okiedrifter
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Post by okiedrifter on Feb 14, 2011 21:06:35 GMT -5
I was lucky enough to get some several years ago and made jelly it was a beautiful red peach jelly....it is an heirloom peach and I cant find a tree around here anywhere to get a seed or a baby tree...does anyone out there have one and a seed to share?
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Post by coppice on Feb 15, 2011 10:54:22 GMT -5
Okie, I think you want to search more locally. Peach tend to be more sensitive to the right number of chilling hours for their dormancy period.
This summer will be the time to shop at roadside stands and farmers markets. Locally here some of the growers DO offer sapling trees, but have many more offerings of the fruit itself.
Of any family of fruiting trees prunus tends to come true to type. So the odds are you can get what you want by eating peaches and planting the stone(s).
If you have a cold frame or greenhouse store your stones under a bench inna pot (in soil) and let them cold stratify over the winter. They will germinate the following spring.
I know this is not the instant gratification many USAians want and expect. Trees keep to their schedule and not ours. Dried tree seeds, are dead tree seeds. They have built in 'inhibitors' that make them germinate when the season is right for them to flourish.
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okiedrifter
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Post by okiedrifter on Feb 15, 2011 14:48:50 GMT -5
thanks I will continue to look
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