Im looking for a white peach tree that is PLC resistant.
innitial research says Salish summer and indian free but between the two it seems like SS may be more resistant?
Sounds like IF may taste better though?
should i just go get one of these two or is there something better taste wise?
what say you?
Alternatively, i could graft onto my frost peach but i have room for 3 more trees so and only 1 peach tree so im thinking i need another tree. hence a white peach.
My Indian Free does seem to be more resistant than other peaches. But I’m not in a particularly humid area so I can’t comment on how resistant it really is. It seems to break dormancy several weeks later than others, which also helps because by the time it’s leafing out there’s barely any rain.
My Indian free has only had a handful of infected leaves in the last five years combined. I do not spray it with chemicals here in Portland. It is a different peach though and not really white but rather red on the outside and throughout the flesh with a cranberry raspberry flavor to me with some astringency also. It is quite tasty if you let it ripen all the way which for me is end of September usually. Plus the flowers are large, pale pink and arrive later than some other stone fruit here. I feel like growing it just for the flowers.
My Salish summer has had a few leaves infected in the two years I have had it. Also it is not spayed with chemicals but rather only with “Italian dressing” which is vinegar, olive oil, dawn dish soap and water if I remember correctly. This peach is more of a traditional white.
I also have a Charlotte which gets the same treatment and has had little to no PLC in the last three years. And it is growing like a weed. It has small, not very showy flowers.
My Elberta was plagued with PLC and I removed it after a few years.
later ones are better here due to late frosts. good to know.
between the IF and SS which one tastes better in your opinion? which one is more juicy? this quest to find a white peach started after i ate a peach that should have been eaten over the kitchen sink it was so juicy.
Last year I grafted Indian Free on my Oregon Curl Free tree, and while the OCF tree had severe PLC this year (after only mild PLC last year), the Indian Free graft had only a few small bubbles on leaves, no distorted growth, and outgrew it quickly. The OCF has completely self-pruned many smaller branches and aborted all but a single fruit due to the severe PLC, but the branches that are having new growth now look OK. The Salish Summer T-buds failed last year, but I’m planning to try a few more grafts of that on the OCF tree this fall.
Mine showed some leaves with curl mid May, has yours constantly set fruit in the past and current year.
My Salish summer is only two years old going into it’s third summer now with it’s first fruits this year so I can’t say much about it yet.
The Indian free wasnt super juicy but very tasty. One of the best I have had actually when it is fully ripe late September. Very tart and astringent but very sweet. Kinda hard to describe.
My Salish summer is only on summer three so it is only just now setting fruit.
My Charlotte is a year older and has a few fruits last year and about a dozen so far this year have set.
The Indian free was here at this house when we moved in five years ago but it is not much older than that. It has had a few fruits each year. But it is a small and gangly tree that was not much loved by the last owners. It was a four way multigraft and the others have all died off (frost, muir, q18 which is Salish summer). I am thinking of pulling it and starting over with a single Indian free so I can manage it and shape it to my liking.
Thanks everyone.
Ended up getting Salish summer just because I could actually find it locally.
I’ll grab an Indian free scion over winter and graft on to my frost peach.
