It’s supposed to be resistant. But of the resistant peaches I’ve had, it’s the least resistant. My region has bad leaf curl pressure.
Even Frost and Charlotte get some here.
My frost, indian free and July elberta peaches have very little issues with peach leaf curl here in Portland. My trees are small so I just walk around each week in the spring and pull off a handful of infected peach leaf curl leaves and burn them. It takes like 15 minutes. So that may be an option if you keep the trees small.
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Hi Jafar, how do you like Charlotte? And what time does it ripen, compared to other well-known varieties? I have a young tree starting, but can’t find much information on it.
It didn’t make much fruit for me, the were small and had a bunch of doubles. I grafted it over to plums.
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Very true. My wife is from Vancouver, WA. Leaf curl overwhelmed her attempt at growing peaches decades ago.
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Indian free has the most amazing smell of peach perfume
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Amazing is the perfect description.
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I was also thinking enchanting. I get whiffs off them once they start ripening in my house and I am so excited.
Sadly my tree died this year in the vortex but it will always be replanted as I have not found its equal
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I got my first fruits this year off of my third year tree. I picked them all on Oct 9th, the day before our fall rains began. I ate the last one today. They are very good. I assume they will get even better as the tree matures.
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Greetings, Yes, I do have an Indian Free tree and it was PLC-free at first. My only other peach tree, right next to it, is a Baby Crawford which is a PLC magnet. I am slow to start spraying things but the BC tree got hit really hard and the next year the IF got a little. The next year, same thing only the IF got a little more. I tried spraying a bit but quite ignorantly and maybe only did it twice…once right before a rain. This year the BC again lost all it’s leaves but survived and the IF again was hit a little harder. I am going to try to be diligent this year with treatments.
My first (and only) real crop from IF was astounding. Deep red inside and out…flavor ~ strong tart raspberry peach. I don’t know what that would turn into as the tree matures. I think it gets lighter inside and maybe less tart. It has not produced the last two years (well, a couple little shriveled ones)…just a bit too much of a strain with the PLC. I had a similar experience with a pluot tree…it made two lovely fruit one year and is right next to Toka Plum disease magnet. Last two years the Toka has barely survived and no fruit on the pluot. (All my trees are just 3-4 years old.)
I had never sprayed anything (for many years) until I brought in plants from outside nurseries. I think it made a difference. Anyway, I see this stuff is not going to go away on it’s own…I gotta get serious about maintenance.
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Wondered if i could pick your brain on a few of these
What did you think of allstar strawberry?
How did strawberry sensation honeyberry do for you?
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Unfortunately, my daughter didn’t understand my instructions when I had her plant the strawberries. The plants got all mixed up and while I know the general area that ALL of them are in, I don’t know which is which 
. I really dislike when this happens, but she didn’t do it on purpose, she just misunderstood what I was saying. Anyway, I was hoping to try to figure out which are which this year by habitat, but I don’t know how that’s going to go.
As far as the honeyberries go, I decided against buying them. Logie over at LoveHoneyberry quoted the starter pack at about 400.00 for 32 plants… 4 plants per variety (shipping and phytocertifcate included). That’s not that a bad price, since it was going to be coming from CAN, but since I could get everything but Strawberry Sensation, Giant Hearts, and Blue Banana stateside, I felt like it would be a better use of my limited budget to get what I could get stateside so I would have additional funds to buy other fun things. I’m still very much interested in Strawberry Sensation, but I had forgotten about it because this year was the year of the Paw Paw, Persimmon, and Jujube for me. While I did buy some new varieties of honeyberries (among other things) I was really focused on getting Paw Paw, Persimmon, and Jujube trees (and scion wood… thanks again to everyone who traded with me or sent wood!).
Soooo, I’m sorry, but I can’t help you at all. 
Thank you for reminding me about this though… I’ll have to do some research, maybe I can get Strawberry Sensation next season. 
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I can try. I planted 100 Allstar and 1,000 EarliGlo almost 30 years ago.
The ALLSTAR is a pretty big berry, long in shape, and heavy (good if you’re selling by the pound). But, the fruit set, ripening, taste, I didn’t find special.
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If you have runners of Marshall strawberry this year, I would do a trade or purchase from you.