Makes large nice looking fruit, and the tree itself is very healthy and vigorous, especially compared to the other peaches and nectarines...Read More in my yard. The fruit is more tangy than my white nectarine tree. It almost tastes like a yellow peach.
Tropic Snow was my first experience with growing peach trees. The tree was planted in 2010 and it produced very little fruit the first f...Read Moreour years. It was planted on the SW side of a steep slope with sandy alkaline soil and full sun exposure. Our area is similar to desert conditions.
Apparently, the tree needed time to settle in.
In the fifth year after planting, the tree provided an abundant crop of delicious peaches.
The tree is given about 1 cup of organic fertilizer plus 1/2 C of zinc/sulfur (to bring down alkalinity of our soil) during the spring.
Of the six low chill peach varieties I have tried, Tropic Snow outperforms them all. In many ways it is the ideal peach: nice spring disp...Read Morelay of light pink blossoms, heavy fruit set, not susceptible to most diseases except peach leaf curl, and the fruit deserves a special mention. They tend to be on the medium/small side, pretty,rounded, pale colored with a soft peachy pink blush and sometimes faint greenish coloring on the skin even when ripe. The flesh is white, smooth, aromatic and very juicy.
Tropic Snow peaches are consistently sweet even when ripening in our cooler May and June weather which tends to stay in the upper sixties or low seventies. Normally, white peaches aren't my thing as I tend to prefer the higher acid ratio of yellow peaches, but Tropic Snow gets just enough acid in there for a rich flavor. It is the one white peach I make room for on my tiny lot.
Requires only 200 chill hours, so perfect for Houston area. Beautiful flowers are reason enough to grow this peach, but the fruit is out...Read Morestanding too. As people in my area become aware of this cultivar, is becoming harder to get because of high demand.
What can I not say about this beautiful tree? I missed peaches after I moved to Florida and discovered that there are tropical low-chill...Read More peaches for growing in Central and Southern Florida...and I bought this variety and I've been happy with it since!
I'd grow it just for its spring flowers let alone the delicious fruit it provides. The flowers are just as beautiful as almond (its cousin) blossoms. Mine bloom in late january through february but farther north they'd bloom later and farther south they'd bloom sooner. The flowers are self pollinating so you only need one tree. They are a low-chill peach, requiring only 200 hours to break dormancy. People grow them even in frost-free south Florida!
The peaches ripen mid-may here and they are a deliciously sweet, low acid white peach.
The tree is usually on the small side and grows very fast! If you have sandy soil make sure you add lots of organic matter like manure into the soil at the planting site and you might want to add lime if your soil is acidic. They prefer 6.0-7.0 pH. Make sure you plant them in a well drained area! They cannot tolerate any flooding or standing water whatsoever.
I fertilize them with 10-10-10 in February, May, and July, adding some lime in august. I mulch them with organic mulch and manure. Prune when the tree is dormant in winter and trim off at least a 1/3 of the new growth each year.
To sum things up...if you want a tree that grows very fast to a height of 12-18 feet and generally stays at that heigh, provides beautiful flowers, makes nice shade in spring, summer, and fall, and produces delicious fruit--then the "tropic snow" peach is for you!
Makes large nice looking fruit, and the tree itself is very healthy and vigorous, especially compared to the other peaches and nectarines...Read More
Tropic Snow was my first experience with growing peach trees. The tree was planted in 2010 and it produced very little fruit the first f...Read More
Of the six low chill peach varieties I have tried, Tropic Snow outperforms them all. In many ways it is the ideal peach: nice spring disp...Read More
Requires only 200 chill hours, so perfect for Houston area. Beautiful flowers are reason enough to grow this peach, but the fruit is out...Read More
What can I not say about this beautiful tree? I missed peaches after I moved to Florida and discovered that there are tropical low-chill...Read More