Difference in flowers across peaches and nectarines

General Fruit Growing
#1

Most of my DWN peaches and nectarines have very similar looking flowers. However I noticed some of my Burchell peach and nectarine blooms (Halo Series) look weird - like most of the petals were cut off or didn’t grow out due to some disease!

I know some peaches/nectarines have more showy blossoms… but is this normal too?

Pics below shows the clear difference between 2 Burchell nectarines -
Rapunzel on left has normal blooms and Honey Halo on right has the weird blooms

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#2

That’s normal. Showy on the left and non showy on the right. The non showy do look stunted, deformed, or diseased. But that’s normal IME.

Nice little trees…!!

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#3

Relieved to know that’s normal! Thank you!

#4

I second Fruitnut, those are non-showy blossoms. I had a couple of non-showy varieties, and they looked similar to yours.

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#5

Thank you! :slight_smile:

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