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2015 Cooley Farms

Season Redglobe Season
Range June 30th - July 12th
Additional Years 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2016
Sequence 0
Row
Tree
Flesh Yellow
Chill Hours 850
Bloom Date
Ripe Date July 1st

Set
Size
Shape
Pubes
Red
Attribute
Firm
Free
Status
Brix
3
2.7
Rounded
7
20
4
5.7
2
1
9.6

Notes

Slight tips and suture bulges, some split pits. Ok taste (SSC/TA 9.6)

Description

An attractive yellow fleshed peach ripening just after Redhaven. Origin: Coloma, Michigan by Annette and Randy Bjorge. Fayette x Newhaven. Tested as FA 11. Introd. 1997. USPP 10548 assigned to International Plant Management, Lawrence, Michigan. Fruit: Globose, medium large, covered with a 80% red blush with a mottled stripe. Flesh melting, yellow orange, semi-firm, freestone, sweet, mild acid flavor. Ripens 3 days after Redhaven. Tree: Flowers pink, small, nonshowy. Leaf glands reniform. Moderately spreading, medium vigor, and very productive. Resistant to bacterial spot. Chilling requirement 850 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

 

     
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