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[mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com>]

Haven't seen much peach leaf curl this year or last, but both years
have been extremely dry.  Not sure if that affects the incidence of
peach leaf.  I do have a few seedling peach trees that had it bad in
the past.

I have a seedling peach planting that I've been planting different
seedling varieties together, maybe 50 trees. So far I've put Siberian
C, Ecos Peach, and Iowa White Indian seedling peaches.  This year, I'm
gonna grow out pits from Reliance, Contender and Madison and plant
those seedlings in the mix, to get more diversity in the planting.
Most of these seedling peaches are producing fruit on 3 year old wood,
so it's pretty easy to keep adding new generations to the mix.

To date the biggest issue with seedling peaches seems to be the wide
variance of flowering in the spring, obviously I'd like to have them
flower as late as possible.  Also I should add that my goal is for
wild peach wine production, and I've made a couple batches of really
good peach wine with Siberian C tho it took more than a year to be to
the 'good' stage of drinking.

~mIEKAL



On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:33 PM, PATTY <jrplelie@centurylink.net> wrote:
> Hey mIEKAL,
>
> You sound like another seed starter, like myself.  From reading articles 
> online, I got the impression that there was little genetic diversity in our 
> modern peaches so it is good that you got something a bit different.  How 
> has peach leaf curl been for you?  Friends growing peaches have had a rough 
> time of it but it has been the cold weather which has eventually done in 
> their trees.
>
> Jim Elie
> Pulaski WI (NW of Green Bay)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> from a tree that was planted as a Madison peach.  This tree died back
> to the ground and I'm assuming what put on fruit was the rootstock,
> unless by some chance I had the graft buried which I normally never
> do.  I have another Madison peach a short ways away and these peaches
> look quite a bit different, are smaller and a different blush pattern.
>  Nonetheless, they were good tasting, disease free for the most part,
> and much larger than the other kinds of seedling peaches I have
> growing. Anyone know if any of the standard hardy peach rootstocks
> produce decent peaches?  I don't have a record of where I got this
> peach from unfortunately.
>
> ~mIEKAL
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