Does anybody have Pacific Pride Nectarine? Does it have a separate cultivar name? Apparently a seedling from Kreibach. Looks like its trademarked but not patented.
While we’re at it, what do folks think of Kreibach and how does it compare to curl resistant peaches you’ve tried?
Kriebiach is the only nectarine I have that is doing well against the curl. It set a few small fruit last year.
All these get curl so bad they defoliate completely then grow new leaves a few weeks later. They drop any fruit sets with the leaves.
Atomic red: fail
Hardired: fail
Hardy Canadian red: fail (got from nursery in Mt Vernon WA)
These are all 4 years old.
I got a new flavor top nectarine to try this year. It was on sale at McClendon hardware in woodinville Wa. It is amazingly curl free. I suspect that it got the full line of spray before I got it. So I am not going to call it a good one until it proves it next year.
My peach and nectarines are on the bank of a salmon stream so I don’t spray them with any copper. I may have to find a way to hang tarps on a windless day to spray in the future I am starting to think.
I took 4 " choppings’ from an old abandoned farm 8 years ago from a very viril Nectarine. I mean these were more like trees just old and massive and baby nectarines were popping up off the roots which seemed to have spread to every open spot for what seemed like 50 yards in all directions.
I dug down to the roots way away from the tree where the roots were smaller and chopped them off on each side of the small trees coming up. Only one survived and now it’s a very large multi topped bush tree.
I have no idea what type of Nectarine they were only that it had to be a variety from more than 75 plus years ago as the farm has been abandoned that long and I first saw them 40 years ago.
I plan on taking some cuttings to try and eventually reproduce them and low and behold I see I now have a small tree coming up off it’s roots so I will chop it off and replant soon.
Congratulations. If you were able to propagate it from the roots, it’s probably an un-named seedling. You must have liked the fruit, or something else about it, to want to propagate it.
I didn’t mention it in the first post, but the reason I have some interest in Pacific Pride is because it is purported to be Peach Leaf Curl resistant.
They just had a good tart flavor. I figure these heirloom varitys from yesteryear need saving.
If it came from the roots, it is probably not a variety, just a seedling. You can give it a name if you want to keep track of it.
How did the fruit taste, I read a blog post that the skin has some bitter taste.
Is flavor top shown to be PLC resistant?
I didn’t find one early summer no one had it in the stock. I got a Kreibach sapling in a 6" pot from a new local nursery, unfortunately looks like the plant is stunted and has put little growth 3-4" compared to Spice Zee Nectaplum sapling planted on the same day as Kreibach growing close to 2 ft.
Mine had PLC bad for 3 years in a row and completely defoliated so I culled it. Probably not one I would ever recommend in Western Washington despite it’s “Pacific Pride” unless you want to work harder than the tree works for you.