I am in Maryland and White Gold has done well for me, where many others have failed or just died for no apparent reason. With our wet humid springs I do have to do several fungicide sprays to ward off the brown rot and black knot. I got a very nice harvest of nice sized cherries this year. Mainly because I really kept up with the fungicide treatments mostly lime sulfur, straight powdered sulfur in solution and copper fungicide.
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I put 13 peach seeds in the ground 4 years ago. They came from contender and harmony peaches picked from an orchard here in Ohio. All of the trees produced last year. But this year…it’s insane.
The one tree is our prize winner. It’s an extremely fast growing tree that if left alone would get massive. And it’s absolutely LOADED with peaches. I thinned all of them this year. It’s ridiculous how many are on this thing.
A couple of the trees don’t produce quite as many as we’d like. So …this year once they’re ripe well decide which trees to cut back in the spring and graft our winner onto.
We named the best tree “Halfys eye”.
A stray cat was coming around couple years ago with a clipped ear so I started naming her halfy… Caus her half an ear.
Anyways … Since our best peach tree produces very red and very JUICY peaches we named it after her eye which she has herpes of the eye and it occasionally becomes runny (juicy) and red.
Lol. I know …disgusting. but …me and the wife are twisted.
Halfy is our kitty now and we love those peaches.
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Ok, I was with you until this part. That’s kind of gross. 
Anyway, I went around my property and picked up peach seeds from fruit that had dropped and planted them in places where I’d like to see new peach trees. I’d like to do it a couple times weekly until spring. Also, earlier in the spring, I dug up some seedlings from under peach and nectarine trees and replanted them. I will check next spring to see if they survived the drought.
Has anyone ever bought seed from:
Edited: I posted this before looking at their website because I remember that they used to sell fruit tree seeds. WOW, the prices certainly have changed.
Does anyone know of any other nurseries that sell fruit tree seed?
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Sheffield’s Seed Company sells seeds. I bought beach plum and hortulana plum seeds this year but I don’t know what the germination will look like yet. Also, I bought seeds from Oikos this year as well and just wanted to note that some extra seeds were provided with my shipment (both of what I ordered and a sample of a related variety) so while expensive it was still a good experience.
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