Hello
I am from Azerbaijan, at the moment our agricultural sector rapidly growing. I am going to plant flat peaches and nectarines. In our country wild extended PSB’s varieties of peaches and nectarines. Could you please advice me the varieties of flat peaches and nectarines from PSB’s collection with best characteristics do any body have experience with above mentioned producer. I will be appreciate any kind off provided information it will be very valuable.
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Javid
Please spell out PSB.
Hi Javid.
You are asking about PSB, in the wrong place.
PSB Produccion Vegetal is a Spanish company for the obtaining, editing and distribution of fruit varieties.
Is this company
https://psbproduccionvegetal.com/en/home/
It is run by the Buffat family, with Philippe Buffat, as company director.
I know the PSB varieties quite well, since I have some of them in my orchard, but the most important thing is that I have professional friends with their varieties on their farms, and they know perfectly all the PSB varieties.
The question you ask “what are your best varieties of peaches and nectarines” is a bit abstract, since the number of varieties of peaches, flat peaches, nectarines, and flat nectarines is super-extensive.
If you tell me if you are interested in early harvest, seasonal, or late harvest varieties, I could recommend more carefully.
If you are interested in Pavias (peaches with yellow skin, firm flesh and very aromatic).
This type of peaches:
I already tell you that the varieties of Provedo nursery are the best in the world, and I think that Provedo also has distribution in your country.
Personally, I like the Provedo varieties of all types of fruit genus more than the PSB ones.
Regards
Jose
Maybe because they are the best for your location. Here, I find that the breeding programs closest to my climate create the most dependable varieties, and often about the best tasting… as grown here. There are many exceptions though. Redgold nectarine was developed in CA but is a top 3 nect for me in my climate, so I’d love to try some of your favorites if scionwood ever gets imported here. I may be wrong, but I suspect that Europeans are more attuned to their palates than the citizens of my own country tend to be, although we are getting better.
Hi Alan.
Good peaches, with the right rootstock, adapt quite well to a fairly wide climatic range.
It is true that in climates with high humidity, the peach tree presents fungal problems, but in ideal climates for its cultivation, the new varieties are wonderful.
I don’t feel a predilection for Spanish breeders, because I’m Spanish (that would be real hypocrisy), I like good peaches from all good breeders.
Paul Friday, in his PF series peach program, has some very very good varieties, the Estellar series has some excellent varieties, the Zaiger Royal and Sweet series has some wonderful peach varieties, some varieties bred by CREA in Rome (Italy), they are very good, some varieties of peaches, especially flat peaches from the French breeder ASF-Maillard , are exceptional.
In Spain we have quite a few stone fruit breeders:
The interesting thing about the breeder Provedo is its line of fruit trees with an “Extreme” flavor.
They are characterized by very high brix levels, very low acidity, and very powerful flavors, which make their varieties an authentic delight.
Provedo has a strong presence in the United States, at a commercial level for large plantations, and has a delegation in the United States.
Regard
Jose
I’ve yet to taste a low acid peach that gets high enough brix in my humid climate to appeal to my tastes. Where we get a lot of rain and grey skies during the growing season, getting high sugar can be daunting. For nectarines it can be cracking that kills the crop. Low acid high brix nects get sweet enough to be good but our conditions make the harvests poor, or have in my own orchard. Only Carene has worked fairly well for me, I guess because it ripens before wasp populations get too high. They destroy the fruit of high brix- low acid nects before they reach high quality. Acid seems to be a bit of a pest repellent and over 20 brix an attractant. .
Hi Jose,
I am appreciate for your quick response.
Regarding of features of flat peach and nectarines I am looking for early and middle early harvesting variates with good brix level 15>, attractive color and fruit size, high flavors and cracking resistance fungal low susceptibility appreciate. The rootstock is very important there are a lot of varieties suggested by plant producers which one do you suggest? The place has heavy kind of soil and the ground water level is deep enough. The temperature in day time in summer time high enough 30-35 C the night temperature is 18-20C. Rains enough in spring time, night frost stops after end of the March. Hope i provide enough information for first understanding of my requirements. If you need additional information i am ready to provide it.
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javid
Hi Jose,
I found some Provedo’s nursery varieties . Could you please explain what make Provedo’s varieties best in the world what kind of advantages has this varietes
BR
Javid
In your climate, which I think is very similar to mine, you should try some varieties of PSB, there are other obtainers with better flavors, of course, but unfortunately they do not work in our climate, if you close your eyes on a rainy day on a variety of those that are considered the best, you can see in a few days how you lose almost all the fruits due to brown rot, then you start to drive crazy spraying, paper bag….and so on , it has happened to me with for example, Honey Sugar, and eating them green is not worth it.
The issue of PSB is very curious from my point of view, it has gone from being a non-important breeder a few years ago, to being in the last 2 or 3 years a breeder to be able to be one of the greatest projection in the coming years, that is due to the objectives they have had set in their programs, which are now giving results after having experienced in their orchards in the last 10 or 15 years in different locations, with different climates, some drier and warmer and others more humid and temperate, they cover all ranges.
And it is simply that, PSB also set itself the objective of developing resistant varieties, while other breeders devoted more efforts to the career of tasting.
And today where European legislation is increasingly limiting the use of chemicals to ridiculous limits in the eyes of fruit producers, it is where PSB has advanced or has been better positioned than the rest.
What matters to us in our climate and has been part of its objectives is precisely that, to be able to obtain ultra-resistant fruits to basically all diseases, all of them cannot be at the maximum level obviously, but the final result are trees that represent a before and after if you compare it with the commercial varieties we had a few years ago and in some characteristics they even surpass the classic varieties considered the most resistant.
Everything we have looked for in humid climates PSB gives it to us already and in the coming years I think it will continue to surprise us.
In terms of flavor, it has a range of really very very rich resistant sub-acid nectarines, they cannot be compared with one from Provedo or Royal series, but they are really really tasty, very very goof taste and the most important …. They are able to grow in our climates without a headache.
Can you give us a few examples of the best tasting nectarine varieties from each of these breeders you mentioned?
Hello Ahmad,
For the other 2 breeders I don’t have experience, I bet to PSB to my nectarines collection because in the last years PSB have released really strong varieties with higher rated taste, other breeders are doing well too( taste+resistance) like ASF but unfortunately get ASF varieties is more difficult (at least for me).
I have seen that where you are living , I understand that you suffer from high humidity in the summer, so we are in similar situations and therefore we need more or less the same, it would be also important to know what type of spray management you do in your orchard, this information could make you discard or not discard some varieties,
I do not fumigate to force the selection of what can withstand and to see/check what is the behavior of each variety or I only spray one time in Winter some years , not all years and sometimes not all trees, just I test and see the results…take in consideration in Summer I have more than 80% humidity, it,s too much cloudy, rainy….
So I look for the more resistant trees that can survive and produce with a minimum cares.
So, with that premises, the stronger PSB varieties with very good or excellent taste are Atanais, Tifany, Kinolea and Esmeralda.
That means no cracking, no split pits, no important/high fungal damages, therefore long post-harvest period, no fruit losses for monilia….
For example Atanais is in the same level of PLC resistance as the most old famous varieties to be PLC resistance.
Kinolea and Esmeralda are a bit more resistance in terms of monilia, brown rot …but a bit less regarding PLC
If you spray, open the door to the ones are susceptible to PLC in a medium level damage or let’s say a normal level of most of modern nectarine varieties, for instance Clariss is supposed to be excellent taste( I didn’t eat yet) my tree is young yet, hope to do it this year.
or even Boreal is in the same PLC level than Clariss and taste is rated as excellent, my daughters and wife love it, also there is a big difference if they have 2Brix more, it change from very good to excellent.
I didn’t added in my collection the older PSB varieties, just I added the newest varieties.
Keep in mind in the last few years in commercial productions PSB is the one with higher increase of planted Hectáreas , so this is the fact, looks some PSB nectarine varieties have win a relevant place in commercial level and also valid for our home orchards.
Best Regards