Sweet Peach

[dave1949]

Thanks for this Dave. I'm figuring what I read in the plant catalogs as far as location advised for certain species is good enough for me. I had a chuckle when I read in the article what the primary reasoning should be for selecting peach varieties. My criteria is "sweetness" and that's it.

You are welcome. I thought the "chilling requirement" hours was interesting. It might give you a way to distinguish between two varieties with the same hardiness zone rating. Or, to see just how much two varieties vary that are recommended for adjacent zones. I dunno how useful that really is, just a thought.

Aren't the peaches awful in the store? I hope you get better down there. What we get are peaches that are hard, no flavor, not even close to sweet, and rot more than ripen if you leave them set. It's criminal to call what they sell a peach. I refuse to buy them but they always have a heap of them on a display table. I doubt they sell very many.

 

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I've never tasted peaches as sweet as those we had when I was a kid. Could it be that our taste buds are more discriminating and sensitive to sweets at an early age? We buy peaches here in central Kansas that are brought in from Colorado. People line up behind the truck to pay $29 for a small box of them. Yes, they are good.

Possibly Nelson but not for me. Even my pipe tobacco is sweet. Ya know what else is sweet? some of those Eastman guitars. They are beautiful. Never tried an acoustic arch top and cannot remember what they may sound like as most of what I confronted were electric.

 

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Do you know which of the varieties you have chosen so far are "clingstone" and which are " freestone" ?

Only from what has been discussed so far. Clingers are sweeter or so I am told.

 

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Aren't the peaches awful in the store? I hope you get better down there. What we get are peaches that are hard, no flavor, not even close to sweet, and rot more than ripen if you leave them set. It's criminal to call what they sell a peach. I refuse to buy them but they always have a heap of them on a display table. I doubt they sell very many.

Holy crap don't I know it. They are no better down here. They look so beautiful and they are so lousy. I am sure there must be some anecdotal comparison on picking women as well.

 

[npalen]

Possibly Nelson but not for me. Even my pipe tobacco is sweet. Ya know what else is sweet? some of those Eastman guitars. They are beautiful. Never tried an acoustic arch top and cannot remember what they may sound like as most of what I confronted were electric.

Lou, the Eastman is a cheap Chinese built archtop. What you want is a Palen Archtop, handmade by one person (yours truly) here in Kansas, America. Just shipped #95 last week in about a dozen years of building.

 

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Lou, the Eastman is a cheap Chinese built archtop. What you want is a Palen Archtop, handmade by one person (yours truly) here in Kansas, America. Just shipped #95 last week in about a dozen years of building.

Cheez then some guitars are like peaches: look good but don't taste well at all. I always preferred the look of an arch top but always thought they didn't resonate as well. I learned on a Hernandis classical so what do I know. Actually I guess the arch tops sound a bit pitchy to me but they fit in to a jazz scenario quite well. My fingers were all knarly and stuff from my previous profession and a classical was easier to negotiate.