F2 peach x Almond hybrids

itheweatherman · April 17, 2019, 4:11am

Calired Interspecific peach.

RichSV · April 17, 2019, 4:42am

Nice. Is the DWN 2020 Highlights page just about ready?

itheweatherman · April 19, 2019, 4:29am

Not yet.

itheweatherman · May 23, 2019, 12:51am

Here they are again, Calired interspecific peaches. Eventhough they have almond in their parentage, they have no resemblance of almond in their phenotype at all. Could this be the same reason pluots don’t resemble an apricot?

ltilton · May 23, 2019, 1:11am

Have you tasted them?

itheweatherman · May 23, 2019, 1:58am

Not yet.

RichSV · May 23, 2019, 6:13am

It looks like they will ripen in July. You should protect them from birds and the like fairly soon. Will they have red flesh?

itheweatherman · July 20, 2019, 1:50am

Here they are again, (peach x almond) x unknown pollen.

tonyOmahaz5 · July 20, 2019, 10:58am

Have you try to taste it? Any good?

Tony

itheweatherman · July 20, 2019, 3:23pm

Nope. I think they still have a month to go.

itheweatherman · July 25, 2019, 3:10am

Looks like it is starting to ripen.

IL847 · July 25, 2019, 12:52pm

Nice color.hope it tastes good

ltilton · July 25, 2019, 1:44pm

Wondering if the nuts will be edible

itheweatherman · July 26, 2019, 4:32am

Based on its phenotype, the unknown pollen parent is probably a peach, so that makes it 3/4 peach, so most likely the seeds will be bitter.

itheweatherman · July 27, 2019, 1:38am

I finally tasted Calired Interspecific peach today.

It was a little bit acidic. The flavor was between an unripe peach and apricot. Part of the flesh was part mush and other part crunchy.

I originated Calired interspecific peach from a cross between Luna peachmond, seed parent, x unknown pollen.

I originated Luna peachmond from a cross between F1 Nonpareil Almond, seed parent, x Elberta peach, pollen parent.

I originally thought that the unknown pollen was a peach, however, due to the seed shape and apricot taste, I suspect that it could be an apricot?

Auburn · July 27, 2019, 10:29am

Thanks for the update.

itheweatherman · August 5, 2019, 4:25am

I picked another Calired Interspecific peach today and it was actually good. It tasted like a donut peach with a little bit of acidity and a slightly crunchy flesh.

itheweatherman · August 10, 2019, 5:17am

I’ve been observing the fruit and pit shape and the evidence points out to that the pollen parent is sweet bagel peach. Both sweet bagel and luna peachmond bloomed at the same time, so most likely, a bee pollinated luna’s flowers with sweet bagel peach, so this makes Calired 75% peach and 25% almond. And I pollinated Calired’s flowers with Myrobalan plum pollen, if the cross is successful, the next generation seedings will be 50% plum, 37.50% peach, and 12.50% almond.

itheweatherman · August 10, 2019, 5:18am

And one seed is open-pollinated

itheweatherman · October 10, 2019, 12:56am

This kernel from Calired is starting to germinate. I pollinated it with Myrobalan plum pollen.