PF1 

This peach is picked as early as July 1 in Michigan and a month before Redhaven. It is hardy, blooms late, juicy, sweet, and has fewer split pits than most early varieties, most years. It is a very early variety and consequently the fruit is of much less quality than all other Flamin' Fury peach varieties but has been planted extensively because it so early.

PF 5B

This very early variety ripens five days after PF1, it is classy and has much better fruit quality than PF1.

**PF Early 8 Ball,

This very classy peach ripens 17 days before Redhaven and is somewhat freestone with good size and quality for so early. It is bac spot resistent, highly colored with excellent flavor and texture. Upon first viewing and tasting of this new variety, a friend and neighbor ordered 500 trees of this one on the spot.

**PF5 D Big, Released in (05),

PF 5D Big ripens 22 days before Redhaven. It's very large for such and early peach. It has exceptional 90% dark red color and excellent fruit quality. I believe this to be the largest peach available for this time frame. Flavor is excellent and split pits are minimal for such an early peach.

Mike Reeves, horticulture extension agent at Auburn University, Ala. and grower likes PF5D Big much better than Sure Crop for the same season as it is much bigger and has fewer split pits. 

*PF 7 

This peach ripens with Garnet Beauty, two weeks before Redhaven with large unblemished fruit with less than 1% split pits, very unusual for an early peach! It is very firm and bac spot has never been observed. Amazing, but almost every peach looks like those in this basket without any sorting! I can not say that about any of my other varieties. 

***PF 8 Ball, New in (06)

 This early very FREESTONE peach variety ripens 10 days before Redhaven. It is a large peach for this early, it has high color, great texture and excellent flavor, bac spot resistant and hangs well on the tree. PF 8 Ball is a late bloomer. This variety being this large and freestone so early is a winner for any peach grower who does retailing or wholesales to direct retailers.

A West Virginia grower finds this peach to be a great peach under his conditions and also to be freestone there.

**PF 9A-007, New in 04, 

It ripens with Redhaven and is a large, brilliantly colored freestone peach. The fruit is  large with much of it over 3 ". The attached photo of this variety, take by Van Moore, is of Adam Rodriguez from Hilltop nursery holding the peaches. Both of these guys like this variety very much. "I have seen this peach, eaten them and recommended them to any grower looking for a very high-quality Redhaven season peach." Van Moore, The Nursery Connection, said.

 Lee Spencer, Pa. Grower and Jerry Frecon, New Jersey Fruit evaluator both say " PF 9A-007 is a high quality peach and is particularly large for a relatively early peach with low bac spot susceptibility."

**PF 11 Peach,

 PF11 peaches ripens 2 days before Redhaven and produces beautiful, uniform freestone peaches and are certainly the ideal replacement for Redhaven. Of all of our new peach varieties this is definately one of the best. Ninety percent have been 2 3/4 inch and bigger for the entire harvest season, with lots of 3" peaches. I believe that this is a great peach to replace Redhaven. It is much larger, has far fewer splits, and excellent flavor. This photo is of my display at a farmers market in Chicago.

**PF 11 Nectarine 

  This fantastic new nectarine ripens a week before Redhaven. The fruit is 90% Red over yellow background 2 1/2" up to 3". It has beautiful fruit with very good bacterial spot resistence and brown rot resistence. The University of Missouri Extension also lists it as particularly resitant to bac spot. In 2005 I harvested lots of baskets of fruit from a second leaf orchard, unsprayed as non bearing, and had very nice nectarines with no bacterial spot. I know of a New Jersey grower who is growing huge numbers for the wholesale market. This cultivar sold out very early in 2010 and Canadian growers as well as US called me in search of trees. In 2010, avery bad back spot year I had no bac spot in my orchard on either the leaves or the fruit.

***PF Lucky 13, One of my most popular peach varieties

 It ripens 5 days after Redhaven and is completly freestone. In my 45 years of searching for the perfect peach I find PF Lucky 13 to be in my top 3 candidates. PF Lucky 13 is rapidly becoming my most popular peach variety. Many growers from Washington State to New Hampshire have reported that in the second or third leaf that have had particularly large crops of exceptional fruit and subsequently planted a second block of PF Lucky 13 the following spring. This variety has always had huge yields of very classy, large (2 3/4" and bigger) fruit in our test blocks with extremely firm peaches and the fruit is also very freestone. The fruit remains on the tree more than 10 days after one might think it should be picked. It just keeps getting bigger and bigger remaining very firm. Almost all of the fruit from this variety is No. 1 quality. The tree is spreading, and very productive with good resistance to bac spot.

 Jerry Frecon, New Jersey hort. agent and fruit evaluator likes this peach very much. He describes this variety as firm to very firm, very attractive with good size and low susceptibility to bac spot. 

 A large southern Illinois grower reported that the 3 biggest growers in that area all have planted PF Lucky 13 and they are all very happy that they did.

 Lee Spencer, a Pennsylvania grower, says "PF Lucky 13 is an excellent all around variety". 

Growers in Alabama,Georgia and Missouri are reporting great success with this variety in their areas.

A large Michigan grower planted a second big block of PF Lucky 13 after being amazed by the production and quality of fruit on his first block in only it's 3rd leaf.

This variety showed strikingly hardy characteristics in Dr. Robert Anderson's wood hardiness tests where temperatures went to 18 degrees below zero F. in January 2004 in Geneva N.Y.

PF 15A 

 PF 15 A ripens the end of the Redhaven season. This peach is very hardy and very prolific. It is classy with very good size ( 2 3/4" up), high color, excellent flavor, good firmness, it is bac spot resistant and freestone. 

PF 17  

 This freestone peach ripens right with Loring in Michigan - a few days ahead of Loring on the East Coast. (Growing this peach is like cooking rice -- where do they keep coming from?)  PF-17 can be milked for several pickings, rendering very large yields of large (2 3/4" and 3" fruit. It is firm, high quality, freestone fruit. PF 17 is one of the first patented varieties of this great series and has certainly become an industry standard. 

***PF 19-007, Released in (05), This is one of my very favorite peach varieties.

 In various publications Jerry Frecon describes it as large to very large with low suciptibility to bac spot. This freestone peach variety ripens 17 days after Redhaven and where two industry standards PF 17 and PF 23 overlap. In my opinion it has even better fruit quality than either of them. It has beautiful, highly colored firm fruit and has very low susceptibility to bac spot. It is brown rot resistant and a truly freestone peach. It is very prolific. In the 2002 season, when most varieties in Michigan froze from a spring frost, this variety had a full crop in a very low place. PF 19-007 also blooms late. Fruit has been exceptional in every way every year since. Yields per acre of this variety are very high and rival the well known yields of PF 17. Dr. Desmond, Layne of Clemson University has reported the average size of this peach to be about 3 inches in diameter. Dick Okie, peach breeder at the USDA in Byron Georgia used this variety as a parent in his genetic work, so he obviously liked this variety.

PF 23 

  This freestone peach ripens twenty days after Redhaven. This variety is highly rated for its very high color and firm flesh and flavor . It is best described as a very CLASSY peach. It is an excellent variety that will hang a long time on the tree. This peach sizes well as it colors early,  and stays firm for an amazing period of time. It is bac spot resistant. This is one of the first varieties in this series to be patented and certainly has become an industry standard.

*PF 22-007 ripens in this time slot and is a particularly late bloomer and has very large fruit. Marty Mincer, a peach grower in Iowa is doing well with this variety. This freestone variety is also noted for very sweet fruit. This variety is available in 2010 at Cameron Nursery in Washington State. Phone # 509-266-4669          Jerry Frecon, New Jersey fruit evaluator describes this peach as large to very large with very good flavor.

**Bubblegum Plum®

This exciting plum ripens 20 days after Redhaven and is the most exciting plum for retail marketing to ever come down the pike, in my opinion. It has the essence and taste of bubblegum which has driven our retail customers wild. Our retail patrons of all status and economic levels request this plum way after their availability every season. We sell this plum 20 to 1 over any other plum at our farm stands throughout the season, it is an unbelievable winner. It requires another variety for cross pollination, Pipestone is one variety of many choices suggested. This variety is available at Stark Bros. Wholesale Nursery phone # 800-435-8733 and Willow Drive Nursery 888-548-7337. Varieties that are suggested to pollinate this great plum are Pipestone, Waneta and Superior. This variety is very hardy and can be grown from zone 3 up.

PF 24-007

This giant freestone peach ripens about 3 days before Cresthaven, 22 days after Redhaven, and is well known for its extremely large size, ( 3" and up )  This peach has excellent flavor, is firm, and colors well with multiple pickings. This variety has been recognized and certified as the world's largest peach. Expenses raising it are minimum, with very little pruning or thinning required. Basically you just plant and pick this one. Because it has a lighter bud set than any of my other of my varieties. This variety does very well in New Jersey and there are very large, successful plantings of it there. In other locations, because it has a much lighter bud set than any other Flamin' Fury varieties, cropping results vary from very good to not so good depending on location and site. With this in consideration I strongly recommend planting PF 24C- Cold hardy or PF Lucky 24B, for about the same season, on lesser locations or sites. 

PF Lucky 24B, Released in (04) 

 This freestone peach variety ripens 24 days after Redhaven. It has established a very good reputation around the country as test variety PF 219. It has excellent flavor, is very firm and colors well with multiple pickings. It has great flavor, very large fruit (3"), it is highly colored and bac spot resistant. Jerry Frecon, New Jersey hort. agent, has highly recommended this peach many times and remarks how well it hangs on the tree.

***PF 24-C cold hardy, Released in (04) 

This freestone peach is also 24 days after Redhaven. This extraordinary peach had to be thinned  very hard in 1999 when a total crop failure in Southwestern Michigan occurred due to a winter freeze which wiped out all other varieties. Then in 2002 there was a very late spring freeze, May 21st, and 15 varieties all around  this cultivar failed and it again had a full crop. This is a very unique peach variety that has it all. Usually with a kind that is very spring and winter hardy like this one, something else is sacrificed, such as size, firmness, etc. But this peach is very large, firm, highly colored, bacterial spot resistant, and has excellent, rich flavor. I believe this one to be of special interest to anyone with a questionable peach growing location.  I think this is a very hardy peach and peach tree and can be grown in several zones.  The tree is very tough with strong natural right angle crotches and it blooms late. The fruit has much better size and quality than other varieties thought to be hardy such as Reliance and Madison.  April 4th of 2007 we had a very cold night with temperatures below 20 degrees F. and several nights in the low twenties following a very warm week. The preceding week of warm weather brought the blooms to an almost open state. The bloom on trees of PF 24-C cold hardy deliberately planted in the lowest place on the farm, again, came through with flying colors

A FEW QUOTES FROM OTHER   GROWERS

 "We had -30 degree temperatures in 2008 and all of our PF 24C Cold hardy trees survived whereas all of our 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". Crystal Barnard, Egg Harbor, Door County, Wisconsin

In Lino Lakes Mn. "My PF 24 C coldhardy trees planted in 2009 survived 22 degrees below zero and grew 4 feet in 2010." Jim Gage, cell # 651-470-0611, jumbogage@aol.com

PF 25 

 This freestone late peach variety ripens Redskin season. It produces big yields of highly colored  fruit with good size and good flavor. It is bac spot resistant and very freestone. This variety did exceedingly well in the wood cold hardiness testing that Dr Bob Andersen conducted in Geneva N.Y. Jan. 2004 with temperatures of a minus 18 degrees F.

**PF 28-007

  This freestone peach has been ripening about two days after PF-27A, 32 days after Redhaven, and is as large - or even larger and it colors even better than PF27A, a long time standard from this series. It has good flavor and firmness, and has low suceptibility to bac spot.. Reports have been very good from out East. Phil Baugher of Adams Co. Nursery in (05) said, " I gathered 150 samples of peaches for our 100th anniversary and pulling samples of PF 28-007 was the easiest of any variety as every peach down the limb was suitable for the display at our celebration". I had the same experience, myself, preparing for a showcase in (06). Jerry Frecon and Dan Ward from Rutgers in New Jersey assisted me in pulling the sample and were also very impressed with this variety. Frecon has since described this variety as " An attractive late season peach with great size and color with low susceptibility to bac spot."

**PF Fat Lady,( patented as PF 35-007)  ripens 40 days after Redhaven 

 I have named this peach PF Fat Lady because after I developed this great late peach all of the good names for late peaches like "Encore" and "Finale" were already taken which left me with "Fat Lady", "taint over till", LOL. This is a classy, large peach (2 3/4" and 3"). It is  highly colored  for the very late season. It is particularly hardy coming thru with a good crop regularly and it blooms late. It's very freestone and bac spot resistant. It has better fruit color, flavor and a stronger tree than the older late varieties Fayette and Encore.

 I have held this variety in the cooler for three weeks after harvest for extended late sales several times now and the fruit always remains very juicy and tasty. I believe this peach is a real winner for the very late season.

Rutgers fruit evaluator, Jerry Frecon, describes this variety as very large, very good flavor with low bac spot susceptibility.