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Peaches · Dave Wilson Nursery
Babcock White Peach
Prunus persica ‘Babcock’A classic aromatic white-fleshed freestone peach with sweet, juicy, low-acid fruit and low winter chill needs.
5 varieties
- Chill hours
- About 250–300 hours
- Harvest
- Late spring to early summer
- Pollination
- Self-fruitful
- Mature size
- Usually 10–20 ft with annual pruning; rootstock determines ultimate size
Our pick for most gardens
1/2 inch caliperThe everyday choice. Enough trunk to stand on its own, young enough to settle in quickly and fruit on schedule.
$28
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Same fruit, different seasons and different jobs. Pick the row that fits your ground and your calendar.
| Variety | Harvest | Chill hours | Pollination | Mature size | Grown | From |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A classic aromatic white-fleshed freestone peach with sweet, juicy, low-acid fruit and low winter chill needs. | Late spring to early summer | About 250–300 hours | Self-fruitful | Usually 10–20 ft with annual pruning; rootstock determines ultimate size | 565 | $25 |
| A very early, heavy-bearing low-chill peach whose tree-ripened yellow fruit develops good sweetness before the worst summer heat. | Mid-May in the low desert | About 250 hours | Self-fruitful | Usually 10–20 ft with annual pruning; rootstock determines ultimate size | 1,330 | $29 |
| A fine-flavored yellow freestone peach with very low chilling needs and an early May harvest window. | Early to late May in the low desert | About 100–200 hours | Self-fruitful | Usually 10–20 ft with annual pruning; rootstock determines ultimate size | 1,265 | $25 |
| An exceptionally early low-chill peach successful in Arizona, yielding flavorful yellow semi-cling fruit before summer intensifies. | Late April to early May in the low desert | About 150 hours | Self-fruitful | Usually 10–20 ft with annual pruning; rootstock determines ultimate size | 500 | $28 |
| A benchmark yellow freestone peach for warm-winter climates, extending the low-desert crop beyond the earliest selections. | Late May into June | About 250 hours | Self-fruitful | Usually 10–20 ft with annual pruning; rootstock determines ultimate size | 895 | $23 |
Counts are what the nursery is growing right now, across every trunk size.
Where this tree sits
The seven layers of a food forest
Lower canopy
Fruit trees kept below the tall ones. Most of this year's programme lives here, held to eight or ten feet by summer pruning.
Peaches sit in this layer.