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O.T. Peach Trees

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John B.

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For those of you that have peach trees for raising your own peaches what variety of peaches do you grow?
I planted 2 Elberta, 2 Belle of Georgia, 2 Redhaven and an Arctic Fantasy White Nectarine Tree. They're older varieties I know except the nectarine tree, but I remember having the others at home when I was growing up. Looking forward now to when they start producing...
 
Picking fruit trees especially peach trees is a very local thing because of a thing called chilling hours.(temperature below 45)
Pick a tree with to many chilling hours for your area and it may never bloom because the tree did not have enough rest time.
Pick a tree with to little chilling hours for your area and it will sprout early and you run the risk of late frost killing your blooms.

I can not plant any of the trees you have listed because I do not get enough chilling hours for them. I only get 500 chilling hours a winter at most and some years it can be a lot less so I plant trees with about 400 chilling hours and hope for the best.
A list of chilling hours for my state for the winter of 2012 to 2013.
Alexandria - 595
Baton Rouge - 453
Lake Charles - 92
Hammond - 493
Bossier City - 729


The trees you picked need these chilling hours to bloom properly.

Belle of Georgia 850
Elberta 850
Redhaven 950

So now the question is what is the chilling hours for your area.
 
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