Tried and tested early season peach. A reliable cropper with yellow, sweet juicy flesh and good fruit size. Freestone. Best planted in a sunny warm spot protected from hard spring frosts.
All Peach varieties are self-fertilizing.
All Peaches are grown on Golden Queen seedlings.
Sunny, sheltered and frost free position.
Stonefruit trees have a 'chilling requirement' of a certain number of hours below 7degC to produce fruit. Most varieties suit the temperate areas of the country to receive the required number of chilling hours, but some have 'low chill' requirements so can be grown in the warmer, northern areas of New Zealand.
Stonefruit require a spray program, particularly during spring, to prevent the likes of die back, bacterial disease and leaf curl.
Stonefruit trees can be 'espalier' trained against a wall or fence in a fan shape.
Varieties range in ripening time from early to late Summer.
Stonefruit trees can range from 3-6m in height.