Ok now I have to add Red Haven to my list too 
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We are just about done for the season. Another couple weeks at most.
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Is that because the latest peaches will be ripe soon, or the interest in peaches starts to drop? I would think that varieties like Heath Cling, Victoria, and Autumn Price be ripe almost 2 months from now.
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I called an orchard just over the river in Ohio, and theyâve had a bumper crop of peaches this year. Unfortunately, we didnât know about it until last week, and theyâre about done with theirs. They only have Victoria and Cresthaven, I believe, left.
If weâd knew about them sooner, we wouldâve drove the 50mi up there and picked some up.
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Bob,
Currently Victoria is our last peach and will start to ripen in a little less than two weeks. We started the season here very early, plus like many varieties, Victoria didnât perform well in our challenging spring weather this year.
I donât have Heath Cling. I have a couple trees of Autumn Prince. One of them actually has a peach on it this year (even though I planted it just this spring). That one peach does look like itâs a ways off from harvesting. It hasnât even started the fruit swell stage.
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Let me know if you want to graft Heath Cling next spring. I also have Carnival, which should be about a week later, per DWN. Both are 2nd year trees, which are carrying a few fruit each.
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Beautiful looking peachesďź
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The Winblo trees I grafted thanks to Olpea for the scion and the Loring peach tree I got from Lowes finally fruited. Best peaches I have eaten. Peach trees has became my favorite. The flowers and peaches are so beautiful. I am so obsessed I am ordering 7 more varities from Vaughns. I plan to plant about .25 acres of peaches. Wished I tried peach 1st instead of last. I will feel like the âMonkey Kingâ in journey to the west when I stand in my mini peach orchard. Have no clue what I would do with all those fruits though. Hope it doesnât cut into my muscadine season. I have about 500 lbs of muscadines over 8 weeks that I have to eat and give away.
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My sweet bagel are just starting to show some red and size up someâŚstill mostly green and rock hard. One is open in the middle and i can see through it. Seems to be very late reading through some old posts.
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We had so much rain this year.my July Elberta started to have grey mold, I have to pick them all off, well, them fell off anyways. I have been making peach jam every night since Monday. so many bottles of jam that can last for several years, i donât eat such sweet things and I am watching my diet/weight. I am glad the peach season is over.
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When I grew Sweet Bagel, it was my latest peach. Delicious donut. I just couldnât grow it because of horrendous bac. spot issues.
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Weâd been pacing ourselves on the six PF-17âs, just savoring the flavor as it was the last of any fresh peaches we had on the counter.
Then my daughter gave us some very well sized up Elberta that were ripe enough that the skins came off very easy. The flavor however was next to nothing. So I have eighteen of them on the counter and am not too excited about that 
This morning I go outside after a lot of heavy wind last night and find four Madison on the ground (My initial thought was tree rats had breached my securityâŚ) but, there are zero marks on the four fallen peaches. It was wind.
I looked over and only saw one of the two Reliance peaches in the tree, walked over and the other was on the ground. I felt like these peaches were a ways away, given they are mostly yellow with only like 10% blush. But when I picked it up I put it to my nose and it was âpeachyâ as well as slight give when I pressed.
Brought it in and cut it up alongside the last remaining PF17, and it may run counter to conventional wisdom, but both my wife and I thought the Reliance was the better tasting peach - by a lot.
Hardly a litmus test, as it was one peach - and in fairness to PF17, I thought of the meager six we had that this one wasnât probably the best anyway.
But Iâve been very interested to find out what a Reliance would taste like since itâs supposed to be capable of making peaches despite some pretty brutal conditions. So I always felt like once this tree starts producing, maybe I can count on peaches from a hardy tree but maybe the taste wonât be the greatest.
I have to say, if it taste like this every year Iâll be giddy. I donât however imagine they will be like this year in and year out. But I was pleasantly surprised from my first taste of Reliance peach .
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11 days later and they are starting to drop, so I picked some. Among the drops (some of which dropped when I was picking the others), most seemed very bland in the 8-10 brix range. Iâll keep trying a few more, but Iâm not sure what bland peaches with good/juicy texture are good for. It could be a severe lack of thinning, though I under-thinned Carolina Gold by a similar amount in the past and while small, they were still very good. I havenât started picking the CG yet, but will soon, so we can see if they are good again (also under-thinned). There are a few WR which are on a branch high up (better thinned and more sun), so Iâll need to give them a try to see what the up-side is.
I guess this is a lesson for next year. I wonât give up on White River due to this, but if it doesnât get better next year, then Iâve got another mature rootstock for graftingâŚ
Here are a few TangO IIâs that I got at the farmerâs market last weekend. They were very good, with 14 brix, good size and a medium firm meaty texture.
They also gave me a few Sweet Cap to try (another white donut peach), which was OK, but not great. Not that much lower brix (maybe 13), but much less flavor than TangO II.
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Bob,
I harvested a few Carolina Gold yesterday and they are huge and sweet with a little acid. I think I swap the scion with you a few years back. It is a keeper.
Tony
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Sweet bagel donât look any worse then any other stonefruit this yearâŚeverything is spotty. Iâll have to cover these soon when the birds see them they are toast.
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Praise the Lord! Itâs a great day when I just discovered another decent-sized Red Baron peach on my tree after only being aware of 2 decent-sized peaches! They are in the same area, so I must have assumed the one was the other when I never noticed they were actually 2 there!
Late heavy snow took its toll. This is the first year to have ripe baby peaches. Bizarre! I only have 2-3 of these.
However, my Red Gold Nec faired pretty well and they usually ripen right after the peach. As much as I love my Red Baron peaches, the Red Gold Necs when fully ripe are the sweetest, most incredible fruit I grow.
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This is the picture of my last Mary Jane peaches. They were very good. Very dense orange flesh, sweet with some acid. The most ripe peaches have red strikes in the flesh, like the one in the picture.
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Those are very nice looking peachesâŚ!!
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