White Peaches seem to suffer from more disease problems here.
Just finished Redhaven. Fire Prince looks real good this year, Winblo is next.
No White Peaches for us.
Edit: Picked and packed about 1000 pounds of Peaches this morning. Should be a good day tomorrow at the farm. Picture is peck boxes from a few years ago. I’m not sure about the variety but the date of the photo is Sun Prince time
It has a decent amount of acid…it’s sweeter than black boy but not as sweet as Saturn. But it has that unique aroma of shuimitao you rarely find in the peaches growing in the US. In my view, it’s a very good peach, especially considering it’s early.
It looks quite similar to my black boy peach…but the taste is different, it’s sweeter and has a different aroma. Both are very good peaches. One is very early and the other is very late.
It’s not a priority for me, once I started pruning my trees back heavily in the spring I stopped having any issues with bacterial spot. Or maybe something I was spraying helped with it. For me the major disease issue on peaches was brown rot but I eventually got that under control with Indar. I never found white peaches any harder to grow, only nectarines are more work due to greater susceptibility to bugs and rots.
The “White” varieties of peach from Arkansas I never heard any good things about the taste of so I never tried them. I never heard anything about the Rutgers Rose peaches good or bad…
I grew White County for quite a few years. I didn’t like it at all because it was a sub-acid white. But, my wife loved it. She described it as peach candy. I could hardly stand to eat a single peach of it, because it tasted to me like I was eating straight peach perfume, perhaps with some sugar added. The perfume was way too strong for me.
I had lots of customers who loved that peach, but I thought it tasted yucky. To this day, I never understood how anyone could like that peach compared to another good peach
See I’m opposite, I only really like white peaches and all I grow. I’ve not seen any bacterial spot on any of the Rutgers Rose trees but just planted those this year and don’t remember seeing any on the Arkansas varieties that are on a different property.
I would get some Indar. And if you can’t find that, propiconazole. I spent many years suffering with brown rot and with indar and elevate and Luna combination I have basically zero now. I only spray in May and early June and that now keeps the rot at bay all summer.
Yes I got it in all conditions. It was worse in the shadier areas. I don’t think it can be controlled without synthetics in the mid Atlantic. Before I used synthetics I lost the majority of my peaches and only a few varieties were producing anything.
I was just out in my orchard and many plums split in the recent rain. But there is no brown rot at the splits. This is with zero sprays in the last two months, but with indar/elevate or indar/luna or indar/mervion in every surround tank in the spring (4-5 sprays total). Last year I only used indar/elevate and got the same great results. I am using the other things this year for the apple diseases.
I can tell you that propioconazole (analog of Indar) has become like water here after a few sprays in the spring. I sprayed it every two weeks from May to early July. I suffered huge losses (four mature nectarine trees gave me about 25 nectarines, so that’s like 95–98% loss, a few others lost anywhere from 50-80% of their crop) to brown rot this year, and started to have some control only after using Merivon a few weeks ago.
Things were much better with the Indar/Elevate combination than just Indar. When I just did Indar (3-5 years ago I was doing that), I still got a bit of rot. I decided to add Elevate because it was the cheapest per spray and in a different group, and it is also rated very well against brown rot. I have only sprayed it together with Indar though so its not clear how it would work on its own.
@Ahmad I found propiconazole much less effective than Indar. Still a huge amount better than nothing, but I got lots of rot with it. It was the first synthetic I sprayed (8-12 years ago I was using it) so it seemed pretty great at the time, but I used it all up and am not going to be using it again.
Overall my brown rot spray history is something like this (view it as impressionistic, my memory is not the best):
10 years trying to be 100% organic: lots of sulfur, copper, Serenade, Saf-T-Side oil, etc. Lots of rot.
5 or so years of propiconazole which made things a great deal better.
3 or so years of Indar alternating with propiconazole I was getting rid of, things even better.
3 or so years of Indar/Elevate combination
one year with my current approach, Indar in every tank plus either Luna, Merivon, or Elevate added on top.
You can add Captan 80 to the almost useless category. It’s better than no spray, but any imperfection in the fruit led to rot. I’m going to give your multiple mix a try next year. I think there are more than one strain of rot and these brands are not getting all of them.