Sunbest Nectarine Tree
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Recommended with Sunbest Nectarine Tree
Cold Hardy 10-15°
Grafted Yes, on Nemaguard or Flordaguard rootstock
Growing Zone 8A - 9B- Product Description
- Planting & Care
- Shipping Info
Sunbest Nectarine – The Best!
Sunbest is a low-chill 225 hour nectarine.. Deep red over yellow skin with semi-freestone yellow center. Excellent tangy sweet flavor fruit on a vigorous, productive tree. Fruit ripens mid-May.
Plant Patent No. 9871.
| Chill Hours | 225 c.u. |
|---|---|
| Cold Hardy | 10-15° |
| Grafted | Yes, on Nemaguard or Flordaguard rootstock |
| Growing Zone | 8A, 8B, 9A, 9B |
| Mature Height | 12-18 FT |
| Mature Width | 12-15 FT |
| Pollinator | Self Fertile |
| Spacing | 12-15 FT |
| Sunlight | Full Sun |
Fruitscaping with Peach, Plum, and Nectarine Trees
Each season provides its own kind of beauty with peaches, plums and nectarines. Spring brings billows of fragrant pink to red flowers like cotton candy clouds, followed by months of beautiful fruit changing from green to yellow, gold, peachy red or purple. In fall, leaves turn bright yellow. Standard-sized trees can be used as small shade trees or as part of a fruitful border. When full grown, the willowy trees are 12-18 feet tall. Mix peaches, plums and nectarines with smaller fruits such as blueberries, blackberries, figs and pomegranates. Group them along a pathway so you can enjoy them close up!
Recommended Fertilizers for Planting and Maintenance
- Starter Fertilizer:  Plant with Espoma Organic Bio-tone® Starter Plus. This will increase root mass and help avoid transplant loss in difficult planting conditions.
- Fertilizer to Maintain:Â Â Our varieties of Nectarine Trees work great with Espoma Organic Citrus-tone Fertilizer.
Growing Guide
Click here to find our Full Nectarine Trees Planting and Growing Guide
Fun Fact
A nectarine is actually just a waxy-skinned peach. A single genetic change causes the absence of fuzz.
Additional Information
Where Should I plant Them? Peaches, plums and nectarines prefer well-drained soils and part to full sun.
Root Stock:Â Peaches, plums and nectarines are highly susceptible to nematodes in the Deep South, especially in sandy soils. Nemagard or Guardian are the preferred rootstocks as they offer resistance to the pesky little worms. Our trees for Zone 8 are grafted on Nemaguard while the tropical plums are grafted onto Guardian. All plums require a pollinator.
Fertilizer These guys are ferocious feeders so it really pays to do a light application of manure and hay in the spring. Then side dress with a balanced fertilizer high in trace elements in February (Or after the last freeze in your area), May, and late July.
Shipping Restrictions
We’re so sorry… but due to agricultural restrictions we cannot ship any plants outside of the United States, or to the states of California, Hawaii and Alaska. Also, citrus trees cannot be shipped outside of the state of Florida.
Here are some important things to know about your shipments
Unpacking Your Plants Guide:  Prior to receiving our plants, please click this link to read our Unpacking Your Plants Guide to get to know the steps to keeping your plant healthy after receiving it.
We do NOT ship bare root:  Our trees are shipped in the same exact containers they are grown in, for the most healthy transition. The plants are watered well before they are packed and wrapped in a shipping bag to ensure they stay moist during transit. It’s as if you came and picked them up right from our nursery yourself!
Why do we not offer free shipping? At Just Fruits, we price all of our plants online exactly as we do in the nursery. Therefore, the shipping cost is simply what it costs for us to get your order from the nursery to you. Many competitors may increase the plants’ prices in order to hide shipping costs… we do not do that. We want our customers to see exactly what the plant costs are, separate from what the shipping costs are. That way if you decided to come visit the nursery to pick up your plants instead, you would know how much you save in shipping.
Weather Watching:  We now ship all year round! However, we do watch for extreme weather. If there is extremely cold or hot weather expected around your shipment date and on your path of shipment, we will contact you and notify you that we plan to hold the shipment for the next possible shipping date with better conditions. If you ask us to still ship it, through the conditions, we will not be responsible for any damage caused to the plant & UPS will not refund any claims. We love our plants, and do not want to see them die, so we would rather wait until it’s the right time to ship it, than risk losing a plant in transit.
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