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Chill Hours 325c.u.
Cold Hardy 15-20°
Growing Zone 8B - 9BUF Sharp Peach Tree– Yum!
Looking for a good quality, firm peach that’s sweet? Try UF Sharp! UF Sharp is a medium large, yellow fleshed, non-melting peach with a red blush over 60% of the skin. UF Sharp’s fruit ripens evenly and keeps well on the tree. UF Sharp also has high resistance to bacterial spot (aka bacterial shot hole). Released in 2006 by the University of Florida. Clingstone. Ripens in late May.
| Chill Hours | 325c.u. |
|---|---|
| Cold Hardy | 15-20° |
| Container Plant | No |
| Grafted | Yes, on Nemaguard or Flordaguard Rootstock |
| Growing Zone | 8B, 9A, 9B |
| Mature Height | 12-18 FT |
| Mature Width | 12-15 FT |
| Pollinator | Self Fertile |
| Spacing | 12-15 FT |
| Sunlight | Full |
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!
View Our Full Peach Trees Planting and Growing Guide
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.
Growing your own peaches is well worth the effort. Most of the peaches you buy in the store are picked green, so they rarely resemble the real thing. In other words, they don’t taste so good. If you want SWEET, soft, juicy peaches that aren’t pumped full of chemicals, take the time to grow your own. If you want peaches all summer long, choose several varieties that ripen at different times, as it’s just as easy to take care of half a dozen trees as one.
In researching varieties to grow in our area, we looked into Louisiana State University’s breeding program. Louisiana has a large low-chill peach belt in the southern part of the state that produces some of the finest tasting peaches in the United States. Because of Louisiana’s high humidity, their breeding program is aimed at disease resistance. They achieve some of this resistance by using a simple trick of nature — they breed peaches with extra long fuzz on the skin. This fuzz acts like a raincoat, keeping fungus spores that cause fruit rot from settling in the skin of the peach.
The University of Florida’s great breeding program has given us peaches adapted to the very low chill Zones 9 and 10, as well as Zone 8. New non-melting peaches stay firm while they sweeten up (check out the Gulf and UF series!). This increases eating quality, shelf life and appearance of these wonderful peaches. What a selection to choose from! All peaches are grafted on Nemaguard or Guardian rootstock.
If you are uncertain about your chill hours, contact your County Cooperative Extension Agent or local Department of Agriculture. You may also click here to view the USDA zone Map and see which match your growing zone.
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.
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.
It’s June and if you have peach, plum, and/or nectarine trees in your orchard, you’ve probably noticed fresh fruit popping up here and there–a Southerner’s dream! Peaches ripen during the summer months and can typically be harvested around this time of year during peak season. There is nothing as satisfying as taking a bite out […]
