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Blushingstar peach seedling fruit, whole and cut to show the white flesh
  • Blushingstar peach seedling fruit, whole and cut to show the white flesh
  • Blushingstar peach seedling fruit, whole and cut to show the white flesh
Blushingstar Peach Seedling (Bundle of 2)

Blushingstar Peach Seedling (Bundle of 2)

$69.99
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Flexible returns
Pollination Self-fertile
Bloom group 4 of 7 (Mid)
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Ripening

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At a glance: Blushingstar Peach Seedling is a peach tree rated hardy to zone 4b in our ratings (winters to -25°F), and self-fertile, so one tree can crop (bloom group 4 of 7, mid for a peach or nectarine).

Hardy to Zone 4b to 8. The b means the warmer half of zone 4 only (winters to -25°F). Our notes have it taking -30°F. Find your zone with our cold hardiness calculator.
Pollination Self-Fertile. Bloom group 4 of 7 (mid), early spring here. Peaches are almost always self-fertile, so each seedling should set fruit on its own. Nearby varieties that can boost the crop: Blushingstar Peach, Contender Peach, Glohaven Peach, PF-24C Cold Hardy Peach and 10 more. Bloom group is our estimate from the variety's origin and relatives. Peach Pollination Map.
Good for Fresh eating (6/10). Scores are our own 1 to 10 ratings; 8 and up makes our Best Of lists.
Deer Sometimes damaged by deer.
What you get Bare root, 2-3 ft. Shipped or picked up in Missoula in spring, roots wrapped in moist sawdust. Guaranteed to bud out.

Overview

Blushingstar is our favorite white-fleshed peach we have tried. It does very well for Tom and Lynn McCamant at Forbidden Fruit Orchard in Paradise, Montana. When we tried it for the first time in 2022, we were blown away by the flavor—super sweet with a slight subacid skin and a wonderful peach aroma.

Some had mentioned they wouldn't can well, but we had so many that we decided to can them regardless, and they turned out great. They do not keep as long as the yellow-fleshed peaches in our experience.

Hardiness

In terms of hardiness, Blushingstar seems to be one of the hardier commercial peach varieties. For mid-winter extreme cold, Tom ranks them behind Reliance, although we personally have not had good success with Reliance and have had better success with Blushingstar. These can withstand -30F, but likely not colder than that.

So in our experience, we rate them behind Contender and Veteran in terms of hardiness, but better than Reliance earlier on. It could be that as Reliance ages, it gets hardier—and according to Dr. Bill Shane, who bred many of these peaches at Michigan State, this is typical for peaches (they get hardier as they age) but only as long as the tree doesn’t have winter injury from previous years. If the tree does have winter injury from previous years, then it is technically "less hardy" (i.e. open wounds).

If you want a hardier white fleshed peach, go with Siberian C, which we mainly offer in seedling form, so the hardiness may be a little more variable, but the clan from which all of our seedlings have been selected were from those by Miekal at Driftless Sacred Grove in Wisconsin, and had consistently survived sub –35°F.

Questions we get about Blushingstar Peach Seedling

Does Blushingstar Peach Seedling need a pollenizer?

No. Blushingstar Peach Seedling is self-fertile, so a single tree can set fruit. Peaches are almost always self-fertile, so each seedling should set fruit on its own. Partners we carry include Blushingstar Peach, Contender Peach, Glohaven Peach.

How cold hardy is Blushingstar Peach Seedling?

We rate Blushingstar Peach Seedling hardy to zone 4b, which means winters down to about -25°F. Our notes have it taking -30°F. Our ratings come from real winters at our two Montana sites and from trusted growers across the North, not from a catalog average.

What is Blushingstar Peach Seedling good for?

Our top use scores for Blushingstar Peach Seedling are fresh eating (6/10).

Will deer eat Blushingstar Peach Seedling?

Sometimes. Deer browse Blushingstar Peach Seedling now and then, so protect young plants where deer pressure is high.

What arrives, and when does Blushingstar Peach Seedling ship?

A dormant bare-root plant, roots wrapped in moist sawdust with a vapor barrier, shipped or picked up in Missoula in spring. Sizes offered: 2-3 ft. We guarantee our plants bud out. Stone fruits can be slow, so if one still has not budded out by August 15, write to us and we credit you for the following spring.

Pollination partners

Good partners for Blushingstar Peach Seedling

Blushingstar Peach Seedling is self-fertile, so one tree will fruit on its own. If you'd like a second peach or nectarine, these bloom at the same time and work well together.

Bloom group 4 of 7 (Mid)
Pollination Self-fertile
Pollen Good pollenizer

14 trees we carry bloom with it. 8 in stock now.

See every pairing on the Peach Pollination Map Blushingstar Peach Seedling's bloom group is our best estimate. Watch it bloom and tell us what you see.

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