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[Scott Smith <scott@cs.jhu.edu>]

To add to Antons good information on these peaches, Indian Cling is 
traditionally a pickling peach, and its texture becomes an asset when pickles 
are made.  It is generally good for any kind of cooking.  It is one of my 
favorite peaches because it gets no diseases (I have never seen bacterial 
spot out of control on it), few bugs, and produces a huge load of fruit every 
year.  Curl is not a problem for me so I can't comment on that.

Indian Free is also supposed to come fairly true to seed.  It is a much more 
difficult peach to grow in Maryland, it is highly prone to brown rot and is 
also susceptible to bacterial spot.  I have recently found an 
earlier-ripening cultivar, Sanguine Pilat, which appears to be better than 
Indian Free in every way: it is just as tasty, is much larger, and appears 
resistant to diseases.

Black Boy is a peach very similar to Indian Free.  My tree would frequently 
go mealy and since it was also rotting badly I removed it.

I should be able to get you a few Indian Cling seeds, email me if you want me 
to look.  They just finished ripening and the squirrels left some pits around 
the tree.  That tree is by the road and when I was not looking the squirrels 
cleared it.

Scott Z7 MD

On Sep 4, 2012, at 10:05 PM, Anton Callaway wrote:

> 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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