Peaches for Warm Climates
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https://doi.org/10.71318/apom.1971.25.2.37Abstract
Peaches that can fruit with very little winter cold have been available to the plant breeder for many years. Their fruit has been of very limited commercial value because of small size, soft flesh or other undesirable qualities. A breeding program to develop now low chilling peach varieties adapted to central Florida was initiated in 1952, after tests disclosed that varieties from other areas were not adapted. Numerous crosses were made, and some 20,000 seedlings were grown from 1952 to 1961. Only one variety was released from these selections. Another 20,000 seedlings have been tested for deirable fruit qualities and quite a large number of rootstock types since 1961.
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