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Temperate Fruit & Orchards => Temperate Fruit Discussion => Topic started by: spaugh on April 23, 2017, 09:41:22 PM

Title: Florida Prince peach
Post by: spaugh on April 23, 2017, 09:41:22 PM
Love this tree.  Fruit should be ready in a few weeks.  Sweetest peches ever!  I thined them down to 1/3 of what had set and its still loaded.

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4175/33420812743_c7da428c08_b.jpg)



Title: Re: Florida Prince peach
Post by: BestDay on May 03, 2017, 11:01:26 AM
It's hard to beat a good peach. I consider them the non tropical mango. I'm growing Long Beach Peach which is also an early variety. I'm interested to see which variety will ripen earlier. My Long Beach peaches should ripen in about three weeks. When does your Florida Prince usually ripen?

Bill
Title: Re: Florida Prince peach
Post by: spaugh on May 03, 2017, 11:35:42 AM
We have been eating the peaches for a few days now.  It should peak in a week or 2.  This is a really good peach cultivar for southern CA.  I am further south and futher inland than you though so ripening times sound pretty comparable to yours if they were both grown in the same locations.
Title: Re: Florida Prince peach
Post by: spaugh on May 05, 2017, 02:48:56 PM
Peaches started disappearing so I put out the trail cam last night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIoHS-1gVPY&feature=youtu.be (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIoHS-1gVPY&feature=youtu.be)
Title: Re: Florida Prince peach
Post by: Samu on May 05, 2017, 10:09:10 PM
Wow, that's another animal we need to deal with, luckily coyote can't climb trees!
Now I know they eat fruits, too!

Unlike you, being in the city in fenced small lot, I got to deal with other critters instead... ;D
Title: Re: Florida Prince peach
Post by: BestDay on May 23, 2017, 09:49:16 AM
That is definately an early peach. My Long Beach Peaches should be ready in I'm guessing two weeks.

Bill
Title: Re: Florida Prince peach
Post by: BestDay on May 23, 2017, 09:55:35 AM

(https://s30.postimg.cc/plbmchdpp/image.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/plbmchdpp/)

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Title: Re: Florida Prince peach
Post by: JF on May 23, 2017, 04:12:18 PM
That is definately an early peach. My Long Beach Peaches should be ready in I'm guessing two weeks.

Bill

Prince ripens in early April Long Beach have started to ripen 2 weeks ago
(https://s8.postimg.cc/6wjngv5wh/IMG_4829.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/6wjngv5wh/)

(https://s8.postimg.cc/3qz1qnna9/IMG_4830.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/3qz1qnna9/)
Title: Re: Florida Prince peach
Post by: BestDay on May 24, 2017, 10:05:53 AM
Early April!  That is very early!  How does the taste compare
Between the two?

Bill
Title: Re: Florida Prince peach
Post by: spaugh on February 07, 2019, 10:22:12 PM
This tree is in full bloom.  Nothing else is blooming yet.  Tropic snow looks like it will blooms next. 

(https://i.postimg.cc/jDVMVknR/20190207-170142.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/jDVMVknR)
Title: Re: Florida Prince peach
Post by: Triloba Tracker on February 08, 2019, 04:00:02 PM
I adore peaches but at least here in TN you have to spray them constantly to get a crop.
Same in CA?
I wouldn't have the patience....

Pawpaw - the lazy man's peach  ;D
Title: Re: Florida Prince peach
Post by: spaugh on February 08, 2019, 04:10:19 PM
CA is a big place but here no, I don't spray at all.  This tree takes almost no effort and makes hundreds of peaches every year. 
Title: Re: Florida Prince peach
Post by: Triloba Tracker on February 08, 2019, 04:15:07 PM
CA is a big place but here no, I don't spray at all.  This tree takes almost no effort and makes hundreds of peaches every year.

Wow that's awesome!!!!!!!!  Enjoy that, man. My friend has planted a couple hundred peach trees as a commercial orchard and has so much spraying equipment and supplies, it's crazy.

BTW - what kind of trail cam do you have? I have been meaning to invest in one but there are so many on Amazon with (likely) fake reviews......
Title: Re: Florida Prince peach
Post by: spaugh on February 09, 2019, 12:41:10 AM
The bushnell cameras are good.  The no name ones are no good.  I got a no name one and it was crap.  I put a bad review on amazon and they contacted me and refunded me to remove the bad review.  So free junk cameras are available too...
Title: Re: Florida Prince peach
Post by: Triloba Tracker on February 09, 2019, 09:27:34 AM
LOL!!
Many thanks!!
Title: Re: Florida Prince peach
Post by: hellosf on February 22, 2019, 10:18:03 AM
Approximately how many years old is that tree? Looks great!
Title: Re: Florida Prince peach
Post by: spaugh on February 22, 2019, 12:24:03 PM
Approximately how many years old is that tree? Looks great!

Its around 10 years old.  Not exactly sure since it was here when I moved in.  Was very neglected and had not been trained or shaped properly and was being eaten by deer.  Thats all fixed now and it does great. 

Title: Re: Florida Prince peach
Post by: willsmith1686 on April 09, 2019, 03:08:49 AM
the peach will sell to markets? or only for ownself?