They said for Worcester it is the most wet July in history of records!
I have heard it will break the 100 year history of MA and set the new record, too.
What bothers me during this wet period is my potted plants. They may get a lot of rain the night before but if the following day is sunny, some of tomato plants will wilt by the end of the day. Daily watering is not fun.
In fact, potted plants like tomatoes, if their drip line is wider than pot(and it is almost always true for large potted plants), they DO NOT get enough water despite the rain. The water just runs off to the ground. If they do not have saucer to collect water, they are not getting enough water.And if they have saucer, they may get too much water 
. Agree, not fun to water plants under the rain, but sometimes we have to 
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After I saw that post, I checked out my FG. Yup- plenty of cracks as well:
I don’t see any cracks on the Geo Pride next to it:
Is that still necessary, even if we keep spraying Indar? I was hoping it would be the magic bullet and would keep things from rotting long enough the crack to heal/dry.
Do these look like Early Magic as well? I grafted them as Spring Satin, but they don’t match the description. And the same year I grafted SS, I also did Reema and EM, so it is possible I mixed up the wood. I’ve also reached out to the guy who sent me SS and asked what his fruit looks like…
The above fruit wasn’t fully ripe and the brix from the tip (probably highest) was only 12.
I can’t see from your pic- do they have a pointed tip like the one in my above pic?
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No, mine were quite round.
Yours looks similar to Beauty plum. Could yours be Beauty plum?
Beauty Plum - #28 by Vincent_8B…
Pictures in Posts #24 and #27
From the pics in that thread, there is more yellow in the flesh than mine. The one I showed wasn’t fully ripe, so I expect the entire flesh to be quite red.
Also, per the linked thread, Beauty is clingstone. The pit on mine came out pretty easily (though it was in 2 pieces).
Based on the above comment, I hope that mine isn’t Beauty 
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Yeah, Rich May- it’s such a bad name I can’t remember it- sounds like it was named after an heiress. Dawn Delight would have sold more trees- May Surprise or even Early Pleasure.
Silver Gem is late this year and my main tree is in decline for some reason and has led to smaller and probably inferior fruit. Fortunately, it is also grafted on other vigorous trees (one of them about 25 years old) and the fruit looks better. My orchard is way too big for practical purposes, but sometimes it comes in handy. My Jade crop is ridiculous. I had to install 3 crutches yesterday- the fruit is huge.
If you don’t mind eating fungicide (the gov says it’s safe), Indar should stop cracked fruit from rotting- I’ve gotten crops of cracked cherries that way. The cherry crop this year was blessed by a lack of rain at crucial ripening time and was the best in years. Unfortunately, I didn’t get nets up at too many of my customer’s orchards- too busy that week.
The problem with cracked grenades is they are likely to be destroyed by yellow jackets before they are worth harvesting. That variety has only performed for me once in the last 8. I’m hoping Dapple Dandy will function better. Flavor King, Supreme and Queen don’t crack as much but seem to be extremely shy croppers here. Spring Satin gave me a few treasured fruit this season and are absolutely beautiful although flavor would have benefitted from a couple more brix points. Hopefully my tree won’t always bear such light crops. It is growing against my Airstream trailer, so benefits from a lot of reflected light.
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I believe the Rich May name may have been trademarked. Mine were sold as Flavorich which the nursery told me was the same as RichMay
Excellent peaches and the first peach to get ripe. They look like yours but they bloomed early and were often impacted by the freeze so we removed most of them. Not many problems here other than unreliable production
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Ugh- That’s too bad, as I’ve had them from stores and thought they were great. It occurred to me to use one of those mesh nets, but that would probably make it difficult to maintain fungicide coverage. I guess I should try setting up some YJ traps.
I’ll be interested to hear when you start to pick it- this is the first year I’ve gotten any and I’m looking forward to trying it.
Describing Flavor Supreme as an extremely shy cropper is charitable. I’d almost consider it an ornamental 
I planted FS in 2013 and got rid of it last year. It would flower, but I don’t remember it ever setting fruit. It was a big tree (and some work to remove), so it probably had one or two fruits over the years without me noticing (which the animals would take care of harvesting). This is with half a dozen different pluot/plum varieties within 30 feet (some multi-grafts) and probably a dozen or more within 100’.
Geo Pride doesn’t have a super heavy set, but it seems moderate- similar to Flavor Grenade. Both were planted in 2015 and have fed the animals in the past. We’ll see if I’m up to protecting them this year.
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I’m pretty sure what i have hanging on a tree is Geo Pride. They are just starting to turn color here. Last year i wrapped them in frost cloth to protect them and that worked really well.
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I ate a late ripening PF Big a few moments ago and it is a very nice early peach. Has deep orange flesh with lots of red streaks or layers in it like Flavor May. Must be loaded with carotene.
It looks like peaches coming in now will be OK so I only lost a week of harvest that will continue past Sept.
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I have a couple of semi dwarf frost peach trees in Seattle Washington and have questions about how to control the Sucker branches coming from the graft joint .
These trees came from a reputable nursery here and I’m not blasting them just looking for a solution to this situation . The trees are 10 years old now and every year the suckers become more prolific and are obviously causing the Peach part of the tree to underperform ,
I don’t know what the rootstock is , it doesn’t even flower but there are runners coming up in the lawn 20 feet away the leaves and branches look like some type of plum . Any body know what to do or do I just cut them down and tear out the stumps?
I really love the peaches they are ripe just in time for my birthday , last week of July.
These trees were sunburnt a couple weeks ago but have come back even better with just a little top watering and maybe 3 quarts a day right at the stump.
I had one which sat on the counter for 3-4 days (picked at the same time as the damaged one). It was 9 brix and almost eye-wateringly sour. After the time on the counter though, it had good texture (some moisture and an interesting crispness). It was still better to eat than the 7-8 brix peaches, though I admit to liking the 14 brix grocery store nectarine better.
We’ve got some sunny weather for the next few days- hopefully they can sweeten up a bit. If I could get them to 15 brix, with good acid kick, they could be pretty good. What brix do you ussually get from Silver Gem?
Can them and sweeten them during canning. That might recover the flavor some what. If they stay on the trees for a few days without rain they might sweeten up.
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Bob,
Have you figured out what not-Spring Satin plum actually is? Have you told the guy who sent it to you?
The early ripening Silver Gems are still crap but I ate a- what is that early ripening west coast peach you mentioned earlier? Anyway I bought a tree from a west coast DW distributor and its fruit is now quite good once it is soft enough to pick. I at the first one with some softness yesterday and another today. I have also had a few good PF Bigs. The forecast suggests growing sweetness!
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Picked first Redhaven 7/20 to test them. They had some juice but where very bland. Picked rest from 8/1 to 8/7. A few ripening on the counter had a mild peach test that I would rate almost mediocre. By 8/7 not only where they tasteless but also dry.
How about large and beautiful Rising Star with brix at 8.
@alan I agree. I’d rather have no fruit (so no expectation and no spray wasted) than having fruit with really awful taste. Took one bite and threw away the rest. In fact, I used the rest to bait a ground hog. Even a groundhog was not interested!
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We’ve established that many peaches growing in humid wet areas are very bland this year. Were any of them good? Are there good ones ripening now or soon?