I just wanted to say, all these peaches pictures coming in gives me HOPE. Thank you all, for.posting your pictures.
Peaches are the most difficult for me. I’m currently battling shot hole and now entomosporium leaf spot. I shall get this under control, simply because I don’t give up easily.
2 years ago (spring) I planted
1 contender peach, it’s now about 10 foot tall.
1 year ago (spring) I planted
2 May Rich (Flavorich)
1 Red Haven
This spring I planted
1 Loring
1 Reliance
All started as 3 to 4 foot bare root whips, except the may rich which were potted.
I also grafted contender, may rich and red haven, this spring.
I figured in the next few years I’ll know which varieties will work best for me in zone 6B Southern Illinois. Then I can plan long production row(s). I have no peaches yet, hoping for flower buds on the contender next spring. But I can say at least I keeping the trees alive
The Contender peach has been a better producer of peaches than the Redhaven at my location. I only had room for a few peach trees so I had a hard time picking out which peach variety I would grow here. I do have a Flaming Fury peach variety at my location but so far it has not had any peaches yet. I was hoping this year after it fully bloomed but for some reason all my peach tress have no fruit on them. In my location, as probably your location as well, it is a hit or miss situation with peaches.
Most of mine are still to young to flower. Hoping the contender and 2 flavorich will flower come spring though. The two Flavorich, my wife bought potted at Rural King, so who knows if they true or not l. Guess I’ll find out
True. The ones you get at the big box stores sometimes can be labeled incorrectly. I have had mixed results buying from them. The prices are good so I bought some nursery product from them. I remember seeing fruit trees at Whole Foods one year. All were just marked
“Apple tree” " Cherry tree" " Peach tree". Nothing more. No size reference, no variety reference, no any other info.
I also bought some raspberry bushed from a local nursery. They were suppose to have grown all their own nursery product. These raspberry canes I bough were supposed to be " Thornless Canby" . They were NOT thornless, they had thorns about 1/2" long. LOL.
Good luck with your peaches. When you get your own peaches they taste so good compared to the ones you get in the stores.
We have big old peach orchard not too far from us called FLAMM Orchards they have awesome peaches. So at least I know it can be done around here. I recall they have 2 peach harvests, first is cling then about a month later is free. Both are large and outstandingly flavored. FLAMM also has a great reputation also (nice people).
Those peaches look amazing. You are lucky to have an orchard that has peaches close to you. We had an orchard close to use as we that used to have a whole orchard of peaches, probably 80-100 peach trees. We get so much cold weather during the winter and frosts/freezes right when the peaches bloom or get ready to bloom. They finally got tired of fighting trying to grow peaches. They just let that orchard go and the trees all died out. It was hard to watch the trees being neglected but I understand their frustration.
Seems more like it’s it’s geared more twords being a supplier for resellers, than onesies, twosies that Iay order. Curious if I placed a onesies, twosies
order and drove to pick it up prearranged time. As per their terms and conditions.
