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["Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>]

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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