Oldmixon Free white peach eaten today (Sept 6, 2023)- of good quality. This came from a stick of scionwood @Chris_in_GA sent me six (6) years ago!
Picked a small crop of these three days ago (on Sept 3, 2023)… had a good one yesterday (Sept 5) and today (Sept 6). The rot and the squirrels got some of them, but several seem to have made it through. I may have picked them a little early for fear I would lose them. This batch comprises a sweet white peach flavor upfront with a zingy sourness on the back end… reminding me a little of Raritan Rose in flavor, but less intense and denser (less juicy) in texture. The texture was still tender, almost melting, and somewhat juicy nonetheless.
This is only the 2nd time I’ve had the opportunity to taste these. In 2019, I found one specimen half-eaten by a squirrel on the ground (on Sept 9 of that year). What remained tasted great- high white peach sweetness mixed with a high yellow/red raspberry tartness.
Some of these peaches have an insane amount of pubescence (fuzz) on them. It readily pills up into fuzzballs when you run your finger over the surface of the peach. This might account for its seeming (if marginal) natural pest resistance.
I am currently in z6b NEPA.