‘SP 5-16’, ‘SP 9-5’, ‘SP 10-12’ AND ‘SP 13-25’: ADVANCED PEACH SELECTIONS FROM ARGENTINA

Four advanced selections are being evaluated at the San Pedro Experiment Station, Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA) to provide medium-chilling, commercially acceptable peach cultivars that ripen between ‘June Gold’ and ‘Red Globe’.
‘SP 5-16’, ‘SP 9-5’ and ‘SP 10-12’ have a fruit developmental period (FDP) about 95 days and a chilling requirement of about 500 hours, meanwhile ‘SP 13-25’ has a FDP of 110 days.
Flowers are showy and leaf glands are reniform in all selections.
The average fruit weight varies among 150 (‘SP 5-16’) and 190 g (‘SP 13-25’). ‘SP 5-16’ produces semi-freestone fruit that ripens in late November.
The rest of the selections produce freestone peaches that ripen in mid-December (‘SP 9-5’ and ‘SP 10-12’) and late December (‘SP 13-25’) in the north-eastern fruit growing area of the Province of Buenos Aires.
These selections are yellow-flesh peaches and considered as promising alternatives for the regional mid-season.

VII International Peach Symposium

G.H. Valentini, M.A. Daorden, L.E. Arroyo

fruit breeding, Prunus persica, medium chilling

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2012.962.13