PRUNUS persica 'DIXIRED'

Dixired peach, peach Dixired

PRUNUS persica 'DIXIRED'

Dixired peach, peach Dixired

Grafted peach. Pink flower end of winter, cultivar selected for size and taste of fruit.

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Maintenance advice : After flowering, find and cut down the non flowering branches , leaving just 2-3 buds. Shorten other less flowering branches, to just above a leaf bud, to rejuvenate. Pinch the young shoots (break off between fingers while soft, or cut off, to shorten by about a half), all along the branches, to help floral buds develop the following year.
Botanical/Horticultural origin : Horticultural origin : bred at Beltsville Research Station (US) 1945
Use group : Fruit Trees
Height at 10 years : 4 m
Width at 10 years : 3 m
Growth : Fast
Fragrance : No
Exposure : Full sun
Evergreen/Deciduous : Deciduous
Shape : tree like
Colour of leaves : Green
Colour of flowers : Pink
Soil type : Garden soil
Uses : Fruit tree

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These yellow fleshed peaches are ripe at the end of July/beginning of August. Plant this variety in a southern exposure to avoid frosts during flowering in March. Melliferous plant.