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Sun, Nov 9, 14 at 23:58
| Does any one happen to have any Flordaprince, Red Baron or Babcock peach tree seeds for SASE or trade. Look at my trade list. Thanks! |
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| Lucky, From what I've read,growing them from seed will not likely be the same variety. Brady |
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- Posted by Fascist_Nation USDA 9b, Sunset 13, (My Page) on Mon, Nov 10, 14 at 12:55
| They definitely are not true from seed. |
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| I agree it will not or a good possibility it will not grow true from seed. All the same I want to grow some myself. Worst case i have a rootstock to build on. |
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- Posted by LuckyDurazno 9 (My Page) on Mon, Nov 10, 14 at 23:02
| Maybe I will get a better peach, you never know until you try it. I want to try it and see what kind of peaches I get! |
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- Posted by Kippy-the-Hippy 10 Sunset 24 (My Page) on Mon, Nov 10, 14 at 23:08
| Having pulled up or cut down a zillion volunteer peaches, if you want to grow from seed do yourself a favor and use a pot. Much easier to remove. So far all the volunteers here are cling, little flavor, giant pit, small fruit |
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| With me I have Indian Free, it is not self fertile. It's old. Probably one of the first to be grafted. I have been interested in breeding. More as part of the hobby. I have been breeding raspberries just because it is really hard to do. A good challenge and fun to do. Trees are certainly top of the line challenging. Anyway yeah you could get a better tree, plus it's a way to make rootstock at least. I agree chance is much greater it will be nothing good. With Indian Free since it needs another tree, I'm not going to get what was used to hybrid the tree. I'm definitely going to get a new hybrid. No throwbacks to parental genes as often happens with self fertile trees. I'm going to get a cross, a new cross, never done most likely. I'm going to try and pollinate the flowers with the Spice  Zee Nectaplum and Arctic Glo nectarine. Since it's not self fertile I don't even need to emasculate the flowers. Using Spice Zee, I could get pollen with a lot of plum in it, the results could be extremely interesting. I will bag and mark flowers as to what was the pollen donor, and go from there. Maybe 10 flowers with Spice Zee and 5 with Arctic Glo. I'm using these as both are interesting fruits already. I also have PF lucky 13 but it's just your classic yellow peach. I'm more interested in a cross with Spice Zee, but it could be incompatible, so as a backup will use Arctic Glo which for sure is compatible. Again since it is not self fertile, if I get a fruit, I have a cross, that makes life a lot easier, no chance of self fertilization. . |
This post was edited by Drew51 on Tue, Nov 11, 14 at 1:25
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