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- Peach Pilot delivers very high and regular yield
- Peach pilot comes from Dresden
- White-fleshed fruits
- Good care is important for high yield
- High resistance to curling disease
- Treatment of curling disease
- Tips & Tricks
Peach Pilot delivers very high and regular yield
The mid-season peach variety Pilot is a mass crop variety with good fruit quality. The fruits are suitable for fresh consumption as well as for cooking and freezing.
Peach pilot comes from Dresden
This peach variety is a true "Ossi", it was bred in the end of the 1960s in the fruit testing station Radebeul near Dresden from mother plants of the variety "Prinz" out. Since 1971, the very productive peach pilot is commercially available. Incidentally, the region around Dresden is still one of the main growing areas of peaches in Germany today.
White-fleshed fruits
With a weight of up to 280 grams, the fruits are medium to very large, with an oblong-oval shape. The basic color is greenish yellow to yellow, where it may have a few places and dark red washed patches or a crimson punctation. The fine-wooly skin is thin and can be easily removed. The fibrous, white pulp has a very pleasant, sweet and aromatic taste. The large flowers are very similar to rose petals, they are also low sensitive to frost and self-fertile.
Good care is important for high yield
Peach trees of the variety Pilot grow very strong and upright. They form typically hochkugelige crowns, which are densely branched. The wood is very frost hardy. In terms of location, Pilot is not very demanding, however, care at suitable locations for peaches needs to be commensurate with the high yield potential of the variety. This means you have to water the tree regularly and, above all, cut it.
High resistance to curling disease
Peach trees of this variety have a high resistance to the crusting disease that often occurs in peaches. The inflamed fungus Taphrina deformans primarily attacks the leaves, so that they are thrown off the tree in the further course. The high leaf loss weakens the tree, which is why infestation must be prevented.
Treatment of curling disease
Once the disease has broken out, there are no ways to stop it. For this reason, especially preventive measures should be taken. Since the fungus already nests in the buds, they can be sprayed with a copper-containing fungicide. The optimal time for such treatment is the so-called threshold stage.
Tips & Tricks
When planting peaches should not be fertilized, but strongly watered. Between May and the end of July, you can then use potassium and nitrogen to stimulate healthy leaf growth. Optimal are about manure or horn shavings.