David Reason wrote:Curious if anyone knows if peaches breed-true or if there is a genetic variation between parent and offspring like in apples, requiring a graft. do you have to maintain a mother the graft her to the rootstock to maintain her expressions?
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Charley Sweet wrote:Thanks so much for the tips on Indian Blood peaches, Judith! I guess you're out of seeds for this year, but perhaps we could ask you for a few next season. My wife Lisa and I actually planted a few IB pits at our place in far N. Calif. last year, and three sprouted and grew well; but now we've moved to Lisa's family land in Suches, GA (like you, we're in Zone 7 here, at 2700'). Hope to get in touch.
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"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
David Reason wrote:Curious if anyone knows if peaches breed-true or if there is a genetic variation between parent and offspring like in apples, requiring a graft. do you have to maintain a mother the graft her to the rootstock to maintain her expressions?
Michael Qulek wrote:
I've planted both Elberta and Indian Blood peach in my orchard, though I haven't gotten any fruit for seedstock yet. I have though had excellent results cracking peach pits to get the kernels out. I use an adjustable vise grip, which I incrementally tighten to just crack open the pit. I then plant the kernels immediately, without them drying out. Have gotten near 100% germination that way. Maybe the key is to vise them only enough to crack the pit. More than that crushes the delicate kernel.
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Jen Shrock wrote:Judith - I just ordered some seeds for Iowa-Indian White Freestone Peach. If I can get them to sprout, maybe we could trade...a few of your cling stone variety for this freestone variety.
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M.K. Dorje Jr. wrote:Last year there was a bumper crop of peaches here. I saved a bunch of seeds and I'm stratifying them outside now in trays. But I have some Indian Blood Free seeds left over that I have not planted yet. They are clean and dry, so they'll probably require a few months of stratification before germination. If anyone is interested (U.S. only please), I will send out a small package of seeds for free by snail mail, just moosesage me. Both of my Indian Blood Free trees were started from seed, and they do really well here in Oregon. They are awesome!!
I'm looking for seeds of any other peach leaf curl resistant variety of peach and also the seeds from pluots or apricots. I'm especially interested in Chinese Sweet Pit/Mormon and Hunza apricots.
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"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
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"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
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Judith Browning wrote:I am noticing a lack of gemination in my blood peach pits that I planted from the earliest of last summer's peaches. The sampling of pits that I have opened have a solid pit, but no sign of a sprout as in the picture below... they have been outside in pots all winter.
Iam posting some pictures...My later (last off the tree) blood pits are up, those I just poked in the ground everywhere, and the end of the season white peach pits are up. So, I am worried about all of the pits that I sent out...are they germinating?
I've always had good results as you can see in the picture of two year old whips...almost every pit came up.
The two variables, that I can think of, would be planting in pots or the ground and early and late pick off of the tree. perplexed
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leila hamaya wrote:good news, saw the first blood peach sprout just peek its head above the soil this morning =)
so hopefully a few more will sprout now.
after posting here last and thinking about it, i decided to check on them and found them whole in the pots. decided to crack the shells with a nutcracker and managed to eventually get them all cracked without damaging any, although one flew off into the bushes (good luck little blood peach pit! at least it jumped to a spot by a greywater line outlet and extra damp).
seems a little late but right now everything i was starting to give up finally sprouted =)
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Roger Taylor wrote:Just going by the pictures indian bloods look a good half to a third larger than the best fruit I've gotten or been given from blackboys.
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Rowan Godfrey wrote:Hi Judith, I am in the UK but would be interested in a couple of pits if you have some this summer? Happy to pay shipping ahead. I only have a relatively small garden and your blood cling peach looks the perfect size, most other things I have to grow on dwarfing rootstocks.
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Kent Ormsby wrote:Hi Judith, I am very interested in propagating your peach trees in our orchard here in NE Texas. Any chance I could get some pits? Thanks!
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