| Cultivar Name: |
Flordaguard
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| Type |
Peach Rootstock |
| Synonyms |
Fla. 14-11
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| Patent |
Not Patented
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| Parentage |
Complex parentage of Florida selections tracing to P. davidiana and Okinawa. (see 'Cultivar Description for Public Sites' above).
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| Species |
Prunus persica
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| Usage |
Rootstock
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| Seed Available |
Seed available from Foundation Plant Services |
| Chill Requirement |
300 chill hours required
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| Climatic Adaptation |
Flordaguard’ is recommended for low-chill peach, nectarine, and plum production in nonalkaline soils infested with peach root-knot nematodes as well as other types of nematodes
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| Resistance Traits |
root-knot nematode Meloidogyne javanica and M. incognita races 1 and 3.
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| Graft Compatibility |
peach and nectarine buds show very satisfactory growth
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| Propagation Notes |
This rootstock is typically propagated by seed; although outcrosses (with reduced intensity red leaf color in the shoot tips) must be rogued out to ensure peach root-knot nematode tolerance. Flordaguard also can be propagated by softwood cuttings or tissue culture of seed source trees.
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| Propagation Method |
Seed
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| Description |
Orig. at Agr. Expt. Sta., Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, and introduced
in 1990 by W.B. Sherman, P.M. Lyrene, and R.H. Sharpe. Selected in 1976 and tested as Fla. 14-11
Tree: blooms with Flordagold and requires » 300
chill units; long whippy growth; high flower bud set. Leaves: homozygous
for red-leaf; reniform petiolar glands. Flowers deep pink and
showy. Fruit: flesh yellow; deep red at cavity and on pits; freestone;
ripens » 130 days from bloom.
Flordaguard originated from six generations
from Chico 11 X P. davidiana (Carr.) Franch, C-
26712. Chico 11 was a seedling of Shau Thai, PI
65821 (Sharpe et al. 1969). H91 was homozygous
recessive for double petals and red flowers, but its
progeny, Fla. 12-9, was single-petaled and pinkflowered,
and thus was an outcross rather than self.
The red leaf gene was introduced in the fourth
generation open-pollination. The red leaf pollen
parent was from either (N.J. 5106137 X Okinawa)
op or (Okinawa X Rancho 23/32) op |
| References |
- Register of New Fruit and Nut Varieties, Brooks and Olmo. List 36. September, 1994. HortScience, Vol. 29(9).
- Growing Produce, Trending Now: #BeeHealth
October 27, 2012
Strong Roots = Better Fruits; Link
- University of Florida IFAS Extension EDIS Link
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