New cultivars. The new peach and nectarine descriptions, harvest time and minimum chill hours: Peaches 'Flat Delight One': white flesh, low acid, doughnut-shaped; mid-May; 550 chill hours.

Between late freezes and low chill hours, peach growers have not had a good year since 2012, Cook said. Wayne Crenshaw: 478-256-9725 , @WayneCrenshaw1 Get unlimited digital access ...

Chunxian Chen, a researcher at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Southeastern Fruit and Tree Nut Research Laboratory in Byron, said their station registered a record low of 520 chill hours ...

Low chill varieties of peaches, nectarines and plums need 100 – 525 hours of temperatures below 45 degrees. The Ein Shemer apple requires only about 300 chilling hours and grows as far south as ...

Wind chill refers to the wind’s effect on our perception of the cold. For example, if it’s 35 degrees and the wind blows at 10 miles per hour, it will feel like 27 degrees. Brrr!

Another important factor that plays into whether a fruit tree will produce well or not for that year are the “chill hours”. Each fruit and the individual species must experience specific chill hours ...

Kamas said fruit with low chill–hour requirements, including some peach varieties, could perform well, though he said bloom and ripening times will be out of normal sequence.

The best time to plant bare root fruit trees in North Texas is from Jan. 1 until Feb. 15. If planted later, after warmer temperatures begin, bud break will send any plant still denuded of soil ...

With this information, you can plan a big harvest by embracing low-chill fruit trees and ditching the traditional high-chill varieties. Some types require just 100 to 525 chilling hours, making ...

Chill hours for fruit trees Wind chill refers to the effect that wind has on our perception of the cold. For example, if it’s 35 degrees and the wind is blowing at 10 mph, it will feel like 27 ...

Many pluots do require 400 or more winter chill hours so, to be safest, it would be advisable to plant the semi-dwarf pluot Dapple Supreme which only needs 300 hours to flower and fruit.