. Their different from other fruit trees in that they need
visible buds to grow new shoots (I learned this the hard way too.) Since
virtually all peaches are propagated by grafting, all you have left is a
rootstock. I wouldn't let the rootstock grow into a peach tree unless you
wanted to try to regraft it. Rootstocks typically produce inferior quality
fruit.
Instead of getting another Reliance peach, you may
want to consider Paul Friday's 24c. I've not grown the 24c, but I do have
Reliance, and that's what I base my recommendation on, mostly. I know
Reliance is one of the few peaches some northern Nafexers can grow, but it's
such poor quality I couldn't recommend it. The peach is small, and gets
soft so quickly. It isn't especially tasty, and it's flesh is
stringy.
Dennis Norton, who occasionally contributes to this
group has tried 24c of the Flamin Fury series, and he said one year, it was the
only variety that fruited on one of his plots. The cold got the rest of
them. He's quite a bit farther north than you.
Here's some info, if you want to read about
it.
Mark
KS
|
-
[NAFEX] peach crop,
Toni Pralle, 09/06/2008
-
Re: [NAFEX] peach crop,
Mark Angermayer, 09/06/2008
-
Re: [NAFEX] peach crop,
William C. Garthright, 09/07/2008
-
Re: [NAFEX] peach crop,
Mark Angermayer, 09/07/2008
- Re: [NAFEX] peach crop, William C. Garthright, 09/09/2008
-
Re: [NAFEX] peach crop,
Mark Angermayer, 09/07/2008
-
Re: [NAFEX] peach crop,
William C. Garthright, 09/07/2008
- Re: [NAFEX] peach crop, C. Waite Maclin, 09/07/2008
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
-
Re: [NAFEX] peach crop,
Toni Pralle, 09/07/2008
- Re: [NAFEX] peach crop, Erdman, James, 09/08/2008
-
Re: [NAFEX] peach crop,
Mark Angermayer, 09/06/2008
Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.