That is an amazing number of trees Zaiger’s Genetics has developed. Dave Wilson must be the biggest tree nursery in the USA. No wonder Dave Wilson came up with the idea of growing multiple trees in one hole. No one has room for even a fraction of them.
I really like the nectaplum. For one it’s a beautiful tree. The purple leaves are striking. The nectarines are huge. It’s a sweet white. Flavor can improve with age. Japanese beetles seem to leave it alone. A prolific tree. Fast growing. Can produce the first year. I have grown two of them.
Actually every white nectarine I tried I loved. Arctic Jay is really tasty. Arctic Glo is red fleshed. It does not taste like red peaches do. Unique flavor.
I also grow Fantasia a yellow. It is fantastic. Gets better each year.
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I am a survivor of a traumatic childhood peach tree attack and can’t stand the fuzz. I’m growing a Silver Gem white nect. Only gotten to try like two fruit off the tree last year (thanks, squirrels!) and there’s only two fruit on the tree this year that I’ve seen (thanks, April freeze!), but I liked it.
A lot of the NJ/Rutgers and UofArk releases are supposed to be very bacterial spot resistant. So as an east coast grower you still have PLC, brown rot, PC, borers, squirrels and probably a half dozen other things, but you can maybe not have that particular problem that you can’t directly do anything about.
If you don’t have a very useful dog, most sites around here require squirrel baffles or a fence with a strand of electric wire on squirrel years to realize a harvest of stonefruit, and sometimes, any fruit. They were gone here for a couple of years but are back in great numbers again… and there isn’t a lot of naturally occurring food for them. They haven’t moved into my property because when I see them I shoot them, but if the populations explodes, baffles are the only solution.