What fresh peach growers, packers and nurserymen say about us...

 I find both PF Lucky 13 and PF 9A-007 peaches to be of superior quality, size and all around desireable varieties to plant in substancial numbers on my farm.    Lee Spencer, Pa Grower

I am on Paul's farm and in his test orchards several times per week during the growing season. I have seen, handled and tasted all of his varieties and consider them all to be top of the line.  They are all large for their season, very colorful and hang a long time for additional size and color. They have excellent flavor, juice and are very resistent to bac spot. I have been very impressed with Paul's peach breeding program and his high quality peaches."-- Van Moore, The Nursery Connection --

   The consistent size, color, excellent flavor, and firmness of the Flamin' Fury® series of peaches has allowed us to do this.  This fruit will compete with the best of the best from any of the other peach growing states. The Flamin' Fury® peaches will continue to make Michigan a major fresh peach supplier to these retailers."-- Barry L. Winkel, Greg Orchards and Produce --

"I have been watching your Flamin' Fury® peach series since the start and have always been amazed at the overall quality and quantity of new peach varieties that you have bred to date. Also, all of the new varieties you have in the pipeline are exciting and worty of test.  I tell my growers that they have to try them all.  -- Matt Moser, Moser Fruit Tree Sales Inc. --

"Paul's goal as a peach breeder is to develop the best peaches and  peach trees available which in total ripen over an amazing 15 week period. I believe it to be in every growers best interest to stay abreast of Paul's latest developments. I am fully aware of his work as I am in his research plots twice a week for a 15 week time period."-- Adam Rodriquez, Hilltop Nursery, Hartford Michigan --

"We have grown Flamin' Fury® peach varieties for over 20 years and have been very pleased with their quality, size and color.  Many of these varieties are high yielding and have good bud hardiness.  We continue to plant more of the new and improved peach varieties as they become available."--Joe Burnhan IV, Burnham Orchards, Berlin Hieghts, Ohio

"In 1994 we started planting Flamin' Fury® peaches with the goal of providing our customers consistent high quality juicy peaches throughout the summer into the fall.  With each new Flamin' Fury® variety this goal has become more of a reality.  These peaches are consistently large, well colored, with excellent flavor and stay firm when ripe.  Flamin' Fury® peaches are the only peaches we sell."-- Peter Versluis, Versluis Orchards, Grand Rapids, Michigan

"The Flamin' Fury® peach series has helped Midwest growers stay in the peach business. With winter hardy varieties that have excellent size,  color, and consistent heavy yields, with them we can remain a strong player in the industry."-- Wayne D. Sirles, Rendleman Orchards, Alto Pass, Illinois

"We have a 4 year old block of PF-24-007 peaches which surpassed our expectations as to size, color and yield. We packed 7,000 boxes off of 2,400 trees. -- Doug Zee, New Jersey --

"The Flamin' Fury® peach series developed by peach breeder Paul Friday has made a huge impact upon peach marketing and trading at the Benton Harbor Fruit Market, Inc. Paul Friday's Flamin' Fury® varieties have extended peach marketing here by 4 weeks. When they are ripe and juicy they are still firm for transport." -- Lee LaVanway, Marketmaster Benton Harbor Fruit Market, Inc. 

"We had very cold temperatures in 2008 and all of our PF 24C cold hardy trees survived whereas all other varieties are dead and dying"    Darrell Bryant, Morning Sun Iowa 

"In 2008 we had very low temperatures and all of our Reliance trees died but all of our Flamin' Fury® varieties survived".      Banard Crystal, Door County, Wisconsin

 FOR AN UNBIASED COMPARISON OF THE Flamin' Fury® PEACH SERIES AND THE Stellar® SERIES, GO TO NURSERIES LINKS, AND CLICK ON {CORNELL UNIVERSITY NEW YORK AGRICULTURAL} scroll down to Peaches/ Nectarines.

Mutiple tests for wood cold hardiness of Paul Friday's peach varieties, using Redhaven as a standard, were conducted by professor James Flore at Michigan State University throughout 1992 and 1993 winters in MSU chill chambers. With a score of 5 being the best rating and 1 being the lowest, Redhaven scored 1.4. 13 Paul Friday cultivars scored 2-3, 15 scored 3-4, and 24 scored 4-5. The very few varieties that scored the same or lower than Redhaven were immediately discarded from Paul's peach breeding program.