Just a word on Glenglo. This is the first year we’ve harvested off Glenglo. I’m sure you all know the weather has been horrible for stone fruits here in the Midwest. According to the Kansas City Star, the KCI airport reported a total of 4 days in which it didn’t rain in the month of May. June was wet cloudy and cool. So far July has followed the same pattern (we finally have some sunny hot dry weather the last few days).
Needless to say the flavor of the peaches has not been good. We’ve harvested several varieties and Glenglo has by far been the best. There is one caveat though. After thinning Glenglo trees had a pretty light crop (less than a bushel per tree). Still the fruit was huge, and tasted better and more consistent than any other yellow variety up to this point this year. In spite of the huge fruit size, there were hardly any split pits. We’ve had so much rain this year many trees have lost a lot of foliage from bac. spot and much of the fruit is spotty. Not so with Glenglo. The fruit is perfect, the foliage is perfect.
Again part of the size and flavor might have resulted from a fairly thin crop and it’s only one year’s evaluation, but as I said, it’s been the best variety so far. I had planned order more from Adams for next spring before I read this thread, but perhaps they are not available for next year.
I looked at the patent, and it comes off patent protection in Feb. 2017, so I may just wait till then. That way it would give me another year to evaluate. As it stands right now, Glenglo blows the doors off of Garnet Beauty and Early Redhaven (all of which ripen about the same time.)