Paul Friday, private Michigan peach breeder, has developed the Flamin' Fury® peach series which now spans a 15 week growing period. This series is rapidly becoming ubiquitous. It far out shines the "haven" series which was the standard of it's time. This series is also commonly called the Flaming Fury or Flamin Fury series. This series of peaches is trademarked Flamin' Fury® and the individual varieties are named and patented as PF numbers in the approximate order of ripening. They are usually marketed as Flamin' Fury® Peaches, (examples) Flamin' Fury® followed by PF Lucky 13, PF 8 Ball, PF 24-C cold hardy,etc. All of the Flamin' Fury® varieties having the designation (007) in their name are extremely large and all selections with (Lucky) in their name are notably firm peaches and have a fantastic ability to hang a very long time on the tree. Most varieties now have both favorable charactristics. Other chacteristics common to this series are excellent flavor, juicy, hardy, disease resistant, and sweet. The chill hour range of 700 to 850 hours makes this series very adaptable to many growers in many states. Varieties from the Flamin' Fury® series are being grown very successfuly in many states which include the following: Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Washington, Colorado, Oregon, Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Virgina, West Virgina, Idaho, New York and high elevation locations in California.  Jerry Frecon of the Rutgers University Extension Service in New Jersey has found that the Flamin' Fury® series does very well in the varying growing conditions of eastern states. As a result of both field observations and laboratory testing Dr. Bob Andersen has found many varieties of this series to be very adaptible to the advere growing conditions in New York and has highly recommended that many varieties from this series be planted there. Many Flamin' Fury® varieties are also being planted in many areas of Canada. Dr. Esmaeil Fallahi at the University of Idaho and James Pitts, the superintendent of the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station for Alburn University, have also found many of my varieties do well in the varying climates of their states. Many Flamin' Fury varieties are now being planted in South Africa.

To navigate this site, simply click on any of the topics located above in the upper left hand corner. I am most appreciative and humbled by the very positive comments made by peach industry folks around the country about my work. Be sure to read the TESTIMONIAL PAGE. 

For an unbiased comparison of the "Flamin' Fury® peach series" and the "Stellar peach series", by Dr. Bob Andersen, please go to the Articles Page.

 A very descriptive run down of all of the "star" Flamin' Fury® varieties is found on "The Best Flamin' Fury® Varieties" page.

To order trees from this series, please go to the Nursery/ Variety Availablity page.

For 48 years I have been searching and finding new, improved and superior peach cultivars. I release new varieties after an average of about 17 years experience with a given cultivar. From the many thousands of crosses I have made over the years I currently have 62 peach cultivars in their second and third generation test blocks that show exraordinary potential. Some of these will be released in the near future. My fruit growing family has been in search of better varieties and better methods of growing fruit since they came here from Germany in 1846, ten years after Michigan became a state. My farm which has been in the family for 162 years is located on Friday Road, Coloma, Michigan.

I am very proud to have served as president of the National Peach Council for two consecutive terms and have been a member of it's board for 12 years. I am also past president of the Michigan Peach Sponsors and served on it's board of directors for over 25 years.