Introduction to New Giant Flat Peach Varieties: Early Giant Flat Peach and Late Giant Flat Peach

I. Early Giant Flat Peach. This variety fruits early and yields heavily. With one-year-old rapid-grown seedlings, the fruit-bearing plant rate reaches 100% in the second year after planting, and the fruit-setting rate is very high. The fruit is a thick round disk shape, averaging 150 grams and reaching up to 350 grams. When ripe, the fruit surface is smooth and hairless, colors extremely easily, and colors evenly, with a deep red that is very attractive. The flesh is white, firm and crisp with a fine texture, sweet and richly fragrant. The stone is round and extremely small, with an edible rate of 98.3%. Early Giant Flat Peach ripens early, with a fruit development period of 95 days. Grown in open fields, it can ripen by the end of June; grown in greenhouses, it can ripen and reach the market before May 1. This variety is disease-resistant and does not crack. It is most suitable for dwarfed high-density planting or greenhouse cultivation.

II. Late Giant Flat Peach. This variety has strong early-fruiting ability. With one-year-old rapid-grown seedlings, it can bear fruit in the second year after planting. The fruit is a thick round disk shape, and the fruit shape is huge and spectacular, averaging 245 grams and reaching up to 600 grams. The ripe fruit is deep red and vivid. The flesh is white, tender, crisp and sweet, freestone, and the stone is extremely small, with an edible rate of 98.5%. This variety is extremely late-ripening, with a fruit development period of 200 days, ripening on October 15 in southern Shandong. This variety has an extremely high fruit-setting rate, heavy and stable yields, and late-ripening large fruit. Late Giant Flat Peach has huge market potential, and combined with measures such as fresh-keeping storage, it will bring astonishing returns to fruit growers.