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To: ExpatGator

My daughter swears her almond tree turned into peaches. The first year she had some almonds, but something got them and her cherries too before she did.

She had planted some peach trees in the backyard and two dwarf almond trees in the front the next year they looked like peaches tasted like peaches, and the pit looked like a peach pit.

We wondered if the almond trees were grafted onto peach tree stock or something, and the basic stock took over.


82 posted on 04/17/2015 9:26:06 PM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Le//t Freedom Ring.)
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To: greeneyes

Weird! Our two Catahoulas keep animals away, so we should not have issues with our fruits and nuts. They also chase birds off. Relentlessly. Our bluebirds give them the fake and go to their boxes just the same.


90 posted on 04/18/2015 5:52:54 AM PDT by ExpatGator (I hate Illinois Nazis!)
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To: greeneyes; ExpatGator

Our fruits and nuts presenter told us that the Stone Fruits such as nectarines, peaches, plums, apricot, and cherries are the same species as almonds!

Peaches are Prunus persica and the almonds are Prunus amygdalus. Since they are the same species, they are graft compatible!

Your daughter is right! The almonds grafts died back to the peach root stock.


99 posted on 04/19/2015 8:49:31 AM PDT by TEXOKIE (We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
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