Mine are small right now. The smaller one still has yellow with tons of fuzz and the second one is deep deep purple! Waited three years for these.
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Thanks Steve can’t wait to cut it in half. The peche de Vigne I bought in Paris markets were sometimes bitter, I am hoping these are not.
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Keep us informed as to how they taste. I had looked at buying a tree but was not sure how accurate the description actually was. Real people reviews are at lot more trustworthy than magazine/ catalog descriptions.
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I have young Black Boy and Indian Free trees growing here, and have harvested a few fruit from each. They have, so far, been very similar in terms of size and taste. Black Boy has been a bit darker and a little more assertive in flavor, both richer and tarter. I haven’t detected any bitterness in either.
I like them quite a bit, and wish I had more. We had a late cold snap this season that dropped most of the peaches and plums, and actually killed a half-dozen apricot and apple trees.
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Another similar fruit is Arctic Glo nectarine. I have Indian free too and feel Arctic Glo is superior. I like both. I crossed them and have three hybrid seedlings growing. Arctic Glo ripens the first week of August. Hoping for a similar fruit to ripen between the two. Indian free ripens the first week of October here. I put one in the ground and hoping to graft the others to evaluate.
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We had a similar late frost in RI last year that killed 90% of my fruit. This year my black boy peach was loaded with blossoms. Squirrels got a bunch of them, so I netted the tree. Only have two hanging on but they are small. I thought they didn’t ripen till late Sept.?
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Didn’t mean to imply that I’d harvested any this year. They ripen in October here.
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