Here’s a video about the White Diamond peach:
Matt,
In the video John Clark compares White Diamond to White County. I never did like the taste of White County (although my wife really liked the peach). It was very low acid, and had too much perfume for me. The perfume was so strong, it almost seemed like it tasted/smelled like it was a fragrance made in a factory.
White County was also a complete loser here from a commercial perspective. It was very large, but also had a very large percentage of split pits (probably approaching 50%). Plus it was terrible for bac. spot. Lastly, in very hot KS weather the peaches would brown internally on the tree. It was a very high browning peach anyway, but the fruit would actually brown before you cut them open, in very hot weather.
I hope White Diamond doesn’t have all the baggage White County had.
I’ve planted another release from the AR program - White River - but haven’t fruited it yet.
Thanks Mark. White Diamond is supposed to taste similar to White County but have more disease resistance like White River. Weird to hear about the perfume thing.
Here are my notes on WD gathered from various sources:
White Diamond peach of Arkansas ordered on Halford from CVN. Late white low-acid melting freestone peach from Arkansas. Said to be similar in taste to the praised White County. Grandchild of Loring. Supposed to have strong resistance to bac spot & brown rot. Unknown cold hardiness. Parent White River is known to have supreme disease resistance & brix slightly higher than Redhaven. One grower says White River survived a few winters in Z6 Kansas, but flowered early and buds got froze out one year. The following year, it collapsed under heavy fruit load. Thin if set is heavy. Should survive cold winters but buds may get froze out in years with late frosts. Estimated ripening Sept 2- 18.
Thanks Matt. As an fyi, that was me with the comments about white River in ks. I recognized my own evaluation 
I used to try to grow it, but the tree died from too wet of soil. I was impressed by the descriptions out of AR and always wanted to taste the fruit, so I planted another 
Yup, but I didn’t get any this year. Some of my peaches were hit by the hard frost in the first week of April. Most of the rest were devoured by critters. I think Carolina Gold is the only one I got more than 1-2 fruits from. I don’t remember any reaching maturity on the White River.
From my 2015 harvest, it is a pretty red on the inside:
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@BobVance, I clicked on that link and noticed the fruit of White River looked pretty spotty. I hope it’s not bac. spot 
It’s always a bit hard for me to tell bac. spot from scab without looking at the leaves. Have you noticed any shothole on the leaves on your tree?
My tree is still pretty young, and young trees typically don’t show bac. spot on the leaves.
I was about to say- “No, I don’t think the leaves had much (if any) issue”, until I saw your last sentence. Now I need to add “but, it is still a relatively young tree, planted in 2013.”
I just ordered a replacement for an Arctic Glo Nectarine that died and am going to try Splash Pluot and Cot-N-Candy Aprium from Peaceful Valley.
When visiting San Francisco recently,I tasted some dried C-N-C and they were very good.
I may also get a Rabbiteye Blueberry,Brightwell. Brady
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I will be planting two Sugar Twist Pluerries, a Butte Almond, and a Flavorrella Plumcot.
I ordered three Sugar Twist Pluerries, but I will give one to my best friend. Now I need to get a pollinator for his Sugar Twist pluerry. I’m thinking of Candy Heart Pluerry, Sweet Treat, Pluerry, Branchberry Nadia, or a pluot. Which one should I get?
Maybe graft something of yours onto his. I’ve had good luck doing that in early spring using W&T grafts.
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I am ordering a Desoto and Yadkin rabbiteye blueberries this year. Matt, you said you thought the taste of Yadkin was good as well as Ochlockonee. Did you prefer one over the other?
I have a Columbus,Tifblue,Climax,maybe one more and Yadkin,which I like the best. Brady
The pluerry is going to be shipped directly to his home.
I don’t have Yadkin, but wish I did. I’ve heard good things about it.
Ochlockonee is the best one that I have.
Oops, sorry about that, I must have misread a past post. Sounds like both Yadkin and Ochlockonee are two of the better rabbiteyes. I’m hoping Desoto is a good one too, but haven’t seen any opinions on it.
I wanted a peach or two, just to see how they did here in GA and how much care and spraying they’d need. The only rootstock UGA really recommends for this area is Guardian (with Lovell receiving a nod as a distant second).
But, this is a hard rootstock to find, and I didn’t really want to order from Vaughn or Cumberland farm just for one or two trees.
I was very pleasantly surprised when I was browsing Adams Co website to see they had a Julyprince on Guardian (apparently the only tree they have on Guardian) so I was happy to add it to my order. (I already ordered an Ilona apricot from them.)
Rootstocks; i thought i had enough last year but i have managed to locate new varieties to try…
Most everything else by exchange, this site is an incredible resource
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Just ordered 78 (5/8) Red Haven on Lovell rootstock from Stark Bros.
An FYI…received a Wholesale 2017 inventory list from Stark yesterday. Was very timely as I had been searching for Red Haven on Lovell. Cummins had them but were about $8 more per tree plus they never got back to me after repeated attempts to contact them over the past couple of months.
Our biggest hit in the garden this year was the red and blue fleshed Adirondack potato’s from Stark Bros. Flavor was unbelievable, will be ordering twice as many this spring so hopefully we can save some for the next years planting.
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