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Season Autumnprince season
Range September 1st - 15th
Additional Years 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2009 | 2010 | 2012 | 2013
Sequence 0
Row
Tree
Flesh Yellow
Chill Hours
Bloom Date March 16th
Ripe Date September 8th

Set
Size
Shape
Pubes
Red
Attribute
Firm
Free
Status
Brix
4
3.27
6.5
8
7.8
6
7.2
7
1
11.3

Notes

Some splits and uneven halves, slightly flat shape. Slightly crunchy texture when ripe, slightly spongy. (SSC/TA: 15.479)

Description

Plant patent #9438 (Jan. 23, 1996) to James F. Doyle, Clovis, CA. Ripens early September after Fairtime and with Carnival but is more colorful than either. Burchell Nursery, CA. Fruit is firm, oblate in shape and has a very tight pit cavity.

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

 

     
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