Cost is $30 for 14 peaches shipped in. A friend gave me some. $30 per half bushel pick your own. Unfortunately taste was about all they lacked at 11.5 brix.

My question is how could they be that bad? Is it all just variety? This isn't the early peaches where one might excuse 11.5 brix. These should be the best of the summer. Not too much rain, 1.2 inches the last 5 wks.

That is too bad. I wish you could have try my tree ripen Sweet sensation and Red Baron peaches. They are very juicy and sweet with a nice peach flavor.

Tony

Thanks, I'd liked to have tried them as well. My Red Baron froze out. I had a lot of others lined up to try here soon. Maybe I can get reloaded and see what I can do outdoors. Brady's Raspberry Red has me pumped up for next yr.

I'm wondering if the Hill Country peaches weren't thinned enough or maybe shaded too much. There's only so many ways to mess up a peach.

I suppose that's a possibility. They are soft but more a dehydrated soft than a ripe soft. Every yr I hear about these things but don't often get to try any. Very disappointing.

Late peaches should be good. As you know, early peaches aren't very forgiving and have to be picked/managed just right to get a decent peach (at least with the spring/early summer rainfall we get here). I think they either picked them early, or it was a late picking from under the canopy.

I don't think I could compete with your 20+ brix peaches, but golly, 11.5 is the bottom of the barrel, by any standard. I bet they tasted like crap.

You got that right: no sweetness, no flavor, and the texture is poor. I won't sell them even in April or May. They're no better than Chilean peaches in winter.

Quit possibly they were the last picked hanger peaches underneath the canopy. But I also think harvestman is correct, based on texture probably piked way too green.