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[Anton Callaway <marillen@earthlink.net>]

Indian Blood Free and Indian Blood Cling are two distinct peach cultivars.

Indian Free is peach leaf curl resistant and is a very late-ripening 
freestone that is male sterile (needs a pollenizer).  So it can't produce 
offspring by itself.

Indian Cling is a rubbery-textured clingstone that ripens earlier & is 
self-fertile.  It is known for it's ability to reproduce fairly true from 
seed.  I've planted quite a few seed of it and find significant variation in 
the offspring with regards to fruit shape and size.  Texture, color and 
disease resistance/ susceptibility and tree growth habits are pretty similar 
among the offspring.  I've seen peach leaf curl on this cultivar.

Both cultivars are pretty susceptible to Xanthomonas leaf spot (bacterial 
spot), which is a more serious problem for the hot, humid Southeastern US.

Anton
North Carolina


-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Lee <mark.lee.phd@gmail.com>
>Sent: Sep 4, 2012 5:08 PM
>To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
>Subject: [nafex] Indian Cling Peach
>
>I read about a peach called Indian Blood Cling, and also known as
>Indian Free and Indian Cling. It is said to do well in the Pacific
>Northwest, being resistant to peach leaf curl, but I have never heard
>of it before now. In New Zealand this peach is known as Black Boy.
>Originally came from the Loire Valley in France where they are known
>as Pêche de Vigne. Another interesting feature of this peach is that
>it comes true from seed. Does anyone have experience with this peach?
>Does anyone have any pits of this peach?
>-Mark, Seattle, picking Desert King Figs and blackberries
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