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Feral wild hardy peach

 
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My Grandpa lived in North east Nebraska and had a few native feral peach trees.  He called them "snow peaches"   they are small and fuzzy and hardy.   He would dig suckers and gift them to people.  He had one at his farmstead from the 1940s and the planted a sucker in his backyard when he moved to town in his retirement.   I always wanted to bring that tree to west central Wisconsin where I live.  After many years of digging suckers,  failed grafts, I finally have sprouted 4 seeds.

wanted to know if anyone else have seen these wild feral hardy peaches.

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As a child, we used to drive our trash up the hill, and toss it over the edge of a cliff—city landfill. A few wild feral peaches grew from the face of the cliff—northern Utah.

 
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There are many "feral" fruit trees growing on the walking tracks around the lakes in our district, mainly plums, apples and peaches that most likely sprouted from pits and/or stones discarded by walkers.

The feral peaches that grew on your grandfather's property may have only yielded small fruit if the trees had never been pruned and tended. Had the trees been fed, watered, thinned and pampered, the fruit would likely have grown much larger.

There is a delicious white fleshed peach grown from a stone in our community garden that I planted in 2016 that has crisp crunchy flesh when under ripe that ripens to extremely juicy, sweet fruit bursting with flavour with melting flesh.

There are photos of the white fleshed peach in this post  https://permies.com/t/120/23607/Propagating-Blood-cling-Peaches#1308051

Can you recall the colour of the skin and flesh, texture, whether it was cling or freestone, of your grandfather's peach tree?

 
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