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[Mark Lee <mark.lee.phd@gmail.com>]

Where are you located? I live in Seattle and struggle with peach leaf
curl and cool summers.
-Mark Lee, Seattle

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:05 PM, mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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