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Peach/nectarine/plum variety evaluation

Principal Investigator/Project Leader: 
Jon
Clements
Extension Educator [1]
Sponsoring Unit(s): 
Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station [2]
UMass Extension [3]
Department of Project: 
UMass Extension
Project Website: 
UMass Fruit Advisor [1]
[4]
Project Description: 

Over 75 named and numbered peach/nectarine and plum varieties/selections are under casual evaluation and demonstration at the UMass Cold Spring Orchard. Most of them are varieties/selection from the Fruit Acres/Stellar, Paul Friday/Flaming Fury, and Rutgers/Adams County Nursery breeding and variety introduction programs. Data collected includes flowering, yield, and fruit quality (size, color, firmness, brix, maturity, and taste/consumer acceptance), and  pest susceptibility. Results/variety recommendations are available to growers at meetings, personal consultation/visits to UMass Orchard.

Topics: 
Agriculture [5]
Agriculture topics: 
Fruit
The UMass Center for Agriculture, Food and the Environment is the home of UMass Extension and the Mass. Ag. Experiment Station.

Source URL: https://ag.umass.edu/fruit/outreach-project/peachnectarineplum-variety-evaluation

Links
[1] http://umassfruit.com
[2] https://ag.umass.edu/sponsoring-units/massachusetts-agricultural-experiment-station
[3] https://ag.umass.edu/sponsoring-units/umass-extension
[4] https://ag.umass.edu/sites/ag.umass.edu/files/projects/images/pf9a-007.jpg
[5] https://ag.umass.edu/topic/agriculture