UGA PEACH BLOG
Posted by Chunxian Chen on Sep 19, 2024
A Special Peach Cropping Year for Breeding at the USDA Byron Station
Peach evaluation is winding down in 2024 with few edible fruits on trees in variety and seedling blocks at the USDA Byron Station. 2024 was a special peach cropping year for breeding at the station. First, peach fruit set was incredibly heavy on a majority of seedling, selection and cultivar trees at the station, at […]
UGA PEACH BLOG
Posted by Chunxian Chen on Sep 19, 2024
Two New Early Season Peach Cultivars from the USDA
The USDA-ARS stone fruit program at Byron, GA has released two new early season peach cultivars named ‘May Joy’ (Fig. 1) and ‘Cardinal Joy’ (Fig. 2). ‘May Joy’ requires ~650 chill hours and produces yellow-fleshed, clingstone fruit that typically ripen approximately a week before ‘Flavorich’ and 2-3 weeks before ‘Carored’ in early to mid May […]
UGA PEACH BLOG
Posted by Blaauw on May 24, 2024
Thrips: A Potentially Big Problem From this Tiny Insect
Unfortunately, after a year of limited yield, yet minor pest activity, this season is already becoming an interesting one. I have had several reports of thrips causing considerable “silvering” damage (see example below). With the severity and extent of the damage we have seen in certain places, I just wanted to alert everyone to this […]