What kind of peach is Fushan Fragrant Peach? An introduction to its variety characteristics

Fushan Fragrant Peach is a superior variant single plant selected from natural seedling trees of Feicheng peach. Because the breeder of the variety was named Fushan, it was named "Fushan Fragrant Peach." After trial planting in various places, this variety not only has very large fruit and bright color, but also has a rich fragrance and honey-sweet flavor, with high and stable yield, good storability, disease resistance, and good returns, giving it broad development prospects. Its main advantages are:

1. Large fruit type. The average single fruit weight is 300--400 grams (accounting for 70%--80%), and the largest fruit weighs more than 600 grams.

2. Bright color. The background color of the ripe fruit is greenish white (yellowish white for bagged fruit), and the sunny side has a bright red blush. The colored area is about 50%, and the largest colored area can reach 80%.

3. Beautiful appearance. The fruit is round, with a protruding tip, a relatively shallow suture, and symmetrical sides. The fruit surface is very smooth and quite attractive.

4. Unique flavor. The flesh is milky white, fine and tender, hard-melting, and clingstone. The taste is richly sweet as honey (sugar content 16.5%), accompanied by a strong fragrance. The aroma is fresh and the aftertaste is long (eat a peach indoors and the whole room is fragrant; after eating, the breath is fragrant, and the fragrance can last for an hour), with no off-flavors such as sourness, astringency, or bitterness. Its flavor is unique among peaches and unmatched. The intensity of sweetness and fragrance is very rare among fruits.

5. Moderate ripening period. In the Shandong region of China, the fruit ripens in early September, but it can be picked and marketed as early as the end of August. After ripening, it can be left on the tree until early October for harvest without softening or rotting, and the marketing period lasts as long as 40 days. During this period, the local "Hanlu Mi" has already sold out, while "Zhonghua Shengtao" has not yet ripened, so peaches are scarce on the market. As the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holidays approach, with the unique excellent quality of Fushan Fragrant Peach, it is entirely imaginable that its selling price is high; generally, in markets in various places, the selling price can reach 2--4 times that of ordinary peaches.

6. Early fruiting and high yield. This variety is self-fruitful, with a natural fruit-setting rate as high as 40%, and up to 90% at the highest. Therefore, the fruits form in clusters and strings, and strict fruit thinning is required in production, with a suitable spacing of 20--30 cm between retained fruits. This variety has especially good early fruiting; one-year-old seedlings planted bear fruit in the second year, with a certain yield, and reach high yield in the third year, with an average yield per plant of about 20 kg. Therefore, this variety is suitable for close planting so as to obtain high yield early.

7. No fruit cracking and not susceptible to disease. Whether bagged or not bagged, the fruit does not crack (none found), and it shows relatively high resistance to peach gummosis, early defoliation disease, peach leaf shot hole disease, anthracnose, ring rot, and others.

8. Good storability and transportability. From late August to early September, because the peach fruit is not fully ripe (80%--90% ripe), its firmness is very high, making it extremely suitable for long-distance transport. After mid-September (fully ripe), it is still hard on the tree, and after picking it remains hard for 2--3 days. Therefore, after harvest, loading it onto a vehicle and shipping it out, reaching the market within 3 days, transport is still not a problem. After 3 days, the fruit firmness decreases, and finger pressure leaves a mark; at this time, care should be taken to avoid bumping and pressing to prevent damage. After picking, this peach stored indoors at room temperature for 20 days, and stored in a refrigerator for 50 days, showed no discoloration of the flesh, and the flavor remained the same.

9. Drought resistance and tolerance to poor soil, with wide adaptability. It is suitable for large-scale promotion and planting in various places.

In short, Fushan Fragrant Peach has large fruit and high yield, high sweetness and strong fragrance, a unique flavor, good palatability, a moderate ripening period, a long fruit supply period, drought resistance and tolerance to poor soil, and high disease resistance. It is truly the crown of fragrant peaches. In recent years, people have come in an endless stream to inspect Fushan Fragrant Peach in various places. Among them are experts, professors, fruit tree workers, township leaders, and fruit farmers. Although their identities and qualifications differ, their evaluations of Fushan Fragrant Peach are consistent: it is the first time they have seen such a beautiful peach, and the first time they have eaten such a fragrant and sweet peach. At present, Fushan Fragrant Peach has been listed by the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences as one of the excellent new fruit tree varieties recommended nationwide. As the saying goes: one taste leaves fragrance for half a day, and from then on honey no longer seems sweet; the fruit is large, keeps well, and does not crack, and after planting every plant can @#@3@#@. (The reader service department of this publication can supply Fushan Fragrant Peach seedlings. The seedling price is 8 yuan/plant, mail order starting from 10 plants; for 50 plants or more, 7.5 yuan/plant; for 100 plants or more, 7 yuan/plant. For seedling purchases of more than 500 yuan, an additional 10% of seedlings is given free; for more than 1,000 yuan, an additional 20%; for more than 2,000 yuan, an additional 30%; for more than 5,000 yuan, an additional 40%; for more than 10,000 yuan, an additional 50%.)