You can grow peaches in Florida?? I figured it would be too warm all year.
Whenever I've seen fruit fail to mature it was always on citrus trees that were stressed. My in-ground trees such as peach quickly drop any fruits that do not reach maturity.
UF has developed low chill peaches, apples, plums.
These trees require around 150 chill hours. One big issue is the chill hours are inconsistent.
It might be cold for a couple days but then it's back in the 70s or even 80s all Winter long.
With the lack of consistent chill it's amazing any of these trees fruit. I have a sunracer nectarine
that needs 250 hours and I bet we got less them 100 last Winter, yet it had sweet fruit this year