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'Melting flesh' peaches for zone 5?

 
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I love peaches, they are in my top 5 fruit for sure. I plant on getting a few trees such as harko(top flavor scoring cold climate nectarine), reliance(very cold hardy, very high yields), snow beauty (top flavor scoring white fleshed cold hardy peach), and am considering a few oddities such as saturn, ice and indian blood.

But my most wanted feature for a cold climate peach is whats described as 'melting flesh', peaches that just melt in your mouth, and are usually very bright fleshed, sweet and juicy. All the best commercial peaches iv had are the melting flesh kind. Unfortunately all the varieties I have seen described as melting flesh are low chill warm area varieties, and most if not all cold climate peaches are described as firm.

Does anyone know any zone 4-6 peaches that are 'melting flesh'?

Oh and as a side question since I have your attention, does anyone know any nurseries selling calanda peach trees/know how cold hardy calanda peaches are?

Any input welcome
 
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nobody has any input?

ill bump this once to hopefully get some input. who here has grown peaches in zones 4-6? what was their most juicy/softest flesh variety?
 
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I'm also eager to hear an answer. I never consciously recognized that "melting flesh" character, and just thought it was like so many fruits: they're indescribably better if you eat them fresh and local. I thought that maybe the harder ones were what gets sold commercially and maybe become the common varieties even in home gardens.

I've always remembered the peaches I had in Italy some 30 years ago. Every single one would stain your shirt and shoes unless you leaned way forward to gulp it down in a big messy slurp of delight. I've never had another peach like that. I guess that's what you were referring to. Oh -- and they were for sale in towns and cities, so my assumption above was wrong.
 
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unfortunately it seems that the softest peach varieties seem to be warm climate varieties. northern peaches can and usually do taste the best (same with apricots and nectarines) and are juicy, but not soft like some southern peaches can be
 
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