That was my point Drew. I was curious if the OP thought the seedling was an inter specific hybrid or simply a hybrid of peach (and what indications they saw). You and I are in agreement, most of the fruit we grow is much different than the Open Pollinated vegetables which have been stabilized over many generations and grow fairly true to seed.
Mine is doing good, it just started to leaf out last week. No fruiting buds this year though. These are pics from this morning
Any updates?
Howās you peach doing, Steve?
Itās doing really well, itās one of the few trees deer seem to avoid. Here is a picture from today.
The red leaves fade like a spice zee. I pruned it a couple weeks ago and you can really tell the new growth
Do you know what the parents to this tree are? It looks nice! Maybe next year you will get some fruit. It will be neat to see what it looks like.
I have no Idea, I planted a bunch of peach and nectarine pits to use as rootstocks. I donāt know if the pit came from one of my trees or from a farmers market fruit. Iām almost certain itās not a spice zee pit as I donāt think I got any fruit that year. Hopefully it will have some fruit next year. It will be interesting to see if itās any good and if it has fuzz or not
I think fuzz is dominant gene. To get a new nectarine with peach genes you need to make 2 crosses.
Here is a picture from today, It has a few blossoms this year. Finger crossed that it will set a couple of fruit.
Cool, keep us updated! Looks peachy! I have three seedlings this year from Indian Free, a long ways away from fruit!. An intentional cross, also have a raspberry cross that is going to fruit. So I too am excited to see a new hybrid.
Ha, my old thread came alive. I still have the tree and will update if it makes fruit. The problem is that itās probably going to get zapped by the cold again.
Incandescent Christmas lights, strung through a tree and draped with a sheet or plastic sheeting can save buds.
It would be interesting if itās actually a peach x plum hybrid, and the fruit ends up looking and tasting exactly like a plum.
Any updates, Steve?
There are peaches such as flat wonder that I grow with similar purple foliage. Seems like @Olpea grows flat wonderful and likely other purple leaf peaches. Like the one here flat wonderful changes leaf color back to green part of the year. Gorgeous seedlings on this post that sound like possible winners. Olpea is the peach guy and peaches really are not my thing. It seems he may grow out some seedlings as well for rootstock. In my area Iām plagued with Brown rot and canker that makes growing peaches a real challenge. There are hundreds of wild cherries and plums in the area that appear to carry diseases and never die themselves from them. I manage to grow half a dozen peaches and feel fortunate to be able to do that. One of my peaches is over 20 years old thatās a Reliance that produces a crop most every year reliably as the name implies but you never know what youāll get. I had a wild purple leaf plum sprout in the field that Iām assuming is an ornamental.
The purple foliage of Flat Wonderful is very pretty. I used to grow Flat Wonderful, but cut down my one tree last fall. It was healthy and productive, but I cut it down because it was close to an oak tree in my back yard. When I first planted the peach tree there, the oak was smaller and didnāt shade the peach too much.
Over the years the oak grew pretty fast and started shading that peach to the point the fruit quality was suffering.
Priorities, prioritiesā¦
I do have an update. The tree is doing great, though it does have a bit of leaf curl. Even though I did three coppers sprays this season, with all the rain weāve had itās probably going to be a bad year for leaf curl. I did put a cage around it just in case the deer want to destroy it.
It did set 3 or 4 fruit, hereās whatās interesting, no fuzz
Is it too early to name it yet? I think the whole forum should come up with a name if it turns out to be good.
Needs to be Long xxxx something with that style or whatever one wants to call it.
I would have cut the oak down but I am surrounded by them. You might be limited to a couple of oaks. Iām trying to grow fruit trees in a small clearing of woods!