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Two days ago I ate 2 Florida glow peaches. That tree has tons of flowers now, small fruit and more fruit already turning red. What a warm winter. According to UF the fruit will not taste good because of improper chill hours. Actually the past 2 years the trees have not come close to the 150 required chill hours. The fruit was perfect. White melting flesh better then any Georgia peachI have ever had. Also the fruit matured on the tree without bugs. When the fruit matures later in Spring the stink bugs poke a whole in the fruit and then the beetles ruin the fruit. I end up picking the fruit early and ripen on the counter. The fruit is much sweeter if ripened on the tree. This year I was going to become rigorous about spraying the fruit with soap every week and see if I can keep the bugs off By the way jegpg1 looking at your picture the tree's trunk looks like the rootstock has two branches coming from below the graft?I always thought that peaches were prone to root rot and I would be careful covering up the base of the trunk. There should only be one main trunk and I see three? Are those two vertical branches below the graft union? I would clear out the base of the tree and cutoff the 2 branches. One of them doesn't look like it has flowers anyway? If the branches are above the graft you could wait until after the fruiting season.
What variety jegpg1.
Quote from: MarvelMango on February 17, 2017, 02:10:30 PMWhat variety jegpg1.I really don't remember the variety. I thought it will not do well in Florida and I just took it for granted. My mother planted it on the ground because I didn't care for it but when I tried the fruit, I wanted more. They peaches I used to buy in NY were no match.
Got this from ECHO nursery three years back. It had 3 small sweet peaches last year. This year looks better. Pretty blossoms too. Who has peach?
I found the tag for my peach tree. Its a florida prince. It is absolutely covered in fruits now. I went and heavily thinned the fruits off today. I think i should get a couple hundred big peaches.