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www.goodfruit.com Good Fruit Grower DECEMBER 2015 31 The freestone Coralstar is a good candidate for farm- market sales. Besides season-extending varieties, other peaches are finding their niches. They include: —PF 19-007, which he described as a productive peach with good flavor, decent hardiness, and a fairly long shelf life. This large, colorful peach is one of the Flamin' Fury varieties from Paul Friday's breeding pro- gram in Michigan. —Coralstar, which falls into the same harvest window as PF 19-007, has "excellent flavor and size" but a shorter shelf life that makes it more suited for farm-market sales, Shane said. Developed by the Fruit Acres Farms' private peach-breeding program, it is a large, coral-red, free- stone fruit. Sweetstar, another introduction by the Fruit Acres program, is a strong candidate for the shipping peach market, he noted. The older white-fleshed flat peach Saturn is notable for its hardiness and sweetness and is becoming a stan- dard variety for farm markets, he said. Some of the newer flat peaches, such as the new BuenOs and TangOs from Rutgers, are getting a good evaluation of their winter hardiness. More information will be available during Shane's EXPO presentation titled "Focus on Selected New Peach Varieties" on December 9. • PHOTOS COURTESY OF BILL SHANE The large, flavorful, and productive PF 19-007 is finding a niche. Early Season Kalibrate applied at planting time or side-dress is taken up from the soil along the length of young roots, particularly by root hairs. Potassium moves to leaves and fruit via the phloem and xylem, and is transported in all directions between plant organs in response to metabolic demand. Provide the potassium your crop needs, when it needs it, by using the most effi cient potassium nutrient products on the market: Kalibrate and Sure-K. These products provide available potassium to the plant at the right times in the growth cycle – despite the drought. Learn more at agroliquid.com/Kchallenge Mid-Late Season Sure-K as a foliar application or fertigation enables the fl exibility to provide available potassium, which is actively taken up by plant tissues. Sure-K enters the plant more effectively than conventional potassium fertilizers and has excellent crop safety. Once in the plant, Sure-K is rapidly transported and redistributed to areas of greatest metabolic demand. Sure-K can also be mixed with crop protection products, reducing the number of passes on the fi eld. K alibrate TM K a K librate TM