Any One in the North Have Peach Trees?

[thistlebloom]

That's what I think mine is Cat - a Reliance. I can't say anything about it
since it is barely more than a branched whip. But from what I read it seemed like it would work pretty good at this latitude.

 

[Smart Red]

Yes, Reliance is supposed to be hardy in zone 4.

 

[seedcorn]

Not sure if I'm North or not? North of @baymule but South of @Smart Red. Have a peach tree that I do nothing with. Great crop every other year. No idea as to variety.

 

[thistlebloom]

Not sure if I'm North or not? North of @baymule but South of @Smart Red. Have a peach tree that I do nothing with. Great crop every other year. No idea as to variety.

Well gee Seed, that's helpful.
I want to know the durn variety!

 

[seedcorn]

Well gee Seed, that's helpful.
I want to know the durn variety!

I'll send u leaf next spring. U can do DNA test.

 

[thistlebloom]

I'll send u leaf next spring. U can do DNA test.

Okay.I'll be waiting.

By the way...when you say DNA, you mean the Don't 'No Anything test right?

 

[Smart Red]

But, but, but-t-t, don't you need to have the suspect tree's DNA on file before you can match it?

Better would be to send a scion (to me of course) and let me try to graft it to my peach tree. In afew years if the limb takes, I should have some fruit to match with a photo line up of Stark Bros and Miller & Son's, etc. catalog pictures of peach tree suspects.

 

[seedcorn]

Unlike people, varieties have very similiar DNA.

 

[Chickie'sMomaInNH]

I have a few different peach trees but mine are still young. i would have had 2 peaches on 2 different trees but they got knocked off before they were fully ripe. our town has a pick-ur-own farm called Butternut Farm, in the north end and has lots of different mature trees and they seem to do nicely.

this is a site i've searched through before and lots of peach trees are what Butternut Farm grows here in our zone 5.
http://www.acnursery.com/
their site may not state the zones they can tolerate, but the number of chill hours it can withstand to produce nicely.

this is Butternut Farm's website in case you wanted to see what they have been growing successfully for years. btw, if @digitS' is reading this page, this farm is just down the street from Professor Elwyn Meader's historical property.
http://www.butternutfarm.net/
http://www.saveseeds.org/biography/meader/index.html

 

[digitS']

He is reading this page .

Professor Meader set a high bar for UNH and, really, other departments of horticulture at land-grant universities.

I've been thinking of saying something about peaches. Because of those leaf curl problems, the ones around here really do benefit from a sulfur and a dormant spray during the late winter. That is according to an organic orchardist I know. You are supposed to separate those treatments since there could be a reaction from the combination, so timing is important. I use what is called a "summer oil" which could be used at anytime of the year, the information on the bottle says, but it's especially useful in March.

The orchard grows Red Havens as an important choice. I don't know what variety of peach I have in my backyard but when I took fruit to show them, they said it looked the same as their Blushing Stars. I can't say that it has done wonderfully because it is a young tree. However, it has had 2 seasons with tremendous production! In between and previous, there was almost no fruit at all - but that was okay.

Steve