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  • From: "Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Reliant peach
  • Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 07:26:18 -0700

Prof. Elwyn Meader, the breeder of Reliance peach, once told me he had seen trees labeled Reliance that weren't true to name. They might have been seedlings, but whatever the source he was reasonably sure there was more than one Reliance loose in the trade. This was in 1989, so the error may have compounded by now. That might be part of the reason for the disappointing results some growers have had with it.
-Lon Rombough
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On May 25, 2009, at 6:17 AM, William C. Garthright wrote:


It seems a lot of you northern growers put your faith in the Reliant
peach. ... I don't think this peach gives enough of an advantage to be
worth its wide distribution.


My notes indicate that I planted a "Reliance," but I imagine that's the
same peach, isn't it? Maybe I just wrote the name down wrong. At any
rate, I was overjoyed with it last year, when I got my first peaches.
(And it's a mass of peaches again this year.) So I thought it was pretty
funny when people here reported that it was not a particularly good peach.

Heh, heh. Let's face it, this was the first peach I'd EVER eaten that
didn't come from the grocery store,... and I grew it myself! So I was
probably easy to please. :-)

But in my VERY limited experience, this tree has produced much more
heavily than the others I've got (Intrepid, Redhaven, and Hardired Giant
Nectarine), the peaches have been bigger, and I thought they were at
least as good as the others (in fact, I liked them best). I couldn't be
happier with it.

Again, I'm a complete newbie at this, and I'm not going to pretend I
know anything. For me, though, the Reliance peach seems to be working
out great.

Bill
Lincoln, NE (zone 5)

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