Peach Photos!

[keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.)]

Here are my peach photos from 2012. They were excellent peaches this year.

Oh, bytheway, our almond tree produced fruit this year for the first time! I wish i had gotten photos, but we didn't get almonds from it! We got some sort of Almond-Peach hybrid fruit! The peach tree flowered before the almond tree and apparently pollinated it. I didn't know that the pollen affects the fruit of stonefruit plants in the first year! They were like tiny slightly firm peaches with a large seed. I actually kiind of liked eating their fruit. I didn't try eating the almond seeds though.

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Beautiful, like a painting. Do you thin the green ones?

[ottawagardener]

Peach pollen wouldn't turn the almonds into hybrids like that. Must have already been crossed or that was the variety. Lovely peaches by the way!

[steev]

Lovely. I've gotten no peaches the last two years; damned goofy climate!

[keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.)]

Thanks. No we've never thinned them out. I suppose you could early on and the rest would do better. But as long as the tree gets enough water they all are edible. Perhaps slightly smaller than at the store, but 10 times tastier!

Yeah, i figured the almond was probably crossed before we bought it. I still we need to get a picture sometime though. I looked on the internet and couldn't find any picture that looked similar.

We didn't get peaches last year either. But they were excellent this year! Last winter there were no buds on the tree. I guess they do that every once in awhile.

[blueadzuki]

Did the pits look more like peach pits ( with the pointed tips and ridges on the sides) or more like almonds (basically flat sides with little pits on them)? I ask only because a fully normal "pure" almond fruit looks an awful lot like a little skinny peach anyway (though I have never heard of one with flesh pleasant enough that someone would actually LIKE eating it). Or somewhere imbetween (like what you would expect for a cross)?
Since you did get it from a nursery, I could also point out that Asian Flowering plum (Prunus mume) commonly called Mei or Ume(which despite it's name is actually closer realted to the apricot than the plum) produces fruit that look and awful lot like a Peach-almond cross (fruit looks a bit like small peach or fuzzy plum, pit looks like a peach or plum in shape (with the little "point" on the end but with a more almond like surface (i.e. mostly smooth with little "pits", no ridges) Though ume plum trees that actually produce fruit are pretty rare in the nursery trade (most nursery ones are sterile flowerers, like most Japanese blossoming cherries) and ones that produce fruit sweet enough to be eaten raw (as opposed to pickled or preserved in a sugary syrup) are almost unheard of in ANY context. But I supposed it is still a slight possibility, so I mention it.

[wolfcub]

Wonderful photos. Those peaches do look very tasty..

[12540dumont]

There must be a word for peach envy....

[bunkie]

beautiful peaches keen!

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Nov 29, 2012 22:17:18 GMT -5 keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) said:

Thanks. No we've never thinned them out. I suppose you could early on and the rest would do better. But as long as the tree gets enough water they all are edible. Perhaps slightly smaller than at the store, but 10 times tastier!

I wanted say that they looked very plump. I have to saturate the ground to get results like that.

[keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.)]

Nov 30, 2012 10:26:18 GMT -5 blueadzuki said:

Did the pits look more like peach pits ( with the pointed tips and ridges on the sides) or more like almonds (basically flat sides with little pits on them)? I ask only because a fully normal "pure" almond fruit looks an awful lot like a little skinny peach anyway (though I have never heard of one with flesh pleasant enough that someone would actually LIKE eating it). Or somewhere imbetween (like what you would expect for a cross)?
Since you did get it from a nursery, I could also point out that Asian Flowering plum (Prunus mume) commonly called Mei or Ume(which despite it's name is actually closer realted to the apricot than the plum) produces fruit that look and awful lot like a Peach-almond cross (fruit looks a bit like small peach or fuzzy plum, pit looks like a peach or plum in shape (with the little "point" on the end but with a more almond like surface (i.e. mostly smooth with little "pits", no ridges) Though ume plum trees that actually produce fruit are pretty rare in the nursery trade (most nursery ones are sterile flowerers, like most Japanese blossoming cherries) and ones that produce fruit sweet enough to be eaten raw (as opposed to pickled or preserved in a sugary syrup) are almost unheard of in ANY context. But I supposed it is still a slight possibility, so I mention it.

From what i remember the pits did have slight ridges, but they were not as pronounced as our peach pits. Nor were they as smooth as expected for an almond. They fruits were smooth and firm. No larger than ping pong balls, but it is still a small tree. The fruits were orange when ripe similar to a peach.


Thanks degzing, yeah they were pretty plump this year. We did supplement a little bit of water from the hose to help a bit. Not every year is as good as it was this year.

[blueadzuki]

Nov 30, 2012 23:14:28 GMT -5 keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) said:

Nov 30, 2012 10:26:18 GMT -5 blueadzuki said:

Did the pits look more like peach pits ( with the pointed tips and ridges on the sides) or more like almonds (basically flat sides with little pits on them)? I ask only because a fully normal "pure" almond fruit looks an awful lot like a little skinny peach anyway (though I have never heard of one with flesh pleasant enough that someone would actually LIKE eating it). Or somewhere imbetween (like what you would expect for a cross)?
Since you did get it from a nursery, I could also point out that Asian Flowering plum (Prunus mume) commonly called Mei or Ume(which despite it's name is actually closer realted to the apricot than the plum) produces fruit that look and awful lot like a Peach-almond cross (fruit looks a bit like small peach or fuzzy plum, pit looks like a peach or plum in shape (with the little "point" on the end but with a more almond like surface (i.e. mostly smooth with little "pits", no ridges) Though ume plum trees that actually produce fruit are pretty rare in the nursery trade (most nursery ones are sterile flowerers, like most Japanese blossoming cherries) and ones that produce fruit sweet enough to be eaten raw (as opposed to pickled or preserved in a sugary syrup) are almost unheard of in ANY context. But I supposed it is still a slight possibility, so I mention it.

From what i remember the pits did have slight ridges, but they were not as pronounced as our peach pits. Nor were they as smooth as expected for an almond. They fruits were smooth and firm. No larger than ping pong balls, but it is still a small tree. The fruits were orange when ripe similar to a peach.

Hmm. That actually does sound a lot like what I would expect a peach/almond hybrid to look like. A Mei plum might look like that especially now that you mention the firmness of the flesh (I've yet to meet a Mei whose raw flesh was all that soft) But as I said, mume's that are sweet enough you could eat them raw and not gag (or get a stomacheache) are rare indeed. I also saw a kind of small peach from Thailand(pickled, in a jar) that looked a bit like this, but again, that's unlikey to wind up at a nursery. If, next year you 1. Get some more fruit off it 2. remember to save the pits) and 3. decide you have enough pits you can share around, keep me in mind.