Does this count?
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Both Indian Free (first photo) and Oregon Curlfree are progressing slowly but surely. We got down to 28°F this morning, but they don’t seem much bothered by it.
I’ve also got some peach babies @Noddykitty, in the greenhouse. Well, nectarine babies (and a plumcot in the foreground, I think):
They are seedlings of a white flesh free stone nectarine that we bought in a big box (I believe it was 20lb?) directly from an eastern WA farm last year. I assume they’ll be destroyed by PLC once they are in the ground, but since I had so many seeds I figured I should plant a few just to see what happens.
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IMO, these seedlings will be fine. Most PLC comes from nursery stocks source - if you isolate these seedlings from your current peaches I think they will not get PLC. There are also factors like other host plants capable of harboring the fungus but whether or not these host plants harbor strain that causes PLC is not studied or verified.
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There’s no way I’ll be able to isolate them. My OCF in the middle of the yard showed mild PLC last year, so it’s definitely in my yard already. So they’ll have to survive PLC, can’t be avoided.
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I kind of big picture from 1000 feet notice it almost all the nurseries that sell a special variety peach that claims to be Northwest peach leaf curl resistant, when I read the story about how it was discovered, is a random pit sprout from somebody’s compost heap. Over and over again.
I theorize if they’re sprouted in a certain environment, they adapt to that environment. I’ve proven this so many thousands of times with cannabis strains. Not to go off on an evil tangent. My logic was I might find some pits that express resistant because they were brought up in this environment. Yep no way to prove it. But, it would be crazy if I got a bunch of curl free pits above the average. Even if they all curl to hell, it was fun, playing pit sprout, and dreaming the fields of peach trees, if I someday in another life had acreage. Ha ha .
I use them as rootstock if the sprout is vigorous. I leave one branch until I know if it’s a new curl fighting winner. If it’s an anemic sprout, it goes right back to the compost tumbler.
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nice, I think if you plant a few sweet potatoes, you can trail the vines off the parapet wall to capture sun. I use tomato cages and tie them as they grow since they are not natural creepers.
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I was suggesting to Isolate in different location for couple of years to see if they get PLC. The fungus when it blasts the spores it doesn’t travel too far.
I understood that was your suggestion, but there’s nowhere I could realistically isolate them in my 6000 sq ft lot. I generally abide by a school of hard knocks approach to my trees.
those are great! I do not have full sun till 2pm till 7pm.
I think we are already about with Maryland circa 1990’s.
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It’s almost a peach party here. Some time this week I would bet.
A lil apricot I grafted back in September. Attached to my “frost peach”.
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Interestingly, the seedlings seem to so far not show any peach curl. Despite being at 95-100% humidity inside my aquarium hot house. I keep the lids on to fight off the frost and get it up to 85degres f during the day. Too moist for comfort would be my hypothesis, yet… 
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I think that’s typical, for seedlings to only show PLC in their second (or later) year, as the spores invade the dormant buds over the fall/winter, so seedlings haven’t experienced that yet.
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