Is eleberta peach trees restant to brown rot. Are eleberta peaches sweet
@Grape-2006
This thread may be helpful to you.
See @olpea’s answer in post # 3 regarding Elberta peach.
Please add your location in your profile. Location makes a big difference in what works or not work for you re. growing fruit.
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We have a good sized Elberta peach here and have enjoyed fruit from it for 2-3 years now. It hasn’t had any issues with brown rot yet and it’s one of our favorite peaches - behind the Chinese Honey peach (Shui Mi Tao) and Lars Anderson. We are zone 6a Maine.
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Elberta is the old ‘standard’ by which others were judged. It takes a good growing season and matures quite late. The blossoms are lovely. It’s not very drought tolerant. But has been around for 150 years…and still a favorite of many older folks.
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Elberta does relatively resist brown rot in my experience as do some of the other old fashioned varieties. It also doesn’t produce a lot of color on its skin making it less attractive to birds. It’s heavy fuzz also resists insects. It isn’t my favorite late peach, even among old fashioned ones- here Madison is slightly higher quality to my taste, and it doesn’t have showy blossoms in the way Loring does- not many old fashioned types do. However, in ideal conditions it will produce wonderful fruit and in less ideal it will produce fruit reliably. A better and equally brown rot resistant peach in its season that is hard to find is Harcrest, which also has Loring’s showy blossoms. The Canadian breeding programs take brown rot resistance into consideration.
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No it is not. I had a huge Elberta and it was a magnet, as are most peaches. My only peaches that never suffered from rot were Black Boy and Early Crawford.
Resistance is not immunity.
My Elberta suffered terribly from brown rot. It was not immune nor resistant. Period!
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You probably have every reason to believe it isn’t resistant where you were growing it, but I have ample reason to believe otherwise as it performs here. I have a single client right on the beach and her issues are much different than any other orchard I manage. You should have seen her peach leaf curl last year, on one the entire tree was bright red about like the nicest fall color you could imagine, except it was in spring. The variety never showed a predilection to PLC anywhere else I grow it and have grown it for about 20 years. Elberta I’ve grown for over 25 in various locations and it’s always demonstrated resistance to BR for a late peach by my anecdotal observation.
Period?
Every experience is valid, but rarely definitive.
You have peeked my interest in Early Crawford and Black Boy.
Elberta peach: fruit is large, resistant to brown rot, may drop heavily when approaching maturity, not resistant to flesh browning
This publication also claims Elberta has resistance with the assertion, “Babygold No. 5, Elberta, and Glohaven are the only peach varieties with reported resistance to brown rot. Most commonly grown stone fruit in the Midwest vary from susceptible to highly susceptible.”
Hmmm, maybe time to take another look at Glohaven. It’s a nice peach.
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Elberta – An open-pollinated seedling of ‘Chinese Cling’, introduced in 1889 by Samuel Rumph, Marshallville, GA. The tree has non-showy blossoms. Harvest season is Aug. 25 to Aug. 31. The fruit is oblong, very pubescent, and fairly attractive. Sixty to 80% of the surface is colored red. The flesh is dark yellow and firm, but the flavor is only fair with some astringency. The tree is moderately resistant to bacterial spot.
Info is from Virginia Tech on various peaches and nectarines and how they perform. YMMV