This tree was labeled when I bought it as a Hale Haven Peach. But it turned out to be a nectarine. This is the first year it has fruited. The fruit is incredibly ugly, but tastes pretty good. Any ideas??? I did notice another nectarine in our area had ugly fruit too.
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My White Heavenly peaches were even uglier than yours, lots of grasshoppers were chewing on them.
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Wow, I’m amazed nects can survive Taos weather. It’s a stretch to try to identify those, but to have any hope you need someone who is growing fruit nearby and at least get some idea of ripening sequence- when it ripened compared to a well known fruit variety. It may be a later ripening one like Redgold if you harvested it recently. But it’s not like I could tell it from Fantasia based on the state of your fruit and both ripen around the same time.
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That looks like a white nectarine, which would eliminate Alan’s suggestions. I’ve been eating some fairly ugly Arctic Jay nects that came off the tree a week ago. The previously mentioned Heavenly White is another candidate, since it’s supposed to start ripening about a week later than Arctic Jay. There are other Dave Wilson white peaches it could be, so consider checking that nursery out. Im not as familiar with white nects outside the Dave Wilson family, but I’d guess there are several candidates there too.
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I can’t tell by the picture they are white at all, but at the very least you bring up a good point. It would be helpful to cut the least cracked one open to take a shot of it and show us all the flesh and seed.
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The bottom right fruit has a “fresh” split facing away from the camera. That looks like white flesh to me. The skin color looks like a white nectarine too, but you’re correct, a photo of a cut fruit would be definitive.
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Wow - thanks everyone for your interest. I will attach a photo of one of the fruit cut up. Do you think that it is just an ugly fruit - or that it has something wrong with it.?? Thanks so much. And I can check with the neighbor who also has some similar looking fruit to see if they know the variety…
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It’s just a bit ugly. Cut out the bad spots and eat the rest.
It’s a white fleshed nectarine.
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It looks like physical damage like yellowjackets. Also one or more looks to have split some. Fruit took on too much water at once and sometimes split. More even watering, which at times can’t be done. Heavy rains etc. Why well draining soil is important or mounded to reduce water build up around roots. You have to do this before they are planted not after. Mounding soil around trunk is a big no no. You want the roots at the trunk to be partially visible, so the root at the trunk is only partially buried. You want visible root flares.
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That’s what mine looked like,before I started bagging them.Almost calling them a lost cause,a little barrier really helped.
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Mine get cracks from rain after they start to size up and then yellow jackets exploit the damage. Peaches are so much easier to grow than nects in challenging conditions- partly because they don’t have the same tendency to crack.
I don’t grow any late white nects but that certainly narrows down the possibility of what it is.
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They look to be edible but better eat them fast
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