Self-Pollination and Its Implications in Peach Improvement

Abstract

Peach cultivars, with a few exceptions, are capable of self pollination (1). Hence, solid blocks containing many acres of a single cultivar will produce full crops of fruit. The exceptions, notably 'J.H. Hale', must be interplanted with another cultivar known to produce viable pollen if satisfactory cropping is to be attained. In all cultivars, however, some agent is necessary to convey pollen grains to the receptive stigmas for fertilization to occur.