am looking for a good source for the snow peach that gets ripe early so i can graft next year. not at fedco, I’ll keep on looking.
all but 2 of the reliance are ripe and soft in the cheek. they’re delicious now after another lil while on the tree. i like a white flesh peach better, these taste of canned peach to me that standard yellow flavor. my partner likes em though.
A couple stark Saturn. Only 5 made it after a few dropped early. Ate 3 before I came inside. Hopefully a lot more next year, Great eating.
I thought if i left loring ripe on the tree a little longer its flavor profile might change. Nope… the flesh just gets more red. I believe the red coloring in the flesh is a sign of an abundance of anthocyanins. Which is most definitely not a bad thing (if) anthocyanins.
Contender Peaches ripening up here in 5B. Took them off the tree probably a little too soon but these ones were massive and I didn’t want to chance bugs getting to them. First Peaches ever for me! Still have 20-30 on the tree that aren’t quite this big and could use a few more days. These big ones are about 3 3/4" diameter!
Pictures include a tennis ball, cherry, and store bought nectarine (bottom right) for comparison.
Congrats! Enjoy your beautiful peaches. If they feel not quite ripe, just keep them on the counter for couple days.
And watch what was left on the tree. I left some last week and they were stripped overnight by possum.
Same experience for me, I find contender to be less susceptible to brown rot.
Just finishing off the Babcock peaches. Very good white peach. I totally forgot about the tree and it pulled through very well with no spray. Not much PC and hardly any rot. Pretty impressive for my neck of the woods.
Loring can be fantastic some years and other years just good. This was a just good year for Loring here. Although the deer thought they were fantastic.
Use captan with immunocompromised for better results.
It’s the middle of august and we still have tree ripe peaches. My enthusiasm for fresh delicious tree ripe peaches is waning.
Peach tree pruning for structure. I prefer open center over scaffolds. But i’m curious which is better as the trees age over the seasons?
What is “immunocompromised”?
Thanks
Our peach season is over, no more furits on the trees. Loring was our last to harvest. I’m super happy that we still have clean skinned fruits, minus minimal bird peck. Covers of tank mixed indar, immunox, southern ag speader sricker and sevin concentrate worked well for us this season
Loring peach cobbler 
My wife is going to can up some loring peach pie filling and after we finish up eating the remaining peaches, we’ll be done with peaches 2025.
Please continue to post of your peaches for 2025. I’ve learned a lot from all you all. Thank You for posting here.
Awesome for first peaches.
My ipad must have scrambled my message, which should have been: use captan and immunox together for brown rot.
Addendum to my own message: I don’t recall sending the message, but I do remember other occasions that Ipad predicted wrongly my intended spelling. Is this AI?
Put these bare root trees in this spring. They grew well until about two weeks ago. Any ideas?
Frost on Citation stock
Indian Free on Citation
Peach leaf curl?
Don’t think so, or at least not entirely that. Possibly something going on with the roots.
My frost peach started looking unhappy on year 2 and almost died. I never did figure out exactly what the problem was, but I had neglected to fertilize it in addition to having very rocky soil with probably low CEC, and apparently peaches need a lot of food. I gave it plenty of fertilizer the following year and it survived, but is still struggling.
That discussion is here, starting on post 18, in case it’s of value: Red spots on peach tree leaves - #20 by pine
I have had this with young peach trees in the spring and I discovered its due to overwatering (excessive rain). Peach leaves are usally either flat or folded at their center when they are new. When a peach needs water the leaves droop and become like canal to catch water that runs off the leaf down into its roots. Yours are rolled up tight saying I’ve had too much water.
We currently have the following peaches in 8b Northeast Texas (but basically Southwest Arkansas in terms of climate):
We have the space to add 3 more varieties this Fall. I’m seriously considering Redglobe, Loring & Flameprince.
Probably want to stick with about 750-950 chill hours because we tend to get late frosts. We have very wet Springs and struggle with leaf spotting and other overwatering disease issues on our stone fruit, followed by the one-two punch of very hot, dry summers.
Our supplier also suggested Bounty, Belle of Georgia, Ranger, and Redskin. I see Ranger rated to zone 7, so I’m dubious of its tolerance to zone 8b, although I know several local nurseries carry it.
Of these varieties, which 3 would you select, and why?
