EXTRA - These plants are usually mature and bigger specimens with exceptional overall appearance.DE LUXE QUALITY - This label guarantees a luxurious quality of manually selected plants that, compared to their height and age, are exceptionally dense and beautiful.STANDARD QUALITY - Plants of this group are 1st class quality with number of branches and overall density adequate to their size and age, considering they were container grown.The best yield is always from an unpruned tree which grows naturally. Do it either in spring after flowering or in mid-late August after harvesting the fruit. Dwarf trees do not require pruning but rejuvenation may be done once every 10 years or so. Do not transplant bare-root trees in autumn, only in spring. Peach trees like slightly alkaline soil, moist but well drained. Remove and burn curled leaves to reduce further infection. Leaf curl may be a problem but rather than chemical treatments, which do not work well anyway, we suggest feeding the tree when curled leaves appear to promote growth of new foliage. We suggest planting peach trees in open space so they can feel cold, spring breeze which will delay flowering and prevent the flowers from frost damage should they open too early. AU1142, surprisingly no US patent was applied for. 11069 was granted in 1998 same as Australian patent No. AMBER ® is self-fertile and is commonly grafted onto dwarfing rootstock Rootpac-20 (or similar) which makes it suitable for growing in large pots on balconies and patios.
It exhibits slow growth and short, stiff branches densely covered with large, pink flowers in early spring. climate) and can be harvested for about two weeks. The flesh is very sweet, low in acidity, aromatic, and juicy. It is golden orange and scarlet red outside and rich yellow inside. Floyd Zaiger is also the man behind a huge success of interspecific hybrids of plums and apricots called pluots (plumcots) and apriums which nowadays seem to gain more and more popularity.ĪMBER ® dwarf peach produces mid-sized fruit of excellent flavour and beautiful skin. As of 2020 they patented 446 fruit tree varieties. He set up Zaiger’s Genetics in Modesto, California, USA, where plants are bred using hand pollination rather than using DNA manipulation. They are usually self-fertile and grafted on slow-growing rootstocks that are happy to live in a large pot and don’t need to spread its roots in the ground.ĪMBER ® is a dwarf peach tree developed by Chris “Floyd” Zaiger (1926-2020) who devoted all his adult life to breeding stone fruit. Dwarf fruit trees are sought-after plants mostly among those who don’t have a garden, just a patio or a balcony, or their garden is too small to accommodate a large fruit tree.
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