bad taste, slight tips, soften on trees fast.
(SSC/TA 8.238)
Description
An early season yellow fleshed peach. Origin: Coloma, Michigan by Annette and Randy Bjorge. Newhaven x Jim Dandee. Tested as FA 47. Introd. 1997. USPP 10545 assigned to International Plant Management, Lawrence, Michigan. Fruit: Ovate, medium, covered with a 90- 100 % red blush. Flesh; melting, yellow, medium firm, clingstone, good quality. Ripens 7 to 12 days before Redhaven. Tree: Flowers dark pinkish red, medium size, medium showy. Leaf glands globose. Very spreading and weeping, vigorous, and productive. Resistant to bacterial spot. Chilling requirement 900 h.
Key
Evaluations are based on a 1-8 scale (6=OK,7=Commercially acceptable, 8=Excellent)
Size is in inches
Shape: round is assumed, T=tip, P=point, S=suture, OB=oblate, OV=ovate
Pubescence: 10=nectarine
Blush: presented as percentage of ground color cover with red or similar
Freeness: 3=early cling, 8=completely free
Status: 0=discard, 1=keep
Notes: SOS=soft on suture, SOT=soft on tip, RIF=red in flesh, GAS=green around stem
RAP=red around pit, GGC=green ground color, sz=size, wh=white, yt=young tree, CCT=concave tip
Bloom date is when approx. 90% of blooms are open (full bloom)
The description of each variety of peach or nectarine fruit under each group is in different formats as this information is collected from varied sources and hence is not consistent