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- Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 15:02:06 -0700
Quoting "Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>:
> FWIW, there are "heirloom" peaches around that do come fairly true
> from seed. Peaches are mostly self-pollinating and there are varieties
> like "Polly" and "Indian Blood" among others, that have been grown from
> seed enough that seedlings have a strong resemblance to the parent.
> There IS difference among the seedlings, but you usually have to grow
> a number of them side by side to see the variations. I've been growing
> an heirloom apricot "Mormon Chinese" and have a group of seedlings.
> All the fruits are similar, but there are definite differences between
> the trees. Things like productivity, bloom date, disease resistance,
> etc.
> Coincidentally, there has been a discussion on the NAFEX list (North
> American Fruit Explorers http://www.nafex.org) on growing stone fruit
> from seed, recently.
> -Lon J. Rombough
> Grapes, writing, consulting, my book, The Grape Grower, at
> http://www.bunchgrapes.com Winner of the Garden Writers Association
> "Best Talent in Writing" award for 2003.
> On Sep 10, 2005, at 3:51 PM, Mike Open wrote:
>
> The 'needle in a haystack' remark was to indicate that the peaches
> hybridise
> very easily and the fruit of the children may not be as nice as the
> fruit of
> the parents...
> You might also have a go at taking hardwood cuttings... Take
> pencil-thick
> sections of vigorously growing branchlets - about a foot long. Remove
> all of
> the leaves, and the soft growth at the top. Put them in pots of maist
> sand
> until you get to your new house. Then dig a narrow trench about 8"
> deep. Put
> in 2" of sand, then line up the cuttings (make sure you put them in the
> right way up), about a foot apart. Firm them in with a friendly boot.
> Keep
> your fingers crossed. Check them in the spring. Leave them in the ground
> until next autumn, by which time, if you are lucky, they will have grown
> some leaf and a healthy root system. They will then be larger and
> stronger
> than the equivalent seedling, and will be guaranteed to have exactly the
> same fruit, which the seedlings won't. If none of them grow, you have
> been
> unlucky, or my method (which I haven't used on peaches) doesn't work.
> But
> you will have the seedlings anyway and you can hope that you will get
> some
> nice, if not identical, peaches from them...
>
> This isn't the 'professional' way to propagate peaches, but it's worth a
> try. The professional way is with root-stock and 'chip-budding' - very
> fiddly and mainly for specialist growers.
>
> Mike.
>
>
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