What variety are those? I have a mislabeled tree and mine look a lot like those. They are awesome. So sweet, and they stay firm when baked.
Is a seedling peach, so have no idea… yellow flesh free stone, not high quality for eating out of hand but good for canning/baking. They make a great cobbler.
I hope this thunderstorm today doesn’t ruin my first peaches!
Slightly worried from reading other people’s water experiences…
This was from a couple days ago when I noticed some sap on the butt!
Don’t forget the ice ice cream
I was going to work today and saw down the street (it’s a dead end, so I have literally no reason to ever go there) and the neighbor has a sprawling peach tree that looks like it lost a lot of leaves from something, but was very noticeably covered in peaches. It’s planted in the middle of a slope that’s like 200 yards long, so I guess the cold air didn’t linger there, probably? I went and looked at it tonight and the fruit were maybe tennis ball sized and didn’t seem to have much blush.
Thoughts on if this peach (Hale Haven) looks ready to pick (zone 7)? It is my first ever peach and only peach that survived the late frost this year. Ignore the kaolin clay/white on the right of the peach in the second half of the picture.
If it’s cheeks are soft it might be ripe and ready to twist and pull - congrats.
Still very hard. It started turning last week, so I thought the rule of thumb was to pick a week or two after the color change (per Google), but still not ready.
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picking when colored up and a bit soft to the touch, not firm. delicious. they’re clingstone which is a bit hard if i cook from them but otherwise I’m just glad to have fresh peaches from the tree
I’ve picked 3 bowls from the tree so far. i didn’t thin super heavily so they are on the small side which is ok, easier to eat a smaller one to finish out of hand
Neighbor and his kids were out. So I said you got a bucket for peaches? His daughter ran to grab egg basket and we filled it up with peaches. They are leaving on vacation tomorrow. Now they can have peaches to eat for snack while traveling 
his daughter asked how to pick them. I showed her grab twist and pull. She said that’s easy enough. I think I like giving away the best of all.
My hale haven seems to ripen in the second half of August and I’m not too far from you.
I would imagine with all the heat this summer it could be a couple weeks early.
Been a “hard” season to grow fruit this year. Lots of loss to late spring freezes plus all the heat and humidity. Hopefully next year will be easier.
So many peach trees are mislabeled. Two out of the last three I have purchased are not what they’re purported to be. I have one that ripens mid-late August in NW NC. I have no idea what it is. Maybe August Prince? I’ve already tried the Autumn Prince so I know that isn’t it.
I seem to always be waiting for next year .
Up by my farm, there is a small town, maybe 5 miles away.
I look over by an abandoned general store.
There stands a peach tree, unprunded, un kept, behind a sidewalk, between the store and a residence in a vacant but mowed lot.
It was branched to the ground and loaded with big round colored up peaches. They looked like Christmas ornaments. Maybe 80 of them. I was surprised nobody was picking them. They were big.
I’m quite jealous. Maybe that’s my solution to no peaches….give them neglect.
Or…..my few peaches were so tasty that the squirrels and coons couldn’t resist them and couldn’t keep their hands off of them.
I’ll figure it out someday. Shows you what you can do when there aren’t critters out there, eating everything.